LA JOLLA, Calif.  – One year into his tenure, UC San Diego Athletics Director Andy Fee has finalized a reorganization of the department's operating structure. Fee has promoted Stephanie Duke to Deputy Athletic Director, Internal Operations and Danielle Melman to Executive Senior Associate A.D., External Operations. Those two promotions join last month's announcements of Bill Carr being elevated to Deputy Athletic Director, Basketball, and the hiring of Epiphany Clark as Senior Deputy Athletics Director  Rounding out the department's executive leadership team are Jose Genao, Executive Director of Athletics Compliance, and Heather Ledezma, Senior Director of Business Operations. In addition, the department will soon launch a national search for a new Executive Director of Development.
 
"We live in a disruptor world, and I want to empower our team to make timely decisions, seize opportunities, and innovate with confidence. This structure allows us to be more operationally efficient and move at a quicker pace, positioning ourselves to be a world-class athletic department befitting of this world-class university," said Fee. "This efficiency will help me free up time to go out and get us the resources we need to compete at the highest level."

Duke is now Deputy Athletic Director, Internal Operations, adding health & wellness (including performance and sports medicine) as well as academic oversight to her role. She remains the department's designated Senior Woman Administrator (SWA). Duke originally joined the UC San Diego staff as Senior Associate Athletic Director for Administration in Nov. 2022. She works closely with coaches and scholar-athletes as administrator for several sport programs and directs the department's capital projects, oversees event management and facility planning and works closely with institutional partners to ensure broad collaboration throughout the campus community.  

Melman now serves as Executive Senior Associate Athletics Director for External Operations at UC San Diego, providing executive leadership and strategic oversight for the department's marketing, ticketing, corporate partnerships, communications, broadcasting and creative services. In her role, Melman leads an integrated external operations team focused on driving revenue, strengthening the UC San Diego Athletics brand, increasing attendance and fan engagement, and expanding relationships with corporate partners, campus constituents and the San Diego community. Previously, she served as Senior Associate Athletics Director for Business Innovation and Resource Development, where she was the strategic leader for revenue generation within UC San Diego Athletics. 
 
About UC San Diego Athletics
After two decades as one of the most successful programs in NCAA Division II, the UC San Diego intercollegiate athletics program has begun a new era in NCAA Division I. The 24-sport Tritons earned 30 team and nearly 150 individual national championships during its time in Divisions II and III and helped guide 1,400 scholar-athletes to All-America honors. A total of 84 Tritons have earned Academic All-America honors, while 39 have garnered prestigious NCAA Post Graduate Scholarships. UC San Diego scholar-athletes exemplify the academic ideals of one of the world's preeminent institutions, graduating at an average rate of 90 percent, the highest rate among public institutions in NCAA Division I or II. For more information on the Tritons, visit UCSDtritons.com or follow UC San Diego Athletics on social media @UCSDtritons.