PULLMAN — Chicago State University has a new athletic director, and for the second time in the school's 147-year history, it's a woman.
Denisha Hendricks, who served six years as athletic director at Kentucky State University, will formally be introduced as the university's athletic director at a 10 a.m. news conference Tuesday at the school's Jones Convocation Center, 9501 S. King Drive, said Thomas Wogan, a spokesman for Chicago State.
Hendricks, a native of Birmingham, Alabama, will replace Dan Schumacher, who resigned in June after two years at the helm, to accept a position elsewhere.
The city's only four-year public university on the South Side has 160 student athletes and 13 NCAA Division I programs.
Prior to working at Kentucky State, Hendricks served as assistant athletic director at Johnson C. Smith University in North Carolina, and senior woman administrator, dean of the Academic Village and an Assistant professor at Livingstone College also in North Carolina.
In 1975, Dorothy Richey was hired as the first female athletic director at Chicago State.
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