{"id":8183,"date":"2020-06-22T21:29:07","date_gmt":"2020-06-22T21:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/news\/?p=8183"},"modified":"2020-06-22T22:25:49","modified_gmt":"2020-06-22T22:25:49","slug":"nicholls-names-former-football-player-coach-terrell-as-athletic-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/news\/2020\/06\/22\/nicholls-names-former-football-player-coach-terrell-as-athletic-director\/","title":{"rendered":"ÐÓ°É´«Ã½ Names Former Football Player, Coach Terrell as Athletic Director"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

THIBODAUX, La. — Today ÐÓ°É´«Ã½ has named former Colonel football player and coach Jonathan Terrell (BA \u201898) as its director of athletics. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Terrell is the first Black athletic director in ÐÓ°É´«Ã½ history and has more than two decades of proven sales and coaching success. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI am grateful to Dr. Clune and the committee for giving me the opportunity to work at a place that I love,\u201d Terrell said. \u201cI am honored to be able to lead this department and continue the climb. Whether it\u2019s in the classroom, on the field of play or in the community, we will be one team with one goal in mind, winning.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A press conference introducing Terrell as athletic director will be at 11 a.m. on Monday, June 29. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAn athletic director doesn\u2019t win a single game,\u201d said ÐÓ°É´«Ã½ President Dr. Jay Clune. \u201cYou need someone of superior judgment to put the right team of coaches in place to be successful. Jonathan Terrell has that judgment. Going into the search, I was looking for someone of unquestionable integrity and character who could raise money. I couldn\u2019t be happier with our selection.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Terrell takes over an athletic department in the midst of historic success both athletically and academically: <\/p>\n\n\n\n