Tom Nevala Position: Senior Associate AD/Business Ops. & Youth Programming First Year at ND: 1990

Tom Nevala is in his 15th year as member of the athletics administration at Notre Dame, and first as senior associate athletics director for business operations and youth programming. In his present role, he oversees all financial matters for the Notre Dame athletics department as well as the newly defined area of youth programming including summer camps, clinics and a special initiative that will focus on using the University's assets to better serve the sports and recreational needs of underserved youth.

Nevala previously spent five years as associate athletics director, from 2005 to 2009, while spending the five years before that as assistant athletics director for business operations.

Nevala serves as the day-to-day administrative contact for the Irish hockey program. He represents Notre Dame on the Central Collegiate Hockey Association Council. He served as chair of the CCHA's executive committee in 2006-07, and currently sits on the CCHA's strategic planning committee. He led the effort for Notre Dame to partner with Fort Wayne to host the Midwest Regional during the 2010 NCAA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament. Nevala is in his first year of a four-year term serving as the CCHA's representative on the NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Committee.

Active in campus matters, Nevala is a member of the University's equity in athletics task force, served on the continuous improvement departmental asessment team, represents athletics on the campus information technology subcommittee, and is a member of the University's business managers group. Nevala spent five years as the business manager for athletics, following time as business manager of the Joyce Center and two years as director of the Varsity Shop and ice rink manager for that facility.

During the 1999-2000 academic year, Nevala coordinated the effort to form the Notre Dame alumni football team that traveled to Germany in July of 2000 and defeated the Hamburg Blue Devils in the Charity Bowl. He also served as tournament director of the 1997 BIG EAST Men's Golf Championship.

A 1990 Notre Dame graduate with a degree in aerospace engineering, Nevala returned to the University in the fall of that year to attend graduate school and work in athletics business office. He earned his MBA in interdisciplinary studies in May of 1992.

An associate football manager for the 1989 season as an undergraduate, Nevala is a native of Maynard, Mass. Born Jan. 25, 1968, he is married to the former Jen Turgeon, a 1993 St. Mary's graduate and a native of Brunswick, Maine. They have two children, a daughter, Sofia (4), and a son, Benjamin (2).