Judy Rose

Judith Wilkins Rose is the former director of athletics for the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte 49ers.

Playing career

Rose played women's basketball for the Winthrop Eagles from 1970 to 1974.

Education

Rose graduated from Winthrop University in 1974 with a B.S. degree in Physical Education. She received a Master's degree in Physical Education from the University of Tennessee in 1975.

With the addition of 63 more athletics scholarships for the football program, an offsetting amount of Title IX mandated women's sports will be added. These will most likely include Field Hockey, Women's Lacrosse and Swimming; however, Rose has been an advocate of adding Competitive Cheerleading as a Title IX compliant sport.

Recognition and awards

Rose has received several awards over her career, most notably the 2001 NACDA Southeast Region Athletic Director of the Year Award. Other awards have included the Pegasus Award in 1999, the 1996 Bob Quincy Award by the Charlotte Sportsman Club, and the 1996 Charlotte Regional Sports Commission "Sixth-Man" Award for citywide athletic achievement. She was selected the 1996 Woman of the Year in Charlotte and was named the 1997 Citizen of the Year by the University Chamber of Commerce. In 1986, she became the first female inducted into the Blacksburg (SC) Hall of Fame and she received her 25-Year Service Award from UNC Charlotte in 2000. More recently, she was inducted into Winthrop's Athletics Hall of Fame, was named one of the city's Top Businesswomen by The Business Journal and was recognized with the Judy Wilkins Rose endowment as part of the University YMCA's Y Pathways program. In 2010, she was featured by Charlotte USA Women celebrating 20 Dynamic Women and was a recipient of Business Leader Media "2010 Charlotte Women Extraordinaire". In 2011, she was inducted into the Women's History Hall of Fame (Charlotte Club).

Committees and appointments Rose was active on numerous boards, NCAA and Atlantic 10 Conference Committees and is a popular guest speaker. She was chair of the Championship and Sport Cabinet for the NCAA and was recently appointed to serve on the NCAA Workgroup for Resource Allocation and her past committee involvement includes: Division I Women's Basketball Discussion Group; NCAA Diversity Leadership Planning and Division I Men's Collegiate Basketball Partnership. She was on the board of the Charlotte Regional Sports Commission and the selection committee for the Greater Charlotte Sports Hall of Fame. She was a member of the National Advisory Board for the Intercollegiate Athletics Leadership master's degree Program at the University of Washington. She has served on the board of directors of the NC Sports Hall of Fame; the USA Basketball Board, the Metro YMCA Board, the Board of managers for University City YMCA; and the NC High School Athletic Association Foundation. She has chaired the NCAA Walter Byers Postgraduate Scholarship Committee.

Personal

She married her husband Ken in 1986. The couple live in Denver, North Carolina.