Jessica Harbison Weaver  has been named the new Pacific West Conference Commissioner, replacing Bob Hogue, who is retiring after 16 years as the conference leader. Harbison Weaver has been the PacWest Senior Associate Commissioner since May of 2020.

40 year-old Harbison Weaver, who is a graduate of Butler University and holds a master’s degree from Indiana University, came to the PacWest after holding athletic administration positions at Concordia (Portland), UC Riverside and Mercer University. Additionally, she worked four years at the NCAA headquarters in Indianapolis.

In the PacWest office, Harbison Weaver has overseen compliance and select sports and their championships. Additionally, she is the co-chair of the NCAA Division II Conference Commissioner’s Association Compliance Administrators, and serves as the advisor to the PacWest SAAC and Medical Aspects Committee. She currently sits on the Board of Directors of the National Association for Athletics Compliance (NAAC), as the Chair of the NAAC Division II Reasonable Standards Committee, as well as the Chair of the NCAA Division II Student-Athlete Reinstatement Committee.

In 2021, Harbison Weaver was named the recipient of the Division II Excellence Award by the National Association for Athletic Compliance. The Division II Excellence Award is given to one person each year, to a compliance professional who is a leader in the compliance field at the Division II level.

Harbison Weaver was the Deputy Athletics Director and Senior Woman Administrator at Concordia University from 2017-2020. She served as the Senior Compliance Administrator for all 15 of the Cavaliers’ sports, and was the sport supervisor for five programs. Concordia won the Great Northwest Athletic Conference All-Academic trophies in 2019 and 2020.

Prior to arriving in Portland in 2017, Harbison Weaver was the Assistant Athletic Director for Compliance Services at the University of California, Riverside, helping oversee all 17 intercollegiate sports. She also spent three years as the Assistant Athletic Director for Compliance at Mercer University in Macon, Georgia.

From 2009 to 2013, Harbison Weaver worked at the NCAA National Office where she rose to the level of Coordinator for Academic and Membership Affairs. Harbison Weaver has served on a number of key athletics and compliance-related committees over the years, and has also spent over a decade as a member of Women Leaders in College Sports.  She and her husband Rodney reside in Long Beach.

The Pacific West Conference currently has 11 members in Hawai’i, northern California and southern California, and will expand to 14 universities in 2024-25.

 

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