Donna Lopiano

Donna Lopiano is currently the Chief Executive Officer of the Women’s Sports Foundation, member of the Foundation’s Strategic Planning Committee and Government Relations Committee. She is the Senior Staff Liaison to the Governance Committee. According to The Sporting News, she is listed as one of “The 100 Most Influential People in Sports.” She received her Bachelor’s degree from Southern Connecticut State University and her Master’s and Doctoral degrees from the University of Southern California. She has been a college coach of men’s and women’s volleyball, and women’s basketball, and softball. As an athlete, she participated in 26 national championships in four sports and was a nine-time All-American at four different positions in softball, a sport in which she played on six national championship teams. She is a member of the National Sports Hall of Fame, the National Softball Hall of Fame and the Texas Women’s Hall of Fame among others. Dr. Lopiano previously served as the University of Texas Director of Women’s Athletics (17 years), and the President of the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women. A prolific writer and speaker, she is a champion of equal opportunity for women in sport and the ethical conduct of educational sports.