Trego retiring after distinguished 38-plus year career in college athletics
4/29/2021 3:30:00 PM | General
Jim Trego, senior associate athletics director at the Air Force Academy, is retiring after a distinguished 38-plus year career in college athletics. Trego has been in his current role at the Academy since 2008, where was responsible for overseeing all external affairs in the department. In addition, he has the primary administrator for numerous sports.
While at the Academy in his second stint, Trego helped the football team to nine bowl games. He ran hiring committees for current basketball coaches Chris Gobrecht and Joe Scott. In addition, while at the Academy he has served on the NCAA tennis committee and been involved in day-to-day operations.
Trego returned to the Academy from Baylor University where he was associate athletic director for development and community relations. While at Baylor, Trego was project manager for over $75 million in construction and improvements to all athletic facilities, to include project design, budgets and fund raising. He has extensive experience with all day-to-day operations of an athletic department to include fund raising, budget management, personnel and facilities. Trego was responsible for corporate sales totaling over $1.5 million annually. In addition, he scheduled and negotiated all football game contracts and was in charge of game management for all football and men's basketball games. He had direct supervision with all intercollegiate teams working on a daily basis with football, Baylor's major revenue producing program. Trego supervised teams that won 20 of Baylor's 25 Big XII Conference championships.
Trego began his career in athletics at the Academy as the head cross country coach and assistant track coach from 1983-87. He then served as the assistant athletic director for administration and later the assistant athletics director of business affairs. Trego served as assistant athletic director for event management, team logistics and facility scheduling until 1993 before retiring from the Air Force and leaving the academy to become assistant commissioner for business at the Western Athletic Conference in August 1993. He worked there briefly before heading to Baylor later that year.
Trego is a 1975 graduate of South Dakota State University where he earned a degree in education and later received his master's degree in public administration from the University of Northern Colorado. Trego and his wife, Tammy, have a daughter, Bayley Anne, and a son, Tyler, both Baylor graduates.
While at the Academy in his second stint, Trego helped the football team to nine bowl games. He ran hiring committees for current basketball coaches Chris Gobrecht and Joe Scott. In addition, while at the Academy he has served on the NCAA tennis committee and been involved in day-to-day operations.
Trego returned to the Academy from Baylor University where he was associate athletic director for development and community relations. While at Baylor, Trego was project manager for over $75 million in construction and improvements to all athletic facilities, to include project design, budgets and fund raising. He has extensive experience with all day-to-day operations of an athletic department to include fund raising, budget management, personnel and facilities. Trego was responsible for corporate sales totaling over $1.5 million annually. In addition, he scheduled and negotiated all football game contracts and was in charge of game management for all football and men's basketball games. He had direct supervision with all intercollegiate teams working on a daily basis with football, Baylor's major revenue producing program. Trego supervised teams that won 20 of Baylor's 25 Big XII Conference championships.
Trego began his career in athletics at the Academy as the head cross country coach and assistant track coach from 1983-87. He then served as the assistant athletic director for administration and later the assistant athletics director of business affairs. Trego served as assistant athletic director for event management, team logistics and facility scheduling until 1993 before retiring from the Air Force and leaving the academy to become assistant commissioner for business at the Western Athletic Conference in August 1993. He worked there briefly before heading to Baylor later that year.
Trego is a 1975 graduate of South Dakota State University where he earned a degree in education and later received his master's degree in public administration from the University of Northern Colorado. Trego and his wife, Tammy, have a daughter, Bayley Anne, and a son, Tyler, both Baylor graduates.
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