Regan McAthie was promoted to Director of Athletics at CSP on January 1, 2019 following seven years spent in various other roles within the department. As the head of CSP Athletics, she provides leadership, management and vision for a department with 17 sport programs and nearly 400 student-athletes.
She also serves as a member of the University leadership team focused on the strategic recruitment, retention and graduation of all prospective students to meet University enrollment objectives and ensures the department operates within the mission of the University and in compliance with applicable NCAA, Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference (NSIC) and Title IX regulations.
McAthie has already made her mark on CSP through growing and advancing women's sports on campus. She played a lead role in bringing women's lacrosse to CSP in 2017 while an Associate AD and also added women's swimming & diving in 2021.
The women's lacrosse addition made CSP the first scholarship-offering program in a 5-state area and the first NSIC institution to add the sport. In 2018, McAthie negotiated the program a spot in the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) as an affiliate member, ensuring that women's lacrosse student-athletes had access to conference wards and postseason opportunities.
CSP swimming & diving competed for the first time in 2021 with an abbreviated schedule due to COVID-19 policies, but had a successful second year, producing the 2022 NSIC Freshman of the Year. Adding the program included negotiations with Three Rivers High School to establish a facility partnership, ensuring the program a high-quality practice and competition venue.
In addition, McAthie was instrumental in bringing competitive esports to CSP, including building a state-of-the-art competitive arena and hiring the program's first coach and while the program continues to compete on campus, it is now operating under the direction of Student Life.
McAthie is also highly involved at the conference and NCAA level through work on various committees. She was a member of the NCAA Division II Women's Volleyball Central Region Advisory Committee from 2016-19 and served on the NCAA Division II Women's Lacrosse National Committee for four years, serving as national chair for the 2021-22 academic year. In 2022, she was nominated to the Division II Championships Committee and is currently serving as chair for the 2024-25 academic year. Within the NSIC, McAthie has served on the following committees: Strategic Planning, Hall of Fame, Officiating, Championships & Awards and Ethics & Eligibility.
McAthie continues to grow the athletic department in its efforts to support student-athletes. In 2021, the department added a Marketing and Community Engagement Manager with the goal of enhancing the promotion of CSP teams and student-athletes as well as elevating the gameday experience for our fans and community members.
In 2021, she also created a full-time Assistant Strength & Conditioning Coach position to provide more individualized training for the nearly 400 student-athletes on campus.
The department has continued its commitment to academic excellence during McAthie's tenure, earning the Division II Presidents' Award for Academic Excellence in each year of her time as athletic director (2019, 2020, 2021). The award is given to institutions who post an Academic Success Rate of 90 percent or above.
In addition, under McAthie, the department's fundraising efforts continue to elevate, reaching an all-time high in 2021 and capped off with a single-day CSP Day giving total of over $85,000.
This has in-part contributed to multiple facility enhancements in the last three years, including multiple locker room additions and makeovers as well as the renovation of the Gangelhoff Center's arena.
Originally hired in 2012 as Assistant Athletic Director for Compliance and Senior Women Administrator, McAthie was promoted to the Associate Athletic Director position in 2015 under former AD Tom Rubbelke. She earned leadership roles and sport oversight responsibility quickly, and at the time of her appointment to Director of Athletics, was the sport administrator for volleyball, men's and women's basketball, softball and lacrosse.
Originally from Colorado Springs, Colorado, McAthie joined Concordia's staff after two years with the Upper Midwest Athletic Conference (UMAC), which was Concordia's former conference home before moving to NCAA Division II and the Northern Sun (NSIC). At the UMAC office, McAthie (formerly Tekavec), held the league's first-ever Assistant Commissioner position, a two-year appointment made possible through the NCAA Division III Ethnic, Minority & women's Internship grant program.
Her career has spanned all areas of athletic administration: fundraising, sport oversight and budgeting, internal management, compliance, Title IX, sports information, public relations, championships, game management, marketing and officiating development.
In addition to her career development, McAthie also has the distinction of being a former student-athlete, competing for the Augustana University Viking volleyball program. She earned her degree from Augustana in business communications and sport management with a minor in journalism.
Her career also started at her alma mater as a graduate assistant in the sports information department where she would complete her master's degree in teaching with additional graduate level coursework in sport management. Towards the end of her GA position, she was elevated to an interim SID role before moving on to the next stage of her career at the UMAC.
Other early career ventures include working for the NBA Developmental League's Sioux Falls Skyforce, Sioux Empire Basketball and USA Volleyball.
Regan and her husband, Tyler, reside in Hudson, Wisconsin with their two children, Palmer and Sloan.
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