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Come join us for coffee and an opportunity to get acquainted with Allen Greene, Director of Athletics. Sam Young, Co-Vice Chair of Staff Life, will engage in a conversation with him to discuss his life and career at Pitt!

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Highly accomplished and nationally respected college athletics administrator Allen Greene was appointed Director of Athletics at the University of Pittsburgh, by Chancellor Joan Gabel in October of 2024.

Under the leadership of Greene, Pitt Athletics has taken significant steps to build a modern collegiate athletics infrastructure designed to compete in today’s rapidly evolving landscape. Over the past year, the department has aligned resources, strengthened operational support, and invested in the systems and personnel necessary to position its programs for sustained success. From enhancing student-athlete support services to modernizing recruiting, branding, and revenue strategies, Greene’s approach has focused on creating a strong foundation that empowers coaches and student-athletes to compete at the highest level. Those investments are intended not only to address the demands of today’s environment, but to ensure Pitt Athletics is well-positioned for the future.

Greene has been a lead figure in the management of name, image and likeness (NIL) programs at three separate Southeastern Conference (SEC) institutions, including most recently at the University of Tennessee, where he served as senior deputy athletics director from December 2023 until his Pitt appointment. He played an integral role in the athletics department’s over 30% increase in annual revenue. Prior to his tenure with the Volunteers, he served a year at the University of Mississippi as senior deputy athletics director for external relations and business development.

From 2018 and 2022, Greene served as director of athletics at Auburn University, where his record of success included eight SEC championships and 47 programs achieving Top 25 finishes in national rankings.

Prior to Auburn, Greene served the University at Buffalo as director of athletics from 2015 to 2018.

Greene was a three-year starter for the Irish baseball team at the University of Notre Dame, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in finance in 2000. He was a ninth-round selection in the 1998 Major League Baseball draft by the New York Yankees and played three years in the organization’s minor league system. He later earned a Master of Business Administration at Indiana University’s South Bend campus.

He is highly regarded by his peers, having served on the executive committee of the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA) and LEAD1 as 1st vice-chair.

He and his wife, Christy, have three children: daughters Rian and Seneca and son Samuel.