2019 NACDA and Affiliates Annual Convention

Drew Scales
Associate Athletics Director for Student-Athlete Support Services
University of North Carolina Wilmington


Drew Scales III joined the UNCW athletic staff as Assistant Athletic Director for Student-Athlete Support Services on Nov. 5, 2014 and was promoted to Associate Athletic Director in April of 2019. Scales spent seven years as Assistant Athletic Director of Student Athletic Academic Services at the University of Toledo. He served as a diversity coordinator for UT’s Office of Equity and Diversity, where he conducted several diversity workshops for the Culture Building Institute and developed a protocol to increase minority candidates for faculty positions. He also served on the President’s Council for Diversity as well as the Presidential Scholarship Committee. During his time at UT, Scales was responsible for the daily operations of the Rocket Academic Center, overseeing academic progress of more than 360 student-athletes. He helped the Rockets be recognized with the Mid-American Conference Institutional Academic Award for the first time in both 2012 and 2013. Scales worked as assistant director on the Student-Athlete Academic Support Services staff at Virginia Tech. He was also an academic mentor at Michigan State University and provided mental training techniques for minor league players in the Seattle Mariners organization. In addition to overseeing the daily operations of UNCW's Student-Athlete Intelligence Lab (SAIL), he functions as the sport administrator for the women's soccer and women's tennis programs. He has been instrumental in the UNCW Athletics Strategic Plan, chairing the S.W.O.T. analysis sub-committee. Scales earned his Bachelor of Arts Degree in Psychology from Morehouse College and completed his Master of Science in Physical Education and Exercise Science at Michigan State. He earned his Master of Arts in Clinical Psychology from the Arizona School of Professional Psychology in Phoenix. He is a member of the National Association of Academic Advisors for Athletics and is a faculty member for the Professional Development Institute.

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