Todd Stansbury
Todd Stansbury, a Georgia Tech alumnus and football letterwinner, was introduced as the Institute’s ninth director of athletics on Sept. 22, 2016.
In just three full years as the athletics director at his alma mater, Stansbury has overseen a resurgence on The Flats. Most notably, the Yellow Jackets have put together consecutive ultra-successful years athletically.
In 2018-19, Georgia Tech leapt 55 spots in the final Learfield IMG Directors’ Cup standings, good for Tech’s highest finish in the national all-sports competition since 2010-11.
The Jackets were on pace for a similarly successful campaign in 2019-20. When the sports world came to a halt due to the global Covid-19 pandemic in March 2020, Georgia Tech men’s basketball had just finished off the program’s best Atlantic Coast Conference season in 24 years, women’s basketball was on the NCAA Tournament bubble and golf and women’s tennis were both ranked in the top 10 nationally. Additionally, Georgia Tech volleyball won the 2019 National Invitational Volleyball Championship and Tech football, under first-year head coach Geoff Collins, secured only the second top-25-ranked recruiting class in school history.
Academically, Georgia Tech was the only institution from a Power Five conference that had a multiyear NCAA Academic Progress Rate (APR) higher than the national average in every sport in 2018-19, a feat it nearly replicated in 2019-20, when 13 of its 14 programs compiled an APR above the national average in their respective sports.
In the community, Stansbury led the charge to institute Georgia Tech athletics’ Jackets Without Borders international service program, which won the ACC’s prestigious Game Changers award for community service in 2019.
Under Stansbury, Georgia Tech athletics has also reached new heights in fundraising. The Alexander-Tharpe Fund, the Georgia Tech Athletic Association’s fundraising arm set records for funds raised in consecutive fiscal years (2019 and 2020) and Athletics Initiative 2020, Tech athletics’ drive to raise $125 for facilities, endowments and operations in a three-year span from 2018-20, surpassed its goal six months ahead of its Dec. 31, 2020 deadline.
