Temple University Athletics
Women's Basketball
- Title:
- Executive Senior Associate AD/SWA
- Email:
- Jessica.reo@temple.edu
- Phone:
- 215-204-7871
Jessica Reo, an athletics administrator with 15 years on Division I senior staffs, was named the Executive Senior Associate Athletics Director/Senior Women's Administrator at Temple in August, 2019. She currently oversees sports medicine, strength and conditioning, mental health, nutrition services, strategic communications, and has sport supervisory duties for women’s basketball, women’s volleyball, women’s rowing and men’s crew. In January of 2021, she was named one of the nation’s top assistant athletic directors by Silver Wave Media. She navigated the Temple athletics department through COVID and in May, 2023 was tasked with leading the department in running the NCAA Women’s Rowing Championship. She was recently named to the NCAA Rowing Committee to a four year term which began in September, 2023 and runs for four years.
Reo arrived at Temple after serving the previous four years as the senior associate athletics director for compliance and special projects at Florida International University. In that role, Reo was responsible for athletics compliance, student-athlete programming and oversight of the Student-Athlete Leadership Council. She also was the varsity sport administrator for baseball and oversaw the renovation of FIU's baseball stadium in 2017.
The longest stint of Reo's stellar career came at UCF (2003-15), where she served 12 years on its athletics staff, the last seven as senior associate athletics director/senior women's administrator for student services. In her role, she was a member of the Director of Athletics' Executive Leadership team which helped oversee the daily operations of the athletic department, handled all student-athlete driven issues, she assisted in the development of strategic plans, and created and implemented policies and procedures for the athletics department.
As UCF's SWA, a role she began in 2006, Reo represented UCF in conference dealings pertaining to scheduling, championships and legislation. She also served as UCF's liaison for gender equity and Title IX issues. In addition, she was the administrator in charge of several UCF teams including women's rowing, cross country, men's and women's tennis and women's track and field. Reo, who represented UCF on multiple NCAA Committees during her tenure, was recognized in 2015 as one of the Top 10 Senior Woman Administrators in all of college athletics by CollegeAD.org. She also acted as the department's liaison with Academic Services for Student-Athletes (ASSA), supervised the Departments of Sports Medicine, Strength & Conditioning and Student Services.
Prior to her time at UCF, Reo spent seven years at the University of Miami, serving first as a compliance coordinator for rules education and documentation and the last four years as a compliance coordinator for athletic services. She received her first full-time role as an assistant sports information director at Clemson University, where she spent two years publicizing Clemson athletics. She began her career serving as an intern in the Atlantic Coast Conference office, working with the media relations department.
Reo graduated with a bachelor's degree in English from Florida State University, completed a master's degree in sport and fitness from UCF, and completed a Doctorate in Education at Florida State University.
