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MISSOURI S&T ADMINISTRATION
Mark Mullin, Director of Athletics
Mark Mullin is in his 18th year as Missouri S&T’s director of athletics where
he oversees a program that has consistently finished in the top one-third of the
NACDA Director’s Cup Standings. He also oversees a program that has enjoyed
great success academically, as evidenced by the 33 ESPN The Magazine
Academic All-America awards won by S&T student-athletes since 2000, the fourthhighest
total among NCAA Division II institutions.
During the 2009-10 school year, Missouri S&T enjoyed a great deal of athletic
success headlined by eighteen student-athletes earning All-America honors and
45 all-conference selections from the Great Lakes Valley Conference. The success
also carried over to the academic side, where S&T had 150 student-athletes post a
grade point average of at least 3.5 to earn the S&T scholar-athlete awards.
Academic all-conference awards were achieved by 130 Miner student-athletes last
season.
Under Mullin’s direction, S&T has served as the host institution for the NCAA Division II Swimming and Diving
Championships as well as the NCAA South Central men’s regional basketball tournament, MIAA men’s basketball
finals, the GLVC women’s basketball tournament, the MIAA cross country championships and GLVC cross country
and track & field championships. He led the process that allowed S&T to move its conference affiliation to the
Great Lakes Valley Conference beginning in the fall of 2005.
In the last year, he has led a number of significant facility projects. These projects included the completion and
opening of a new state-of-the-art fitness center and varsity weight and fitness rooms; a new indoor practice facility
and new sports medicine center.
A number of facility upgrades have also occurred during Mullin’s tenure. These improvements include: the Student
Recreation Center being constructed; renovating Allgood-Bailey stadium to include a new track, lights, and a
new concession restroom facility; the addition of chair back seats to the Bullman arena, and the building of a new
soccer complex.
In addition to his duties as athletics director, Mullin served as swimming and diving coach for 12 years and led
the Miners to a 96-27 dual meet record and seven regional championships. His final team finished third at the
1998 NCAA Division II Championships, the highest finish ever for a Miner athletic team at an NCAA championship
event at the time.
Mullin has served two terms as the chair of the NCAA Division II men’s and women’s swimming and diving
committee and has also served multiple terms on the men’s basketball and football regional advisory committees
for the region. He served a two-year term as the president of the MIAA after spending the two prior years as the
conference’s vice president prior to S&T’s switch to the GLVC. He was recently elected to serve as the conference
director of athletics representative on the GLVC Executive Committee.
Mullin and his wife Joanie have four daughters, Elizabeth, Katie, Melissa, and Nina, two granddaughters, Halle
and Preslie and a grandson, Jackson.
Dr. Jeff Cawlfield, NCAA Faculty Representative
Dr. Jeff Cawlfield, professor of geological engineering at Missouri S&T, is in his
eighth year as the university’s faculty representative to the NCAA. He took over the
duties in January 2003 following the retirement of Dr. Jack Ridley, who had served
in the role for the previous three years.
After joining the S&T faculty in 1987, Cawlfield was named professor of
geological engineering in 1999 and became head of the geological engineering
department the following year. He moved into the role of associate dean in 2001.
Cawlfield received an S&T Sustained Excellence in Teaching award in 2003.
Cawlfield received his bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from Washington
State University in 1981 and his master’s and doctorate degrees at the University
of California-Berkeley.
Cawlfield is also an Honorary Knight of St. Patrick, an honor he received in 2002 along with a group that
included Dr. Manuel Pacheco prior to his retirement as president of the UM System. He was selected by Pacheco to
attend the first UM Administrative Leadership Development Program during the 2000-01 academic year.
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