Staff Directory
- Title:
- Deputy Athletics Director, Senior Woman Administrator and Deputy Title IX Coordinator
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Valerie Johnson joined the University of Oregon in January 2023 as the Deputy Athletic Director/Senior Woman Administrator and Deputy Title IX Coordinator. Her responsibilities include oversight of the volleyball and women’s basketball programs, Sports Medicine and Student-Athlete Development.
She joined the UO after serving as the Director of Club Athletics & Wellness at the Multnomah Athletic Club, where she had oversight of the club’s competitive sports programs, fitness offerings, and athletic recreational activities.
Previously, Johnson served as the Director of Athletics at Portland State University. During her time at PSU, she oversaw the development and completion process of the Viking Pavilion, the academic and athletic center that now houses the department, and hosts basketball and volleyball in a 3,000-seat arena. The Viking Pavilion, which opened in 2018, also features upgraded amenities, an improved weight room, training room, and academic advising facilities. She also served as the Senior Associate AD and SWA at Portland State from 2013-15.
Johnson spent two years as Athletic Director at Willamette University (D-III). In addition to her time at Willamette, she previously did admissions work at Pacific University and was the Director of Student-Athlete Enhancement Programs at Boise State University.
While working at Boise State from 2002 through 2010, Johnson became intimately familiar with a variety of student success initiatives while working in several positions. She was an educational specialist helping with BSU's Educational Talent Search for one year, then worked for three years as the coordinator of the TRIO Dissemination Partnership. She became the academic advisor and BroncoLIFE coordinator for the Athletics Department in 2006. Johnson was named the director of student-athlete enhancement programs in 2008.
At Pacific, she served as assistant director of undergraduate admissions from September of 2010 through October of 2012, and was promoted to associate director of undergraduate admissions in October of 2012.
Johnson earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in 2000 from California State University, Chico, with a major in Social Science and an emphasis in Sociology, Multicultural and Gender Studies. In 2003, she received a Master of Science degree from California S
