The NCAA News - News and Features

December 8, 1997

Taylor, Tealer chosen for Division I Management Council

Angela D. Taylor and Lynda Tealer have been selected as new members of the Division I Management Council.

Taylor, assistant director of athletics and senior woman administrator at the University of Nevada, will represent the Big West Conference, taking the place of Albert Gonzales, formerly of New Mexico State University.

Tealer, assistant athletics director and senior woman administrator at Santa Clara University, will fill the Division I-AAA at-large position previously held by Vivian Fuller, formerly of Northeastern Illinois University. Fuller recently became athletics director at Tennessee State University, a Division I-AA institution.

Taylor

Taylor is in her 10th year as a member of the Nevada athletics department. She was named senior woman administrator in 1990 after serving as women's sports information and promotions coordinator for three years.

A 1985 graduate of Nevada, Taylor earned a bachelor's degree in business administration, with an emphasis in marketing. She earned a master's degree in public administration from Nevada in 1991.

Taylor has served as a member of the NCAA Recruiting Committee and on the NCAA Woman of the Year selection committee.

She currently serves as a board member for the National Association of Collegiate Women's Athletic Administrators, the Nevada Women's Fund and the Northern Nevada Black Cultural Awareness Society, of which she is a past-president.

At Nevada, Taylor oversees basketball, cross country, indoor and outdoor track, men's and women's rifle, men's and women's skiing, swimming, and volleyball.

Tealer

Tealer is entering her third year as senior woman administrator at Santa Clara.

She is primarily responsible for handling all NCAA compliance matters. She also oversees the institution's student-athlete leadership council.

Tealer joined the Santa Clara staff as director of compliance in November 1995 after serving a compliance internship at the University of California, Los Angeles. She was promoted to assistant athletics director in December 1996.

A 1992 graduate of the University of San Diego, Tealer was a four-year member of the institution's women's basketball team, serving as the team's captain as a junior and senior. She earned West Coast Conference all-scholar athlete honors four times during her career.

After earning an undergraduate degree in business administration, she enrolled at law school at the University of Texas at Austin, where she earned a J.D. degree in 1995.