Jack Lengyel, director of athletics at the U.S. Naval Academy and president of the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA) in 1989-90, will receive the 35th James J. Corbett Memorial Award.

The award is presented annually to the collegiate athletics administrator who "through the years has most typified James J. Corbett's devotion to intercollegiate athletics and worked unceasingly for its betterment." Corbett, athletics director at Louisiana State University, was NACDA's first president in 1965. The award is considered the highest honor one can achieve for collegiate athletics administration.

Lengyel will be honored during the James J. Corbett Awards Luncheon June 11 at the NACDA convention.

In addition to receiving the Corbett Award, Lengyel will receive an honorary degree from the Sports Management Institute, an educational institute sponsored by the University of Michigan; the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; the University of Notre Dame; the University of South Carolina, Columbia; the University of Southern California; the University of Texas at Austin; and NACDA.

In addition to the on-field success of Navy athletics, Lengyel has overseen several facility improvements, including completion of the $30 million Alumni Hall, which houses men's and women's basketball; the Rear Admiral Thomas Hamilton Locker Room complex at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium, with the Football Walk of Fame; the Zachary Fisher Rowing Center; renovations to Hubbard Hall; and improvements to the Naval Academy Golf Course facilities and watering system. Other upgrades have included the $8 million Armel-Leftwich Visitors Center; opening of the Admiral Fitzgerald Baseball Clubhouse at Bishop Stadium and the $9 million renovation and addition to Ricketts Hall. Most recently, the $4.2 million Glenn Warner Soccer Facility was completed.

Before his administrative appointments, Lengyel coached multiple sports, including football, lacrosse, swimming, track, baseball and wrestling. He was the head football coach at the College of Wooster for four years, before rebuilding the Marshall University football program. In 1971, he served as Marshall's first head coach after the team and many of its staff and administrators were killed in a plane crash the previous year.

He earned his bachelor of science degree from the University of Akron in 1957 and his master's degree in education from Kent State University in 1963. He was awarded an honorary doctorate by the United States Sports Academy in 1999.