A six-year member of the national office staff, Strawley will be responsible for the management and oversight of the student-athlete reinstatement area.

She will oversee the processing of all reinstatement cases, and she will serve as liaison to Divisions I, II and III Student-Athlete Reinstatement Committees.

Strawley also will continue to be involved with the implementation of the student-athlete-first philosophy within the reinstatement area and coordination of media and communication efforts.

She also will continue in her liaison role with the USOC/NCAA Task Force on Olympic Sports and the Olympic Sports Liaison Committee.

Strawley, a former softball student-athlete at the University of Pennsylvania, began her tenure at the national office as an intern with the enforcement services staff in 1998. She became an assistant director of student-athlete reinstatement a year later before being promoted to the associate director level in 2003.

In her work with student-athlete reinstatement, Strawley has been instrumental in implementing the student-athlete-first philosophy in which student-athletes are given the benefit of the doubt in cases in which they are not culpable for the violation.

The effort initiated by NCAA President Myles Brand last year has resulted in many positive reinstatement outcomes for student-athletes who would have been withheld from competition under previous guidelines based strictly on case precedent.

Strawley graduated from Pennsylvania in 1998 with a degree in history. She was a four-year member of the softball team and was captain of the squad in 1997 and 1998.