The University of Alabama at Birmingham Athletics
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Mark Ingram, a veteran administrator with an extensive background in athletic development, was named UAB's Director of Athletics in May of 2015.
Ingram has guided the UAB Department of Athletics through its most unique and unprecedented era of collegiate athletics with the reinstatement of Football, Bowling and Rifle, while experiencing record-setting performances on the fundraising trail and in the classroom.
In two years under Ingram's leadership, the UAB Department of Athletics has:
- Reinstated UAB Football, Rifle and Bowling
- Raised more than $43 million in cash and pledges for UAB Athletics
- Received approval from the University of Alabama Board of Trustees for a $22.5 million football practice facility, which includes a $4.2 million sponsorship and naming agreement with Legacy Credit Union - the largest of its kind in UAB Athletics history
- Received approval from the University of Alabama Board of Trustees for the expansion of UAB Softball's grandstands and pressbox
- Fall of 2016 overall student-athlete GPA of 3.14, which is the highest ever on record, surpassing the Fall of 2015 GPA of 3.13, which also fell under Ingram's watch
- The Blazers had 13 of their sports teams record a perfect 1,000 APR multiyear rate for the 2015-16 academic year
- UAB student-athletes compiled 3,595 community service hours in 2015-16, which was the most in the program's history
- Competitively, men's basketball won the 2015-16 C-USA regular season title. Softball won the 2016 C-USA Western Division regular season title
- The 2016-17 season marked the seventh-consecutive season UAB has had representation in the Men's Golf NCAA Tournament
Ingram helped engineer the 46,000 square foot Football Operations Center which features an open-air pavilion covering the turf practice field, making UAB a pioneer in this architectural design. The football project, along with the softball complex expansion, are just a few in Ingram's overall facilities master plan.
Along with a tremendous fundraising effort and facility upgrades, Ingram also played an instrumental part in helping the 2017 Conference USA Men's and Women's Basketball Championships return to Birmingham for a third straight year.
Prior to arriving in the Magic City, Ingram was most recently the Associate Vice President/Executive Senior Associate Athletics Director at Temple University.
"Having spent time as a student-athlete, then years as an administrator at the University of Georgia, University of Tennessee, University of Missouri and Temple University in several roles, Mark has a track record that has impressed and excited us," UAB President Ray L. Watts said at the time Ingram was announced to lead the department. "He also has great energy and a strong desire to be at UAB."
Ingram spent three years at Temple and two as Associate Vice President/Executive Senior Associate Athletics Director. He served as sport administrator for Men's Golf and Women's Lacrosse. Ingram joined Temple from the University of Tennessee, where he was Senior Associate Athletic Director.
In five years at Tennessee, his alma mater where he was a two-year starter for the Vol's football team, Ingram was responsible for the planning and strategy for the department's Capital Campaign that raised $336 million during his tenure.
Before joining the Tennessee staff, he served as Assistant Athletics Director for Development at the University of Georgia for two years and Assistant Athletics Director for Development at the University of Missouri.
Ingram, a Winston-Salem, N.C., native, graduated from the University of Tennessee in 1996 with a bachelor's degree in sports management and minors in business and psychology. As a student-athlete, Ingram was a two-time Academic All-SEC honoree and was twice awarded the Volunteer award, given to the most valuable player who was formerly a walk-on. Also a member of the SEC Good Works Team, Ingram earned his master's degree in sport administration from Tennessee in 1997.
Ingram and his wife Amy have four children: John, Anne Lauren, Charlie and Audrey.
