Former UNM tennis player, coach, now senior associate AD
Tim Cass is a former Lobo tennis standout from 1982-86, named All-American in doubles in 1986. He also coached at UNM from 1988-96, during which his team was WAC champions five years in a row, from 1991-95. He then coached 10 seasons at Texas A & M. Now off the court and in the front office, he is UNM’s new senior associate athletics director, taking the position Aug. 1, following the retirement of Conrad Colbert.
Photo: Tim Cass, senior associate athletics director
Cass actively pursued the position when it came open. In part, he said, because he "felt indebted" to the institution that gave him a head coaching job when he was just 23. He also saw good leadership in Paul Krebs, UNM’s recently hired athletic director.
“Paul is a terrific leader, he has great vision and is a good communicator. I am excited to work along side him,” Cass said.
Cass has been charged to oversee football, men’s basketball, as well as men’s and women’s tennis and soccer. He has also been asked to take on facilities.
“We are looking at all aspects of facilities. Coaches are better with good players – players are key. Recruiting is essential and quality facilities are huge in recruitment. If we sell ‘em and tell ‘em we’re the best in the Mountain West, we’ve got to live up to it,” he said.
Cass said that beautification includes landscaping around facilities as well as painting, carpeting and furniture within them. He said he is developing a facilities master plan that includes an indoor practice facility for football, a Pit renovation and expansion of soccer facilities, among other changes.
“Even small scale things are important – like resurfacing parking lots and the fencing around them,” he said. “We will create a road map to accomplish what we need to do, on the field, in academics and within facilities.
Media Contact: Carolyn Gonzales, (505) 277-5920; e-mail: cgonzal@unm.edu
Posted by scarr at October 25, 2006 11:02 AM