By Matt Dougherty
Patriot League

There have been a handful of people involved with the Patriot League through all of its 25 years, but no one has had the impact of Colgate's Victoria M. Chun '91, MA'94 as a student-athlete, coach and administrator.

Chun was named Colgate's director of athletics on Jan. 1, 2013, and promoted to Vice President and Director of Athletics in July 2015 -- the latest step in her involvement at the school and in the Patriot League. She started off as a star volleyball player for the Raiders who competed in the first two seasons of Patriot League action in 1990-91, would go on to lead the team to two Patriot League titles in her three years as head coach from 1994-96 and returned to the school in an administrative role in 2005 that would lead to her appointment as Director of Athletics.

It was a pretty amazing journey to Hamilton, N.Y., for someone who was born on New Year's Day in 1969 in Santa Monica, Calif. Vicky's mother, Susan Chan Chun, swam across Hong Kong Harbor at the age of 13. Her father, Victor Chun, played varsity soccer at Worcester (Mass.) Polytechnic Institute and is the author of "American PT Boats of World War II, Volume I" and "American PT Boats of World War II, Volume II."

Luckily for Colgate, Vicky wanted to go back east for her collegiate experience.

"I knew that I wanted to follow in my cousin Joyce's footsteps (who attended Wellesley) and play Division I volleyball at an elite academic institution," Chun said. "Colgate fit all of those things, and I decided that Colgate was the place for me after my on campus recruiting visit."

Chun was named to the Patriot League's 25th Anniversary Volleyball Team for her success as a student-athlete at Colgate. She ranks fifth in school history for career assists with 2,440, and was selected to the All-Patriot League Team in the league's first two seasons in addition to leading Colgate to the League title in 1990 and winning the Player of the Year award in 1991.

"We were the underdogs — Army was the favored team by far," Chun said of Colgate's Patriot League title in 1990. "They had nicer uniforms, they installed the 1984 Olympics volleyball court to practice and play on. Prior to the Patriot League we didn't have a conference and were limited to tournaments so this was the first opportunity for us to win a conference championship."

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