Sport Administrator for Football and Women's Basketball
Colgate alumnus Yariv Amir '01 was appointed as Colgate's Vice President and Director of Athletics in November 2023.
Amir, who has served as interim vice president and director of athletics since January 2023, will lead the University's 25 NCAA Division I varsity sports.
Amir has held extensive leadership roles in college athletics, including the previous eight years at Colgate University. Prior to his stint as interim vice president and director of athletics, Amir served as the deputy athletics director and worked as the senior associate athletics director for finance and operations as well as senior associate athletics director for external operations.
As one of the leading liberal arts institutions in the country, Colgate student-athletes continue to boast record-breaking numbers in graduation success rate, academic progress rates, and conference academic honor roll selections.
During his short time as interim vice president and director of athletics, Amir successfully led national searches for three head coaches. In his role as the athletics' CFO, Amir oversaw business operations, facilities and event operations, capital projects, equipment services, and the department's external operations including communications, multimedia, and marketing. He has served as the sport administrator for nine athletics programs during his tenure at Colgate.
Nationally, Amir has served on the NCAA Men's and Women's Ice Hockey Rules Committee, the ECAC Hockey Administrators Committee, the NCAA Division I Swimming & Diving Committee and the Men's Hockey National Recruiting Committee. On the Colgate campus, he serves on the Academic Affairs Board, Cabinet, Dean's Advisory Council, Committee on Athletics, University Property Committee, and on the OAK Initiative. He previously served on the University's Faculty Affairs Board, and Committee on Information Technology, and he was the athletics representative on Colgate's Middle States Accreditation Self Study Steering Committee.
Before returning to his alma mater in the summer of 2015, Amir served for 13 years in the department of athletics at Princeton University. There he served in various roles, including as the Assistant Athletic Director for Marketing. While at Princeton, he served on the Ivy League Digital Strategies Committee and was an NCAA Women's Water Polo Committee member. Before working at Princeton, Amir spent one year working at USA Hockey as the Brian Fishman Intern in the organization's public relations office.
Amir was a captain of the men's rowing team at Colgate before graduating in 2001 with a degree in economics and international relations. He earned his Master of Business Administration from the Rutgers University Business School in 2010, specializing in marketing.
Amir resides in Hamilton with his wife, Elizabeth Wood Amir '00, and their two children.
