Howard University Athletics

In 2022, Chevonne Mansfield was hired as executive senior associate athletic director for the Howard University Department of Athletics.

As the executive senior associate athletics director, Mansfield provides supervision of the department’s external units, including: marketing and promotional efforts, ticket operations and sales, fan engagement, broadcasting, and multimedia rights. She will also oversee budget/finance operations, and serve as a liaison to campus offices, such as the Title IX Office and Development Office.

Mansfield, previously a deputy athletics director at Florida Memorial University before earning a promotion to interim athletics director in 2020, represents Howard University in the MEAC and within the NCAA structure as senior woman administrator, a title she also held with the Lions.
Mansfield has experience working in all three subdivisions of NCAA Division I athletics, and her career has seen her work up the ranks from sports information director to athletic director. 
 
No stranger to The Mecca, Mansfield began her career at Howard University as the assistant sports information director in 2007. She spent three years at HU before joining the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC). During her time at the SWAC, she helped re-shape the perception and image of one of the nation’s oldest conferences.
 
Mansfield spent nearly three years at the Southeastern Conference (SEC) during a pivotal time of transition when the league expanded and added University of Missouri and Texas A&M University, announced the creation of the SEC Network, and was instrumental in the formation of the College Football Playoff (CFP).
Mansfield also spent time as the Communications Director for the American Athletic Conference and the LEAD1 Association, which represents the athletics directors and programs of the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS), prior to joining Florida Memorial University.
 
Mansfield has completed multiple leadership development institutes, including the NCAA Leadership Institute for Ethnic Minority Males and Females (2009) and the NCAA/NACWAA Institute for Administrative Advancement (2011).
 
On the academic side, Mansfield also was an adjunct professor at Georgetown University (2019-20) in the Master in Professional Studies Sports Industry Management (SIM) program and Johnson & Wales University (2016-17) in the Sports Entertainment Event Management (SEEM) program.

A native of Long Island, NY, Mansfield earned her undergraduate degree from St. John’s University (N.Y) in 2004, and a master’s degree from University of Maryland Eastern Shore (UMES) in 2007.