Marie Pipes Last College: Louisiana Tech Position: Associate AD/Chief Financial Officer Contact: mpipes@latech.edu Graduated: 1999

Marie Pipes will begin her 26th year at Louisiana Tech and her third as associate athletics director - chief financial officer in the athletic department.

She is responsible for the day-to-day business operations of the athletic department, including overseeing the individual budgets for 16 varsity sports, monitoring athletic funds of the Louisiana Tech Athletic Foundation, serving as liaison with the university's business offices and supervising the athletic ticket office.

Pipes is part of a senior staff at LA Tech that has been instrumental in garnering a number of national awards, including the 2010 Turnkey PRISM Award - which recognizes colleges for managerial excellence across four areas: marketing/branding; fan development; community relations; and customer/client service.

The Tech athletics department has also finished in the Top 10 the past two years in the Excellence in Management Cup, which recognizes the most efficient athletic departments in the nation.

Pipes previously served as the budget manager for the College of Engineering for six years where she had similar. She was also in the College of Liberal Arts as the dean's assistant handling day-to-day business in the office while working with budget planning for the year.

In 2002, she received the Distinctive Professional Performance and Conduct Award from the Institute of Micromanufacturing at Louisiana Tech.

Pipes graduated from Louisiana Tech in 1999 with a degree in liberal arts and a minor in speech communication. She also earned her certificate in technical writing in 2007.

She is a current member of the National Association of Collegiate Marketing Administrators (NACMA). She is also actively involved in the American Cancer Society and serves as the co-chair for the Relay for Life Survivor's Dinner as well as on the Executive Committee for the ACS Relay for Life in Lincoln Parish.