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

Marie Pipes will begin her 27th year at Louisiana Tech and her fourth as associate athletics director - chief financial officer in the athletic department.

Pipes 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.

She 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 two of the past three years in the Excellence in Management Cup, which recognizes the most efficient athletic departments in the nation.

This past year, Tech earned its highest finish ever in the Western Athletic Conference Commissioner's Cup as its student-athletes continued to excel on the playing fields.

Pipes previously served as the budget manager for the College of Engineering for six years where she had similar duties. 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 has earned two degrees from Louisiana Tech University and completed a master's certificate in technical writing.

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.