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John Currie was introduced as the sixth Director of Athletics at Wake Forest University by President Emeritus Nathan Hatch on March 4, 2019. An award-winning college athletics leader with 30 years of experience in the ACC, Big 12 and SEC, Currie previously served as athletics director at Kansas State and Tennessee.
Currie became Wake Forest's sixth athletic director in school history when he was named to the position on March 3, 2019. Currie is just the third individual to have held the position since 1964 following the 28-year tenure of Gene Hooks (1964–92) and 27-year tenure of Ron Wellman (1992–2019).
With the Pac-12 falling apart over the last month coupled with the very public comments from Florida State administrators about their displeasure in the ACC, I thought it was an important time to...
Today, John Currie officially becomes Wake Forest University’s sixth Director of Athletics. As announced in March, Currie is a 1993 Wake Forest graduate who served his alma mater for six years in the 1990’s as assistant director of the Deacon Club, and assistant AD.
Currie was named as Wake Forest's sixth athletics director on March 4, 2019, succeeding his mentor, two-time NACDA Athletics Director of the Year (2002-03; 2007-08) Ron Wellman. The 2021-2022 academic year marks Currie's 12th as a Power-5 athletics director.
Currie, 51, has been running full speed since he succeeded Ron Wellman (P ’98, ’01), his longtime mentor and onetime boss, to become Wake Forest’s sixth director of athletics.