Northeastern University Athletics

Marshall Foley joined the executive leadership team at Northeastern University in 2018 and serves as the Executive Senior Associate Athletic Director – Operations. In this role he supervises game day operations and staffing for Huskies home events, works closely with campus facilities to schedule and manage athletic facilities operations, and serves as the Athletics liaison with campus planning on any capital projects that involve Athletics, Recreation, and Club Sports. 

Foley also provides administrative oversight for University Recreation, Club Sports, and Athletics Equipment operations, and is the primary administrator for men’s soccer, women’s ice hockey, women’s rowing, and baseball.
 
Prior to heading to Boston, Foley spent three seasons as Senior Associate Athletic Director for Sport Administration at Oakland University, and managed all championship events hosted by the Golden Grizzlies. As part of the senior executive leadership team, Foley helped lead Oakland to three consecutive Horizon League McCafferty Cups, awarded to the league’s top all-around sports teams. The Golden Grizzlies tallied its highest ever finish in the DI-AAA Learfield Director’s Cup standings (non-football) at 18^th in 2015, and followed that up with a second consecutive top-30 finish in 2016.
 
Foley served as Associate Commissioner for Championships at the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference from 2006-15. He had administrative oversight of sport administration and conference championship events for 23 sports. As a part of the conference leadership team, Foley was also involved in strategic and long-range planning for the MAAC and its membership. During his tenure at the MAAC, Foley also served on two NCAA Sport Committees – Division I Women’s Rowing and Division I Men’s Soccer.
 
Foley has also worked as Associate Athletic Director of Internal Affairs at Canisius College, managing daily operations of the department including coaches and staff, facilities, and fiscal operations, and as Assistant to the Director of Athletics at the University of Alaska Anchorage.  Foley earned a master’s degree in public administration from Alaska Anchorage in 2000, and received a bachelor’s degree in history from Duke University in 1995.