Colorado University Athletics
Galloway Named Director of Equipment
April 07, 2005 | General
BOULDER - J.T. Galloway has been named CU's director of equipment operations, interim athletic director Jack Lengyel announced Thursday.
Galloway will oversee the equipments of CU's 17 intercollegiate sports, but his primary day-to-day obligation will be with the Buffalo football program. He replaces Mike Smith, who joined NIKE as the innovation project manager for NIKE team sports. Smith had held the position since 1998.
He is a certified member of the Athletic Equipment Manager's Association (AEMA), a status he attained in 1995 upon entering the profession full-time.
"It is a realization of a dream," Galloway said. "This (Colorado) is a school I've always admired from afar and held in a high regard. I'm excited to be a part of the Buffalo family and am looking forward to getting off the ground and running."
He graduated with a degree in sport management in 1994 from Washington State University, where he worked all four years of his college career as a student employee in the WSU equipment room. He began his professional career as an equipment intern at the University of Virginia in the fall of 1994 and worked there six months. He then moved on to the National Football League's Atlanta Falcons, where he was an assistant equipment manager for the 1995 season.
He returned to the college ranks as the football equipment director at Wake Forest from 1996 to 1998 before heading west to Arizona where he would spend the next six seasons as the associate director of equipment.
Born May 10, 1968 in Columbus, Ohio, Galloway graduated Gaither High School in Tampa, Fla. He is married to the former Kelly Christy, a registered nurse, and the couple has two children, Katie (6) and Collin (3).
