Staff Directory
- Title:
- Senior Associate AD/External Operations
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Alexis Williams returned to CU as the senior associate athletic director for external operations, assuming the role on August 1, 2020. In her position, she oversees marketing, promotions, ticket operations and BuffVision. She is also a member of athletic director Rick George’s executive team and is the sport supervisor for the women’s tennis program.
Williams is in her second stint at CU, returning from her native city and the University of Houston, where she had served as the Cougars’ associate athletics director for ticket sales and operations for the previous year-and-a-half after her first time with the Buffaloes. She also started the Houston's diversity and inclusion council.
She had first joined the Colorado staff as the associate AD for ticket operations, sales and services in March 2015, and was promoted to associate athletic director over the same areas on August 1, 2018. She was also an active member on the department’s Diversity & Inclusion Excellence Council.
She originally came to Colorado from Theatre Under The Stars in Houston, Texas, where she was the manager of ticketing and customer service for seven-and-a-half years (November 2007-March 2015). She previously was the assistant athletic director for ticket operations at Rice University for just over four years (September 2003-November 2007). She was promoted into that position after serving three years as the Owls’ assistant ticket manager. Her first position in the business came as the assistant ticket manager at SMU in 1999.
Williams earned two degrees from Louisiana State University. She received her bachelor’s in Mathematics in 1996 and her master’s in Sports Management in 1998. At LSU, she was active in the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority and a manager for the women’s basketball team.
A native of Houston, Texas, she graduated from Houston’s Bellaire High School, where she lettered in basketball (point guard). Her hobbies include playing golf, reading, travel and attending concerts and sporting events.
