Stan Wilcox

As executive vice president of regulatory affairs, Stan Wilcox oversees all NCAA regulatory functions, including academic and membership affairs, the NCAA Eligibility Center and enforcement. Wilcox provides strategic direction while continuing to foster strong relationships with NCAA colleges and universities, ensuring regulatory staffs within the national office work efficiently and collaboratively to best serve NCAA members.

Before joining the NCAA staff in October 2018, Wilcox oversaw the strategic planning and management of 20 varsity sports with more than 500 student-athletes at Florida State, where he was hired in 2013 as director of athletics and was promoted to vice president in 2016. Before his time at Florida State, he served in senior positions at Duke, Notre Dame and the Big East Conference.

Wilcox has held several national leadership positions, including membership on the NCAA Football Oversight Committee and LEAD1 board of trustees. He helped to create the Minority Opportunities Athletic Association and subsequently served as a member of its board. From 2003 to 2005, he was president of the Black Coaches Association.

A former men’s basketball player at Notre Dame, Wilcox helped lead the Fighting Irish to a 1978 NCAA Men’s Final Four appearance and four NCAA tournament berths. He went on to graduate from Notre Dame in 1981 with a degree in economics before earning a law degree from Brooklyn Law School in 1988.