:DeLoss Dodds
{{short description|American track and field athlete and coach, college athletics administrator}}
{{Infobox college coach
| name = DeLoss Dodds
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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1937|8|8|mf=y}}
| birth_place = Riley, Kansas, U.S.
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| coach_sport1 = Track
| coach_years1 = 1963–1976
| coach_team1 = Kansas State
| admin_years1 = 1977–1981
| admin_team1 = Kansas State
| admin_years2 = 1981–2013
| admin_team2 = Texas
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DeLoss Dodds (born August 8, 1937) is an American university sports administrator who was the sixth men's athletic director of The University of Texas at Austin.{{cite web|title=DeLoss Dodds UT Athletics Bio|url=http://texassports.com/sports/2013/7/29/GEN_0729131404.aspx?id=302|work=texassports.com|accessdate=December 17, 2013}}{{cite news | title= Muschamp to succeed Brown as Texas head coach | url= http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/longhorns/index.html | work=Austin American-Statesman | publisher=Cox Enterprises | date=November 18, 2008 | accessdate=2008-11-18}}{{cite news | url=http://www.mackbrown-texasfootball.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/111808aab.html | title=Muschamp to remain at Texas - Assistant coach to remain as Defensive Coordinator and eventually succeed Mack Brown as head coach | work=MackBrownTexasFootball.com | publisher=University of Texas & Host Interactive | date=November 18, 2008 | accessdate=2008-11-18 | url-status=dead | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081211010651/http://www.mackbrown-texasfootball.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/111808aab.html | archivedate=December 11, 2008 }}[http://www.texassports.com/staffdir/dodds-deloss-bio.html Bio] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110923185032/http://www.texassports.com/staffdir/dodds-deloss-bio.html |date=2011-09-23 }} retrieved 2008-09-23
During his tenure as AD from the fall of 1981 to November 2013, Texas won 19 National Championships{{cite web |url=https://texassports.com/sports/2013/7/29/GEN_0729130655.aspx |title=National Championships |access-date=2019-04-06 |website=texassports.com}} and 287 conference titles.{{cite web |url=https://texassports.com/sports/2013/7/29/GEN_0729130907.aspx |title=Conference Championships |access-date=2019-04-06 |website=texassports.com}} Dodds announced on October 1, 2013, that he would be retiring in 2014. Dodds became a special assistant to University of Texas President Bill Powers on November 25, 2013.{{cite web|title=Steve Patterson Named Texas Men's Athletic Director|url=http://www.utexas.edu/news/2013/11/05/patterson-texas-athletic-director|work=The University of Texas at Austin|accessdate=December 17, 2013}}{{cite news|last=Haurwitz|first=Ralph|title=UT regents approve Steve Patterson as Longhorns' new athletic director|url=http://www.statesman.com/news/sports/college/regents-approve-patterson-as-new-ad-for-texas/nbpYj/|accessdate=December 17, 2013|newspaper=Austin American-Statesman|date=November 11, 2013}}{{cite web|title=Athletics Director Steve Patterson|url=http://texassports.com/sports/2013/11/5/GEN_1105131632.aspx?id=476|work=texassports.com|accessdate=December 17, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131217224011/http://texassports.com/sports/2013/11/5/GEN_1105131632.aspx?id=476|archive-date=December 17, 2013|url-status=dead}}
Biography
Dodds was born August 8, 1937, in Riley, Kansas. He is married to Mary Ann (née Chamberlain); they have two daughters, Deidre, and Debra and one son, Doug.
{{cite web|title=Biography for Deloss Dodds|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2980584/bio|work=Biography|publisher=IMDB|accessdate=September 30, 2011}} He is a graduate of Kansas State University, where he was also a conference champion in the quarter mile in 1959.{{cn|date=July 2017}}
Before taking his position at Texas, he was the athletic director for the Kansas State Wildcats for five years, from 1977 to 1981. Before that, Dodds was head track coach at Kansas State, a position he held from 1963 to 1976, during which time his teams captured two Big Eight Conference indoor track and field championships (1974 & 1976).{{Cite web |url=http://bigeightsports.com/Sports/MensTrackandField/MensIndoorTrackandFieldChampionships.htm|title=Big Eight Conference Men's Indoor Track and Field Championship History|website=Big Eight Sports}}
Dodds was hired in 1981 as the University of Texas' men’s athletic director.{{cite news|last=Brown|first=Chip|title=25 YEARS OF DeLOSS DODDS AT TEXAS - Longhorns reap rewards from athletic director's steady work behind scenes|url=http://infoweb.newsbank.com/iw-search/we/InfoWeb?p_action=doc&p_topdoc=1&p_docnum=1&p_sort=YMD_date:D&p_product=AWNB&p_text_direct-0=document_id=(%20112B90C909B40628%20)&p_docid=112B90C909B40628&p_theme=aggdocs&p_queryname=112B90C909B40628&f_openurl=yes&p_nbid=L70H5CUSMTMxNzM0NDU1OS42NTMzMDU6MTo5OkVCU0NPMTEwMA&&p_multi=DMNB|accessdate=September 30, 2011|newspaper=Dallas Morning News|date=July 6, 2006}} During his tenure he helped Texas through many major events, including the 2010–12 conference realignment frenzy and $380 million in athletic facility upgrades.{{cite web|title=Athletic Director Deloss Dodds|url=http://www.texassports.com/staffdir/dodds-deloss-bio.html|work=Biography|publisher=texassports.com|accessdate=September 30, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110923185032/http://www.texassports.com/staffdir/dodds-deloss-bio.html|archive-date=September 23, 2011|url-status=dead}}
Achievements
- 2011 Athletic Director of the Year {{cite web |last=Litman |first=Laken |title=DeLoss Dodds named Athletic Director of the Year by Sports Business Journal |url=http://collegesportsblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2011/05/deloss-dodds-named-athletic-director-of.html |publisher=SportsDay DFW |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110826233839/http://collegesportsblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2011/05/deloss-dodds-named-athletic-director-of.html |archivedate=2011-08-26 }}
- National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame's John L. Toner Award in December 2006
- Inducted in the United States Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association Hall of Fame in 2006
- Inducted into the Drake Relays Coaches Hall of Fame in 1988
- Inducted into Kansas State Athletic Hall of Fame in 1995
- Inducted into the Texas Sports Hall of Fame in 2006
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