Mike Powicki has been named director of athletics at Wayne State College.WAYNE, Neb. -- -
Wayne State College President Curt Frye announced Monday that Mike Powicki has been named director of athletics at Wayne State College. He will begin his duties at Wayne State College on July 23. Powicki takes over for Eric Schoh, who resigned in May to become athletic director at Winona State University in Minnesota.
"Mike Powicki is an impressive young man who brings a good deal of experience to the department," remarked President Frye. " His past experiences as well as his performance in them made him a great candidate."
Powicki comes to Wayne State after serving as assistant director of athletics at Minnesota State University in Mankato, Minnesota since 2008. He was the assistant athletic director for marketing and corporate partnerships from 2008-10 and was promoted to assistant director of athletics for development and strategic partnerships in 2010 where he has served in that role until the present time.
"My family and I are extremely excited about the opportunity to join Wayne State College and the Wildcat Athletics family," said Powicki. "The college and athletic department have excellent staff in place in a supportive community and I am looking forward to getting to work and being a part of the great things that are going on at Wayne State."
While at MSU, Powicki was responsible for successfully developing and executing the annual athletics department revenue generation plan for $1.7 million, providing overall leadership and management of the revenue generation, development and marketing operations and budget, supervised athletic department marketing and revenue generation staff and worked with local and regional media groups to purchase and produce marketing and advertising for the athletic department.
Powicki also served as associate director of athletics for external affairs at Upper Iowa from 2004-2008 where he helped the Peacocks transition from Division III to Division II and into the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference.
Powicki obtained his bachelor degree from the University of Iowa in exercise science in 2002 and earned his masters degree in exercise and sport science/sport administration from Wisconsin-La Crosse in 2004.
Mike and his wife, Liesel, have two daughters.
President Frye said an open house to welcome Powicki and his family to the Wayne State campus and Wayne community will be held sometime in August.
