Sherie L. Gordon
Associate AD For Internal Operations/SWA

Phone: (757) 823-8404
Email: slcornish@nsu.edu

Sherie Gordon is in her fourth year on staff in the NSU athletics department. In May 2010, she was promoted to the position of associate athletics director for internal operations after holding that title in an interim capacity since February 2009. She also serves as the department’s senior woman administrator.

At NSU, Gordon is responsible for the supervision of the department’s internal operations, including management of the department’s budget, oversight of game-day management, and supervision of equipment and facilities. In addition, Gordon oversees the volleyball, softball, bowling, men’s tennis and women’s tennis programs.

Gordon began her tenure at NSU in January 2006 as the assistant for business operations and was soon thereafter promoted to assistant athletics director for business operations. 

Gordon came to Norfolk State University in 2005 after serving as a senior administrative assistant at American University. She also served as an athletics department intern at the University of Maryland in 2004-2005 and as an assistant women’s basketball coach at her alma mater, Morgan State University, during the 2003-2004 school year. 

Gordon is a member of the National Association of Collegiate Women Athletics Administrators (NACWAA), the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA), the Collegiate Athletics Business Management Association (CABMA) and the Minority Opportunities Athletics Association (MOAA). She serves on the program committee for CABMA. 

Gordon is a 2006 graduate of NACWAA’s Institute for Administrative Advancement and a 2009 graduate of the NCAA Leadership Institute for Ethnic Minority Males and Females.

Gordon was an accomplished basketball player at Morgan State, where she scored more than 1,000 career points. She was a four-year letter winner and was a team captain her final three seasons.

The former Sherie Cornish of Severna Park, Md., Gordon earned her bachelor’s degree in sports administration from Morgan State in 2002 and her master’s in sports management from Temple in 2004.

Gordon currently resides in Suffolk, Va., with her husband, Ross, and son, Ethan.


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