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Ingram is a former UT Football player who many wanted when Danny White was hired as AD. Ingram was AD at UAB and had restarted UAB's dead Football program. He not only did it but got a new stadium built for UAB and hired an excellent Football coach. Check out his profile:
Mark Ingram, a veteran administrator with an extensive background in athletic development, was named UAB’s Director of Athletics on May 1, 2015 and is in his seventh year at the helm of the Blazer Athletic Department.
Ingram has guided the UAB Department of Athletics through its most unique and unprecedented era of collegiate athletics with the reinstatement of Football, Bowling and Rifle, while experiencing record-setting performances on the fundraising trail and in the classroom.
The record fundraising contributed to the approval and completion of Protective Stadium, which UAB Football will call home for the start of the 2021 season. The project is a partnership between UAB, the City of Birmingham, Jefferson County, the BJCC and the community.
Ingram is a member of the NCAA Football Competition committee, as well as serving on the Board of Directors for the 2022 World Games and the Birmingham Bowl Executive Committee.
Additionally under Ingram’s leadership, the UAB Department of Athletics has:
The Football Operations Center is just one of many capital projects and facility renovations Ingram has led, which includes a list of:
With the addition of a 4,000-seat grandstand, permanent restrooms, concession stand and ticket office, BBVA Field is considered by some as the nicest on-campus soccer-only stadiums in the country, which also helped attract the professional USL Birmingham Legion FC to the venue.
Ingram was instrumental in the agreement for the Legion FC to call BBVA Field its new home, who began playing there in March of 2019, and attracts more than 20 additional events to UAB’s campus annually.
Prior to arriving in the Magic City, Ingram was most recently the Associate Vice President/Executive Senior Associate Athletics Director at Temple University.
"Having spent time as a student-athlete, then years as an administrator at the University of Georgia, University of Tennessee, University of Missouri and Temple University in several roles, Mark has a track record that has impressed and excited us," UAB President Ray L. Watts said at the time Ingram was announced to lead the department. "He also has great energy and a strong desire to be at UAB."
Ingram spent three years at Temple and two as Associate Vice President/Executive Senior Associate Athletics Director. He served as sport administrator for Men's Golf and Women's Lacrosse. Ingram joined Temple from the University of Tennessee, where he was Senior Associate Athletic Director.
In five years at Tennessee, his alma mater where he was a two-year starter for the Vol's football team, Ingram was responsible for the planning and strategy for the department's Capital Campaign that raised $336 million during his tenure.
Before joining the Tennessee staff, he served as Assistant Athletics Director for Development at the University of Georgia for two years and Assistant Athletics Director for Development at the University of Missouri.
Ingram, a Winston-Salem, N.C., native, graduated from the University of Tennessee in 1996 with a Bachelor's degree in Sport Management and minors in both Business and Psychology. As a student-athlete, Ingram was a two-time Academic All-SEC honoree and was twice awarded the Volunteer award, given to the most valuable player who was formerly a walk-on. Also a member of the SEC Good Works Team, Ingram earned his Master's degree in Sport Administration from Tennessee in 1997.
Ingram and his wife Amy have four children: John (USNA)(20), Anne Lauren (17), Charlie (16) and Audrey (13).
Mark Ingram, a veteran administrator with an extensive background in athletic development, was named UAB’s Director of Athletics on May 1, 2015 and is in his seventh year at the helm of the Blazer Athletic Department.
Ingram has guided the UAB Department of Athletics through its most unique and unprecedented era of collegiate athletics with the reinstatement of Football, Bowling and Rifle, while experiencing record-setting performances on the fundraising trail and in the classroom.
The record fundraising contributed to the approval and completion of Protective Stadium, which UAB Football will call home for the start of the 2021 season. The project is a partnership between UAB, the City of Birmingham, Jefferson County, the BJCC and the community.
Ingram is a member of the NCAA Football Competition committee, as well as serving on the Board of Directors for the 2022 World Games and the Birmingham Bowl Executive Committee.
Additionally under Ingram’s leadership, the UAB Department of Athletics has:
- Reinstated UAB Football, Rifle and Bowling
- Raised more than $100 million in cash and pledges for UAB Athletics
- Helped obtain the approval of Protective Stadium, which UAB Football will call home in 2021.
- Completed the design and construction of a $22.5 million football practice facility, which includes a $4.2 million sponsorship and naming agreement with Legacy Credit Union – the largest of its kind in UAB Athletics history.
- Has completed over 20 additional facilities projects, including BBVA Field which now seats 6,000 and is the home to men’s and women’s soccer, along with the USL professional team Birmingham Legion, a new 8-lane state-of-the-art track & field, and a new five-court beach volleyball complex. A new men’s and women’s basketball practice facility is currently under construction.
- The Blazers had 10 of their teams record a perfect 1,000 APR multiyear rate for the 2018-19 academic year, with seven teams ranking in the top 10 percent of their respective sport, nationally.
- UAB won the 2019-20 and 2020-21 C-USA SAAC Cup, which is presented to a member institution who’s athletes make contributions in community service projects, as well as achievement in personal development programming and academic success. Despite the spring semester being cut short, UAB student-athletes logged over 3,800 hours of community service during the 2019-20 school year.
- UAB student-athletes had a combined GPA of 3.40 in the spring 2020 semester – its highest recorded combined GPA in school history. In the spring of 2021, a record 120 student-athletes achieved a 4.0 GPA.
- Competitively, UAB football became the first team in C-USA history to win three straight divisional titles and won the overall championship in 2018 and 2020. Rifle won back-to-back SoCon Championships in 2019 and 2020. Men’s Basketball won the 2015-16 regular season title, and Women’s Basketball won the 2017-18 C-USA regular season title.
The Football Operations Center is just one of many capital projects and facility renovations Ingram has led, which includes a list of:
- BBVA Field – field construction and lighting project
- High density storage
- Basketball weight room
- Men’s Basketball office renovations
- Ticket office renovations
- Hoke Hire Academic Center renovations
- Olympic Sports weight room renovations
- Nutrition station
- Softball stadium renovations
- Football Operations Center
- Green and Gold Room renovations
- Champion Club upgrades
- Women’s Basketball locker room renovations
- Baseball infield reconstruction
- BBVA Soccer Stadium expansion
- New Olympic Track & Field
- New Beach Volleyball complex
- Downtown Football Stadium
- Baseball, Softball and Beach Volleyball Scoreboard
- Highway Marquee board
- Olympic Sports Cardio Training Area
- Bartow Arena upgrades
- Men’s and Women’s Basketball practice facility
With the addition of a 4,000-seat grandstand, permanent restrooms, concession stand and ticket office, BBVA Field is considered by some as the nicest on-campus soccer-only stadiums in the country, which also helped attract the professional USL Birmingham Legion FC to the venue.
Ingram was instrumental in the agreement for the Legion FC to call BBVA Field its new home, who began playing there in March of 2019, and attracts more than 20 additional events to UAB’s campus annually.
Prior to arriving in the Magic City, Ingram was most recently the Associate Vice President/Executive Senior Associate Athletics Director at Temple University.
"Having spent time as a student-athlete, then years as an administrator at the University of Georgia, University of Tennessee, University of Missouri and Temple University in several roles, Mark has a track record that has impressed and excited us," UAB President Ray L. Watts said at the time Ingram was announced to lead the department. "He also has great energy and a strong desire to be at UAB."
Ingram spent three years at Temple and two as Associate Vice President/Executive Senior Associate Athletics Director. He served as sport administrator for Men's Golf and Women's Lacrosse. Ingram joined Temple from the University of Tennessee, where he was Senior Associate Athletic Director.
In five years at Tennessee, his alma mater where he was a two-year starter for the Vol's football team, Ingram was responsible for the planning and strategy for the department's Capital Campaign that raised $336 million during his tenure.
Before joining the Tennessee staff, he served as Assistant Athletics Director for Development at the University of Georgia for two years and Assistant Athletics Director for Development at the University of Missouri.
Ingram, a Winston-Salem, N.C., native, graduated from the University of Tennessee in 1996 with a Bachelor's degree in Sport Management and minors in both Business and Psychology. As a student-athlete, Ingram was a two-time Academic All-SEC honoree and was twice awarded the Volunteer award, given to the most valuable player who was formerly a walk-on. Also a member of the SEC Good Works Team, Ingram earned his Master's degree in Sport Administration from Tennessee in 1997.
Ingram and his wife Amy have four children: John (USNA)(20), Anne Lauren (17), Charlie (16) and Audrey (13).
