John Douglas Swofford is an American former college athletics administrator.
11 Facts About John Swofford
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John Swofford served as the athletic director at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1980 to 1997 and as the commissioner of the Atlantic Coast Conference from 1997 to 2021.
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John Swofford was awarded a prestigious Morehead Scholarship to attend the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1967, where he was part of Bill Dooley's first football recruiting class.
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John Swofford played quarterback and defensive back from 1969 to 1971.
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John Swofford earned a master's degree in sports management from Ohio University in 1973.
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John Swofford began his first job as ticket manager and assistant director of athletic facilities at the University of Virginia in 1973, where he worked under athletic director Gene Corrigan.
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On July 1,1997, John Swofford was named the fourth commissioner of the Atlantic Coast Conference, succeeding Gene Corrigan.
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In June 2020, John Swofford announced via a press release that he will retire as the president of the ACC in June 2021.
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John Swofford has been elected to the North Carolina High School Athletic Association Hall of Fame in 2001, the North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame in 2009, and Wilkes County NC Hall of Fame in 2014.
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John Swofford received the Homer Rice award in 2005 and the Corbett Award in 2011.
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John Swofford is the brother of William Oliver John Swofford, a pop singer professionally known as Oliver who performed from the late 1960s through the late 1970s.