Capaccio to serve as Bulldogs interim athletic director while search continues
July 23, 2018
The Citadel athletics department will be managed by a new interim athletic director (AD), Mike Capaccio, while the college continues considering candidates to permanently fill the position. Capaccio is the vice president for athletic development with The Citadel Foundation. He began serving The Citadel in 2012 after working as chief executive officer of the Brunswick Community College Foundation in North Carolina.
The college’s committee overseeing the search for a new AD is working with a search firm to complete interviews and develop a list of finalists from a pool of more than 100 qualified applicants. Their goal is to have the AD in place before the Bulldogs’ first football game Sept. 1.
“Citadel athletics remains in great hands as we narrow down a broad field of highly qualified athletic director candidates,” said Daniel Bornstein, Ph.D., search committee chair and professor/researcher with The Citadel Department of Health and Human Performance. “The Citadel’s mission of developing principled leaders and its reputation nationally for outstanding programs, combined with Charleston being a wonderful place to live, is producing an uncharacteristically large candidate pool.”
Cadet athletes are returning to campus this week and next to begin their training.
