The Citadel’s President Lt. Gen. John W. Rosa, Jr. named Larry W.  Leckonby as the 11th Director of Athletics at the South Carolina Military College in 2008.

Since joining the Bulldog Family just over three years ago, Leckonby has overseen a number of accomplishments in the Athletics Department including four Southern Conference Coach of the Year honors, 13 individual SoCon Championship titles, one regular season SoCon Team Championship and one SoCon Tournament team championship.
 
During Leckonby’s tenure the 2008-09 basketball squad recorded their first 20-win season since 1979, while earning the best one-year turnaround in conference history. The soccer program earned their highest finish in program history in 2010, while track and field set a school record with four SoCon titles at the indoor championships in 2010. This was followed by a trip to the 2010 NCAA Baseball Regional after the ’10 squad swept both the regular season and tournament titles.

Leckonby made his first Citadel head coaching hire in 2010 when he brought former Maryland Assistant Coach Chuck Driesell on board to lead the Bulldog Basketball program. He also initiated a new emphasis on athletic fund raising by creating an Associate Athletic Director of Development position in 2009 and hiring a new Executive Director of the Brigadier Foundation.   The results were immediate in 2009-2010 as athletic fund raising recorded almost $5M combined in the annual fund, endowed scholarship contributions, planned giving and stadium suite and club seat revenue.  Club seat sales alone doubled at Johnson Hagood Stadium between the 2008 season and the 2010 season.

At the same time, The Citadel’s cadet-student-athletes have maintained outstanding academic credentials by recording four straight semesters in which their combined grade point averages were higher than the Corps of Cadets as a whole.  In addition, the athletic department has balanced their operating budget during the two years that Leckonby has been at the helm.
 
Prior to The Citadel, Leckonby spent six years as a senior associate athletic director at the University of Maryland. Hired as the athletic department’s Chief Financial Officer in September 2002, he managed the department’s annual $51.2 million operating budget, capital projects and long-range financial forecasting.
 
In addition, Leckonby was the sport supervisor for women’s basketball, assisted the Athletic Director with men’s basketball and football, and supervised the athletic business office, athletic ticket office and information technology. During his time at Maryland, the school earned four NCAA Tournament Championships including the 2006 Women’s Basketball Championship.  He was also responsible for coordinating departmental construction projects, which have included expansions to the Gossett Football Team House, new grass and field turf practice fields and the Field Hockey and Lacrosse Complex. He also served on several campus committees including the University Finance Committee and the University Facilities Advisory Committee.
 
Prior to accepting the position at Maryland, Leckonby served as the senior associate director of athletics at the University of Houston, appointed in January 1998. He was responsible for the daily administration of the department and specific areas of duty involved finance, planning, fund-raising and marketing. He also served as interim athletic director for six months in 2001 and 2002.

Leckonby also worked as the associate AD for business affairs at Boston College for four-and-a-half years (1993-98), and the assistant AD for finance and operations at Old Dominion University for five years (1988-93). He was the ticket manager and assistant business manager at Boston University from 1982 to 1988, after beginning his athletics business career at the University of Massachusetts (Amherst) where he was an assistant lacrosse coach and administrative assistant to the business manager in 1981-82.

A four-year lacrosse letter winner at Duke University, he graduated with a bachelor’s degree in management science in 1979. He earned a master’s degree in sport management from Massachusetts in 1983.

Leckonby is an active member of the College Athletic Business Managers Association. While serving on numerous finance and planning committees during his career, he also has helped direct several NCAA and conference championships including NCAA Baseball Super Regional events in 1999, 2000 and 2002 at the University of Houston.

Leckonby and his wife, Cris, have two daughters, Hunter and Katie, and a son, William.