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**Deborah A. Yow**
Deborah A. Yow
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Title	Athletic director
College	Maryland
Annual salary	$365,925.00
	Career highlights
Playing career
1970–1974	Elon
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1976	Kentucky; Oral Roberts; Florida

Deborah A. Yow is the Director of Athletics of the University of Maryland's athletics program. As of December 2008, it was her 15th year in the position.^[2]

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Under Yow, the Maryland athletics department balanced all 14 of its annual budgets, a feat that had not been done in the decade prior to her arrival. She reduced the program's debt from $51 million to $7.6 million. From 2006 to 2008, the school's athletic teams captured seven national championships.^[2] During her 15-year tenure, Maryland teams have secured 16 national championships, including the 2002 men's basketball title and the 2008 College Cup in men's soccer.^[2]^[3] Both U.S. News & World Report and Sports Illustrated ranked the Maryland athletics program in the nation's top 20.^[2]^[4]

Pundits have often speculated on an apparently rocky relationship between Yow and Maryland men's basketball head coach Gary Williams. The issue, real or perceived, has polarized part of the Terrapins' fanbase, with some supporting either Yow or Williams.^[5] During the 2008–09 basketball season, Yow issued a statement of support for Williams after he and an athletics department assistant traded barbs over the circumstances surrounding a potential recruit.^[6]^[7]

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She had two sisters also employed in athletics: Kay Yow, former head coach of the NC State Wolfpack women's basketball team,^[8] and Susan Yow, current head coach of the Belmont Abbey Crusaders women's basketball team.^[9]

[edit] References

^ Salary Guide 2008 (PDF), The Diamondback, 5 January 2008, retrieved 24 January 2009.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d On Campus - Deborah A. Yow - Director of Athletics, University of Maryland Terrapins Athletics official website, accessed 6 December 2008.
^ National Championships, University of Maryland Terrapins Official Athletic Site, retrieved 24 January 2009.
^ Deborah A. Yow, Maryland Women's Hall of Fame, Maryland State Archives, 2003, retrieved 24 January 2009.
^ "Two Sides To One Program", The Washington Post, p. E1, March 21, 2009.
^ Yow: Williams in no danger, The Washington Post, February 2, 2009.
^ Terps fans thankful for Gary Williams' past, concerned about present, Baltimore Sun, March 12, 2009.
^ NCSU's Yow dies after long cancer fight, Triangle Business Journal, 24 January 2009.
^ Player Bio: Susan Yow, Providence College Friars athletics official website, accessed 6 December 2008.

[edit] External links

Official bio
One To watch, The Sporting News, September 5, 1994

[0] Salary Guide 2008 (PDF), The Diamondback, 5 January 2008, retrieved 24 January 2009.

[bio-1] On Campus - Deborah A. Yow - Director of Athletics, University of Maryland Terrapins Athletics official website, accessed 6 December 2008.

[2] National Championships, University of Maryland Terrapins Official Athletic Site, retrieved 24 January 2009.

[3] Deborah A. Yow, Maryland Women's Hall of Fame, Maryland State Archives, 2003, retrieved 24 January 2009.

[4] "Two Sides To One Program", The Washington Post, p. E1, March 21, 2009.

[5] Yow: Williams in no danger, The Washington Post, February 2, 2009.

[6] Terps fans thankful for Gary Williams' past, concerned about present, Baltimore Sun, March 12, 2009.

[7] NCSU's Yow dies after long cancer fight, Triangle Business Journal, 24 January 2009.

[8] Player Bio: Susan Yow, Providence College Friars athletics official website, accessed 6 December 2008.

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