NDSU

Todd Phelps came to North Dakota State University in July 2015 as the deputy director of athletics, a position that provides daily support to the director of athletics, sport programs and operational areas within the athletic department.
 
Phelps works closely with NDSU Facilities Management and outside contractors on capital projects, including the opening of the $50 million Sanford Health Athletic Complex in November 2016, and oversees a newly created facilities and event operations staff.
 
He has also led the remodeling of NDSU’s football and volleyball locker rooms, design of a new indoor golf short-game facility, replacement of the Dacotah Field turf, and master planning for softball complex construction.
 
Phelps serves as a sport supervisor for women’s volleyball, men’s basketball and baseball along with direct oversight of equipment services, sports medicine and strength and conditioning. He assists the athletic director with sport supervision of football and is involved with strategic planning, budgeting, and policy development including NDSU’s student-athlete code of conduct.
 
He came to NDSU after one year as the associate director of athletics for facilities and operations at Oregon State, where he was a sport supervisor for softball, women’s soccer, women’s rowing and men’s golf while overseeing construction of a football operations building, track, indoor golf facility, and baseball stadium expansion.
 
Phelps worked in a similar role with NDSU athletic director Matt Larsen for six years at Stony Brook (2008-14), where he led the planning and construction of a $21 million basketball arena among other facility projects.  He was the sport supervisor for the baseball program that reached the 2012 Men’s College World Series, and served on an NCAA regional advisory committee for women’s lacrosse.
 
Phelps spent seven years at Brown University (2002-08) rising from facilities and operations coordinator and manager to assistant director of athletics. He was a sport supervisor for softball, women’s lacrosse and women’s gymnastics, oversaw summer camps and clinics, and served on the Ivy League Committee on Sportsmanship and the Brown University NCAA Recertification Committee.
 
He broke into college athletics as a Division III men’s basketball assistant coach at Middlebury College in Vermont for six seasons from 1995-01, and also served as the athletic facilities and operations coordinator for his final three years at Middlebury before moving on to Yale University for one year in facilities and operations.
 
Phelps is a 1995 graduate of Ithaca College in New York, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in physical education. He resides in West Fargo with his wife, Nancy.