Nate Pine Interview 📱

Ai Force Academy Athletic Director Nate Pine joins our show to tell his story and talk about how the changes in College Sports have affected the Academy. Pine has an undergraduate degree from Oregon State University in business administration and a master's degree in education from University of California at Berkeley.

Pine began his administrative career at Oregon State University, where he was a leading force in the fundraising and renovation of Reser Stadium during his time there from 2000 to 2005.

Pine spent four years at the United States Military Academy, from 2005 to 2008, where he managed all business initiatives for Army and oversight of the external and revenue generating operations for athletics.

From 2008 to 2011, Pine was at the University of California at Berkeley, whereas associate athletic director he oversaw all aspects of the major gift program and development staff for athletics. Pine led the university’s athletics fundraising capital campaign, an unprecedented $500 million effort.

Pine then was the deputy athletic director at the University of Maryland where Pine directly supervised all of the external support units and revenue generation for the department including development, marketing, media relations, ticket operations and video services.

Pine served as athletic director at the College of the Holy Cross from 2013 to 2019. Pine oversaw impressive growth at Holy Cross during his tenure to include NCAA post-season appearances in men’s basketball and baseball in addition to record fundraising growth and facility construction. Nate was instrumental in the construction of the new Hart Center at The Luth Athletic Complex.

Pine has served as the athletic director at the United States Air Force Academy since January 2019 where he continues to oversee growth and development of all sports.