Bio

Casie Runksmeier is an Associate Athletics Director and Senior Woman Administrator at Mitchell College. Her role can be described as internal operations and student success. Specifically, she executes all financial logistics of the athletic department: annual budget, purchasing, expense and revenue coding, and managing institutional support funds garnered through athletics.

Runksmeier is currently the compliance coordinator for the department, and therefore manages all the policies and procedures that accompany those standards. Other avenues in relation to internal operations include: managing game day operations, coordinating large athletic special events, and scheduling team travel. She successfully wrote a NCAA Coaching Enhancement Grant in the summer of 2019, and Mitchell was one of only 11 institutions to receive that grant opportunity. Additionally, she is in charge of the hiring, evaluation, and separation of all staff members in the department. On the student success side, Runksmeier works with the student-athlete leaders as the Co-Advisor for SAAC. She also works closely with colleagues across campus to support the academic success and retention of student-athletes. In addition to her work within athletics, she teaches a sport management course every semester; these have included: Sport Finance, Athletic Administration, and Fitness and Wellness.

Beyond the day-to-day operations on-campus, her experience with the NCAA is vast. In the spring of 2019 she was certified as a Game Day the DIII Way Facilitator. In 2016 she volunteered as the NCAA Site Representative for a preliminary-round site for the DIII Women’s Soccer Championships at Williams College. And, in 2011, she worked as a NCAA Student-Athlete Leadership Forum Facilitator.

Previous to Mitchell College Runksmeier was the head softball coach at Daniel Webster College. Within that role she was responsible for all aspects of the program and had additional secondary responsibilities. Because of her secondary responsibilities (i.e. remuneration of officials, game management, SAAC Co-Advisor, RAC member) she was considered part of the senior administrative team within the department. She also took part in numerous initiatives that involved the greater campus, as well as having taught Recreational Sport Management.

Prior to Daniel Webster College she was a professional mentor at New England College and completed her second Master of Science degree, Sport and Recreation Management: Coaching. Her initial graduate degree was garnered at the University of Southern Maine and was a Master of Science in Adult and Higher Education. Runksmeier holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from Lewis & Clark College.