Challenges await Valparaiso's new athletic director

Facilities and finances should be among top priorities for new department head

History will be made on Thursday morning when Valparaiso University announces just its third athletic director in the last 43 years.

While the new athletic director will inhabit the same physical office as Bill Steinbrecher and Mark LaBarbera, the issues facing Valpo’s new athletics boss couldn’t be more different than the two predecessors.