Chelsea Herman, CSUSB’s senior associate athletics director and senior woman administrator, is the newest Coyote to join the university’s athletics department. Herman has 17 years of senior-level experience at Division I institutions in the Pacific Northwest. She spent the last six years at Seattle University, spending four years as the university’s compliance coordinator, and the last two as the assistant athletic director for compliance and senior woman administrator. Herman, who has also worked in the athletic departments at Boise State and Gonzaga University, obtained her bachelor’s in physical education and health from Gonzaga in 1997, where she captained the women’s basketball team at point guard. She earned her master’s degree in sport ethics and sports administration, and her doctorate from the University of Idaho, writing her dissertation on athletic identity and transitional loss of Division I student-athletes.