Nathan Pine

Nathan Pine is the current Director of Athletics at the United States Air Force Academy.

Prior to Air Force he 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 there to include NCAA post-season appearances in men’s basketball and baseball in addition to record fundraising growth. Prior to Holy Cross, Pine was the deputy athletic director at the University of Maryland where [1] 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.

From 2008-2011, Pine was at the University of California at Berkeley, where as 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.[2]

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

He will serve as the athletic director at the United States Air Force Academy beginning in January 2019.[3][4][5]

He began his athletic department career at Oregon State University where he was instrumental in the fundraising and renovation of Reser Stadium during his time there from 2000-2005. 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.