Terry Tumey, director of athletics at the University of California, Davis, will leave his position to pursue other opportunities, effective June 15. In the interim he will continue to assist the university in its capital improvement efforts.

Since Tumey joined the athletics department in 2012, the Aggies have won 10 conference championships, including two Big West Conference titles in women’s track and field, and women’s golf, and two Mountain Pacific Sports Federation banners in women’s swimming and diving, and women’s gymnastics. UC Davis captured three of the championships during the 2014-15 athletics year. The women’s cross country team won a Big West title in the fall, gymnastics reclaimed its banner in March and men’s basketball capped a historic 25-win year by winning the Big West regular-season championship in March before advancing to the National Invitation Tournament for the first time in school history.

Also during Tumey’s tenure, UC Davis celebrated the highest NCAA Graduation Success Rates (GSR) in the Big West in 2013 and 2014, posting rates of 87 percent and 88 percent, respectively. The Aggie football team led the Big Sky Conference in GSR both years, while men’s basketball (91 percent) was tops in the Big West in 2013.

UC Davis also has shined in the NCAA Academic Progress Rates (APR), with seven teams — including football and men’s basketball — posting conference-best scores in the most recent NCAA announcement last May. Women’s tennis posted a perfect 1,000 multiyear APR for the seventh straight year. Approximately 250 student-athletes have earned scholar-athlete recognition from conferences and/or other organizations since 2012.

“Terry did a very good job of enhancing our athletics department. We have brought in some exciting new coaches and recruited some fine student athletes,” Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi said. “I thank him for directing the department these past several years.”

Tumey joined UC Davis after serving in the same capacity at Dominican University of California. He also served in the San Francisco 49ers front office, rising from personnel assistant to director of football operations. He previously held coaching positions with the NFL’s Denver Broncos and UCLA Bruins.

The chancellor also announced the appointment of Teresa Gould as the interim athletics director, effective immediately. Gould, currently the associate executive director, chief revenue officer of the Cal Aggie Alumni Association, formerly served as UC Berkeley deputy director of athletics as well as the department’s chief of staff and senior woman administrator during 13 years in Cal Athletics.

“This is a critical moment for UC Davis Athletics, and, while transitions are hard, Teresa has extensive leadership experience and the ability to step in immediately and take us to a new level in competition,” Katehi said. “With her extensive experience at the Division I level and most recently at Cal, she knows how to manage a department, support the coaches and build strong programs for our student athletes.”

Katehi also announced that Josh Flushman, associate director of athletics, will assume oversight of the football program. Providing additional leadership and ensuring continuity of support for our student-athletes will be Faculty Athletics Representative Scott Carrell.

A process for conducting a national search to fill the athletics director position permanently is currently being developed.

About Teresa Gould

Teresa Gould has more than 25 years of experience in collegiate sports. She served in the University of California, Berkeley, athletics department for 13 years prior to assuming her current position (2014) as associate executive director, chief revenue officer of the UC Davis Cal Aggie Alumni Association. At Cal, she began as executive associate director, Olympic Sports, in 2001. In 2004, she was promoted to deputy director of athletics for external relations, and, in 2012, she moved to deputy director of athletics and chief of staff.

With a wide portfolio, Gould’s Cal experience included the oversight of communications and human resources, as well as conduct and compliance, and a range of other administrative operations. In addition, she represented the university to a variety of groups, including the conference, the chancellor’s cabinet and the Coaches Advisory Committee. Throughout her tenure, she oversaw 29 of Cal’s 30 varsity sports.

“Teresa’s excellent experience in leading a Pac-12 athletics program at Cal makes her a natural choice to serve as interim athletics director,” Chancellor Katehi said. “Her experience in strategic planning and in the operational elements of the department will ensure continuity in our programs. Our student-athletes excel on the field and in the classroom, and Teresa has the ability to not only maintain but continue to build this atmosphere of support for the students as well as the coaches and staff. We are fortunate that someone with her expertise and qualifications was already on our campus and prepared to step in and help with this transition.”

In addition to her extensive athletics experience at Cal, Gould served as the associate commissioner of the West Coast Conference. Gould also served as a conference relations and acquisitions coordinator for ESPN regional television, as well as the director of championships and media relations for the Midwestern Collegiate Conference.

About Josh Flushman

Josh Flushman, UC Davis associate athletics director and a member of the department’s senior management team, joined Intercollegiate Athletics in 2007, including a stint as the director of football operations under former head football coach Bob Biggs. Flushman, in his oversight role with the football program, will be supported by Faculty Athletics Representative Scott Carrell, who will play a leadership role in providing strategic direction and mentorship to the football staff.

About Scott Carrell

Scott Carrell, a labor economist who studies the economics of education, was appointed the UC Davis Faculty Athletics Representative in 2013. In this position, he serves as a liaison between the university administration and Intercollegiate Athletics, working to maintain the campus’s academic integrity, and a balance between academics and athletics for all student athletes. Carrell played football at the Air Force Academy.