Lincoln- It has been a busy day inside the Nebraska athletic department. As NU announced that Bill Moos is retiring as athletic director Friday, the school also named his temporary replacement. Garrett Klassy will serve as the interim athletic director, UNL Chancellor Ronnie Green revealed in a statement Friday morning. Klassy who graduated from Wisconsin in 1998 arrived at Nebraska nearly two years ago as NU’s senior deputy A.D. for external operations and has been heavily involved in the day to day operations of several areas of the Athletic Department. “Garrett has great respect within the department and our university, and I know will provide steady leadership during this period,” Chancellor Ronnie Green said in the release.
Klassy officially has been overseeing a number of programs within the athletic department including sports performance, which consists of strength and conditioning, nutrition, sports psychology, analytics, athletic medicine and the Nebraska Athletic Performance Lab. He also is charge of ticketing, development, marketing, licensing, communications, creative media and HuskerVision. He has also been involved with the transition of the Husker Radio Network which officially begins on July 1st.
