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HUskers.com | 15 Marc Boehm Executive Associate A.D. | Kansas State (1984) | 11th Season A member of the Nebraska Athletics senior administration since May 2003, Marc Boehm (pronounced BAME) serves as executive associate athletic director and is the top assistant to the athletic director. Boehm fulfills the director’s responsibilities in his absence and also serves as the department’s chief operating officer. Boehm oversees the efforts of several areas within athletics, including marketing, media relations, HuskerVision, facilities and events. Boehm also oversees the Nebraska men’s and women’s basketball programs and the Husker soccer program. He also played a major role in the athletic department’s negotiations for its contract extension with IMG College Sports. To date, it is the largest multi-media rights contract in college athletics. As the primary administrator for the NU basketball programs, Boehm played an integral role in the hiring of Tim Miles as the Huskers’ new coach in March of 2012. He has also played a lead role during the men’s and women’s basketball programs move into Pinnacle Bank Arena in 2013- 14. He also worked to help develop Nebraska’s new practice facility - the Hendricks Training Complex - which opened in October of 2011. Boehm has worked to create a fan-friendly atmosphere at men’s and women’s basketball, leading the Husker men’s program to shatter season ticket sales records for both programs as they move into the new arena. In fact, the men sold out season tickets for 2013-14 in early May, shattering the previous record for season tickets sold by well over 2,500. Under Boehm’s supervision, Coach Connie Yori’s women’s basketball program has enjoyed the most success in school history over the past five years. The Husker women have advanced to a pair of NCAA Sweet 16 appearances in 2009-10 and 2012-13, while producing the three highest single-season win totals in NU history over the past four years. Yori’s 2012-13 Huskers made their second NCAA Sweet 16 trip in the past four years, while finishing the Big Ten regularseason runner-up. Yori was named the Big Ten Coach of the Year, while NU’s 25 victories were the second-most in school history, trailing only the 2009-10 Huskers’ 32-2 campaign that included a perfect 16-0 Big 12 campaign. In 2009-10, Yori captured 2010 National Coach-of-the-Year honors by leading the Huskers to a Big 12 record-tying 30-game winning streak and the 2010 Big 12 regular-season title. NU ranked in the top 10 in the final national polls and seventh nationally in home attendance with 7,390 fans per game. In conference play, NU led the league with 11,383 fans per