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Doug Elgin
Commissioner
Doug Elgin enters his 26th
year with the Missouri Valley
Conference in 2013-14, leading an experienced staff that
has blazed a trail of excellence
over the past two decades.
Since being named the Valley’s
ninth commissioner on May 17,
1988, Elgin and the Valley staff
have been catalysts in helping
the St. Louis-based conference
regain a position of prominence
in college athletics.
Elgin and his veteran staff
can?reflect?upon?a?remarkable?
list of accomplishments and contributions they have made
over the past two decades that have added to the long, rich
athletic tradition of the conference. During the decade of
the 1990s, he and his colleagues oversaw the realignment
and the stabilization of the Missouri Valley membership as
the league expanded by admitting Missouri State, Northern Iowa and Evansville as new members and also brought
women’s sports programs under the conference’s administrative umbrella in July of 1992. This past year, Elgin orchestrated league membership change yet again, as Loyola
joined the league for the start of the 2013-14 campaign.
The league staff also paved the way to establish St.
Louis as a long-term neutral site for the men’s basketball
tournament known nationally as ‘Arch Madness’ beginning
in?1991,?one?of?the?most?significant?developments?in?the?
modern era of the Valley. In 2014, the Missouri Valley will
celebrate its 24th consecutive year hosting the championship in St. Louis, making it the second longest-tenured neutral site college basketball tournament in the country. In
2008, the Valley followed suit with its women’s basketball
tournament, moving it to the Family Arena in St. Charles,
Missouri, where it will be played for the seventh consecutive
season next March.
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of St. Louis a frequent stop on the NCAA basketball tournament trail, beginning in 1993 when the Missouri Valley
hosted?the?NCAA?Men’s?Midwest?Regional.??That?first?step?
as an NCAA tournament host began an incredible run that
would bring nine more NCAA basketball events to sporting
venues in St. Louis from 1998 through 2010, including the
2001 and 2009 Women’s Final Fours, the 2005 Men’s Final
Four, and six more men’s Midwest Regional tournaments.
Elgin completed a four-year term on the NCAA Division I
Men’s?Basketball?Committee?in?2002?and?was?the?first?and?
only Valley representative ever to serve as a member of
that prestigious group. He has also served on the CCA Executive Committee and is currently a member of the NCAA
Administration Cabinet.
In more than 35 years in college athletic administration,
Elgin has served in a variety of capacities at four schools
and?in?two?conference?offices.?His?career?path?has?included?
stints as sports information director at Frostburg State University (1975-76), Miami-Dade Community College South
(1976-77), Lafayette College (1977-80) and the University
of Virginia (1980-83). In 1983, he left Virginia, moving to
the Tampa-based Sun Belt Conference where he worked for
five?years?as?assistant?commissioner?under?commissioner?
Vic Bubas, the former Duke basketball coach and a member
of the College Basketball Hall of Fame.
The 62-year-old Elgin is a native of Hagerstown, Md., and
is a 1973 graduate of Lafayette College. He earned a master’s degree in sports administration from Ohio University in
1975. Doug and his wife Melaine have six daughters: Lisa,
Jessica, Julie, Anna, Emma and Mary.
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Sr. Assoc. Commissioner
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