Colorado Springs, Colo. Retired General Martin Dempsey was re-elected president of USA Basketball on Monday, while five-time Olympic gold medalist Sue Bird and three-time gold medalist Kevin Durant were inducted into the federation’s board of directors.
Dempsey, who was the Chief of Staff of the US Army and served as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under President Barack Obama, is the second person after Jerry Colangelo to be elected president for back-to-back Olympic cycles.
Dempsey will remain in this role until the 2024 Paris Olympics. He said he is proud of USAB’s remarkable success, which includes gold medals in men’s basketball, women’s basketball and women’s 3×3 at the Tokyo Games.
“We are fully and passionately committed to winning and dedicate ourselves to representing our country with honor in international competition,” Dempsey said.
Durant and Byrd are among five athlete representatives, all gold medalists who were added to the board, which was expanded from 11 to 15 people for this cycle. Joining Bird and Durant are three-time winners Simone Augustus and Jennifer Azzie and Harrison Barnes, who once won gold.
Other new board members include WNBA head of league operations Bethany Donafine, West Coast Conference commissioner Gloria Newarez, National Federation of State High School Associations executive director Karissa Nihoff and John Rogers Jr., president and co-CEO of Ariel Investments.
Other board members are holdovers from the most recent Olympic cycle, including NBA Deputy Commissioner Mark Tatum, NBA Senior Vice President of International Operations Kim Bohuny, NCAA Senior Vice President of Basketball Dan Gavitt, Stanford Athletic Director Bernard Muir and Texas Executive Senior Associate. Athletics included. Director Chris Plonsky.
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