Joe Castiglione (athletic director)

Joe Castiglione
Current position
Title	Athletic director
Team	Oklahoma
Conference	SEC
Biographical details
Born	October 8, 1957 (age 66); Fort Lauderdale, Florida, U.S.
Alma mater	University of Maryland ; University of Oklahoma (M.Ed)
Playing career
1977–1978	Maryland
Position(s)	Safety
Administrative career (AD unless noted)
1979	Rice (sports promotions)
1980	Georgetown ; (director of fundraising)
1981–1992	Missouri (admin. officer)
1993–1998	Missouri
1998–present	Oklahoma

Joseph Robert Castiglione (born October 8, 1957) is vice president for Intercollegiate Athletics Programs and Director of Athletics at the University of Oklahoma.

Since his arrival at Oklahoma in April 1998, the school has won a total of twenty-five national championships in football (2000); softball (2000, 2013, 2016, 2017, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024); men's golf (2017); men's gymnastics (2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018); and women's gymnastics (2014, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2022, 2023).

Early career

Castiglione is a 1979 graduate of the University of Maryland, where he played college football as a walk-on for the Terrapins.^[1] He was the athletic director at the University of Missouri from 1994 to 1998.^[2]

Oklahoma athletic director

Among his earliest and best-known moves as OU's AD came in December 1998 with the hiring of head football coach Bob Stoops. Castiglione's decision quickly paid off as Stoops, a first-time head coach, immediately began work rejuvenating a program that had experienced a 10-year decline. Within two seasons, Stoops guided OU to its first national football title in 15 years and first conference championship since 1987. After 18 seasons that included 10 Big 12 titles, victories in all four BCS games (Orange, Rose, Sugar and Fiesta), and four Heisman Trophy Winners (Jason White in 2003, Sam Bradford in 2008, Baker Mayfield in 2017 and Kyler Murray in 2018), Stoops retired in June 2017 as the program's all-time leader in victories with 190.

Castiglione received the 2004 Bobby Dodd Award for athletic director of the year. He was named National Athletic Director of the Year in May 2009 by the SportsBusiness Journal.^[3] On February 19, 2018, it was announced he would be inducted into the Oklahoma Sports Hall of fame.^[4]

Personal life

He also earned a Master's in Education from Oklahoma in 2007.

A native of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Castiglione is married to the former Kristen Bartel, a 1990 graduate of the University of Missouri. They are the parents of two sons, Joseph Jr. and Jonathan.^[5]

References

^ Joe Castiglione Archived April 14, 2017, at the Wayback Machine, National Association of College Directors of Athletics, retrieved June 25, 2010.
^ "JOe Castiglione—Missouri Sports Hall of Fame". Missouri Sports Hall of Fame. Retrieved July 4, 2023.
^ "Castiglione Named AD of the Year". University of Oklahoma Department of Intercollegiate Athletics. May 28, 2009. Archived from the original on January 14, 2010. Retrieved November 30, 2009.
^ Brian Brinkley, "Oklahoma Sports Hall of Fame Introduces Class of 2018", KFOR News, February 19, 2018. Retrieved February 19, 2018.
^ "Joe Castiglione - VP for Intercollegiate Athletic Programs - Staff Directory". University of Oklahoma. Retrieved June 12, 2020.