Megan Kahn
Vice President, Women's Basketball
Megan Kahn joined the Big Ten Conference as its vice president of women’s basketball in 2021. In this role, Kahn works with Big Ten Conference Commissioner Kevin Warren and Deputy Commissioner/Chief Sports Officer Diana Sabau to lead the women’s basketball efforts for the conference. Kahn is also charged with developing a cohesive strategy to strengthen, enhance and expand the Big Ten women’s basketball operations, brand and strategic initiatives.
The post is the first senior-level position at the Big Ten Conference dedicated specifically to the growth of women’s basketball. Kahn serves as the liaison to the conference’s head coaches and campus administrators, Big Ten Network and national television partners, in addition to assisting in the development of conference scheduling and coordinating all day-to-day women’s basketball operations.
Kahn came to the Big Ten following a successful tenure at WeCOACH, a 501c(3) non-profit organization committed to the educational and professional development of women’s coaches across all sports and levels. Under Kahn’s leadership as executive director and later chief executive Oofficer, WeCOACH (which rebranded from the Alliance of Women Coaches in 2018) secured and continued to cultivate national partnerships with numerous organizations including adidas, Hudl, Jostens, Morgan Stanley, NCAA, Women’s Basketball Coaches (WBCA), Women’s Sports Foundation and many others.
As part of its partnership with the WBCA, WeCOACH has been a prime supporter of the “So You Want To Be A Coach” program for graduating women’s basketball student-athletes, providing a critical pipeline to increasing women in coaching. Kahn also helped WeCOACH collaborate with the Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport, including the “Women in College Coaching Report Card,” which benchmarks the percentage of female coaches in college athletics.
During her tenure, Kahn led WeCOACH through three strategic planning processes and the development of the resulting priorities and initiatives (2016, 2018, 2021). Also starting in 2018, she developed and launched The WeCOACH Podcast, which features one-on-one conversations with some of the greatest women coaches, administrators and industry leaders in the world of sports.
Kahn has served as an administrator at numerous national and regional championship events, including her role as tournament manager for game operations at both the 2015 and 2019 NCAA Women’s Final Fours that were played in Tampa, Florida.
Kahn also has extensive experience as a collegiate conference administrator, having most recently served as both assistant and associate commissioner at the Atlantic 10 Conference from 2008-12. At the A-10, she was the director of the 2012 A-10 Women’s Basketball Championship and supervised all of the conference’s women’s basketball operations. She also oversaw the 2010 and 2011 A-10 Men’s Basketball Championships, assisted in the site selection process that relocated that tournament from Atlantic City, N.J., to the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y., and coordinated the 2010 and 2011 A-10 Men’s Basketball Preseason Media Day Luncheons in New York City.
Prior to joining the A-10, Kahn assisted with women’s basketball operations at the Atlantic Coast Conference from 2006-08, serving as assistant director for the 2007 and 2008 NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament’s Greensboro Regional that was hosted by the ACC.
Kahn started her career as a women’s basketball coach, beginning as a graduate assistant at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) from 2000-02, and then as an assistant coach at Texas State University from 2002-04.
Kahn is a 2000 graduate of Truman State University in Kirksville, Mo., where she was a basketball student-athlete and earned her bachelor’s degree in exercise science with an emphasis in exercise physiology. She went on to earn her master’s degree in kinesiology, with an emphasis in sport management, from UTRGV in 2002.
Last updated: 8/16/2023