Rebecca Pany

Senior Vice President, Sports Administration

Rebecca Pany is the Big Ten Conference senior vice president, sports administration. In her role, she leads the conference’s 25 sponsored Olympic sports including coordination and management of coaches’ groups, games, tournaments, championships, officiating and Senior Woman Administrators. Pany ensures all decisions best serve the academic and athletic mission of conference, its member institutions and student-athletes. She works in collaboration with the conference’s senior leadership team including ensuring the continued seamless integration of conference’s 25-Olympic sports with the University of Southern California (USC) and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

Prior to starting at the Big Ten Conference in June 2023, Pany served as the senior associate athletics director for sports administration and external partnership for Indiana University (IU). In that position, Pany oversaw sports administration, name, image and likeness, marketing, facility branding, strategic initiatives, and the department’s relationships with both Learfield and the Faculty Athletics Committee. She served as a sport administrator of seven sports, including men’s basketball, field hockey, football, men’s golf, rowing, softball and water polo.

Pany also served in the Indiana University athletics department since 2012 in various units including compliance, operations, capital projects, strategic initiatives and administration. She was integral in completing the capital projects included in the Bicentennial Campaign for IU Athletics: Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall; the Mark Cuban Center for Sports Media and Technology; the Memorial Stadium Excellence Academy; Wilkinson Hall; the Roberts Family Indiana Basketball Team Center; the Terry Tallen Indiana Football Complex; The Pfau Course at Indiana University; the Sam Bell Cross Country Course and the Jerry F. Tardy Center.

Pany graduated from Indiana University in 2012 with bachelor’s degrees in criminal justice and political science after a four-year career as a field hockey student-athlete for the Hoosiers. She earned her Master of Sports Administration degree from Ohio University in 2016.

Last updated: 8/16/2023