Rutgers officially announced the hire of Keli Zinn as the new athletic director Wednesday, ending a search that nearly lasted a year. Zinn comes over from LSU, where she served as the executive deputy athletic director and COO at LSU.

Rutgers named Keli Zinn its new athletic director on Wednesday, filling the job after a one-year vacancy. Zinn had been deputy AD and chief operating officer at LSU since 2022 after stops at West Virginia,

Rutgers President William F. Tate IV today appointed Keli Zinn, a collegiate athletics leader with 20 years of power conference experience and a proven track record of transforming championship-level programs, as director of Intercollegiate Athletics for Rutgers-New Brunswick.