Primary sports information contact: Wrestling
Dr. Jackie Paquette is in her 15th year as a part of the UIndy Athletics staff in 2021-22, and her first as Senior Associate Director of Athletics for Student Support.
In her position, Paquette is the advisor to the UIndy Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC), which has won the Great Lakes Valley Conference (GLVC) SAAC Challenge nine of the last 10 years. She also coordinates UIndy Athletics' 23 NCAA Division II athletic programs' community service and engagement efforts.
Paquette, who has held the Senior Woman Administrator designation since 2012, also has sport oversight of men's soccer, baseball, and wrestling. She also serves as the academic advisor for both UIndy Tennis programs and the Wrestling program, as well as being the sports information contact and Director of Operations for UIndy Wrestling. She currently serves as a member of the GLVC Diversity and Inclusion Committee, the NCAA Division II Women's Lacrosse Regional Advisory Committee, the NCAA Division II Strategic Alliance Matching Grant selection committee, the NWCA Academic Honors Committee, and also serves on the NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship selection committee. A past chairperson of the NCAA Division II wrestling committee, Paquette is also currently the Vice President for Media Relations for the National Wrestling Media Association and serves as the Media Coordinator for the NCAA Division II Wrestling Championships. Paquette has served past terms on the GLVC Awards Committee, GLVC Scheduling Committee, as well as the NACWAA Awards Committee, the NCAA Division II Women's Tennis Regional Advisory Committee, NCAA Division II intern grant selection committee, and the NCAA Division II men's wrestling committee.
Prior to being promoted to Associate A.D., Paquette was Assistant A.D. for Student Support and Sports Information for three years. She was also Assistant Sports Information Director for three years in the UIndy office, and was a sports information assistant and an intern in her first two years as a Greyhound. Paquette has also served as the Great Lakes Valley Conference’s Public Information assistant, closing out a two-year stint in that position in June of 2012, where she aided the GLVC’s Associate Commissioner for Communications with statistics and information for the 18 GLVC-sponsored sports.
A member of Women Leaders in College Sports, the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA) and the National Wrestling Media Association (NWMA), Paquette has also interned in the NCAA statistics department and at the National Federation of High School Associations in her career.
Paquette received bachelor’s degrees in Journalism and History, with a minor in Media Arts, from Butler University in 2007. She earned her master's degree in Sports Administration from UIndy in May of 2014, and doctorate of education in Sports Management from Northcentral University in June of 2021. She resides on the southside of Indianapolis.
