Ben Murray joined the WVU Department of Intercollegiate Athletics in August 2023 and is currently serving as deputy athletics director/chief development officer.
As deputy athletics director/chief development officer, Murray provides oversight to the Mountaineer Athletic Club (MAC) and the WVU Ticket Office and is a member of the senior executive team in athletics and the WVU Foundation. He also serves as sports administrator for football, men’s basketball and men’s golf.
Murray returned to Morgantown from Nebraska, where he spent two years (2021-23) as the Huskers’ senior associate athletics director for development, leading all fundraising initiatives with additional oversight of ticket operations.
Murray previously spent time at West Virginia from 2010-21, starting as a major gifts officer, then associate athletics director before ending his tenure as the senior associate athletics director and executive director of the MAC.
Prior to his time at Nebraska and WVU, Murray was the director of athletics development at Old Dominion from 2006-10. He coordinated, planned and administered the Old Dominion Athletics Foundation annual giving program. Murray started his professional career in August 2003 at James Madison as a development associate in the JMU Duke Club. He also spent time at UNLV in 2005 working with the Rebel Athletic Fund.
Murray graduated from Kansas in 2001 with a degree in sports management and earned a master’s in sports administration from Kansas in 2003. An Elkhart, Kansas, native, Murray and his wife, Angela, have three children – Mia, Libby and Sadie.
