Staff Directory
Ben Murray
- Title:
- Deputy Athletics Director/Chief Development Officer
- Email:
- Phone:
- (304) 293-2294
Ben Murray joined the WVU Department of Intercollegiate Athletics in August 2023 and is currently serving as deputy athletics director/chief development officer.Â
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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.Â
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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.
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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.
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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.Â
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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.
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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.
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