Tiger Leadership Institute
- Title:
- Facilitator
- Email:
- reesmans@missouri.edu
- Phone:
- 884-6428
- Joined Mizzou:
- July 1993
- Hometown:
- Boonville, Mo.
- Alma Mater:
- Missouri, 1986; Minnesota, 1989
Entering her 28th year with the University of Missouri Department of Athletics is Senior Deputy Athletics Director & Chief Operating Officer Sarah Reesman.
A native of nearby Boonville, Mo., Reesman was elevated to Senior Associate Director of Athletics in 2006 after eight years as Mizzou’s Associate Athletics Director for Student Services/SWA. She was named Executive Associate Athletics Director in 2009 and promoted to Senior Deputy Athletics Director in 2017.
In her current role, Reesman represents Mizzou as its Senior Woman Administrator (SWA) in dealings with the Southeastern Conference and NCAA. Reesman serves as an administration liaison to the Mizzou Men’s and Women's Basketball programs. She also has oversight of Mizzou's highly-regarded student-athlete service units, including the Mizzou Made areas of academic support, student-athlete development, athletic performance and mental performance, as well as sport administration and the department’s human resources services. Prior to joining Mizzou's executive staff, Reesman served as an Assistant Athletics Director supervising MU's student-athlete services.
For her leadership efforts, Reesman received the 2001 Barbara S. Uehling Award and has been recognized in the Columbia Business Times as one of Columbia’s Top 40 business leaders under the age of 40. In 2009, she was honored as part of the annual MU Tribute to Women for her contributions to the advancement of women at the University.
A founding member and two-time past president of Columbia’s WIN (Women’s Intersport Network) organization, Reesman graduated from Mizzou with departmental honors in 1986. As an undergraduate, she chaired MU's Student Athletic Board for two years and also spent two years as a student member of MU's Intercollegiate Athletics Committee. She is a member of Mystical Seven and Mortar Board Honor Societies.
Following graduation, Reesman attended law school at the University of Minnesota, earning a J.D. degree in 1989. After spending a year as clerk for former Chief Justice of the Missouri Supreme Court Ann K. Covington, Reesman worked as an associate attorney with the firm of Slagle, Bernard and Gorman in Kansas City. She had just been elected vice president of Kansas City’s Tiger Club, after two terms as secretary and member of the board of directors, when she joined the Mizzou Athletics staff in July, 1993.
Sarah and her husband, Bill Tackett, have one daughter, Kelley.
