Introduced as UTSA’s Vice President for Intercollegiate Athletics and Athletics Director on Nov. 17, 2017, Dr. Lisa Campos has made an immediate and positive impact on the athletics department, university and community during her time in San Antonio. A 2025-26 National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA) Athletics Director of the Year honoree and a finalist for the 2022 Sports Business Journal’s Athletic Director of the Year, she has elevated UTSA Athletics to new heights during her tenure.
One of Campos’ first tasks upon her hiring was to develop and implement a new strategic plan for the future of UTSA Athletics and align with UTSA President Taylor Eighmy’s vision and strategic initiatives for the university. She introduced the Roadrunner Game Plan, which utilizes three winning values — Excellence, Integrity and Unity — to focus on developing and enhancing the student-athlete experience, creating a culture of excellence, developing resources and uniting the community. The plan’s emphasis to develop champions in the classroom, in competition and in life has been evident during her tenure.
UTSA student-athletes have set numerous department records for academic success including achieving a department-record 92% graduation success rate in the most recent report and consistently recording a department GPA above 3.0. The department’s Academic Progress Rate (APR) success has been equally impressive during her time in San Antonio, as UTSA sports programs have registered a combined 33 1,000 single-year APRs over the past four reports. Additionally, UTSA boasts eight Academic All-Americans and over 100 academic all-district selections, as well as nearly 400 American Conference All-Academic Team selections since joining the league in 2023 after collecting nearly 300 Conference USA Commissioner’s academic medals and more than 1,000 CUSA Honor Roll certificates over her first five years leading the department.
Under her leadership, UTSA has produced nearly 40 All-Americans, more than 300 all-conference selections, over 50 individual conference crowns and 11 team league championships.
In 2024-25, the women’s basketball team captured the American Conference Regular Season Championship while the baseball program also claimed the league’s regular season crown and won the NCAA Austin Regional to advance to the NCAA Super Regional round, finishing in a tie for ninth place nationally for the top national finish by any team in school history.
In 2025-26, the soccer and women’s basketball programs raced through their respective conference tournaments to claim trophies and earn NCAA postseason bids, while the baseball team collected its second straight regular season conference crown, giving UTSA five league titles over a two-year span.
In June 2021, Campos’ forward-thinking approach guided UTSA to become one of the first institutions to introduce an educational and life skills program in anticipation of now-implemented NCAA and state legislation related to name, image and likeness (NIL) activities. Runners Go Bold is a comprehensive program providing student-athletes with the knowledge and skills to build their personal brands and financial acumen. In 2024, she oversaw the launch of Runners United, a comprehensive NIL initiative designed to benefit student-athletes across all UTSA sports programs.
Campos also worked closely with the Roadrunner Foundation and colleagues on campus to guide one of the most ambitious projects in the history of UTSA Athletics — the development of the new state-of-the-art Roadrunner Athletics Center of Excellence (RACE), which opened in August 2021. The facility serves as the central hub for UTSA Athletics and promotes the academic success, health, wellness and performance of student-athletes.
In 2022 under Campos’ direction, TPC San Antonio became the official home of the UTSA men’s and women’s golf teams. The resort houses two championship-level golf courses, study halls and team rooms for both programs, as well as The Learning Center, an instructional building equipped with the latest golf technology.
In 2023, Park West Fieldhouse opened its doors to serve UTSA soccer and track & field student-athletes, as well as the San Antonio and Bexar County communities. The building features an athletic training room, locker rooms, team areas, a large multipurpose space and an equipment room.
In 2024, Campos announced a $57 million Bold Champions facilities and capital investment initiative — thanks to strong institutional support, fundraising efforts and newly identified financial opportunities — into facilities and capital projects. In early 2025, construction began on the Basketball and Volleyball Training Facility, a 53,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art facility located adjacent to RACE. Future facility projects that have been announced include player development centers for both baseball and softball, enhancements to fan amenities at the baseball facility, a nutrition performance center for all student-athletes and a covered football pavilion.
Campos has overseen the highest fundraising year in UTSA Athletics history, while also achieving the highest back-to-back fundraising years in department history. She also engineered a balanced 2020 fiscal year budget despite a major loss of revenue resulting from the pandemic.
Campos has overseen the implementation of the Roadrunner Leadership and Professional Development Academy, which offers personal wellness, freshman transition and career development workshops to UTSA’s 350-plus student-athletes.
Under Campos’ leadership, UTSA Athletics has increased its brand presence and awareness in San Antonio and extended its community service initiatives. That outreach has helped UTSA set numerous home attendance records for baseball, basketball, football, soccer, softball and volleyball contests over the past several years.
The 2024 Greater San Antonio Chamber of Commerce Promise Award recipient, Campos served as a panelist for the 2018 Greater San Antonio Women in Leadership Symposium, and she was instrumental in UTSA’s role as host institution for the 2018 and 2025 Men’s Final Fours and 2021 Women’s Final Four.
Nationally, Campos was appointed in August 2024 to a four-year term on the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision Oversight Committee. Campos has represented UTSA on a number of national committees, including a recent term on the NCAA Division I Council, a high-level group responsible for the day-to-day decisions that impact NCAA Division I athletics. She also served as chair of the NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Oversight Committee and on the board of the LEAD1 Association, a membership organization that represents the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision athletics directors.
Campos also has served as chair of the NCAA Women’s Soccer Committee and has been a member of the NCAA Division I Football Oversight Committee, NCAA Division I Championships/Competition Cabinet and NCAA Rifle Committee.
Campos came to UTSA after five years as the Vice President for Intercollegiate Athletics at Northern Arizona University (NAU), where she led the athletics department through a rebrand and transformed it into one of the Big Sky Conference’s premier programs.
During her time in Flagstaff, NAU captured 32 Big Sky and Western Athletic Conference championships and nine teams advanced to NCAA postseason competition, including the first NCAA Division I Championship in school history by the men’s cross country team in 2016.
Under her leadership, the Lumberjacks collected two Big Sky Conference Presidents’ Cup trophies for overall excellence in competition and in the classroom. The Lumberjacks’ athletic achievements led to the men’s programs winning the Big Sky All-Sports Trophy four consecutive times from 2014-17. The women’s teams captured the trophy in 2014 and 2017.
In the 2016-17 academic year, NAU won eight conference championships and swept the Big Sky All-Sports Trophies for the second time under Campos’ guidance.
When Campos was named Vice President for Intercollegiate Athletics at NAU, she became one of 26 females and the youngest in the country to lead a Division I program at the time of her hire. In Spring 2017, she was recognized by Street & Smith’s Sports Business Journal’s Forty Under 40.
Prior to her time at NAU, Campos was an associate athletics director (2003-06) and senior associate athletics director (2006-12) at UTEP after serving as the university’s assistant dean of students from 2001-03.
During her time in El Paso, she cultivated several significant gifts to the program and oversaw a multimillion-dollar budget. Campos also served as sport administrator for the men’s and women’s cross country, women’s soccer, women’s volleyball, women’s basketball and men’s and women’s track & field programs. Campos also was the primary administrator for compliance, CHAMPS/Life Skills, strength and conditioning, sports medicine and cheerleading.
Besides serving on a number of NCAA committees while at UTEP, Campos also was a member of the Conference USA Joint Group and served on the Senior Woman Administrator administrative group. In 2005-06, when UTEP joined Conference USA, she served on the CUSA Strategic Planning Committee and assisted in the development of the realigned Conference USA’s vision, core values, mission and strategic objectives. She also represented UTEP on conference committees, including the budget subcommittee, legislative committee, championships selection committee and various sport committees.
Campos earned both her bachelor’s degree in business administration and her master’s degree in student affairs in higher education from Colorado State. She holds a doctorate degree in educational leadership from UTEP.
She and her husband, Darren D’Attilio, have a son, Christopher.
Updated June 17, 2026