Mary Pink is in her 30th year with the Iowa State Athletics Department. Pinkoversees marketing efforts including ticket sales, advertising, fan engagement,gameday atmosphere, social media, promotional strategies, branding, licensing,and team store.Under her direction, the athletics department has broken several football, men’sand women’s basketball ticket sales records:- Exceeded 45,000 season tickets sold for the first time in school history(2019)- Recorded highest average attendance per home game of 60,704 (61,500capacity) in 2021.- Secured 85 consecutive games at Jack Trice Stadium with more than50,000 fans in attendance, a streak dating back to 2011.- ISU is the only school in the nation to average at least 50,000 fans athome football games, 14,000 fans at home men’s basketball games and9,000 fans at home women’s basketball games in the last 14 years.- Women's basketball has continuously been in the top ten nationally inattendance for the over 23 years.Mary has served on several boards included a emeritus member of the NationalSports Forum (NSF) Steering Committee and past president of the NationalAssociation of Collegiate Marketing Administrators (NACMA).Pink graduated from the University of Colorado with a degree in Communicationand received her master’s degree from Iowa State University in Education. Sheand her husband, Kenny have a daughter, Addison, 20 and a son Wyatt, 18.

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