Department: Athletics Administration Title: Associate AD/Internal Operations/Senior Woman Administrator Phone: 609-896-5056 Email: nanroberts@rider.edu Office Location: Alumni Gym

Nancy Lee Roberts in her 15th year of association with Rider University and has had separate athletic careers in coaching and administration during that time. She currently serves as Rider's associate athletic director for internal operations and senior woman administrator.  In this role, Roberts oversees all event management details and coordinates the operations, scheduling and maintenance of Rider’s athletics facilities while serving as ticket manager.  Prior to Rider hiring a full-time coordinator of athletic business operations three years ago, she also oversaw the department’s budget planning and reconciliation.  Roberts has also been instrumental in showcasing Rider's annual celebration of National Girls and Women in Sports Day throughout the internal and external communities.

While serving as Rider’s head volleyball and assistant softball coach, her career was highlighted in 1994 when she led the volleyball team to its first appearance in the NCAA Volleyball Championship after winning the Northeast Conference Championship Tournament that same year. The two-time NEC Volleyball Coach of the Year (1994 and 1995), Roberts and her volleyball teams captured two more conference championships in 1995 and 1996.

Prior to coming to Rider, Roberts served as the head basketball and volleyball coach at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio as well as at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts.   Each of her teams at these institutions annually finished in the top ten in the nation.  

Before joining the Williams staff, Roberts spent seven years at Wilkes University in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania and served as the head basketball and softball coach. Her 1992 softball team won the conference championship and was the first team in Wilkes history to make it to the NCAA tournament.  That same year Roberts was named Wilkes University's Coach of the Year and she and her team were honored for their accomplishments by being inducted into the Wilkes University Athletic Hall of Fame.

Roberts received an associate’s degree in health and recreation from Luzerne County Community College where she played basketball and softball and was a conference all-star in both sports for two years.    She also received a teaching degree in health and physical education from East Stroudsburg University where she was a member of the basketball team.

Roberts, who lives in Newtown, Pennsylvania with her daughter Amber, was inducted into the Pennsylvania Softball Hall of Fame as a second baseman in 1982.