NJCAA boosts leadership team with six promotions and two hires

The NJCAA added six promotions and two new hires in a July 10 national office overhaul that reaches from compliance and eligibility to revenue and sponsorships, a move that could ripple directly into how basketball programs manage postseason paperwork, eligibility questions and championship support.

Jeff White, Esq. was named executive vice president, expanding a role he had already built since joining the NJCAA National Office in February 2019. White’s portfolio has covered contracts, regional legal needs, internal processes, association policies and procedures, legislation analysis and Title IX compliance, all work that sits close to the day-to-day pressure points for junior college basketball coaches and athletic directors navigating roster decisions and postseason rules.

Wanda Bodey was elevated to assistant vice president, a promotion that also highlighted her status as the longest-tenured employee in the national office with 32 years of service. The NJCAA had already recognized Bodey as its 2023-24 President’s Award recipient for her work as director of compliance and eligibility operations, a sign that the association is leaning on institutional memory as it tries to keep its rules engine steady while the membership base grows.

The compliance bench also moved. Tyler Broderick was promoted to compliance manager after joining the office in November 2022 as a legal and compliance associate, Bobby Alexander moved up to senior compliance associate after arriving in April 2024, and Connor Mauritz joined the staff as a compliance associate. Monica Taylor was named business operations manager after joining the NJCAA in August 2025, a quick rise that points to a broader effort to build out the office’s operational spine.

Two more changes tied the NJCAA more tightly to Van Wagner. Chris Haley was named NJCAA general manager after joining the national office in November 2023 as director of operations and project development and then moving to senior director of membership and project development in March 2024. Reid Bertram joined as account executive and development associate. Haley’s bio says he leads day-to-day revenue generation and sponsorship work for Van Wagner and also serves as assistant executive director of the NJCAA Foundation, a combination that could matter for how much visibility and commercial lift basketball championships and other national events receive.

NJCAA president and CEO Dr. Christopher J. Parker framed the changes as an investment in the people who support member colleges and student-athletes. That message lands in an association that says it has more than 500 member colleges, 60,000 athletes, 3,400 teams, 28 sports and 57 national championships and invitationals, all from a national office in Charlotte, North Carolina. Founded in 1938, the NJCAA has already signaled through a July 2024 restructuring push that it wants a more efficient, more effective office, and this latest round suggests basketball programs should expect that emphasis to keep showing up in compliance, governance and championship administration.