¹ÏÉñÍø President Brian O. Hemphill, Ph.D., and Director of Athletics Wood Selig named executive director of the ¹ÏÉñÍø Athletic Foundation (ODAF).
Virga, who joined ODAF in 2010, was appointed senior associate athletic director for development to oversee the daily athletic development efforts at ¹ÏÉñÍø in 2014. In the summer of 2021, she was promoted to executive senior associate athletic director for development, a role in which she will continue to serve.
Working closely with the ODAF Board throughout her tenure, Virga has successfully recruited 14 new ODAF trustees. Additionally, for more than a decade, she has helped lead the organization to more than $120 million in philanthropic success, personally securing over $17 million of that record total.
Virga has led the recent athletic fundraising initiative, starting in July 2016, that has generated almost $60 million, 147% of the initial athletics fundraising goal. That funding has supported major capital projects, such as the $72 million renovation of S.B. Ballard Stadium, the entirely privately funded $9 million Mitchum Family Basketball Performance Center, the $1 million Paul Keyes Baseball Hitting Complex and the start-up of the ¹ÏÉñÍø women's volleyball program.
In an expanded role as ODAF's executive director, she will be the leading force for all future philanthropic efforts pertaining to ¹ÏÉñÍø athletic facility capital projects, individual programmatic enhancement support, endowment and planned giving efforts, and annual scholarship funding.
