Staff Directory
Rust, Lauren
Lauren Rust
- Title:
- Associate AD/Compliance & Sport Administration
ADMINISTRATOR – Swimming & Diving
- Email:
- Phone:
- 852-0863
Rust is in her 14th year at the University of Louisville and her 11th with Cardinal Athletics.
She is responsible for the day-to-day monitoring and administration of select functional areas within compliance with primary emphasis on initial, transfer, and continuing academic and amateurism eligibility certification, financial aid and rules education. Other duties include working as primary eligibility/financial aid liaison with football, and assisting with the Academic Progress Rate (APR) and Graduation Success Rate (GSR). She also serves as the sport administrator for the Cardinals' men's and women's swimming and diving programs.
Rust has been elevated multiple times through UofL's compliance department, most recently spending seven years as Assistant Athletic Director for Compliance. She joined the UofL athletics staff in August of 2011 after three years as Associate Director of Advising in the UofL College of Arts and Sciences.
Prior to her arrival at UofL, Rust worked six years at the Thornton Athletics Student Life Center at the University of Tennessee. She was an Academic Athletic Counselor for women's swimming, rowing and women's golf (2002-05), and then was promoted to Assistant Director overseeing all academic counselors while serving as the primary academic counselor for men's basketball and women's volleyball (2005-08). Rust also worked a year in Membership Services for the NCAA as an intern in 2001-02.
Rust earned a B.A. in Exercise Science at Morehead State University (Ky.) in 1999. She graduated with a M.A. in Sport Administration at Morehead State in 2001 while serving as a graduate assistant in athletics.
A native of Louisville, Rust and her husband Rich have two children: Garrett and Brynlee.
She is responsible for the day-to-day monitoring and administration of select functional areas within compliance with primary emphasis on initial, transfer, and continuing academic and amateurism eligibility certification, financial aid and rules education. Other duties include working as primary eligibility/financial aid liaison with football, and assisting with the Academic Progress Rate (APR) and Graduation Success Rate (GSR). She also serves as the sport administrator for the Cardinals' men's and women's swimming and diving programs.
Rust has been elevated multiple times through UofL's compliance department, most recently spending seven years as Assistant Athletic Director for Compliance. She joined the UofL athletics staff in August of 2011 after three years as Associate Director of Advising in the UofL College of Arts and Sciences.
Prior to her arrival at UofL, Rust worked six years at the Thornton Athletics Student Life Center at the University of Tennessee. She was an Academic Athletic Counselor for women's swimming, rowing and women's golf (2002-05), and then was promoted to Assistant Director overseeing all academic counselors while serving as the primary academic counselor for men's basketball and women's volleyball (2005-08). Rust also worked a year in Membership Services for the NCAA as an intern in 2001-02.
Rust earned a B.A. in Exercise Science at Morehead State University (Ky.) in 1999. She graduated with a M.A. in Sport Administration at Morehead State in 2001 while serving as a graduate assistant in athletics.
A native of Louisville, Rust and her husband Rich have two children: Garrett and Brynlee.
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