Joanne Renn
Athletic Director
Joanne Renn
- E-mail: jrenn@vwc.edu; Phone: 757-455-5723
- Selected as Virginia Wesleyan College's Athletic Director in December 2007
- Received her master's degree in Human Resource Management from Alabama's Troy State University in 1999
- One of the six originial female athletic scholarship recipients at Old Dominion University, where she played basketball and received a bachelor's degree in Psychology in 1976; also studied at James Madison University
- 2007-08 marks her 13th year at VWC, where she has held a variety of responsibilities, ranging from coaching to raising funds for the athletic department
- Instrumental in winning the NCAA's bid for the 2004 and 2005 Division III national women's basketball championship tournament, which was hosted by VWC
- Now in her third season as the assistant men's and women's tennis coach
- Began her career at VWC as the head women's tennis coach in 1995, a position she held through 1999
- Served VWC as the head women's basketball coach from 1997 through 2003
- Former teacher and head girls' basketball coach at Norfolk Academy, where her teams compiled a 250-128 record and won two conference championships and two tournament titles
- Former girls tennis coach at Norfolk Academy, where she led her teams to a 107-10 dual match record and seven consecutive Tidewater Conference of Independent Schools championships; also coached tennis four years at The Saint Edward's School in Vero Beach, Florida, prior to her stint at Norfolk Academy
- Graduate of Virginia Beach's Frank W. Cox High School
- Appointed to the board of the Hampton Roads Sports Facility Authority for a term that runs through 2007
- Accomplished wood-wind musician
- Avid hike and climber who has ascended 39 North American peaks, including Mount Rainier and Mount Hood