Alisha Tucker
Hometown: Hampton, Va.
Education:
(BA) University of Virginia (English Literature & Composition) – 1996
MS. Ed. Old Dominion University (Sports Management) – 2001
Experience
Compliance Coordinator – Michigan State University, 2001-2003
Director of Compliance – Villanova University, 2003
Assistant Athletic Director/Compliance – University of Richmond, yr 2004
Eligibility Specialist– Marshall University, yr 2004-2006
Assistant Athletics Director/Compliance – Norfolk State University, 2006-2010
Associate Athletics Director/Compliance and Student Health – Norfolk State University, 2010-2019
Deputy Athletics Director/Compliance and Student Services – Campbell University, 2021-22
Deputy Athletics Director/Senior Woman Administrator – University of Maryland Eastern Shore, 2022-24
Alisha Tucker has joined the Hampton Athletics Department as Deputy Athletics Director/Senior Woman Administrator in the spring of 2025. She joins the Pirates after a two-year stint as the Deputy Athletics Director and Senior Woman Administrator at Maryland-Eastern Shore from 2022-24.
Tucker began her career in athletics administration at Michigan State, and had stops at Villanova, Richmond and Marshall before moving to NSU. She joined the NSU staff in 2006 as the Assistant Athletics Director/Compliance before creating the student services area in 2010. She oversaw student services within athletics through 2019 before assuming additional duties including helping guide the Spartans through COVID protocols prior to her departure.
Tucker has been involved in administrative activities on the national level. She served as the interim chair of the NCAA's Accelerating Athletics Academic Success Program (AASP), which grants funds to HBCUs and other identified universities in support of academic programming for student-athletes. She was instrumental in helping NSU secure $1 million in grant funding for the department's academic initiatives for student-athletes.
A Hampton, Va., native, Tucker was a track & field athlete at Hampton High School, where she still holds school records. She competed as a Division I student-athlete at the University of Virginia and she is also an active member of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc.
