Jennifer Hooker Brinegar, a 1999 inductee into the Indiana University Athletics Hall of Fame, first started with the athletics department in August 1994. After two years as a graduate assistant in Women's Athletics, she became the Assistant to the Directors in 1996. At that time, she became the compliance assistant while continuing with her game management, All-Sports Banquet and Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) duties. In July 1999, she was named an Assistant Athletics Director and assumed the role of directing the compliance office and continued to oversee the SAAC until 2002. In 2001, she assumed sport administrative responsibility for men's and women's swimming and diving and added men's and women's tennis in 2002. Her sport administrator duties continued until January 2004, when the department was reorganized. In July 2004, she took on the oversight of eligibility and financial aid. A Hoosier through and through, Brinegar, a native of Bloomington, is also a former student-athlete at Indiana. She received her B.S. in Business in 1984 after competing on the Women's Swimming and Diving team for four years. Brinegar won seven individual Big Ten Championships, was a member of the 1981 Big Ten Championship team and held many school records, the last two of which finally fell in February 2001. She competed on the 1976 U.S. Olympic Swim Team, placing 6th in the 200 meter freestyle and swimming on the gold medal winning 400 meter freestyle team in the preliminary heats. She was a U.S National Team member from 1976 through 1979. Brinegar held two American and U.S. Open records and was a two-time U.S. National Champion in the 500 yard and 1650 yard freestyle events. After college, Brinegar worked in the auto industry, first as a sales person for G.M. cars in Rantoul, Ill. and then as a finance and insurance manager in Americus, Ga. In 1990, Brinegar received a J.D. from Vanderbilt University. She practiced law in St. Louis, Mo. and Rochester, Minn. prior to returning home to Bloomington in 1994 to pursue a career in college athletics. She received a M.S. in Sports Management from IU in 1996. Jennifer and her husband, Jamie (Yale/Track 1988), are the parents of two sons, Kevin and Michael. |
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