Since leaving Bethune-Cookman in 2021, Thompson has served as the strategic advisor to the commissioner of the MEAC. Along the way, we won a ton of championships and we graduated a lot of kids.”
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“When I accept this honor, it’s on behalf of a team of great people who believed in the same mission and same vision that I was given and who came alongside me to invest their time and efforts to transform young people and teach them how to become winners in life. “The key thing, when I look back on it, is nobody goes into the hall of fame by themselves. He was enshrined in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference Hall of Fame in 2016 and won the NACDA Athletic Director of the Year award in 2020. In 2015, Thompson received the elevated title of vice president for intercollegiate athletics.
The Wildcats won 71 championships during his time at the helm. At 33, he became the youngest Division I AD in the country.ĭuring the ensuing three decades, he went from youngest athletic director in the nation to longest-tenured before stepping aside in 2021. Thompson pondered it for a few days and agreed to do it. Instead, Bronson asked him to be the school’s athletic director. “I thought maybe he needed a ride or something,” Thompson said. One day in 1991, Bronson called Thompson into his office and requested a favor. He assumed control of Bethune-Cookman’s radio network.
Former B-CU President Oswald Bronson asked Thompson to take a part-time job with the athletic department while in town. Then, his father got sick, and Thompson returned home to take care of him. After graduating in 1980, he moved to Atlanta and worked in the arts and as a producer and host of television shows. Ironically, Thompson never planned on being an athletic director.Īs a Daytona Beach native and Mainland High School alum, he attended Bethune-Cookman and played football for the Wildcats. NASCAR ODDS: Chase Elliott sits, Corey LaJoie gets his shot Kyle Larson favored as usual You’ve risen to the top.”įISHING REPORT: Let's guide you to the perfect Father's Day gift for the angling dad “What he shared with me and what one of my other colleagues shared with me was, you can’t go any higher than this in your industry, in your career. “It was one of the most humbling moments of my life,” he said. Thompson said he learned of the honor when NACDA’s chief executive officer, Pat Manak, called him earlier this spring. He will be inducted into the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics Hall of Fame during a June 12 ceremony in Orlando. “The greatest accolade I could ever think of was ‘thank you’ - when people just say, ‘I appreciate you, man.’”īut Thompson will get a whole lot more than that next week. “You just go to work, and you work,” he said. During his 30 years in charge of Bethune-Cookman University’s athletic department, Lynn Thompson never thought about awards and recognition.
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