Wesleyan University

Jonathan DeAndrade enters his 6^th year at Wesleyan in 2025-26 and his second since being promoted to Associate Athletic Director for Business Operations in April of 2024. DeAndrade started his tenure at Wesleyan as the Assistant Athletic Director for Business Operations in the Fall of 2019. As part of his role at Wesleyan, DeAndrade provides leadership and strategic direction for all short-term and long-term financial goals of the department. Additionally, he works directly with the Athletic Advancement office to manage & establish the annual fundraising goal as well as team endowments within Athletics. DeAndrade currently serves as the sport supervisor for Men’s Basketball, Men’s & Women’s Track & Field, and Men’s & Women’s Swimming & Diving. 
 
DeAndrade currently represents Wesleyan as the NCAA Division III Coaching Enhancement Grant Selection Committee where he will serve on this committee through 2028. Additionally, he is a member of NACDA, NADIIIAA and CABMA where he was awarded the 2024 CABMA Emerging Leader Award at the NACDA Convention in June of 2024 at Las Vegas. 
 
Prior to Wesleyan, DeAndrade was the Assistant Athletic Director for Business/Internal Operations at American International College (AIC) from 2015-2019. At AIC he was the sport supervisor for Men’s & Women’s Lacrosse, Men’s & Women’s Cross Country/Track & Field, Men’s & Women’s Golf and Wrestling. During his tenure at AIC he oversaw all NCAA reporting, auditing and budget controls for 25 varsity sports. He also was the Co-Advisor for SAAC from 2017-2019, where he represented AIC at the 2017 Division II SAAC Super Region Convention in Washington DC. Additionally, he managed the contract negotiations with the MassMutual Center in downtown Springfield, MA to make the venue the new home for their Division I Men’s Ice Hockey program and create an immediate recruiting impact for the program. In his last year at AIC, the Men’s Ice Hockey program won the 2018-2019 Atlantic Hockey Championship for the 1^st time in program history and then beat the #1 ranked St. Cloud State in the 1^st Round of the 2019 NCAA Men’s Ice Hockey Tournament. 
 
DeAndrade graduated with a Bachelors of Science in Sport Management from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2013. He then earned his Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Springfield College in 2015.