Edward (Ted) Leland, Ph.D.
Member, Board of Advisors

Dr. Ted Leland brings a wealth of experience to our Board of Advisors. He recently returned to the University of the Pacific, his alma mater, to serve as the Vice President for University Advancement. He is a member of the University Cabinet & Institutional Priorities Committee, as well as serving as a professor in the College of the Pacific. Having a long history as an athletics administrator, Ted serves on the NCAA Division I Infractions Committee. He had previously served the University of the Pacific as its Director of Athletics & Recreation from 1989-1991.

Prior to his athletics director experience at the University of the Pacific, Ted served as the Director of Athletics & Recreation at Dartmouth College for six years (1983-1989). In 1991 Ted was appointed the Director of Athletics, Physical Education & Recreation at Stanford University where he served until 2005. While at Stanford he received the National Athletic Director of the Year Award (2000) presented by NACDA; in 2005 the U.S. Sports Academy presented him with the Carl Maddox Sports Management Award and also in 2005 the Sports Business Journal named him in the Top 10 “Most Influential” listing for intercollegiate athletics. Among his other accomplishments were to serve as: the Co-chair of the Secretary’s Commission on Opportunities in Athletics; an Affiliated Professor of Psychology at Stanford University; and, as a Distinguished Visiting Fellow with the Hoover Institution from 2001-2005. From 1993-2005, during his tenure at Stanford, the intercollegiate athletics program won 11 consecutive Division I Directors’ Cups, emblematic of the most outstanding Division I athletics program in the United States. Stanford also won 51 national team championships in 14 sports from 1993-2005, the most by any athletics program in NCAA history. In 2006 the Positive Coaching Alliance presented him the Ronald L. Jensen Award for Lifetime Achievement. Dr. Leland is a member of the University of the Pacific, Chabot College and Stanford University Athletic Halls of Fame.  

Ted earned his Ph.D. in Education (Sports Psychology) at Stanford University in 1982. He holds an M.A. in Physical Education (Sport Psychology) from the University of the Pacific and a B.A. in Physical Education from the University of the Pacific.