Gymnastics
- Title:
- Sport Administrator
- Email:
- gglaus@kent.edu
- Phone:
- 330-672-7994
Greg Glaus is the Executive Deputy Athletics Director at Kent State University, where he oversees the department's operations, the comprehensive sport supervision program, business and finance strategy, facilities and capital projects, and NCAA compliance. He leads strategic planning, negotiates and manages the department's key contracts, directs capital projects, drives strategic revenue generation, and serves as the sport administrator for football and gymnastics.
Since rejoining the Golden Flashes in 2021, Glaus has helped guide the department through a period of record-setting success. On the business side, he has played a central role in the negotiation of more than $40 million in departmental contracts - including a long-term multimedia rights agreement, a comprehensive sports medicine partnership, a ticketing operations enhancement, and a new apparel deal - while assisting with the generation substantial growth in licensing royalties and ticket revenue. He has directed $10+ million in facility improvements reaching all 19 of the department's sports, from team and meeting rooms to locker rooms and competition and practice venues. Over the same stretch, Kent State's student-athletes have reached new heights in the classroom, posting record team GPAs (3.4+ all department GPA) and strong graduation rates, while its programs have earned 24 MAC regular season and conference tournament championships in 14 sports.
Before returning to Kent State, Glaus served at Texas Tech University as Senior Associate Athletics Director, leading academic services and student-athlete leadership programming along with leading the department’s 2018 strategic planning process. During his tenure, Glaus also chaired key departmental initiatives including the Name, Image and Likeness Task Force and the COVID-19 Task Force.
He began his career at Kent State as a graduate assistant academic advisor, moving into athletics administration in 2007 and advancing through progressive leadership roles through 2017. During that first tenure he directed academic and student services and NCAA compliance while also holding oversight of sports medicine, sports performance, and equipment services; a breadth of experience across the student-athlete support model that continues to shape his approach to the work.
In 2026, Glaus completed his Ph.D. in higher education administration at Kent State with research examining strategic planning intercollegiate athletics - the first study to empirically validate the only planning model built specifically for the Division I FBS level. His central finding: the industry has become good at writing strategic plans but far less consistent at executing them, most often because a plan is never formally tied to the budget.
A native of Barberton, Ohio, Glaus holds a bachelor's degree in health and physical education from Wright State University and a master's degree in higher education administration from Kent State. He and his wife, Amie, have four daughters: Grace, Claire, Scarlet, and Victoria.
