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Therese Quigley
Director, McMaster Athletics & Recreation
A well-known leader around the athletic community, Therese Quigley has dedicated most of her energy to develop programs and services for students and student athletes to benefits today and into the future. Therese’s involvements range from coaching various sport teams, to teaching in the former school of physical education and athletics, to currently the Director of Athletic and Recreation in McMaster University. She has also chaired many boards from World University Games women’s soccer championship to vice president of the World Cycling Championships to various bid committees and other championship committees. Therese holds the World University Women Soccer Championship held here at McMaster in 1993 as a milestone for Women’s sport at McMaster, and many of the McMaster staff, played an instrumental role in the advancement of International women’s soccer prior to the sanctioning of women’s soccer by the International Olympics Committee. The amalgamation of the OUAA and the OWIAA, Former Ontario University sport organizations organized based on gender was another landmark in the history of interuniversity sport which influenced the role of women in leadership roles within university sport. Within five years of the amalgamation and Therese’s role as president of OWIAA, some 40% of the appointments of athletic directors in Ontario have been women. To Therese, sport is a vehicle for young men and women to be active in the community and contribute to a greater sense of community. She believes that within all of us there is leadership potential that needs the right environment to be nurtured and to be inspired. To be empowered to make a difference is a culture that she feels universities are responsible for creating—to make a difference is now the choice of each individual.