Derrick Magee joined the NCCU staff in October of 2015 as Associate Athletics Director for Finance. In 2017, he was named Senior Associate Athletics Director for Finance & Administration.
Prior to NCCU, Magee was the Senior Associate Athletics Director for Business Affairs (2011-2014) and Director of Auxiliary Enterprises (2014-15) at Alabama State University. In his role with the ASU Athletics Department, he served as the Chief Financial Officer for the Hornets and also oversaw the day-to-day operations of the department, including business services, facility operations, and serves as the direct liaison to human resources, legal affairs, ticket operations and marketing/development. Magee assisted in the development of more than $80 million in new athletics facilities at ASU and the creation of the ASU Athletics Business Office. Magee served as a Deputy Title IX Coordinator for the university, was a member of the Executive Vice President/COO and Vice President/Business & Finance management teams, and had sport supervision of football, women’s basketball, baseball and the men’s and women’s track & field/cross country programs.
Before Alabama State University, Magee served as the Associate Athletics Director and Chief Business Officer (2008-10) at the University of Cincinnati. While at Cincinnati, Magee managed a $40 million operating budget and $120 million in debt service for the Bearcat Athletics Department. He also served as Assistant Athletics Director for Internal Operations and Director of Finance (2005-08) at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California, where he managed all internal operations of the department and supervised the sports of men’s and women’s water polo and swimming & diving.
Magee is a graduate of Florida A&M University, where he was a four-year letterwinner in basketball, serving as team captain in 1998-99 and leading the Rattlers to their first NCAA Tournament appearance against Duke. After completing his undergraduate degree from FAMU in physical education/sport & leisure management, he then earned his MBA and Administrative Services Credential from California State University, Stanislaus in 2005 and 2006.
Magee completed the NCAA’s Leadership Institute for Ethnic Minority Males and Females in 2009, the prestigious Executive Program of the Sports Management Institute (SMI) in 2011 and participated in the D-1A institute in the summer of 2013. He is a former Executive Committee member and Vice President of the Collegiate Athletic Business Managers Association (CABMA), and currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Minority Opportunity Athletic Association (MOAA). Magee is a member of Delta Sigma Pi Business Fraternity and Kappa Alpha Psi, Incorporated.
