Otoupal Named Senior Associate Athletic Director

San Jose State is pleased to announce that Vince Otoupal has been promoted to Senior Associate Athletic Director for Development and Donor Relations. Otoupal had served as Associate Athletic Director since joining the department in July 2005.

In his role, Otoupal oversees all aspects of San Jose State Athletics’ revenue generation opportunities: corporate sales, fund-raising, ticket sales, marketing and development efforts, including the Spartan Foundation. The Spartan Foundation, the Athletic Department’s volunteer fund-raising group, set a fund-raising record in 2007 with more than $1.5 million dollars raised for Spartan student-athletes’ scholarships.

Otoupal also supervises the Spartan baseball team.

Otoupal came to San Jose State in 2005 from the Stanford Athletic Department, where he worked two stints for the Cardinal, 1998-2000 and 2002-05. He served as the Director of the Buck-Cardinal Club and Annual Giving, as a Major Gift Officer, and Project Manager for the acquisition of the Stanford Red Barn - Stanford’s equestrian center. As a MBA student at the University of Oregon’s Warsaw Sports Marketing Center, Otoupal also served as a consultant analyzing Pac-10 financial trends for the University of Oregon Athletics Department (2001-02).

An outside linebacker for the Stanford football team, he was a four-year letterwinner (1989-92) and named Captain of Special Teams. Otoupal played for former Spartan and Stanford coaches Jack Elway and Bill Walsh.

Following graduation, he joined the United States Marine Corps and achieved the rank of Captain in his five years of service for the United States Marine Corps as an infantry officer. Otoupal was awarded the Marine Corps’ Certificate of Commendation and was a Recipient of the Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal.

Otoupal graduated from Stanford in 1993, majoring in political science and organizational behavior, and earned his MBA from the University of Oregon in 2002.

He is a member of NAADD (National Association of Athletic Development Directors), NACDA (National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics), and the AFP (Association of Fund-raising Professionals).