Julie Levesque joined the Rebels in May of 2025 as the Senior Associate Athletics Director for Student-Athlete and Career Development, the Senior Woman Administrator and Deputy Title IX Coordinator. In this role, she is a sport administrator within the athletics department, actively engaging in various aspects of the department, particularly Career Development for student-athletes, Title IX and Gender Equity. As the designated SWA, she serves as a liaison to the Mountain West Conference.
Prior to UNLV, Levesque was the Deputy Athletics Director for Administration at UTEP. She joined the Miners' athletics department in August of 2012. She was UTEP’s SWA, departmental liaison to Conference USA and the NCAA, and a member of the Director of Athletics’ executive management team. In this role, she assisted with the department’s strategic planning efforts and was UTEP Athletics’ liaison with various campus units, including Housing and Residence Life, Student Conduct, Dean of Students, Equal Opportunity, Title IX, Police, and the Miner Athlete Academic Center.
Levesque was instrumental in the addition of UTEP’s 11th women’s team, beach volleyball, which launched its inaugural season in 2022-23. She served as sport administrator for the men's basketball, cross country and track and field teams while assisting with donor solicitation strategy and stewardship for the aforementioned programs. She previously served as the administrator for women's basketball, volleyball, beach volleyball and soccer. Additional administrator responsibilities included Sports Medicine, Student-Athlete Development and Strength and Conditioning. Levesque also oversaw all Title IX initiatives as the Deputy Title IX Coordinator. She served on the NCAA Division I Track and Field Rules Committee from 2023-2025.
Levesque served as the tournament director when UTEP hosted the Women’s Volleyball NIVC Tournament in 2021. Making their first-ever postseason appearance, the Miners advanced to the tournament semifinals. Levesque was also tournament director for the WNIT in 2014, where the UTEP women’s basketball team hosted six rounds and made a run to the title game, which attracted a record capacity crowd of 12,222 fans in the Don Haskins Center. She also served as the co-director when UTEP hosted the 2014 Conference USA Men’s and Women’s Basketball Championships. She was the championship director for the 2015, 2017 and 2024 Conference USA Track and Field Championships, also hosted by UTEP.
During Levesque’s UTEP tenure, Miner teams had combined to win 12 CUSA championships, with 11 coming from sports in which she had direct oversight. The women’s indoor track and field team won three consecutive indoor CUSA championships (2015, 2016, 2017) and recaptured the crown in 2019. In 2017, the women’s outdoor track and field team won the first outdoor conference championship in program history. The women’s basketball team won a CUSA regular championship in 2016. The men’s cross country squad was back-to-back CUSA champion in 2014 and 2015. During the fall of 2018, the women's cross country team claimed its first conference championship. In the past six years, UTEP has produced 27 All-Americans and six NCAA champions in track and field and cross country.
Levesque served on the NCAA Division I Cross Country and Track and Field committee from 2015-19, including as chair in 2018-19. She is a long-time member of the Women Leaders in College Sports (WLCS) and the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA).
Levesque joined the UTEP team after serving as the Assistant Athletic Director and Senior Woman Administrator at the California Institute of Technology for 15 years. Levesque served as the interim Athletic Director from 2010-2011. She also served as the head men’s and women’s track and field coach (1997-2012) and head men’s soccer coach (1997-2000). Levesque was a member of the NCAA DIII men’s soccer committee (2007-2010).Â
She holds a Master of Science degree in physical education with an emphasis in human movement and sport from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, where she also received a Bachelor of Science degree in physical education with a concentration in teaching and coaching. Levesque was a member of Cal Poly’s NCAA Champion track and field team in 1990 and 1991. Levesque was a three-time All-American in the heptathlon during her collegiate career at Cal Poly, SLO. While working on her master’s degree, she served as a graduate assistant for the track program, working under the late track and field legend, Brooks Johnson.
A native of Agoura Hills, Calif., Levesque and her husband Damien have three children, Grant, Garrett and Owen.
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