University of Delaware Athletics
Football
- Title:
- Sport Administrator
- Email:
- jsko@udel.edu
Jordan Skolnick is currently the interim director of athletics and campus recreation, leading the Blue Hens’ 22 varsity teams, spirit programs, and robust campus recreation unit.
He originally joined the University of Delaware in July 2016 as the senior associate athletic director for development and currently serves as the deputy athletic director for external relations and revenue generation.
During his tenure in Newark, Skolnick has played a pivotal role in the decision to transition to Conference USA and FBS football, which the University announced in November 2023.
Serving as the highest-ranking administrator under AD Chrissi Rawak, he has been the sport administrator for UD football since 2023 and successfully crafted the football schedule through 2029, after the FBS announcement. He has also spent time as the sport administrator for men’s lacrosse, women’s soccer, softball, and spirit.
Since arriving in Newark, Skolnick and his team launched the Delaware First campaign for athletics, which included fundraising $39 million toward the $64 million facility goal in under two years, which culminated in the construction of the Whitney Athletic Center.
With the Blue Hens, Skolnick leads all revenue generation and external relations for the department, including fundraising, communications, corporate sponsorships, licensing, marketing and engagement, social media, sports and entertainment sales, ticket sales, and video. Since his arrival at UD, through the 2023-24 fiscal year, he’s grown the department’s self-sustaining revenue by 60-percent, including a 53-percent in football ticket sale revenue, and an overall ticket revenue of 44-percent over a seven-year span. He also led the department’s negotiations in contract negotiations with Learfield, Paciolan, Collegiate Licensing Company (CLC), and SIDEARM.
In November 2024, he was promoted to senior deputy athletic director, taking on all sport administration in addition to revenue generation responsibilities.
Outside of Delaware, Skolnick served on the NCAA men’s lacrosse selection committee from 2021-23.
Prior to coming to Newark, Skolnick spent the previous decade in the athletics fundraising field at three of the nation’s most prestigious institutions, serving stints at Yale, North Carolina, and Michigan. He began his career as a development and community outreach intern at Yale (2007-09) before moving on to UNC where he was a graduate intern with The Rams Club for one year in 2010-11.
He spent five years at Michigan, and accrued three promotions, where he was responsible for oversight of all fundraising efforts for Michigan Athletics, including annual giving, major and principal gifts.
He led a team of nine employees and worked closely with Rawak in directing a $355 million campaign for Michigan Athletics, the first comprehensive athletics fundraising campaign in Ann Arbor.
Skolnick graduated from Brandeis University in 2007 with a degree in American studies, where he played four years of soccer. He earned his master’s degree in sport administration from the University of North Carolina in 2011.
He and his wife, Christine, are the proud parents to daughters Zoe and Mae, and reside in Wilmington.
