The Most Innovative College Athletic Departments Award will recognize collegiate athletic departments addressing the specific challenges of scholastic sports in the modern age. They’re the departments setting the bar for the collegiate sports sector using unique, holistic, and empowering programs to help college athletes navigate an era of accelerating change so these up-and-comers can enjoy lasting success—physically, mentally, and monetarily.

To recognize these athletic departments, Front Office Sports and Sports Innovation Lab teamed up to identify the Most Innovative College Athletic Departments modeling to the rest of the sector how to innovate on behalf of the collegiate athletes of today and tomorrow.