January 10, 2026
Patterson is leaving the identical place at Rust College.
As of February 1, Lane College alumnus Jeremy Patterson will start his new function as the varsity’s director of athletics.
The HBCU announced the appointment on Tuesday, Jan. 6. Patterson, who’s 29, was beforehand the director of athletics at Rust College in Holly Springs, Mississippi. His job begins on Feb. 1.
In his new function, Patterson will oversee all intercollegiate athletic applications on the faculty, ensuring compliance with SIAC and NCAA rules, and be concerned in services planning, fundraising, and neighborhood engagement initiatives.
“Jeremy Patterson understands Lane College as a result of he’s Lane College,” mentioned Donald W. Comer, Lane College’s interim president, in a written assertion. “He brings institutional information, confirmed management, and a results-driven method to services, fundraising, and scholar athlete success. His return represents each stability and momentum as we proceed to raise Lane Athletics.”
Patterson was additionally an administrator at Lane College, so he understands the establishment’s tradition, student-athlete expertise, and strategic priorities. In the discharge, Lane College highlighted Patterson’s sturdy observe document in fundraising and exterior relations, together with cultivating donor relationships, securing sponsorships, and advancing improvement initiatives aligned with institutional targets.
He can also be a veteran soccer school, together with a stint at his alma mater. Just a few years in the past, Patterson was chosen as one in every of 25 (out of 1,500 candidates worldwide) for the inaugural, weeklong Tampa Bay Buccaneers National Coaching Academy. Afterward, he was of solely 5 fellows chosen by the Buccaneers to proceed working with the Bucs’ teaching workers whereas the group ready for the 2024 NFL common season.
While at Rust College, he led and supported a sequence of facility upgrades that strengthened each aggressive efficiency and student-athlete welfare. He additionally helped enhance athletic venues, coaching services, and game-day infrastructure, positioning Rust College to recruit, retain, and develop student-athletes extra successfully.
Lane, who’s initially from Cleveland, Mississippi, obtained a bachelor’s diploma in legal justice and a grasp’s diploma in management in increased schooling from North Central University.
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