SAN DIEGO – San Diego State athletic director John David Wicker and senior associate athletic director Tim Rice have announced the hiring of Tyler Mariucci as associate athletic director for development and executive director of the Aztec Club.
Mariucci has more than a decade of fundraising experience, including record-breaking stops at a Power 5 School (Maryland), a Mountain West Conference school (Fresno State) and in the San Diego market (San Diego). He will serve as the liaison with the SDSU Stadium premium seating corporate sales team and oversee the Aztec Club development staff.
"We are excited to add Tyler Mariucci to the Aztec Family," Rice said. "With the historic campus expansion into Mission Valley, this is a special opportunity and Tyler's 10 years in athletics administration and fundraising will add immense value to the department as well as the entire University."
"I am very excited to join San Diego State at this critical time in the University's history," Mariucci said. "The groundbreaking of the unprecedented SDSU Mission Valley initiative, including Aztec Stadium, will not only transform the institution, but the entire city of San Diego. I am thankful to John David Wicker, Tim Rice and University leadership for this opportunity, and I cannot wait to get started."
For just under three years, Mariucci has served as the senior associate athletic director and chief development officer at San Diego. While at the West Coast Conference institution, he oversaw all fundraising and staff for the advancement of intercollegiate athletics. In the past three fiscal years, the Toreros athletic department raised more than $13.2 million for various initiatives and projects, reaching and surpassing many milestones, including raising more than 300 percent of the university targeted goal in the 2018 fiscal year and 124 percent of the university targeted goal in the 2019 fiscal year.
Additionally, Tyler was the sport facilitator for football and men's golf, which included the direct oversight and day-to-day administration for those programs. He led a national search which yielded Chris Riley, the only PGA Tour Ryder Cup member to ever be named a Division I head coach. As a member of the AD's executive team, Tyler had a major role in the formation of USD athletics new strategic plan "Winning in the Classroom, Winning on the Playing Field and Winning in the Community," which is a detailed plan and timeline for the future success of intercollegiate athletics.
Prior to his arrival in San Diego, Mariucci served as associate athletic director, sports administrator and development for Maryland. While working in the Big 10 Conference, he worked on the department's $155 million capital campaign and executed the fulfillment of a seven-figure gift to Cole Field House. Mariucci was integral part of the $11 million scholarship fund and while with the Terrapins, he served as the sport supervisor for a number of Big 10 championship teams.
Mariucci started his collegiate career with stops as the assistant athletic director for development at Memphis and director of major gifts at Fresno State.
A former Division I FCS football student-athlete at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, Mariucci graduated with a bachelor's degree in kinesiology in 2007, before receiving his master's in kinesiology/sports management from San José State in 2010. Mariucci, the son of former NFL head coach Steve Mariucci, is a third-generation collegiate student-athlete following the linage of his father (Northern Michigan) and grandfather (Michigan State). Tyler's wife Jennifer is a former NCAA Division I student-athlete in equestrian at Fresno State. They have two sons, Kyle and Colt.