Emily Haynam

    Emily Haynam is in her first year with the Youngstown State Athletic Department serving as an Assistant Athletic Director. Haynam handles all financial aid and housing issues and assists in all NCAA compliance facets. Within the department she supervises the men's and women's golf programs as well as the men's and women's tennis teams.
    Haynam spent three years as the Assistant Director of Athletics for Compliance and the Senior Woman Administrator at Saint Peter’s College.
    Prior to joining SPC she served as the Compliance Fellow at the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference. As the compliance fellow at the MAAC, Haynam assisted the Senior Associate Commissioner with the conference’s compliance program, helped oversee the National Letter of Intent program, helped oversee the coaches’ certification program, collected and analyzed squad lists, assisted with the MAAC student-athlete advisory program, assisted with the analysis of the EADA federal reporting forms, and assisted with the completion of the annual NCAA Special Assistance reporting form.
    Before joining the MAAC staff she worked as a project assistant at the law firm of Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP in Columbus, Ohio.
    Haynam graduated from The Ohio State University in December 2004 with a bachelor’s degree in Journalism. She played both soccer and basketball for the Buckeyes.
    A three-time academic All-Big Ten selection, Haynam is OSU's all-time leader in goals against average (0.76). She had 13 career shutouts and 169 career saves.
    In 2002, Haynam helped lead OSU to its first-ever NCAA Tournament in soccer. Late in the season, she took over as the team's starting goalkeeper leading the Buckeyes to the Big Ten Tournament title.
    Ohio State reached the NCAA Tournament in 2003 and 2004. The 2004 squad was 19-4-3 overall, won the Big Ten Tournament, and won three games in the NCAA Tournament before losing to UCLA.
    For the women's basketball team, she was a four-year letterwinner and served as a captain in 2003-04. She helped the Buckeyes reach the NCAA Tournament and more than 20 wins in 2003 and 2004. As a freshman, OSU advanced to the WNIT.
    She earned her master's degree in business administration from Saint Peter's (N.J.) College in 2008.