Army West Point Athletics
Staff Directory
- Title:
- Director of Athletics
- Email:
Tom Theodorakis was named the 31st Director of Athletics of Army West Point Athletics in February 2025.
Theodorakis’ first spring as Director of Athletics was marked by two department-wide achievements. On April 12 2025, Army West Point clinched the overall Star Series Presented by USAA, besting rival Navy for the first time in the all-sport competition for the first time since 2013-14.
In May 2025, the Black Knights were named Patriot League Presidents’ Cup winners, finishing the 2024-25 academic year as the best overall Patriot League institution athletically, based on points awarded across a combination of an institution's regular-season and tournament finishes in each sport.
Under Tom Theodorakis’ leadership, Army West Point partnered with Levy to elevate concessions and premium hospitality across all athletic venues, including the first-ever sale of alcoholic beverages at Michie Stadium, enhancing the fan experience as part of the Michie Stadium Preservation Project. Army and Levy's partnership debuted for the 2025 football season.
Theodorakis was previously promoted to Army West Point's Deputy Athletics Director, External Operations & Chief Revenue Officer in 2024.
As both AD and Deputy AD, Theodorakis has spearheaded the Michie Stadium Preservation Project, a complete transformation of the venue’s east stands to ensure the most inspirational game day atmosphere in the country continues.
He came to West Point as the Senior Associate Athletics Director for External Operations in July 2022. Throughout this time, he worked closely with former Athletic Director Mike Buddie as a member of Army Athletics' senior staff.
During his time as Deputy AD at West Point, Theodorakis led all external units for Army West Point Athletics which included the areas of Development (in the context of a $600M comprehensive campaign for the Academy), Strategic Communication (athletic communications, digital and social strategies, creative and video services, and broadcasting), Licensing and Branding, and Business Development & Revenue Generation (Marketing, Fan engagement, Ticketing, Ticket Sales, and Sponsorships).
Theodorakis previously served on the Athletics Director’s Senior Leadership Team and Executive Staff and as the Sport Administrator for the Men’s Basketball and Men’s Lacrosse programs at Army. He also serves as a member of the Army-Navy Steering Committee that bids, organizes, and executes America’s most traditional and enduring rivalry game in the sport of Football.
Theodorakis arrived at the United States Military Academy in July 2022 as the Senior Associate Athletics Director for External Operations, with over 16 years of college athletics experience at the NCAA Division I level as an administrator, coach, and national champion student-athlete.
Before coming to the banks of the Hudson River, Theodorakis served as the Senior Associate Director of Development at Harvard University since 2021. At Harvard, he developed and implemented strategies in partnership with institutional leadership and served in a management role as a member of the athletics external leadership and revenue generation team, focusing on all external facets, including development, marketing, branding, licensing, broadcast, corporate sponsorships, and ticket sales.
Before his time at Harvard, Theodorakis spent six years at Arizona as the Associate Athletics Director for Development. While at Arizona, Theodorakis led a staff that contributed to over $67M in capital campaign support and served in several key leadership roles on the senior staff, sport administration, and revenue generation units. Theodorakis was responsible for strategic planning of revenue generation, focusing on all external facets of athletics, and was also a sports administrator for several varsity programs. Theodorakis also worked on several other initiatives, including health and wellness and COVID-19 emergency response, among others.
Theodorakis was previously at UCLA, where he served as the Associate Athletics Director for External Affairs and supervised the day-to-day operations of the development office. He was integral in producing exponential growth in Westwood with the groundbreaking of two comprehensive training centers, the Wasserman Football Center and the Mo Ostin Basketball Center.
Before UCLA, Theodorakis spent five years in a first stint at Arizona as Assistant Athletics Director for Development. He was an important part of two major capital campaigns undertaken by Arizona Athletics, the state-of-the-art Lowell-Stevens Football Facility and Phase 1 of the McKale Center Renovation Project, while also serving as the Pac-12 conference representative for NACDA. Before Arizona, Theodorakis worked in the Marketing and Development office at the United States Air Force Academy and was a volunteer coach on the men's lacrosse team.
Theodorakis earned a bachelor's degree in communications from Syracuse University in 2006, where he was a four-year letter winner and member of the 2004 national champion men’s lacrosse team. He received his master’s degree in sport administration from the University of Northern Colorado in 2008. He is also a graduate of the Sports Management Institute (SMI) Executive Program and attended instruction at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business and the University of Texas McCombs School of Business. He is currently pursuing his Doctorate in Education Leadership at Arizona, focusing his dissertation on student-veterans in higher education, and was the recipient of the Distinguished Leadership Fellowship Award.
Theodorakis and his wife, Robyn, a former collegiate swimmer at Arizona State, have a daughter, Olivia.
