Longwood University Athletics

Dana M. Slater joined the Longwood Athletics department as Director of Compliance in July of 2015. She previously served as the Assistant Director of Compliance at Radford University and Athletic Compliance Intern at the University of Virginia.
 
A former cross country All-American and two-time NCAA Team Champion at The University of Virginia, Slater has enjoyed a varied professional career that includes time as a law enforcement officer, a member of the Army National Guard and U.S. Navy reserves, a law clerk and trial attorney. Those professional avenues eventually led to a return to collegiate athletics where she has served as an athletics compliance professional since 2011.
 
Slater spent the 2013-14 and 2014-15 academic years as assistant director of compliance at Radford University where she was involved in all areas of compliance. Among her duties, she provided rules interpretation and education to staff members and student-athletes, coordinated National Letters of Intent, provided academic and NCAA eligibility evaluations, and monitored CARA, team travel, recruiting, sport sponsorship, and many of the daily operations duties of the compliance office, including serving as the point person for Radford’s NCAA Revenue Distribution Report.
 
Prior to Radford, Slater spent a one-year term in the compliance office at her alma mater, Virginia, where she assisted in all aspects of the Cavaliers’ compliance efforts, including eligibility, education and recruiting. Slater also undertook an externship alongside Virginia’s senior associate athletics director and senior women’s administrator, Jane Miller, where she studied the athletics department’s relationships with different areas of the university.
 
Slater began her professional career in college athletics at Virginia Union as a compliance intern from 2011-12, while earning her master’s through VCU’s Center for Sport Leadership. That jump into college athletics followed 11 years as a trial attorney in Charlottesville, Va., where she handled more than 1,000 cases representing individuals charged with offenses from traffic tickets to murder. She also held positions as a law clerk in United States District Court in New Jersey and United States Immigration Court in New York.
 
Slater also served an 11-year career as a law enforcement officer in Albemarle County after college. She held multiple roles, including as a patrol officer, investigator, field training officer and school resources officer. While in law enforcement, she was also a petty officer in the U.S. Navy Reserves specializing as an aviation electronic technician, a sergeant field combat Military Police unit (M.P.) in the Virginia Army National Guard.
 
As a harrier for the Virginia cross country program, Slater was named an All-American in 1982 while helping the Cavaliers to their second straight NCAA Championship. Virginia and the Atlantic Coast Conference revisited her success in 2002 when she was named to the ACC 50th Anniversary Women’s Cross Country Team. Slater was also an All-American in Cross-country at the University of Colorado in Boulder prior to transferring to UVA.
 
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