Alanna Shanahan named next athletics director at Johns Hopkins

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Alanna Shanahan, a former lacrosse player who has served as the deputy director of athletics and senior women's administrator at the University of Pennsylvania since 2012, has been named the next director of athletics and recreation at Johns Hopkins University, JHU President Ronald J. Daniels announced today.

Shanahan becomes just the fourth director of athletics and recreation at Johns Hopkins since 1950 and the first woman in the position. She will succeed Tom Calder, who has served in the position since 1995 and earlier this year accepted a position as the director of alumni programs in the university's Office of Development and Alumni Relations. He will begin in his new duties on July 1.