Laura Herron is in her 19th year working in the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Athletics Department and has served the University in a variety of capacities during her tenure.  She was the Interim Director of Athletics from July 16, 2012, until April 24, 2013. 

Herron is the Senior Associate Athletics Director for Compliance and Administration and serves as the Mocs' Senior Woman Administrator. 

Herron has oversight and supervision of the UTC compliance office staff, serves as sport administrator for five sports and oversees student-athlete welfare. She is the director of gameday operations for volleyball, women's basketball and softball and has served as Tournament Director for several NCAA and Southern Conference postseason events.

Herron has also led the Mocs efforts for improving their Academic Progress Rate (APR) scores over the last five years.  She worked to develop and implement a long-term strategy that resulted in record APR scores in the most recent update for the NCAA.  UTC had 11 programs score a perfect 1000 in the 2010-11 data, including the Mocs' first multi-year 1000 earned by the men's golf team.

Herron began her time at Chattanooga as an Assistant Athletic Trainer from 1994-04, adding the title of Senior Woman Administrator in 1999. She was promoted to Assistant Athletics Director/SWA in 2003 and moved out of the Training Room and into the Compliance Office in 2004.  She has held her current position as Senior Associate Athletics Director/SWA since July 2010.

Prior to her arrival at UTC, Herron was the Head Women's Athletic Trainer at Florida Southern College. She received her Bachelor of Science degree in Corporate Fitness and Recreation from the University of West Georgia in 1991. While working as a graduate assistant trainer at Troy University, Herron earned her master's degree in Foundations of Education in 1993.

A native of Rising Fawn, Ga., Herron worked with USA Softball for five years as the athletic trainer. From 1999-2003, she accompanied the National Team to several international tournaments in San Diego, Hawaii and Canada. In the summer of 2000, she put her athletic training skills to work for the Olympic Gold-Medal winning USA Softball Team as it prepared for the 2000 Summer Olympics with its "Central Park to Sydney" U.S. Tour.  In 2001, Herron interned at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colo.

Updated July 2012.