Our Commissioners

Professor of Law
Director, Center for Sport and the Law
University of Baltimore School of Law

Professor Koller’s scholarly focus is Olympic and amateur sports law. She has published numerous articles and book chapters and is a frequent media commentator and consultant to state and federal legislatures on issues related to sports and the law. Professor Koller has served as chair and is currently a member of the Executive Board for the Sports Law Section of the Association of American Law Schools, is a member of the United States Anti-Doping Agency’s Administrative Review Panel, and is on the editorial board for the International Sports Law Journal.

Olympian
Head coach of the Arkansas Razorbacks Gymnastics Team.

Olympian
Member of the International Olympic Committee’s Active Society Commission.

Benita Fitzgerald Mosley is an Olympic gold medalist and an established international leader in the nonprofit, sports, and business sectors. Benita currently serves as Chief Executive Officer of Multiplying Good, whose mission is to cultivate greatness through service to others, by recognizing, inspiring, and activating volunteerism and public service in communities, workplaces, and schools across America.

Benita most recently served as President of FundPlay Foundation and VP of Community & Impact for LeagueApps (2020-2023), a youth sports technology company. Prior to that, Benita served as the Chief Executive Officer of the Laureus Sport for Good Foundation USA from 2016-2020, leveraging the power of Sport for Good to build thriving kids and communities across the United States.

Benita joined Laureus USA following her senior executive role with the United States Olympic Committee as Chief of Operating Officer where she oversaw a plethora of operations functions from Olympic Training Centers and Athlete Relations to Human Resources and Strategic Planning. In her previous role as USA Track & Field’s Chief of Sport Performance, Benita led Team USA to win 29 medals at the 2012 Olympic Games in London, the most of any U.S. track and field team in 20 years.

Benita was named “Cable TV Executive of the Year” by Television Week Magazine for her leadership role as President and CEO of Women in Cable Telecommunications (WICT) from 2001-2009. Named a 2019 Notable Women in Sports by Crain’s New York Business and a 2015 Game Changer by the Sports Business Journal, Benita currently serves on the Commission on the State of U.S. Olympics & Paralympics, International Olympic Committee Digital Engagement and Marketing Commission, and the Boards of Special Olympics International, Athletes for Hope and the US Olympic & Paralympic Museum.

A world-class athlete, Benita won a gold medal in the 100-meter hurdles in the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, making her the second American woman and the first African American woman to accomplish this feat. She was a member of the 1980 and 1984 U.S. Olympic Teams, an alternate on the 1988 U.S. Olympic Team, a gold medalist in the 1983 Pan American Games, an eight-time national champion and a 14-time NCAA All-American.

She was named “Sportswoman of the Century” by The Potomac News, and “Top Female Sports Figure of the Century from Virginia” by Sports Illustrated. She is an inductee into the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame, Virginia High School Hall of Fame, Penn Relays Hall of Fame, and a charter member of the University of Tennessee Volunteers Hall of Fame. One of eight U.S. Olympians to carry the Olympic Flag during the Opening Ceremonies of the 1996 Olympics, she was named "Hurdler of the Decade" of the 1980s by Track and Field News.

Benita is a graduate of the University of Tennessee (UT) with a B.S. in Industrial Engineering. She resides in Haymarket, VA, with her husband, Ron, and they have two kids in college.

Founder and CEO, Champion Women
Legal Advocacy for Girls and Women in Sports
Olympian, 1980 (boycott) and 1984 three gold medals, one silver.

Nancy Hogshead is an Olympic champion, a civil rights lawyer, and the founder and CEO of Champion Women, a non-profit providing legal advocacy for girls and women in sports. Her focus areas include equal play, such as traditional Title IX compliance in athletic departments, sexual harassment, abuse and assault in sport, upholding sport’s sex-segregation and affirming the women’s sports category, as well as employment, pregnancy and sexual orientation discrimination.

She is a frequent keynote speaker, serves in various leadership roles, is the author of books, policies and articles in major media, and regularly contributes to our national sport policy.

She and Champion Women are leading a 13-year effort to protect athletes from sexual abuse in club and Olympic sports, that is, sport not associated with schools. She galvanized the sport, child protection, and civil rights communities in support of a new federal law, the Protecting Young Victims from Sexual Abuse and SafeSport Authorization Act, signed into law in February 2018, and the Empowering Olympians, Paralympians and Amateur Athletes Act of 2020 signed into law in November of that year.

Olympian

United States Olympic Museum Board of Directors and USOPC Foundation Board of Directors

Former member of the International Olympic Committee, US Olympic Endowment Board Chairman, and President Emeritus of the USOPC.

Former Chair of the USOPC AAC, World Team Member, and Pan American Games member.

Paralympian

Paralympian
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Program Manager with UW-Health

As a life-long learner and advocate, Patty Cisneros Prevo has always centered her work around diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). Cisneros Prevo received her B.S. from Valparaiso University in Education, and as a graduate student-athlete, received a M.Ed. from the University of Illinois-Champaign/Urbana. Cisneros Prevo was the Assistant Director of Inclusion & Engagement with Wisconsin Athletics, where she assisted in the development and execution of their DEI Strategic Plan. In her role as the Student Life Manager of Diversity & Inclusion for the Wisconsin School of Business, Cisneros Prevo spearheaded all DEI initiatives in the Undergraduate Program. And now in her new role as UW-Health’s Program Manager, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, she will lead DEI efforts with the Department of Medicine and the Carbone Cancer Center.

Three- time Paralympian Cisneros Prevo was a member of the U.S. Women’s Wheelchair Basketball Team for 10 years.  As captain of the 2008 Paralympic team, she led Team USA to its second consecutive gold medal after winning gold in 2004.

Olympian
Chairman Emeritus of the United States Anti-Doping Agency.

Paralympian
Bronze Star and Purple Heart recipient
Co-founder of Dare2Tri

Athletic Director at the University of Oregon

A highly respected industry leader who has guided University of Oregon athletics to unprecedented heights, Rob Mullens is in his 12th academic year as the Ducks’ athletic director. Under his leadership, Oregon student-athletes have produced one of the most successful eras of broad-based excellence in UO history, winning 17 NCAA national championships. Mullens earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration and a master’s in sport management from West Virginia University in 1991 and 1993, respectively.

“Women in Flight,” a program dedicated to raising awareness and funding for UO women’s athletics, was also established under his leadership. The program recently celebrated over $15 million in fundraising since its inception in 2014.

He also serves on the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee’s Collegiate Advisory Council, a first-of-its-kind group established to strengthen Olympic and Paralympic sports in the American collegiate system while facilitating the student-athlete pathway to national team representation and enhancing the narrative around collegiate Olympic and Paralympic sport programming on campus. As a component of this work, he is the chair of the sport economics working group.

ESPRIT General Counsel and Chief Administrative Officer for Europe, Middle East, Africa, and the Americas
CharityEngine.net Chairman of the Board
Former Inspector General of the Department of Defense
Recipient of the Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service
National Wrestling Hall of Fame, 2013 (Virginia Chapter)

Joseph E. Schmitz served as the fifth Senate-confirmed Inspector General of the Department of Defense from April 2002 to September 2005. As such, he was agency head of the most expansive Inspector General organization in the world, with statutory policy oversight responsibility for roughly 60,000 auditors, investigators, inspectors, law enforcement officers, and oversight professionals throughout the Department of Defense.

Prior to his service as Inspector General of the Department of Defense, Mr. Schmitz was a Partner in the international law firm of Patton Boggs LLP and at the same time a Captain in the U.S. Naval Reserves, serving as Inspector General of the Naval Reserve Intelligence Command.

Mr. Schmitz’ pre-Inspector General public service included: 27 years of naval service, first on active duty and then as a reserve officer; law clerk to the Honorable James L. Buckley, Circuit Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit; and Special Assistant to the Attorney General of the United States, The Honorable Edwin Meese III. Mr. Schmitz graduated with distinction from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1978, and received his Doctor of Jurisprudence from Stanford University in 1986.