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Director of Athletics

E. J. Brophy enters his third year
as Director of Athletics at the University of West Alabama after
serving as Assistant Athletic Director for External Affairs at the
University of Alabama at Birmingham from March 2005 through May 2006.
Brophy, who has more than 15 years of
experience as a professional athlete, collegiate coach and
university athletic administrator, joined the UAB
athletic department in January 2003 as Assistant Director of
Athletic Development. A Montgomery, Alabama, native, Brophy was
responsible for athletic fundraising, day-to-day operations of the
Blazer Club scholarship organization, game-day hospitality for
donors at Blazer football and basketball games and various other
duties. In March 2005 Brophy was named Assistant Athletic
Director for External Affairs and continued heading the Blazer Club
Scholarship Fund and all basketball and football priority seating.
After an
all-conference baseball career at UAB from 1989-1992, Brophy was
drafted as a 37th-round selection by the Philadelphia
Phillies and spent four seasons in their minor league system,
reaching the Triple-A level in 1995. At the conclusion of his
playing career, Brophy was named assistant baseball coach at Samford
University in 1996 and held the same post at the University of
Montevallo in 1998. He was the head baseball coach at Wallace
Community College in Selma, Alabama, from August 1998 until January
2003. In recognition of his 100th collegiate coaching
victory in 2002, he was named to the Alabama and American Baseball
Coaches Century Club.
Brophy
graduated from UAB in 1995 with a Bachelor of Science degree in
Physical Education. He earned his Master of Arts degree in Physical
Education in 1998 from UAB.
Brophy is
married to the former Cindy Wooten of Birmingham, Alabama. They have two
children. A son Brooks, 9, and daughter Bailey, 6.
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