Lin Case helped to guide SUNY Brockport's 23-sport intercollegiate athletic program to national prominence as its director of athletics from 1995-2010. Â She was hired by Brockport as an assistant athletic director in 1987 before her promotion to athletic director in 1995.
When hired, Case became only the second female athletic director in the State University of New York Athletic Conference (SUNYAC) and the only one in New York State to oversee an NCAA Division III intercollegiate athletic program offering both football and ice hockey.
Case was the SUNYAC president in 2003-04 and served a three-year term on the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Board of Directors. She served on a variety of NCAA Division III committees, including the Financial Aid Task Force, the Financial Aid and Rewards Committee, the Football East Region Selection Committee, and the Infractions Committee.
Named the athletic director in 1995, she oversaw 23 varsity and two junior varsity intercollegiate athletic teams, 53 full- and part-time coaches, eight athletic administrators, three athletic trainers, three support staff and 65 student employees. She was responsible for management of the $2.3 million athletic budget. Â
The recipient of an Outstanding Young Woman of America Award in 1988, Case was named the Josten's ECAC Administrator of the Year in 2003. A member of the Beta Pi Chapter of Phi Epsilon Kappa, the national physical education honor society,
Case graduated from Cortland in 1977 and was inducted into the Cortland S-Club Hall of Fame in 2005. She was also inducted into the Canandaigua Academy Athletic Hall of Fame in 1996.
