Herman Frazier - Senior Deputy Athletics Director - Staff Directory

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Herman Frazier

Title:
Senior Deputy Athletics Director
Email:
Phone:
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Veteran athletics administrator Herman Frazier was promoted to senior deputy director of athletics in May 2016. Frazier joined the Syracuse staff as deputy athletics director/chief of staff in 2011.

A native of Philadelphia, Frazier boasts more than 40 years of experience in athletics administration, including eight years as an athletics director. He has overseen the participation of the Syracuse football team in six bowl games, including most recently the 2024 DIRECTV Holiday Bowl. In 2012, Frazier received the NACDA Pioneer Award for his position as Chef de Mission for the 2004 Olympic Games.

Frazier currently serves as an administrator for the football, women’s lacrosse and men’s rowing teams. Frazier has his hand in numerous areas of the athletic department, including overseeing football scheduling. He has been on the NCAA Track and Field committee, worked with the United States Olympic Committee and continues to be involved with USA Track and Field, The Bowerman Award, and The Fiesta Bowl.

Before coming to Syracuse, Frazier was the senior associate athletics director for sports administration at Temple. Prior to joining the Owls, Frazier served six years as the director of athletics at Hawaii. He was also previously the director of athletics at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB).

At Temple, Frazier supervised the football, basketball, baseball, soccer and crew programs, and was the administrative liaison for budget, compliance, financial aid, coaching searches, scheduling, academic support, facility issues, event management, media relations and marketing. He was also responsible for administrative supervision of the equipment operation, facilities, event management, sports medicine and strength and conditioning. Frazier handled the administrative logistics for Temple’s appearance in the 2009 Eagle Bank Bowl and the men’s basketball team’s 2010 and 2011 NCAA Tournament appearances.

Frazier was the athletics director at Hawaii from 2002 through 2008, where he guided the Warriors to unparalleled success. Under Frazier’s direction, the football team earned a spot in the 2008 Sugar Bowl following an unbeaten regular season and garnered four consecutive bowl bids, while the volleyball program advanced to back-to-back Final Fours. During his tenure, Frazier created premium seat donations, established a five-year financial plan, negotiated head coaching contracts for football and women’s basketball, and was instrumental in bringing an Olympic trials event to Honolulu.

Frazier’s first athletics director post was at UAB in 2000. As the second director of athletics in the history of the school, Frazier started a $30 million facility improvement plan and was responsible for instituting new management concepts and a strategic master plan for athletics.

Frazier began his career in administration immediately upon graduation from Arizona State, joining the Sun Devils staff as a graduate assistant for the track & field program in 1977. In 1979, he was appointed assistant director of events and facilities. During his 23-year tenure at ASU, Frazier moved up the ranks to the position of senior associate athletics director for business operations. He was the administrator for 10 Olympic sports that won numerous national championships, and the football program, which earned two Rose Bowl berths. He also directed business affairs, operations and stadium management.

An eight-time All-American in track at ASU, Frazier was the leadoff runner for the 1976 Olympic gold medal-winning 4x400 relay team. From 1980 through 2004, Frazier served on various United States Olympic committees, including two stints as the U.S. Olympic Committee vice president from 1996 to 2004. In 2004, he was named Chef de Mission for the U.S. delegation at the Athens Olympics. Frazier presided over the most successful U.S. Olympic team in history, as the Americans won 103 medals.

In 2017, Frazier was inducted into the Pennsylvania High School Track and Field Hall of Fame. In 2020, Frazier was inducted into the City of Philadelphia Sports Hall of Fame.