Boston College Athletics
Staff Directory
- Title:
- Deputy Director of Athletics
- Email:
- Phone:
- 552-6130
Craig Anderson has served as the Deputy Director of Athletics at Boston College since February 2023. In this role, he oversees the department’s external operations, revenue generation strategies, capital project execution, facility and event operations, broadcast operations, equipment operations, compliance and is the liaison for sports medicine and mental health counseling. He also serves as the direct sport administrator for the Eagles’ men’s basketball program.
Since arriving at Boston College, Anderson has restructured the department's ticketing and external models to drive sustainable growth. Under his direction, total athletic ticket revenues grew by over 80% over a 24-month period. This upward trajectory was led by a comprehensive restructuring of the football ticket strategy, which nearly doubled football revenue, expanded the core season ticket base by 85%, and established the first formal football season ticket waiting list in school history. Anderson also directed ticket revenue growth for men’s ice hockey, maximized men's basketball season ticket capacity, and advanced BC’s multimedia rights portfolio, securing a landmark on-field naming rights agreement that stands as the largest corporate sponsorship in Boston College Athletics history.
To guide BC through the shifting landscape of collegiate sports, Anderson manages the internal design, forecasting, and operational rollout of the university's revenue-sharing framework. He serves as the athletic department's primary liaison to third-party consultants and the Friends of the Heights Collective to support a competitive Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) ecosystem. His fundraising and facility efforts include securing major donor allocations for baseball facility upgrades at the Pete Frates Center, basketball operational needs, and managing major capital improvements like the Alumni Stadium seatback project—which includes the new Stadium Club—and the Frank A. Faggiano Strength and Conditioning Center located inside the Pete Frates Center. Additionally, Anderson acts as the department's chief liaison to the General Counsel's office on legal, risk management, and compliance matters.
Prior to his arrival in Chestnut Hill, Anderson spent a decade in senior leadership at the University of Miami (Fla.), culminating in his role as Deputy Director of Athletics. At Miami, he helped launch the Hurricanes’ inaugural NIL strategy and supervised men’s basketball, baseball, and women’s golf. A respected national voice in athletic governance, Anderson has two decades of experience across the ACC and Mountain West. He served as Chair of the NCAA Division I Academics and Eligibility Committee and chaired the ACC Baseball Committee. His career also includes key compliance leadership roles at North Carolina State University, the University of Virginia, and UNLV.
He earned his bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Pittsburgh and a master’s degree in health and physical education from Marshall University.
Anderson and his wife, Sarah, live in Natick, MA with their twins, Harrison and Harper, and their son, Hayden.
