Kim Wright joined Hunter College as an Assistant Athletic Director - Special Events/Operations in the fall of 2024. She also is serving as the interim administrative head swim coach currently.
She previously worked within the City University of New York Athletic Conference (CUNYAC) system as she started her journey with the conference in 2002 as an intern and member of the inaugural NCAA Division III Ethnic Minority and Women’s Internship Grant Program. In 2004, she was named the Assistant Director of Championships, promoted to Assistant Director/Director of Championships in 2007, and in 2009, was named Associate Director of the CUNYAC.
Wright served as the direct liaison to the athletic staffs of the conference’s 15 member schools and coordinated all conference Athletic Director and coaches meetings throughout the year. In addition to being the primary person responsible for creating the conference operating calendar, championship schedule and conference regular-season schedules, she was also responsible for maintaining the conference manual in both divisions. She also coordinated CUNYAC’s special events throughout the year, including the SAAC Leadership and Rules Seminar, the Basketball All-Star Luncheon and the Michael Steuerman Awards Banquet, and served as a liaison between the conference office and its corporate sponsors.
Wright has strong roots to the CUNYAC as a former captain of the Lehman College softball team, which is what fuels her passion for improving the conference any way she can, including leading the office’s efforts to gather and maintain records in all 24 championship sports. Wright graduated from the school with a bachelor’s degree in English and continued on as a member of the Lightning family, serving as Senior Woman Administrator and Head Softball Coach from 2003-07.
Wright has served on a number of committees, including the ECAC Softball Selection Committee for the South Division, a consultant on the NCAA Diversity Education Program Review Committee and has returned to serve on the NCAA Softball Regional Advisory Committee and recently finished a four-year commitment as a member of the NCAA Ethnic Minority & Women’s Internship Grant program selection committee, the same program that gave Santoiemma her start in intercollegiate athletics.
The long time Bronx native, graduated from Canisius College in 2017 with a Masters Degree in Sports Administration and lives in New Rochelle with her husband, Will and son, Dylan.
