Hall of Fame
Watkins McCollum is recieving the first-ever Linda Lowery Lifetime Achievement Award. Stacie exemplifies everything that Linda achieved as a longtime leader in collegiate athletics and at Concordia University. The Lifetime Achievement Award recognizes a Concordia alum who has earned success and utilized leadership skills to excel in their chosen profession. The Linda Lowery Achievement Award recipient must exemplify, as Linda did, living out their vocation while embracing Concordia's values and mission.
Stacie served as a volleyball defensive specialist for Concordia Texas when they were still named the Stags from 1992-1995. She began her professional career as a programming coordinator for CBS. At CBS, Watkins McCollum supervised and supported athletics such as the U.S. Open, the Final Four, the 1998 Nagano Winter Olympics, the College World Series, and numerous bowl games.
In April of 2000, she accepted the role of television and broadcast operations manager in the NHL. She then used her previous experiences to move to ESPN as a director of programming and acquisitions in 2005. Spending over a decade developing relationships at ESPN, Stacie played a vital part in launching the ACC Network. In 2015, she was elevated to the position of Senior Director and assumed oversight of the Longhorn Network business operations.
She was then appointed head of the SEC Network in 2019, where she advanced the SEC Network's marketplace position. In January 2022, Stacie accepted the position as Vice President of Programming at DraftKings Inc. as she will now use her expertise to acquire content, develop original programming, and build talent partnerships across platforms.
