Hampton appoints new athletic director
Fred Jeter | 2/16/2023, 6 p.m.
Anthony D. Henderson will soon lead the 18 varsity, NCAA Division I sports at Hampton University.
HU President Darrel Williams announced Feb. 8 that Henderson, who has extensive administrative experience, will become the new athletic director, effective Feb. 27.
Henderson succeeds Eugene Marshall, who resigned to accept a similar AD position at Binghampton, N.Y., University.
Pirates football fans recall Henderson as a talented defensive back under coach Joe Taylor. With Henderson as a defensive back, HU won the MEAC title in 1997 and 1998, and advanced to the NCAA Division 1-AA playoffs both sea- sons. Joe Taylor (now Virginia Union University’s athletic director) was HU’s coach at the time. Henderson is listed as being in Hampton’s Class of 2000.
Since then, Henderson has served in administrative positions at Akron, Old Dominion and Yale universities, as well as The College of William and Mary.
The Pirates now compete in the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) after stints in the MEAC, CIAA and Big South.
