Courtney Hall joined the Charleston Southern Athletic Department as the Associate A.D. for Business and Administration in the summer of 2019 serving on the Athletics Senior Staff leadership. She was promoted to Deputy Director of Athletics/Chief of Staff in January 2022. Currently, she oversees each of the following departments within Athletic Department - Business Operations, Human Resources, Strength & Conditioning, Equipment Operations, Facilities & Events and Sports Medicine
Since her promotion, Hall has played a key role in Charleston Southern achieving a top three finish in each of those three seasons in the Big South Conference’s prestigious Sasser Cup standings, the league’s annual award given to the member institution with the most successful year athletically. During the 2023-2024 and 2024-2025 seasons, the Buccaneers claimed second overall in the standings, matching their highest finish in school history. Additionally, 2022-2023 and 2024-2025 saw the Buccaneer men collectively finish in second place, their best-ever finish since the league began presenting separate gender awards in 2003-04. In 2023-2024 and 2024-2025, the Buccaneer women took second overall for the first-time ever as well.
Additionally, since her arrival on campus, the Buccaneers have claimed 11 conference tournament championships. In men’s cross country the Buccaneers have claimed the past five Big South Championships. Also during her tenure, the women's tennis program claimed three consecutive Tournament Championships as well as the title in four of the past five years to earn the league's automatic berth to the NCAA Tournament.Â
One of her major projects as of recent has been a complete remodel of the Buccaneers' Athletic Performance Center during the summer of 2024. The full release for the announcement of the upgrades with its renderings can be found here while the completion of the project and a video showcasing the improvements can be found here.
She has played a crucial role in landing multiple partnerships with organizations to help the department. In the spring of 2022, the Bucs' partnership with Graduway have allowed donors to financially support individual sport programs as well as the whole department. In the summer of 2022, a partnership with Roper St. Francis Healthcare started with the Buccaneers receiving coverage for emergency services at home athletics events as well as proper coverage of athletic trainers for all sports. The healthcare system started with the school in July of that year with the football program and officially started with all other programs in August. During the summer of 2023, partnerships with Peak Sports MGMT for marketing and branding was announced with one for RealResponse followed shortly after to enhance the student-athlete experience at Charleston Southern. In the summer of 2024, she helped the department land a deal with TimelyCare, a 24/7 virtual mental health service to asisst in meeting the needs of the CSU student-athletes, coaches and staff.
Hall leads the business and administrative operations for the Charleston Southern athletic department. Her primary responsibilities include facilitating administrative matters of the athletic department as they come up on a routine basis. She also directs business relationships, processes, budget oversight, managing, developing schedules, and project management. She also represents the athletic department at various events.
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Among her essential duties for the CSU athletic department include managing the overall and team departmental budgets. She also assists the Director of Athletics in the hiring, onboarding, evaluation, and supervision of department personnel as the primary liaison with the university Human Resources department. Additionally, she handles oversight of all game contracts and management of game guarantees for each sport, as well as the day-to-day departmental business operations.
She came to CSU by way of Liberty where she served as the Women’s Olympic Sports Director of Operations working specifically with the Lady Flames field hockey, lacrosse, and soccer programs. She joined the staff at Liberty in the summer of 2013. In her role, Hall had a myriad of responsibilities, including team travel, recruiting trips/official visits, PCard reconciling and requisitions, budget planning and maintenance, new hire checklists, pre-season housing, Staples orders, printing requests/university marketing design requests, game day operations assistance and IT department liaison.
Hall's two most prominent responsibilities focused around team travel and budget planning and maintenance for women's soccer, field hockey and lacrosse. Hall prepared itineraries as they pertained to team travel, handled hotel accommodations, reserved buses through LU transit, provided travel assistance on away games, produced trip budget reports and coordinated conference tournament and NCAA travel planning and arrangements.
For budget planning and maintenance, Hall assisted coaches with budget requests, sent updates on current budget standing, served as the liaison between the Flames Club and the status of each sports' Flames Club Special Account Budget and confirmed per-diem checks were received and correct.
Prior to coming to Liberty, Hall worked in special events and donor relations at World Help. While there, she helped cultivate relationships with donors and was responsible for event planning and production planning for the president's council meeting.
Hall graduated from Liberty in 2011 with a bachelor's degree in sport management.
