Tangela Cheatham - Sport Administrator - Rifle Support Staff

Tangela Cheatham

Title:
Sport Administrator
Email:
Tangela.Cheatham@westpoint.edu

Sport Oversight: Men's and Women's Tennis, Rifle, Men's and Women's Swim and Dive, Rabble Rousers

Cheatham enters her first year with the Black Knights after joining Director of Athletics Mike Buddie's Executive Staff in the summer of 2021.

In her role, she primarily oversees multiple sport programs and works with the Executive Associate Athletics Director in coordinating sport administration initiatives. She also oversees cadet-athlete welfare and development initiatives and provides guidance and vision for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion for Army West Point Athletics staff and cadet-athletes.

Cheatham came to West Point from West Virginia University, where she was the Assistant Athletics Director for Student-Athlete Enhancement and Inclusive Excellence. During her time with the Mountaineers, she was responsible for organizing and implementing Life Skills programs for all student-athletes including career services, personal health and well-being, financial management, leadership and diversity and inclusion. Along with having oversight of the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee, she served as the sport administrator for women's tennis and was the department's equity Title IX liaison.

In her role as an Assistant Athletics Director at West Virginia, Cheatham helped to create systematic programming that increased the athletic department's level of engagement in campus-wide diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. She additionally initiated a collaborative process with the Title IX office that saw 100% of the athletic programs participate in ongoing educational training. The founding chair of WVU's "Every Mountaineer" diversity, equity and inclusion program, she is known for her passion for engaging with student-athletes, coaches and staff in deep and profound ways.

Prior to her stint in Morgantown, Cheatham had the role of Career Specialist and Academic Coordinator at the University of Iowa. She assisted more than 650 Hawkeyes in navigating life after college via the planning and implementation of special programming. Cheatham also managed student-athlete job shadowing programs and facilitated student-athlete career preparation and networking events.

In her professional career, Cheatham has also made a stop at the National Association of Collegiate Athletic Directors (NACDA), where she served as an intern from 2015-16. While with NACDA, she assisted and served the board of directors, officers and membership for CEFMA, ICLA, MOAA, N4A and NATYCAA.

A Detroit native, Cheatham earned a pair bachelor's degrees in business administration and kinesiology from the University of Michigan in 2013. She additionally holds a master's degree in adult and higher education with an emphasis on intercollegiate athletics administration from Oklahoma, which she completed in 2015.