Marquita Armstead joined USF Athletics in March of 2016 as Associate Athletic Director for Compliance, before being elevated to Senior Associate Director of Athletics / Senior Woman Administrator in August 2017.
In this role, Armstead is responsible for the oversight of academic services, admissions, athletics council, drug testing, financial aid, housing, sports medicine, strength and conditioning, student-athlete enhancement, student rights and responsibilities and Title IX. Additionally, she is the sport supervisor for softball, men's soccer, women's tennis, and the secondary sport administrator for football. She has also been serving as the secondary sport administrator for men's basketball since April 2018.
Armstead came to USF from Georgia Tech where she was promoted to Athletic Association Director of Compliance during the summer of 2013. She joined Georgia Tech as Associate Director of Compliance in December 2012.
Prior to GTAA, she was the Director of Compliance at the University of Tennessee Chattanooga for six years. Her responsibilities include overseeing all aspects of NCAA, Southern Conference and university rules compliance for the athletics department.
Prieviously Armstead served as an intern in the Compliance office at Ohio University during the 2006-07 academic year. She also interned in the Mississippi State compliance office in the summer of 2006.
Originally from Columbus, Ohio, Armstead is a graduate of Mississippi State, where she earned a bachelor's degree in English in 2005. She also earned a master's of sports administration from her alma mater in 2006. In 2013, she received a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Armstead is a 2012 NCAA Leadership Institute graduate.
She is happily married to Demetric Armstead. The couple has one son, Braylon.
