Staff Directory
Boo Corrigan
- Title:
- McMurray Family Director of Athletics
- Email:
- Phone:
- (919) 515-2109
Boo Corrigan took over the leadership of NC State’s Athletic Program in April 2019 with a clear vision: to cultivate a culture defined by trust, accountability, passion, and empathy. In other words: a culture centered around the Pack.
Six years later, the McMurray Family Director of Athletics’ vision has become a reality, yielding remarkable outcomes. Competitively, NC State has enjoyed unprecedented success. Academically, Wolfpack student-athletes have achieved marks that are the highest in school history. And finally, the student-athlete experience has been enhanced in many ways - large and small - under Corrigan’s veteran leadership.
In 2024-25, NC State boasted its fifth consecutive top-25 Directors’ Cup ranking, with five of the six top-25 finishes in school history coming under his leadership. The Wolfpack has captured 20 ACC team titles since he arrived on campus, more than any other league school during that time frame, and Wolfpack student-athletes have won 16 individual national titles in five different sports.
Corrigan’s tenure has seen women’s cross country boast a trifecta of NCAA national team titles and five straight ACC championships. Wrestling won six consecutive conference titles, and women’s basketball won three to go along with four Sweet 16 appearances and a trip to the 2024 Final Four. Men’s swimming also captured three straight league titles.
Baseball has taken two trips to the College World Series, football has qualified for five straight bowl games, women’s tennis brought home the first ACC title in the history of the program, and gymnastics won the first conference championship since the sport was reinstated - all since he took the helm of the department.
In 2023-24, NC State became only the third school ever to send its men’s and women’s basketball teams to the Final Four and its baseball team to the CWS in the same year, while the Wolfpack was one of just eight Division I schools to advance to the postseason in all of its “Big Four” sports: football, men’s basketball, women’s basketball and baseball.
NC State’s most recent Graduation Success Rate (GSR) is the highest it’s ever been at 92%, and the Wolfpack has either matched or bettered its all-time high every year under Corrigan’s leadership.
In the past two years, NC State’s Academic Progress Rate (APR) has been the best in school history, ranking first and second (996 and 994). In the most recent report, nine of the Wolfpack’s 20 teams earned a perfect 1000, while 19 of the 20 teams finished above the national average for their sport.
Corrigan was named a Cushman & Wakefield Athletics Director of the Year in 2022. It marked the second time in six years that Corrigan was honored, as he was named a 2017 Athletic Director of the Year by the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics while he was the leader at Army.
In January of 2021, Corrigan was selected as a member of the College Football Playoff Selection Committee, beginning a three-year term. He served as chairman of that prestigious group in 2022 and did so again in 2023.
Prior to his time in Raleigh, Corrigan presided over one of the most successful eras in Army’s history, setting milestones and records in competition and in the classroom. He oversaw a program that claimed 20 Patriot League regular-season or tournament championships and sent 14 teams to their respective NCAA postseason competitions.
Corrigan oversaw an unprecedented increase in athletic fundraising during his time at West Point, including a 30 percent increase in membership for the Army A Club, a 200 percent increase in money raised and significant growth of the Athletic Department’s endowments.
No stranger to the Atlantic Coast Conference, Corrigan also had stints at Duke and Florida State. His resume also includes stops at Notre Dame and the U.S. Naval Academy.
Corrigan spent much of his youth in Charlottesville while his father, the late Gene Corrigan, served as Virginia’s athletic director from 1971 to 1981. Gene Corrigan was later the athletics director at Notre Dame and commissioner of the ACC.
Corrigan is married to the former Kristen Aceto, who played field hockey and lacrosse at the University of Virginia and also earned a master’s degree from the school. The couple has three children: Finley, Tre and Brian.
Corrigan received his bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Notre Dame in 1990 and earned a master’s degree in education from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2013.
Six years later, the McMurray Family Director of Athletics’ vision has become a reality, yielding remarkable outcomes. Competitively, NC State has enjoyed unprecedented success. Academically, Wolfpack student-athletes have achieved marks that are the highest in school history. And finally, the student-athlete experience has been enhanced in many ways - large and small - under Corrigan’s veteran leadership.
In 2024-25, NC State boasted its fifth consecutive top-25 Directors’ Cup ranking, with five of the six top-25 finishes in school history coming under his leadership. The Wolfpack has captured 20 ACC team titles since he arrived on campus, more than any other league school during that time frame, and Wolfpack student-athletes have won 16 individual national titles in five different sports.
Corrigan’s tenure has seen women’s cross country boast a trifecta of NCAA national team titles and five straight ACC championships. Wrestling won six consecutive conference titles, and women’s basketball won three to go along with four Sweet 16 appearances and a trip to the 2024 Final Four. Men’s swimming also captured three straight league titles.
Baseball has taken two trips to the College World Series, football has qualified for five straight bowl games, women’s tennis brought home the first ACC title in the history of the program, and gymnastics won the first conference championship since the sport was reinstated - all since he took the helm of the department.
In 2023-24, NC State became only the third school ever to send its men’s and women’s basketball teams to the Final Four and its baseball team to the CWS in the same year, while the Wolfpack was one of just eight Division I schools to advance to the postseason in all of its “Big Four” sports: football, men’s basketball, women’s basketball and baseball.
NC State’s most recent Graduation Success Rate (GSR) is the highest it’s ever been at 92%, and the Wolfpack has either matched or bettered its all-time high every year under Corrigan’s leadership.
In the past two years, NC State’s Academic Progress Rate (APR) has been the best in school history, ranking first and second (996 and 994). In the most recent report, nine of the Wolfpack’s 20 teams earned a perfect 1000, while 19 of the 20 teams finished above the national average for their sport.
Corrigan was named a Cushman & Wakefield Athletics Director of the Year in 2022. It marked the second time in six years that Corrigan was honored, as he was named a 2017 Athletic Director of the Year by the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics while he was the leader at Army.
In January of 2021, Corrigan was selected as a member of the College Football Playoff Selection Committee, beginning a three-year term. He served as chairman of that prestigious group in 2022 and did so again in 2023.
Prior to his time in Raleigh, Corrigan presided over one of the most successful eras in Army’s history, setting milestones and records in competition and in the classroom. He oversaw a program that claimed 20 Patriot League regular-season or tournament championships and sent 14 teams to their respective NCAA postseason competitions.
Corrigan oversaw an unprecedented increase in athletic fundraising during his time at West Point, including a 30 percent increase in membership for the Army A Club, a 200 percent increase in money raised and significant growth of the Athletic Department’s endowments.
No stranger to the Atlantic Coast Conference, Corrigan also had stints at Duke and Florida State. His resume also includes stops at Notre Dame and the U.S. Naval Academy.
Corrigan spent much of his youth in Charlottesville while his father, the late Gene Corrigan, served as Virginia’s athletic director from 1971 to 1981. Gene Corrigan was later the athletics director at Notre Dame and commissioner of the ACC.
Corrigan is married to the former Kristen Aceto, who played field hockey and lacrosse at the University of Virginia and also earned a master’s degree from the school. The couple has three children: Finley, Tre and Brian.
Corrigan received his bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Notre Dame in 1990 and earned a master’s degree in education from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2013.
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