North Carolina State University Athletics
Staff Directory
- Title:
- McMurray Family Director of Athletics
- Email:
- Phone:
- (919) 515-2109
Trust. Accountability. Passion. Empathy.
In the seven years since he arrived at NC State, McMurray Family Director of Athletics Boo Corrigan has worked to develop a department culture built around those core values. In other words, a culture that believes every wolf strengthens the Pack.
That culture has not only taken root, but it has flourished. Four team national championships, a league-leading 22 ACC team titles, two trips to the Final Four and two to the College World Series, as well as six straight top-25 finishes in the Learfield Directors’ Cup: all evidence of the unprecedented success that NC State Athletics has enjoyed under Corrigan’s leadership.
With a No. 22 finish in the 2025-26 Directors’ Cup ranking, six of the seven top-25 finishes in school history have all come under Corrigan’s leadership. The Wolfpack’s 22 ACC team titles since he arrived on campus are more than any other league school during that time frame, and Wolfpack student-athletes have won 18 individual national titles in five different sports.
In the past seven years, women’s cross country won four NCAA national team titles and six ACC championships. Two other squads - women’s tennis in 2023 and men’s tennis in 2025 - played in the national finals. 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 six straight bowl games, and women’s tennis brought home the first ACC title in the history of the program and then added another in 2026. In 2025, Gymnastics won the first ACC championship since the sport was reestablished as a league sport.
NC State’s most recent Graduation Success Rate (GSR) is the highest it’s ever been at 94%, and the Wolfpack has either matched or bettered its all-time high every year under Corrigan’s leadership.
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.
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 2026, he was named to Business North Carolina’s Power List, which showcases the state’s most influential private-sector leaders.
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.
He 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.
