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Following the news that Vice President and Director of Athletics Christina Roybal will not seek a contract extension when her term concludes in May 2026, Northern Kentucky University is searching for a new leader to guide the Norse within the Horizon League. The incoming AD will arrive in Highland Heights amid a fresh multi-year facilities push—headlined by the new NKU Tennis Complex that broke ground in February 2026—and will be tasked with reversing recent middle-of-the-pack finishes in the Horizon League's James J. McCafferty Trophy standings. D1.dossiers has compiled a comprehensive intelligence report detailing the financial, structural, and philanthropic realities the next AD will inherit.