Joined Virginia Tech men’s basketball staff: 2019 and enters her fifth year with the program.
With the Hokies: Oversees the assistant coaches and support staff for men’s basketball, as well as travel, logistics, budget and head coach Mike Young’s schedule, while interacting with the student-athletes on a daily basis.
Prior to Virginia Tech: Ballein served as Radford’s senior associate athletics director and SWA in its athletic department, working at the school for 11 years. She was tasked with the oversight of 280 student-athletes and approximately 70 staff members.
Of Note: Ballein was a three-year letterwinner on the Virginia Tech women’s basketball team. She and her husband, John, are members of Virginia Tech's Pylon and Ut Prosim Society.
Education: Virginia Tech, 1990 (B.S. Liberal Arts and Sciences), Virginia Tech 1995 (M.S. Ed Health Promotion).
Personal: Ballein and her husband, John, who is in his 35th year at Virginia Tech, currently serving as Executive Associate AD, have two daughters, Jordan Gray, an alumna of Radford University and elementary school teacher and Jalyn Ann, the director of on-campus recruiting for Virginia Tech football. In 2015, the family endowed a scholarship on behalf of their daughters at Radford University.
With the Hokies: Oversees the assistant coaches and support staff for men’s basketball, as well as travel, logistics, budget and head coach Mike Young’s schedule, while interacting with the student-athletes on a daily basis.
Prior to Virginia Tech: Ballein served as Radford’s senior associate athletics director and SWA in its athletic department, working at the school for 11 years. She was tasked with the oversight of 280 student-athletes and approximately 70 staff members.
Of Note: Ballein was a three-year letterwinner on the Virginia Tech women’s basketball team. She and her husband, John, are members of Virginia Tech's Pylon and Ut Prosim Society.
Education: Virginia Tech, 1990 (B.S. Liberal Arts and Sciences), Virginia Tech 1995 (M.S. Ed Health Promotion).
Personal: Ballein and her husband, John, who is in his 35th year at Virginia Tech, currently serving as Executive Associate AD, have two daughters, Jordan Gray, an alumna of Radford University and elementary school teacher and Jalyn Ann, the director of on-campus recruiting for Virginia Tech football. In 2015, the family endowed a scholarship on behalf of their daughters at Radford University.