Jan. 6, 2017 BALTIMORE, MD - Johns Hopkins University Director of Athletics Alanna Shanahan announced today the hiring of Jonathan Kindred in the newly-created position of Assistant Director of Student Athlete Success. Kindred comes to Johns Hopkins after serving as the Assistant Director of Academic Services at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) for the last two years.

“We are thrilled to welcome Jonathan to Johns Hopkins University and look forward to working closely with him as we support the academic and career development of our nearly 700 student athletes,” Shanahan noted. “While his recent background is focused on academic services, his experience in a variety of other administrative and support positions will make him a valuable member of our team. Enhancing the overall experience of our student-athletes is our number one priority and the addition of Jonathan and this position ensures that we are positively impacting their time at Johns Hopkins.”

Although a member of the Johns Hopkins Center for Student Success staff, Kindred will work closely with leaders in the Krieger School of Arts & Sciences, the Whiting School of Engineering and the Department of Athletics to create and implement innovative programs and services to enhance student athletes' academic and career success.

No stranger to Baltimore, Kindred spent more than four years at UMBC, where he directed the operation of the athletic academic center and tutoring program as the Assistant Director of Academic Services from 2014-16. He worked closely with the men's lacrosse and women's tennis teams during that time, served on a number of campus committees and was the liaison to the University's Career Center for the design and implementation of student-athlete focused career development events.

Kindred spent his first two years at UMBC as an academic advisor in the Department of Athletics. In that role, he worked with a number of teams, including men's basketball, men's soccer, softball, tennis, swimming and cross country.

Prior to his time at UMBC, Kindred served as the Academic Success Coordinator at St. Francis University (PA), a ticket operations assistant with the Pittsburgh Pirates and a public relations intern with the New York Knicks. He also spent one season as a graduate manager with the St. Francis men's basketball team and one season as the assistant men's tennis coach at DeSales University (PA).

A 2008 graduate of DeSales with a bachelor's degree in sport management, Kindred went on to earn his master's degree in educational leadership from St. Francis in 2010.

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