Updated: August 4, 2026
First Day at Johns Hopkins: October 4, 2023
Allison Fondale joined the Johns Hopkins staff as Associate Director of Athletics for Compliance and Administration on October 4, 2023 before shifting her focus to Leadership and Sports Performance in 2025.
In her current role, Fondale serves as the sport administrator for the Blue Jay men's soccer, wrestling, baseball and women's tennis teams. She also oversees all programming for Blue Jay scholar-athletes, including the Captain's Cohort, Blue Jays LEAD, class-specific cohorts, SAAC all student groups and community engagement efforts. Fondale also oversees our athletic training and sports performance departments.
During the 2025-26 academic year, Fondale spearheaded the launch of Johns Hopkins' Faculy-Coach inititiave, which matches members of the Johns Hopkins faculty with each varsity athletic program. The program is designed to foster collaboration between academics and athletics while faculty-coaches become integrated with the staff and team and are available to answer academic questions and help direct scholar-athletes, particularly first year students, to the many resources available to all Johns Hopkins students.
Initially, as the Associate Director of Athletics for Compliance and Administration, Fondale oversaw NCAA compliance for Johns Hopkins' 24-sport, multi-divisional athletic program that includes more than 650 varsity student-athletes. In addition, she assisted with event operations for select athletic events while serving as a sport administrator for several Blue Jay athletic teams.
Prior to her arrival at Johns Hopkins, Fondale served as the Director of Athletics at St. Mary's High School in Annapolis, Maryland from 2014-23. There, she managed all aspects of a highly-successful coed athletic program that consists of 36 teams that compete in the prestigious MIAA (boys athletics) and IAAM (girls athletics). Fondale oversaw a staff of eight administrators/support staff and 85 coaches.
Fondale completed a two-year team as the President of the IAAM (2021-23), spent two years on the executive committee of the MIAA (2018-20) and was honored as the Maryland State Co-Director of Athletics of the Year in 2020.
Among Fondale's key initiatives during her time at St. Mary's were the opening of a five million dollar athletic facility that includes lockers rooms, team meeting rooms, athletic office space and a state-of-the-art training room to service Saint student-athletes. She also developed a unique apparel agreement with Under Armour and formed a network partnership with NFHS that provided live streaming of select St. Mary's athletic events.
Prior to her time at St. Mary's, Fondale spent more than 15 years coaching women's lacrosse at the Division I level. After spending seven seasons as an assistant at Duke (1998-2004) and two at Maryland (2005-06), Fondale served as the head coach at Ohio University from 2005-07 before joining Hall of Famer Cindy Timchal's staff at the United States Naval Academy. There, she helped build a Midshipmen program that made its varsity debut in 2008 and would make four trips to the NCAA Tournament before she departed in 2014 for the position at St. Mary's.
Fondale was a four-year standout for the Loyola Maryland women's lacrosse team from 1994-97. She earned Third Team IWLCA All-America honors as a junior and was a second team selection as a senior, when she helped the Greyhounds to the national championship game. Fondale concluded her Greyhound career with 71 goals and 49 assists for 120 points. She was inducted into the Greater Baltimore Chapter of the Lacrosse Hall of Fame in 2007 and she and the Greyhounds' 1997 national runner-up team were inducted into the Loyola Athletic Hall of Fame in 2021.
