Johns Hopkins University Athletics

Nikki Betz currently serves as the Director of Strategic Leadership Initiatives. She previously served as the Associate Director of Athletics for Leadership and Sports Performance, while also serving as the department's Senior Woman Administrator.  She additionally served as the sport administrator for the highly successful Blue Jay field hockey, women's basketball, and women’s tennis programs with oversight of head coaches and assistant coaches for three teams with more than 60 combined student-athletes.  Betz played an active role with each team in budget development, fundraising, competition scheduling and rules education. She originally arrived at Johns Hopkins in November 2021 as the Special Assistant to the Director of Athletics.
 
Betz has also worked closely with the game operations team and was a key member of Johns Hopkins' administrative team that operated the highly successful 2022 NCAA Division I Women's Lacrosse Championships at Homewood Field. She is a graduate of the United States Naval Academy and earned her MBA from Johns Hopkins' Carey Business School.
After graduating from Navy, Betz served her country in the military and later in the national security sector of the federal government.  She earned her Information Warfare Designation as an active-duty Navy Officer, where in her role as a Deputy Intelligence Officer and Production Manager of the Naval Special Warfare-SEALs (NSW) Mission Support Center, she led a large team of military and civilian analysts who provided 24/7 reach-back intelligence support to deployed global NSW units.  She also served as the Aviation Intelligence Officer and Security Manager for Strike Fighter Squadron 105, which deployed on the USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75).
 
After completing her tour of active duty, Betz trained and served as a federal agent. In her roles as an Investigator and Relief Supervisor, she managed and assisted with multiple top-tier, large-scale investigations of national security matters.  She was also designated as a Principal Outreach Liaison and Lead Strategic Communicator selected to deliver national security briefings to senior leaders of Fortune 500 companies, institutions of higher education and professional organizations.  Betz was awarded the U.S. Attorney General's Award for Excellence in Investigation, Director's Award for Excellence in Investigation, and was selected for the "Women in Leadership" panel.
 
Betz's love for athletics stems from a life-long association with basketball as both a player and coach and her time as a track student-athlete.  At Navy, she was a two-sport athlete in basketball and track.  As a member of the basketball team, she led the Midshipmen in scoring and rebounding as a senior, when she was a Second Team All-Patriot League selection and averaged 14.9 points and 7.4 rebounds in Patriot League games.  She was named the team MVP as a senior and landed a spot on the Patriot League Academic Honor Roll as a junior.  Betz also competed in the hurdles as a member of the Navy Outdoor Track team as a freshman and sophomore.
 
Betz continued her basketball career after graduating from the Naval Academy as she played for the All-Navy team, which represented the naval forces in the All-Armed Forces Tournament.  She also competed internationally with the US All-Armed Forces Military Women's Basketball team and was a member of the gold-medal-winning 2005 team that won the World Military Basketball Championship.