Sources: Wake Forest AD Wellman To Retire, Currie To Succeed

Wake Forest "soon will announce" AD Ron Wellman is retiring and that former Kansas State and Tennessee AD John Currie "will be his successor," according to sources. Currie is a '93 Wake Forest graduate. Currie led the Kansas State athletic department from '09-17, and built a "reputation as an excellent fundraiser who helped improve the Wildcats' facilities in many sports." But Currie's eight-month tenure as Tennessee AD was "truly bizarre." Wellman, who was named Sports Business Journal's AD of the Year in '08, led Wake Forest, one of the smallest universities competing in D-I, to some "amazing athletic heights" (THEATHLETIC.com, 3/2). Wellman is in his 27th year as Wake Forest AD and "leaves as the longest-tenured athletics director in the country, having been named to the position" in October '92 (JOURNALNOW.com, 3/3).