Craig Littlepage
| Sport(s) | Basketball |
|---|---|
| Current position | |
| Title | Director of Athletics |
| Team | University of Virginia |
| Biographical details | |
| Born |
August 5, 1951 La Mott, Pennsylvania |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1973–1975 | Villanova (assistant) |
| 1975–1976 | Yale (assistant) |
| 1976–1982 | Virginia (assistant) |
| 1982–1985 | Penn |
| 1985–1988 | Rutgers |
| 1988–1990 | Virginia (assistant) |
| Administrative career (AD unless noted) | |
| 1990–1991 | Virginia (asst. AD) |
| 1991–1995 | Virginia (assoc. AD) |
| 1995–2001 | Virginia (sr. assoc. AD) |
| 2001–present | Virginia |
Craig Littlepage (born August 5, 1951) is an American college athletics administrator and former basketball player and coach. He is the athletic director at the University of Virginia. He was named to that position in 2001 and has been with the school as an administrator since 1990. Littlepage served as the head men's basketball coach at the University of Pennsylvania from 1982 to 1985 and at Rutgers University from 1985 to 1988.
Littlepage played basketball for the University of Pennsylvania and graduated from Penn's Wharton School in 1973 with a degree in economics. He served as an assistant coach at Villanova University and Yale University before coming to the University of Virginia in 1976 as an assistant coach for Terry Holland. Littlepage's alma mater Penn hired him as head coach in 1982. He then was hired as head coach by Rutgers University in 1985. After Littlepage was dismissed as head coach of the Scarlet Knights in 1988, he returned to Virginia and again served as an assistant until 1990 when Holland resigned and was replaced by Jeff Jones.
On August 21, 2001, University of Virginia President John T. Casteen III announced Littlepage's appointment to be the ninth Virginia Athletics Director. He was the first Black Athletics Director in UVa history. In 2003 and 2006, he was named the Black Coaches Association's "Athletics Administrator of the Year." He was also listed on Sports Illustrated's list of the 101 most influential minorities in sports in 2003 and 2004. Littlepage created a motto of "uncompromised excellence in intercollegiate athletics," and led Virginia athletics to achieving success in a broad range of sports.
In 2003, following a controversial performance by the Virginia Pep Band at the 2002 Continental Tire Bowl in which the band lampooned the home state of the opposing West Virginia Mountaineers and was banned from any future performance at the bowl, Littlepage banned the Pep Band from participating in any Cavalier varsity sports. A donation from Carl Smith allowed the formation of the Cavalier Marching Band.
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