Staff Directory
Major, Haley
Haley Major
- Title:
- Assistant Director/Academics
- Email:
- Phone:
- 303-735-5120
Haley Major is the assistant director of academics in the Herbst Academic Center, rejoining the University of Colorado staff in June 2025.
As the assistant director, Major is responsible for delivering comprehensive academic support to student-athletes on the soccer, tennis, and football teams, while overseeing designated key programs and supervising full-time and part-time staff in the Herbst Academic Center. This position collaborates with campus partners to promote the center's mission and supports the overall objectives of the intercollegiate athletics program.
This is her second tour with the Herbst Academic Center, where she served as an academic coordinator for two seasons (2020-22). During that time, she worked with the football (quarterbacks, running backs, wide receivers and specialists) and the tennis teams.
Between that time, Major was the assistant athletic director for student-athlete success at her alma mater, East Texas A&M (formerly Texas A&M-Commerce), from 2022-25. Major was responsible for overseeing academic support and student development programs for all student-athletes, ensuring they received the necessary resources to succeed academically, athletically, and personally. She served as the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) advisor, acted as a liaison between various campus departments, and contributed to the leadership team for Lion Athletics. Additionally, Major contributed to the three-year NCAA Division I reclassification process, which achieved full membership approval in June 2025. Under her leadership, the department experienced considerable improvements in academic achievement and graduation rates among student-athletes.
Major initially joined the Colorado staff from Penn State, where she was an academic support assistant for the Nittany Lions’ football program during the 2019-20 season. Among her many duties at PSU, she developed and utilized materials to enhance programs and services for the athletic department and the football student-athletes, while assisting them with developing and implementing individualized academic success plans. She also co-taught the school’s first-year seminar and bridge programs to help athletes with the transition from high school to college.
She earned her bachelor’s degree from Texas A&M-Commerce in 2016 in Interdisciplinary Studies (Concentration on Kindergarten through 6th Grade). A letter winner on the Lions’ volleyball team (outside hitter and defensive specialist), during her time there, she was on the Dean’s List and a member of the Lone Star Conference Commissioner’s Honor Roll. In 2015, she was inducted into the National Society of Leadership and Success (NSLS). She was also active in SAAC, served a one-year student teaching internship (second and sixth grades), and was an assistant club volleyball coach for the Net Force Club in nearby Greenville.
Major received her Master’s in Christian Ministry (concentration in Sports Ministry) from Baylor in 2018. While earning her graduate degree, she worked as a graduate assistant in BU’s Student-Athlete Center for Excellence and also served as an assistant volleyball coach for the Waco Juniors Club team.
Her passion to serve student-athletes was born after overcoming the adversity of tearing both her anterior cruciate ligaments (ACLs) while playing volleyball in college. She committed to determining her identity beyond being an athlete and has since devoted her life to inspiring current and future student-athletes in numerous areas.
Following her graduation, she was an athletic academic services intern at Texas Christian for the 2018-19 school year before she moved on to Penn State. At TCU, she executed academic plans for 70 student-athletes on the men’s basketball, golf and track and field teams as well as the women’s soccer program. That included mentoring 11 at-risk student-athletes using differentiated learning tools to develop their time management skills.
She was born April 13, 1994 in Irving, Texas, and graduated from Euless (Texas) Trinity High School, where she lettered in volleyball (awarded numerous athletic and academic honors). Her hobbies include traveling, eating, working out and watching and attending sporting events. Her father (Willie Major) was a high school basketball teammate of former NBA player and coach, Larry Drew, in Kansas City and was an accomplished track star: a member of the 1977 Adidas High School All-American Track team, he ran track (sprints and relays) at Kansas State and was a member of the world’s top 10 ranked 4x400 relay squad.
As the assistant director, Major is responsible for delivering comprehensive academic support to student-athletes on the soccer, tennis, and football teams, while overseeing designated key programs and supervising full-time and part-time staff in the Herbst Academic Center. This position collaborates with campus partners to promote the center's mission and supports the overall objectives of the intercollegiate athletics program.
This is her second tour with the Herbst Academic Center, where she served as an academic coordinator for two seasons (2020-22). During that time, she worked with the football (quarterbacks, running backs, wide receivers and specialists) and the tennis teams.
Between that time, Major was the assistant athletic director for student-athlete success at her alma mater, East Texas A&M (formerly Texas A&M-Commerce), from 2022-25. Major was responsible for overseeing academic support and student development programs for all student-athletes, ensuring they received the necessary resources to succeed academically, athletically, and personally. She served as the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) advisor, acted as a liaison between various campus departments, and contributed to the leadership team for Lion Athletics. Additionally, Major contributed to the three-year NCAA Division I reclassification process, which achieved full membership approval in June 2025. Under her leadership, the department experienced considerable improvements in academic achievement and graduation rates among student-athletes.
Major initially joined the Colorado staff from Penn State, where she was an academic support assistant for the Nittany Lions’ football program during the 2019-20 season. Among her many duties at PSU, she developed and utilized materials to enhance programs and services for the athletic department and the football student-athletes, while assisting them with developing and implementing individualized academic success plans. She also co-taught the school’s first-year seminar and bridge programs to help athletes with the transition from high school to college.
She earned her bachelor’s degree from Texas A&M-Commerce in 2016 in Interdisciplinary Studies (Concentration on Kindergarten through 6th Grade). A letter winner on the Lions’ volleyball team (outside hitter and defensive specialist), during her time there, she was on the Dean’s List and a member of the Lone Star Conference Commissioner’s Honor Roll. In 2015, she was inducted into the National Society of Leadership and Success (NSLS). She was also active in SAAC, served a one-year student teaching internship (second and sixth grades), and was an assistant club volleyball coach for the Net Force Club in nearby Greenville.
Major received her Master’s in Christian Ministry (concentration in Sports Ministry) from Baylor in 2018. While earning her graduate degree, she worked as a graduate assistant in BU’s Student-Athlete Center for Excellence and also served as an assistant volleyball coach for the Waco Juniors Club team.
Her passion to serve student-athletes was born after overcoming the adversity of tearing both her anterior cruciate ligaments (ACLs) while playing volleyball in college. She committed to determining her identity beyond being an athlete and has since devoted her life to inspiring current and future student-athletes in numerous areas.
Following her graduation, she was an athletic academic services intern at Texas Christian for the 2018-19 school year before she moved on to Penn State. At TCU, she executed academic plans for 70 student-athletes on the men’s basketball, golf and track and field teams as well as the women’s soccer program. That included mentoring 11 at-risk student-athletes using differentiated learning tools to develop their time management skills.
She was born April 13, 1994 in Irving, Texas, and graduated from Euless (Texas) Trinity High School, where she lettered in volleyball (awarded numerous athletic and academic honors). Her hobbies include traveling, eating, working out and watching and attending sporting events. Her father (Willie Major) was a high school basketball teammate of former NBA player and coach, Larry Drew, in Kansas City and was an accomplished track star: a member of the 1977 Adidas High School All-American Track team, he ran track (sprints and relays) at Kansas State and was a member of the world’s top 10 ranked 4x400 relay squad.
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