Christian Bray was named the Associate Director of Athletics - Compliance, announced Bob Scalise, the former John D. Nichols ’53 Family Director of Athletics, in March 2018. Bray was elevated to Senior Associate Director of Athletics - Compliance & Student Success during the Summer of 2025.
Bray joins Harvard from Yale, where she held the position of Assistant Athletic Director for Compliance since 2015, while also serving as the Senior Woman Administrator.
Bray will oversee the department’s compliance efforts within Ivy League and NCAA rules and regulations.
Bray joined Yale in 2014, and was named Assistant Athletic Director for Compliance in 2015. In addition to overseeing compliance at Yale, she was named Senior Woman Administrator in 2016, while also serving as a sport administrator for the women’s volleyball and gymnastics programs.
In 2014, Bray earned her Juris Doctorate from Marquette Law School, where she was the recipient of the National Sports Law Institute’s Sports Law Certificate. Bray also worked in the compliance offices at Wisconsin, Texas Christian University, and Marquette. In 2010, she earned her bachelor’s degree in sport management from Texas A&M, where she was a four-year student manager on the women’s basketball team.
