Greg Warzecka has served as Dean of Kinesiology and Athletics since July 1, 2012. He retired from the University of California in June 2011 after serving as the Director of Athletics at UC Davis for 16 years. Warzecka has been actively involved in college athletics for over 30 years. He is one of just a few individuals who have served as a coach and athletics director in all three divisions of the NCAA.

During his tenure at UC Davis, the athletics department won six NACDA Division II Director's Cups, which recognize the most successful intercollegiate athletic program in the nation within each NCAA division. In 1999, and again in 2000, Sports Illustrated For Women ranked UC Davis the #1 Division II athletic program in the nation for women. One year later, SI selected UC Davis as its top Division II school for 2001-02. For his part, Warzecka was selected as Athletics Director of the Year for the NCAA D-II West Region in 2001-02.

Before turning to administration, Warzecka had been a successful baseball coach, first as an assistant at his alma mater, UC Berkeley. He then served as head coach at San Francisco State University, then at the University of Chicago, where he also served his first administrative post as Director of Men's Athletics and Assistant Chair of Physical Education. Warzecka returned to California in 1990 to become the Director of Physical Education and Athletics at the University of Redlands where he supervised the teaching and curriculum development of a Physical Education minor and a 19-sport men’s and women’s athletics program. In August 1995, he was named Director of Athletics at UC Davis.

Warzecka received his Bachelor of Arts degree in physical education from UC Berkeley, and a Master of Science degree in athletic administration from California State University, Hayward. He is a graduate of the NACDA Management Institute and the University of California Management Institute. He is a member of the Citrus College Baseball Hall of Fame.

Coach Rick Anderson was a 1982 graduate of Cordova High School, lettering in cross country and track and field all three seasons. He was the Metro League mile and two-mile champion his senior season for the Lancers. Upon graduation, he competed at American River College in cross country and track and field for one season in each sport before enlisting in the US Navy for six years.

In 1993 he enrolled once again at American River College. After two semesters of only academics, he competed in track and field specializing in the decathlon and 3000 meter steeplechase. During that semester he also received the Pepsi Scholar Athlete of the Year award and was voted captain of his track team. During the following cross country season he was again voted team captain for the Conference Champion Beavers.

After completion of his Bachelor's and Master's degrees at California State University, Sacramento, he joined the coaching staff as an assistant for the men's and women's track and field teams.

Raye Maero