Professor Dan Matheson

Dan Matheson is the Director of the University of Iowa Sport and Recreation Management program (B.S./M.A.) in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and an Associate Professor of Instruction. He also holds a complimentary appointment in Iowa’s College of Law where he teaches courses in Sports Law and Baseball Salary Arbitration. In 2017, he was named the Dean’s Distinguished Lecturer in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. In 2016, he received the University’s highest teaching honor, the President and Provost Award for Teaching Excellence. Dan has served on Iowa’s Presidential Committee on Athletics since 2016, and recently completed a two-year term as chair of the committee. Prior to joining the Iowa faculty, Dan worked as an NCAA Associate Director of Enforcement and as the New York Yankees Director of Baseball Operations. He has written more than a dozen articles on college athletics issues for CollegeAD.com and SportsLitigationAlert.com and is frequently asked to provide expert insights during media coverage of sport industry news. His contributions have appeared in such media outlets as ESPN’s “Outside the Lines,” in the New York Times and on SiriusXM’s “College Sports Nation.”