Gabrielle Lathrop joined the UIC Athletic Department in January of 2023 as Assistant Athletic Director for Student-Athlete Academic Services. She serves as the academic advisor for the Flames Women’s Basketball, Volleyball, and Men’s Soccer teams, while also overseeing day to day functions of the Port Center.
Prior to joining UIC she served as Assistant Director of Student-Athlete Support Services at West Virginia University. She handled the day-to-day academic services for men's basketball, men's soccer, and gymnastics. While at West Virginia she was also responsible for the unit’s social media accounts, supervising graduate assistants, and acted as the liaison with the campus international office. Lathrop previously served as an academic coach at Niagara where she worked with men’s and women’s basketball since 2015. While at Niagara she created programs to help improve student-athlete life skills, supervised peer tutor and writing center staff members and also met weekly with Niagara’s at-risk student-athletes. Prior to Niagara, she spent one year at Ohio University in 2014 as the Bobcats’ NCAA eligibility and student-athlete success learning specialist The D’Youville College graduate worked one year at Canisius as an academic support services graduate assistant in 2014 while earning her Master’s degree in Sport Administration. A native of Clarence, New York, Lathrop received her bachelor’s degree in exercise science and sport studies while being a member of the 2011 Spartan softball team that won the conference championship and participated in the Division III NCAA Tournament.
