Terry Mohajir

Mohajir was hired as the athletic director at the University of Central Florida on February 8, 2021. In his first full year at UCF in 2021, he hired Gus Malzahn as the new football head coach, whom he formerly worked with in 2012 at Arkansas State. UCF accepted an invitation from the Big 12 conference on September 10, 2021. Prior to starting play in the Big 12 in 2023–24, the university declared on June 9, 2022, that the upcoming season of 2022–23 would be its final season as an AAC member.

Prior to UCF, Mohajir was the Athletic Director and Vice Chancellor for Intercollegiate Athletics at Arkansas State. In his eight seasons with the Red Wolves, the football team participated in a bowl game each year and won four Sun Belt championships. In total, the Red Wolves won 25 conference championships across all sports under Mohajir. At Arkansas State, he upgraded athletic facilities worth around $90 million of enhancements. In 2020, he was named one of the top five non-Power Five conferences athletic directors by Stadium.

Mohajir previously served as assistant director of athletics for external relations at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. He was the senior associate director of athletics for external relations at Florida Atlantic University in 2004-11 and senior associate athletic director for external relations at the University of Kansas in 2011-12. At Florida Atlantic, he coordinated a fundraising effort for an on-campus football stadium that cost $70 million to build.^[9]

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