Darin Wilson

Dr. Darin S. Wilson is the vice president for Campus and External Engagement after spending 13 years establishing and guiding the GGC’s successful athletics program as associate vice president of Athletics.

In this new GGC role, Wilson has responsibility for optimizing campus physical resources. This includes administering space allocation and management of the new Convocation Center along with the campus' fleet management, event management and schedule systems management, and other special campuswide projects.

Wilson will also help increase GGC's community awareness and partnerships in Lawrenceville and surrounding Gwinnett County.

Under Wilson's athletic director leadership, GGC's six intercollegiate programs have had unprecedented national and conference successes. Teams have captured 18 NAIA national championships and 28 conference championships, and collectively won more than 1,600 games and achieved a 77% winning percentage. Each team has achieved top-10 national rankings.

The quality of GGC's athletic facilities have helped its programs host NAIA Opening Round competitions and bring visitors to Lawrenceville and Gwinnett County.

Wilson is a two-time NAIA National Athletics Director of the Year recipient and has been recognized three times as an Under Armour Athletics Director of the Year by the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics. He has won multiple Continental Athletic Conference Athletics Director of the Year awards. Wilson has served on several NAIA national committees, including the National Administrative Council, the Athletics Directors Association's executive committee, the Membership Committee and the Hall-of-Fame Committee.

• Doctorate – higher education leadership – Capella University