Steve Pritzker

Steve Pritzker was promoted to COO/CFO/Deputy Athletics Director in 2024. He oversees business operations, facilities, new construction, game operations, John Paul Jones Arena, information technology and administrative services/human resources while also serving as the Chief Financial Officer. In 2021, Pritzker was named Deputy Athletics Director. He has also served as Executive Associate Athletics Director, Senior Associate Athletics Director and Associate Athletics Director. He is the sport administrator for men’s soccer, rowing, women’s lacrosse, swimming and diving and volleyball.

Pritzker returned to Virginia in 2013 after serving as the head rowing coach at Iowa. He spent the previous nine years as a member of Virginia’s coaching staff, from 2004-12. After volunteering with the rowing team during the 2004 season, while earning his master’s degree in business administration, Pritzker assumed full-time coaching responsibilities in the fall of 2005. In 2007, Pritzker was promoted to associate head coach.

While at Virginia, Pritzker helped guide the Cavaliers to NCAA team championships in 2010 and 2012, along with runner-up finishes in 2005 and 2007. He also coached the Varsity 4 to four individual national championships, as well as three national runner-up finishes. Virginia won eight ACC titles in his nine seasons. While working with the Cavaliers’ rowing program, Pritzker supported the UVA athletics department on finance and budgeting matters, including forecasting and achieving financial efficiencies. He worked directly with different units within the athletics department on budget management. Pritzker’s business background includes a two-year stint with Credit Suisse First Boston in New York City as a research sales analyst and two years with Kingdon Capital Management.

A native of Alexandria, Va., Pritzker graduated from Yale and received his master’s degree from UVA’s Darden Graduate School of Business in 2005. He was selected as a Schwartz Research Fellow at Yale, while earning four varsity letters as a coxswain on the rowing team. While a graduate student, Pritzker was selected as a resident for the Range in the historical Academical Village at UVA on the basis of his academic achievement and service to the University.