Earl Koberlein

Earl Koberlein

  • Title
    Senior Associate Athletics Director
  • Email
    ekoberlein@stanford.edu
  • Phone
    650.279.6700
  • Experience
Earl Koberlein serves as Stanford's senior associate athletic director for intercollegiate sports.

A Stanford men's basketball player from 1982-86, Koberlein returned to Stanford in 1993 as the men's basketball administrative assistant.  He was promoted to director of intercollegiate sports and championships in 1996, was named an assistant athletic director in 1999 and associate athletic director in 2001 before being named to his current post in 2006.

His responsibilities include overseeing the men's and women's swimming and diving, men's soccer, men's and women's water polo, and softball programs. In addition, Koberlein oversees sports medicine, sports performance, sports nutrition and sport psychology..

Koberlein is currently serving on the NCAA Men’s Soccer Committee after having previously served on the same committee from 2003-07, and has served as an NCAA site representative for NCAA Baseball Regionals and Super Regionals, and NCAA Men's Soccer Championship. Koberlein has also served as a member and chair of the NCAA's Olympic Sport Liaison Committee from 2011-14.

Koberlein graduated from Stanford with a degree in psychology in 1987 and went on to play professional basketball in Australia. He earned a master's degree in sport management from USF in 1994.

Koberlein resides in Redwood City and has three sons -- twins Will and Jensen, and Jackson.