Chris Jorgensen - Senior Associate AD/Operations - Staff Directory

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Chris Jorgensen

Title:
Senior Associate AD/Operations
Email:
Phone:
515-294-0307

***Updated June 2025***

Chris Jorgensen has served the Iowa State Athletics Department as its Senior Associate Athletics Director for Operations since 2011. He joined the Cyclone business office staff in 2007.

Jorgensen is a member of the department’s senior-level administrative team and shares sport oversight of the Cyclone football program with Director of Athletics Jamie Pollard.

He also leads the department’s capital projects and has oversight of its facilities and event management, business services, human resources, equipment operations, flight services and food services units.

Jorgensen has been the Athletics’ project manager on more than $400 million in capital construction projects and currently is working on the department’s largest project to date-- CyTown, the multi-use district announced in September 2022 and being built between Jack Trice Stadium and Hilton Coliseum. CyTown’s initial phase was completed in 2024 to include a makeover of the Iowa State Center parking lots south of Hilton Coliseum as well as installation of the infrastructure necessary to support the multi-use district which is slated to be completed in 2027.

In the past year, the McKee Tennis Center was converted into a volleyball training facility and the Cyclone Tennis Center, featuring six indoor and six outdoor courts as well as a team building were completed.

Other major construction projects completed on his watch include major renovations to the suites, club section, East and West concourses at Jack Trice Stadium (2008 & 2009), the Sukup Basketball Complex (2009), the Cyclone Sports Complex (2012), the Bergstrom Football Complex (2012), the Golf Performance Center (2012), the Jack Trice Stadium south end zone project (2015), the McKee Tennis Center (2017), the Stark Performance Center (2021) and the Gateway Pedestrian Bridge/RV Village (2022).

Since August 2019, Jorgensen has also led the department’s operation of the Iowa State Center to include the Scheman Building, Fisher Theater and C.Y. Stephens Auditorium.

Prior to joining the Iowa State Athletics staff, Jorgensen worked at Deloitte & Touche, LLP, in Des Moines from 1995-2007. He graduated from Simpson College in 1995 with an accounting degree. Jorgensen played football for the Storm.

Chris and his wife, Sara, have two daughters, Sydney and Kendall.