Courtesy of Cameron Weidenthaler, Wayne State University Assistant Media Relations Director

DETROIT -- Wayne State University Director of Athletics Rob Fournier has announced the hiring of Sam Olson as the Assistant Athletics Director for Compliance and NCAA Liaison.  Olson and the compliance department will be responsible for initial, continuing, and transfer eligibility, admissions, official and unofficial visits, camps and clinics, and other aspects of recruiting.

He spent the last two years at Eastern Michigan as the Assistant Compliance Director/Monitoring.

Prior to joining Eastern Michigan University, Olson spent 2012 and 2013 at the University of Louisville as a compliance intern while earning his master's degree in sports administration.  While working at Louisville, he designed and implemented a student-athlete employment monitoring and auditing policy for the office.  He also helped evaluate official transcripts of potential student-athletes to monitor and determine initial eligibility while monitoring the Academic Progress Rate data for 23 Division I varsity sports.

In 2013, Olson also interned at Bellarmine University in Louisville, Ky.  While at Bellarmine, Olson helped conduct NCAA legislative research utilizing the Legislative Services Database (LSDBi) and issued recommendations on a variety of issues relating to Division I/II athletic program and student-athletes.  Olson also developed a Title IX Gender Equity Plan for the  Athletics Department upon analysis of overall athletics budget, recruiting expenses, travel expenses, equipment expenses, coaching agreements/contracts, academic support services and the sports information department.

Before joining the collegiate ranks, Olson worked six years at various levels of the judicial system.  He was a legal intern for the Child Protection Section Office of the Attorney General for the District of Columbia in 2006 before serving as a law clerk for two years at Thomas & Delaney, PC in Grand Blanc, Mich.  From there he went to the Ingham County Prosecutor's Office and on to the Genesee County Probate Court.

In 2013, Olson received his masters in sports administration from the University of Louisville.  In 2010, Olson received his law degree from Michigan State University, after securing his undergraduate degree in English in 2006 from the University of Michigan.