Keli Zinn, Rutgers University's new athletic director, says championships are "a big part of what drives me"

It's a new day for Rutgers athletics.

Keli Zinn was named the university's next athletic director. She was formerly at Louisiana State University, and was the first female athletic director for West Virginia.

She will lead Rutgers University's 24 varsity sports, with over 730 student athletes. She has 15 national championships and 34 conference championships under her belt. At LSU, she helped lead the Tigers to four national championships including women's basketball, gymnastics, and twice in baseball, as well as multiple SEC titles in track and field and gymnastics.

"The championship piece of it, that's a big part of what drives me. We have some incredible people here who have spent decades at Rutgers, and they want so much to experience that at the highest level of success. And I see