Two of Riverside’s highest-profile sports job openings have been filled.

UC Riverside named Michelle Almazan as its interim athletics director on Aug. 22, while Riverside City College announced Jennifer Spalding as its next athletics director on Aug. 20.

On the short list of the Highlanders’ longest-serving athletics department administrators, Almazan started at UCR in 2015 as director of student-athlete academic services and has been an assistant athletics director since 2018.

“She has held progressively responsible roles (and) has overseen efforts to enhance student-athlete development, expand life skills programming, and implement cost-containment strategies in response to fiscal challenges,” UC Riverside chancellor S. Jack Hu said in a statement.

Alamazan has represented the Highla

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