Franklin’s arrival at UNI offered a unique onboarding process, as former AD and longtime Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby spent the past five months leading the department on an interim basis.

UNI director of athletics Megan Franklin says the Panthers can't compete monetarily with the Power Four schools but says the Panther athletic department is more than monetary, its transformational.

The University of Northern Iowa’s five-month search for its next Director of Athletics ended Monday afternoon when President Mark Nook announced the hiring of Megan Franklin. Franklin arrives at ...

Franklin feels confident that her vision and leadership alongside the UNI community of coaches, fans, athletes and alumni, will propel the Panthers into a successful era of athletics.