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Cara Jacobson is in her third season on the men’s
basketball staff at Virginia Tech and her first season
as director of basketball administration after serving as
assistant to the head coach in 2015-16. In her new role,
Jacobson handles many of her previous responsibilities
as well as taking on a few new challenges.
Jacobson’s areas of responsibility include recruiting
travel, events and fundraising organization, ticket
requests, team meals, program budget and other
assignments related to the day-to-day operation of the
program.
Jacobson graduated from Marquette University in
2014 with a degree in business administration, with
a concentration in accounting and finance. As an
undergraduate, she worked in the Golden Eagle men’s
basketball office for two years, handling a wide variety
of responsibilities, including working with Buzz’s Bunch
and summer camps. She also performed an accounting
internship with PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP.
The Shorewood, Wisconsin native was a four-year
letterwinner in women’s soccer at Marquette. Jacobson
was the team captain as a senior, when she was
selected Third-Team All-Big East Conference and was
a Third-Team NSCAA All-Region Scholar selection.
During her time with the women’s soccer team, the
Golden Eagles captured four Big East Conference
regular season championships and two Big East
Conference Tournament championships and advanced
to the NCAA tournament each of her four seasons.
Jacobson was a member of the Marquette Student-
Athlete Advisory Committee, as well as being named
to the Dean’s List in the College of Business and was
a four-time member of the Big East Conference All-
Academic team. Her twin sister, Emily, who also played
soccer at Marquette, is currently assistant director of
sports performance at Marquette. Her younger sister,
Allison, is a sophomore on the Marquette women’s
soccer team.
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C A R A
J ACOBSON
DIRECTOR OF BASKETBALL ADMINISTRATION