Northern Illinois University Athletics

A veteran administrator and fundraiser, TJ Feuerbach enters his seventh year (2023-24) with NIU Athletics. He joined the senior leadership team in August of 2017 as Senior Associate Athletic Director for Development and Revenue Generation where he provided oversight of the athletic department's revenue generating efforts, including the Huskie Athletic Fund. Feuerbach also served as sport administrator for the Huskie men’s soccer program, the men’s and women’s tennis programs as well as the Sports Performance and Nutrition units. 

During his time at NIU, departmental revenue streams have increased 87%; unrestricted dollars rose 195%; the annual fund increased 56%; and Huskie Invest: A Week of Giving has brought in more than $4.5 million dollars since its inception. A number of facility projects have been completed as well, those include the Northwestern Medicine Sports Performance Center and Phi Sigma Kappa Alumni Association of NIU Nutrition Center, Phase I of the Nelson Tennis Center, baseball and soccer turf projects and Sports Performance flooring and weights. The men’s soccer team also won the 2021 regular season and tournament championship in the MAC while advancing to the second round of the NCAA tournament.   
 
In November (2023), Feuerbach began a new role of Senior Associate Athletic Director/Senior Director of Advancement. In this role he will primarily focus on moving the major gift and capital initiatives forward, with an immediate emphasis on the development of the 1899 Club.  

Feuerbach came to NIU from the University of Tulsa where he served as the Associate Athletic Director for Development. During his time with the Golden Hurricane, restricted giving increased 68 percent and total giving increased by 25 percent, to its highest levels in seven years in 2017. He assisted in securing funds for a $1.8M men’s basketball locker room, $1M football locker room, various coaching salary supplements, endowments and special projects benefiting Tulsa’s Olympic sport programs.  
    
Prior to Tulsa, Feuerbach worked at Northern Kentucky University where he was Assistant Athletic Director for Development. His team helped set records for dollars raised, number of donors, number of season tickets sold, and alumni participation. He also helped coordinate the department’s first substantial capital campaign as well as its strategic plan. 
  
At Cincinnati, Feuerbach was part of a team that increased membership by more than 3,500 donors and completed the $15.5M Sheakley Athletics Center project (football practice fields and lacrosse game site). He also led efforts in acquiring nearly 1,000 donors to various sport-specific initiatives during his time with the Bearcats. Feuerbach was a member of the bowl committee that helped coordinate back-to-back BCS bowl game appearances (2009 FedEx Orange Bowl and 2010 Allstate Sugar Bowl) under head coach Brian Kelly.   

Feuerbach also has spent time at Arizona State in ticket operations/sales and at the University of Iowa as an undergraduate assistant in sports performance. 

A native of Keystone, Iowa, Feuerbach holds a master’s degree from Northern Kentucky University in executive leadership and organizational change and a bachelor’s degree in health, leisure and sport studies from the University of Iowa. He and his wife Ashley, a former Arizona State University gymnast, have two sons, Paxton and Cameron.