Bio

On October 6, 2023, Valencia Jordan was named the Director of Athletics at Fisk University. Her first year was full of firsts for the program. In November of 2023, Fisk’s volleyball team became the first team in school history to play in the Gulf Coast Athletic Conference’s championship game. The women’s basketball team earned the first NAIA bid to the national tournament in school history.

Individually, men’s basketball player Jeremiah Armstead became the first member of an HBCU to win the Perry Wallace Most Courageous Award. Morgan Price became the first gymnast from a Historically Black College and University to win a national title. Fisk also had five athletes named as All Americans (Jadyn Brackins volleyball, Maya Buckhanon women’s basketball, Liberty Mora, Morgan Price and Aliyah Reed-Hammon gymnastics).

To end the banner year, women’s golfer Dabeluchukwu Okolo became the first member of Fisk Athletics to be named valedictorian and Breyana Daniels became the first HBCU gymnast to earn a degree.

Jordan started her career working in the Division of Athletics at Tennessee State University, where she held various positions in her over 20 years of service. She was an assistant women’s basketball coach, head women’s basketball coach, head volleyball coach, sports supervisor, Title IX Coordinator for Athletics, and senior women’s administrator.

In 1993-94 and 1994-95, Jordan was a member of the women’s basketball staff that won two OVC Championships and had two NCAA appearances. In 2007 Jordan was awarded the Woman of Achievement Award by the Women in Higher Education in Tennessee (WHET).  She served on the NCAA Women’s Volleyball Rules Committee.

From 2012-2016, she was named to the NCAA Committee on Women’s Athletics in 2018.  Jordan was also recognized by the NCAA Minority Opportunities and Interests Committee (MOIC) as a 2023 Champion of Diversity and Inclusion. 

A native of Nashville, Jordan attended Hillsboro High School, where she lettered in basketball and volleyball.  After high school, she played volleyball at Austin Peay State University. She then transferred to Fisk and played basketball for Dr. Harriett Kimbro-Hamilton. Jordan returned to APSU, played basketball and went on to earn her undergraduate degree in Health and Psychology.  She also earned her Master of Arts in Education from Tennessee State University.

Jordan has two adult children, son Cameron, and daughter Kamri.