Marquita Armstead is in her second year at Nebraska after joining the staff on Feb. 1, 2022. At Nebraska, Armstead has sport supervision for men’s basketball and volleyball. She is a member of the Big Ten Sport Management Council, and has oversight of athletic medicine, sports psychology, the athletic performance lab (NAPL), strength and conditioning, performance nutrition, Title IX and gender equity.
Armstead came to Nebraska from the University of South Florida, where she served in a similar role. Armstead was a member of the South Florida athletics administration from March of 2016 to January of 2022. She originally joined USF as Associate Athletic Director for Compliance, before being elevated to Senior Associate Director of Athletics/Senior Woman Administrator in August of 2017.
In her role with the Bulls, Armstead served as the sport administrator for men’s and women’s basketball, and had previous sport oversight of softball, men’s soccer, women’s tennis and as the secondary sport administrator for football. Armstead also oversaw several USF student-athlete support departments, including academic services, student-athlete enhancement, sports medicine, nutrition, sport psychology, student rights and responsibilities and Title IX.
In addition to her work at USF, Armstead has a strong athletic administration background at four other schools. Before her time at South Florida, Armstead worked at Georgia Tech from 2012 to 2016, where she served as Director of Compliance for her final three years in Atlanta. Prior to Georgia Tech, Armstead was the Director of Compliance at the University of Tennessee Chattanooga for six years. She also served internships in compliance at Mississippi State and Ohio University.
Armstead earned her bachelor’s degree from Mississippi State in 2005 and earned a master’s of sports administration from the school in 2006. She received a Master of Business Administration degree from Tennessee Chattanooga in 2013 and is a 2012 NCAA Leadership Institute graduate.
Armstead is married to Demetric Armstead and the couple has a son, Braylon.