Mark Maturi

Mark Maturi is in his third year as the assistant director of athletic development at the University of South Dakota in 2011-12. He was hired for the position in January 2009.

Maturi, a 2000 graduate of the University of Wisconsin, brings experience in both fundraising and intercollegiate athletics to the position at USD. He has worked as an associate for GR Seppala & Associates in Wayzata, Minn., since 2007. His duties included leadership of the sports marketing division and also being involved in all aspects of fundraising for non-profits, youth development, the arts and community projects. He also worked for Bolder Options in Minneapolis, Minn. in 2007. Bolder Options is a Minneapolis-based early intervention youth mentoring program.

From 2005-06, Maturi was the Beaver Pride Coordinator for Bemidji State University in Bemidji, Minn., where he led the fundraising efforts for the university’s athletic program. From 2001-03, he worked in the Red and White Club at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. In 2001, he was an intern for the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics in Cleveland, Ohio.

Maturi earned a bachelor’s degree in history at the University of Wisconsin in 2000.