Hofstra University Athletics

Rachel Peel-Macandrew serves as the senior associate director of athletics for student-athlete success. She has worked at Hofstra since 2003, first serving as an assistant dean before being promoted to an associate dean in 2007.

Peel-Macandrew supervises and directs the student-athlete advisement program, helping to develop a comprehensive advisement center for all student-athletes while ensuring compliance with the NCAA. She also coordinates registration efforts and develops graduation plans.

She serves as a liaison to the Office of the Provost to resolve academic questions and monitors the academic progress of student-athletes while paying special attention to at-risk students. In her role, she submits NCAA academic performance data, including APR and graduation success rates, to the compliance office.
 
This past October Peel-Macandrew was appointed to the NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship Region 1 Selection Committee. In her role on the five-member committee, Peel-MacAndrew will take part in selecting regional finalists and forwarding their applications to the NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship Committee for its review.

Before coming to Hofstra, Peel-Macandrew was an associate vice president for Credit Suisse First Boston Corp from 1999 to 2003. In that role, which featured time in New York City and Melbourne, Australia, she managed a team that was responsible for all equity and debt. Her staff traded and stabilized companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ.

Peel-Macandrew started her full-time financial career as an analyst for Salomon Smith Barney in London, working in equity capital markets from 1995 to 1999. She coordinated internal and external agency systems and worked on multi-departmental initiatives that encompassed the operations, financial and technology departments.

Peel-Macandrew earned her undergraduate degree in social policy and economics from Leeds University in Yorkshire, England, graduating with honors in 1993. She also holds two master’s degrees from Hofstra, earning one in physical education in 2005 and another in educational leadership and policy studies in 2012.