University of Northern Iowa Athletics
Staff Directory
- Title:
- Senior Associate Athletic Director for Development & NIL
- Email:
- Phone:
- (319) 273-7817
John Mosbach joined the UNI Athletics staff in January 2025 as Senior Associate Athletic Director for Development and NIL.
In this role, Mosbach assists in the planning, implementation and coordination of the department’s fundraising programs and major gifts in consultation with the Director of Athletics, as well as the UNI Foundation and university advancement.
He is also in charge of the preparation and presentation of major gift proposals to current and prospective donors, and maintain contacts with individuals and businesses nationwide for increases in current support or new major gift support to address athletic program needs.
Mosbach, a Whittemore, Iowa native and 2004 graduate of nearby Wartburg College, has spent nearly two decades in various roles in collegiate athletic leadership and administration. He joins the Panthers after a ten-year run at the University of Arizona in Tucson, where he has served as Senior Associate Athletic Director for Student-Athlete Experience and Excellence.
In his most recent role, Mosbach was responsible for assessing the overall academic and student-athlete development programs’ effectiveness and provided guidance to matters of budgeting, human resources and strategic planning for Wildcat students. A member of the Intercollegiate Athletics (ICA) Leadership Team, he was a member of Arizona’s NIL working group that created “Arizona Edge,” which served as an educational and information platform for NIL. He also managed the department’s “5980 Academic Fund,” which provided student-athletes additional education related benefits totaling $3 million.
Mosbach also assisted the University of Arizona’s development office and the U of A Foundation in securing major gifts, including a $5.95 million gift for the athletic department that included collaborations with two other units on campus as part of a large, comprehensive $14 million gift to the university. He also served as the secondary sport admin for Wildcat baseball and soccer, having previously overseen directly the women’s tennis and both men’s and women’s swimming and diving programs.
Prior to his most recent position, Mosbach spent six years as Arizona’s Associate Athletic Director for Academics within the athletic department’s comprehensive student service program, Commitment to an Athlete’s Total Success (C.A.T.S.). Mosbach managed a team of 15 staff members including academic counselors, learning specialists and administrative associates and technology coordinators in helping improve Arizona student-athletes' academic success by way of improved cumulative grade-point averages (GPA), graduation success rates (GSR), academic progress rates (APR) federal graduation rate and other NCAA and institutional data and standards of evaluation.
Prior to his decade in Tucson, Mosbach spent eight years at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles in its academic services office, starting as an academic counselor in 2006, before rising to assistant director within two years and becoming Assistant Athletic Director for Student-Athlete Academic Services in 2011. In his time at USC, he helped lead the academic advising team for Trojan student-athletes in their academic endeavors, coordinated summer orientation and summer bridge programs for athletes and helped consulate with the university’s Director of Student Services to help guide students through financial aid, housing and meal plans.
After graduating from Wartburg in 2004 as a member of the Knights’ football team with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Administration with an emphasis in sport management, Mosbach spent two years as a graduate assistant in academic advising at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, graduating with his Master of Science degree in Sport Management in 2006.
Mosbach is married to his wife, Godfrey, with two children, Johnna and Mason.
