UW-Platteville Athletic Director and Assistant Chancellor Dies

UW-Platteville Athletic Director and Assistant Chancellor Dr. Kristina Navarro-Krupka passed away suddenly over the weekend. UW-Platteville did not provide immediate details about Navarro-Krupka’s death, but a statement from UW-Platteville Chancellor Dr. Tammy K. Evetovich said Navarro-Krupka passed away unexpectedly during pregnancy, saying her death filled the university and community with “both shock and sadness.” Navarro-Krupka was in her fourth year as director of athletics and assistant chancellor at UW-Platteville and also taught five courses at the university while also coordinating the graduate program in sport administration. Before coming to Platteville, she was the senior associate athletic director for leadership development and strategic partnerships at Rutgers University in New Jersey. She also worked in athletic departments at UW-Madison, the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, the University of Oklahoma and UW-Whitewater. Navarro-Krupka grew up in Madison before graduating from UW-La Crosse in 2006. She earned her masters in sport administration at UNC-Chapel Hill in 2009 before earning her Ph.D. in educational leadership and policy analysis from UW-Madison in 2012.