Lauren Best-Hovermale - Associate Athletic Director of Compliance - Staff Directory

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Lauren Best-Hovermale

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Associate Athletic Director of Compliance
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Lauren Best-Hovermale was named Associate Athletic Director of Compliance at the University of Toledo in April of 2026.

Best-Hovermale, a UToledo College of Law graduate, joins the Rockets following five years of service in the athletics compliance office at Bowling Green State University. Best-Hovermale also served as an athletics compliance extern at Toledo in 2020-21.

Best-Hovermale joined the Bowling Green compliance office in May 2021 as an intern, was promoted to assistant director in November 2021 and was again promoted to director of compliance in October of 2024.

Best-Hovermale, a licensed attorney in the state of Ohio, is a 2021 cum laude graduate of University of Toledo College of Law, where she was on the Dean’s List and was a full-tuition merit scholarship recipient.

A three-year letterwinner in softball at Siena Heights University, Best-Hovermale graduated in three years with a bachelor of arts in law and politics in May 2018, followed by a bachelor of business administration in sport management in August 2018. She later graduated with a 4.0 GPA from Siena Heights in December 2019 with a master of business administration.

A pitcher while at Siena Heights, Best was on the Dean’s List, earned the 2018 NAIA Champions of Character Award, was a two-time NFCA All-America Scholar Athlete and a Daktronics NAIA Scholar Athlete.

Best-Hovermale resides in Sylvania with her husband, Jon, and their son, JJ.