Gannon University Athletics

Meghan Morphy was promoted to Director of Athletics effective June 20, 2025. Prior to moving up to Director of Athletics Morphy served as the Associate Director of Athletics for Budget and Planning in addition to serving as the SWA since July 2022.

She completed her 13th season as a member of the Gannon Athletic Department staff in 2025-26 and her first year in charge of the program resulted in historical results. The men’s basketball team registered the school’s first-ever national championship as the Golden Knights defeated Lander in the NCAA Division II National Championship.

It wasn’t just the hoops program that enjoyed great success. Gannon once again ranked among the top Division II programs in the country. The Golden Knights finished tied for 20th in the final Learfield Directors' Cup standings, the second-highest finish ever by Gannon and tied for the highest showing by a PSAC institution.

In addition Gannon placed second in the final PSAC Dixon Trophy standings. Over the last five years Gannon has captured the award presented to the top overall program in the conference three times along with second last year and in 2023-24.

A total of nine programs qualified for their respective NCAA playoffs, with the men’s soccer and volleyball teams advancing to the Elite Eight and the women’s basketball squad reaching the Sweet 16.

The men’s basketball team wasn’t Gannon’s only national champion. Dorian Crosby brought home the heavyweight championship at the Men’s Wrestling National Championships. He became Gannon’s second individual national champion in wrestling.

The success extended to the classroom, where virtually every Gannon program ranked among the best in their respective sports. Four Gannon teams earned 205-26 PSAC Top Team GPA Awards – women’s cross country, men’s golf, and men’s and women’s swimming. A total of 300 Golden Knight student-athletes were accorded 2025-26 PSAC Scholar-Athlete honors, leading the conference with 69 percent of student-athletes earning Scholar-Athlete recognition.
 
Morphy spent her first six years, from 2013-19, as the head coach of the competitive cheer and dance program. She built the program from a single all-girl team with 13 student-athletes to one with four teams — all-girl, coed, game day and dance — and nearly 80 student-athletes. Those teams qualified for the NCA & NDA Collegiate Cheer and Dance Championships 12 out of a possible 12 times, reaching the finals in 11 of those instances.

The all-girl team set a new program standard with a third-place finish at Nationals in 2019, and game day debuted with a third-place finish in its first season of competition. Coed placed fifth, marking its third top-five finish in four seasons, and dance debuted with an eighth-place finish
 
She moved into an administrative role in 2019-20 serving in the newly-created position of Coordinator of Operations. She assisted with the department’s business operations, as well as compliance and student-athlete development efforts while holding sport administrator duties for the acrobatics and tumbling and competitive cheer and dance teams.
 
Morphy was promoted to Assistant Director of Athletics for Budget and Planning and the department’s Senior Woman Administrator in July 2020. Her duties included overseeing all financial reports, department budgets, team travel and ticket sales.
 
In 2021-22 she added sport oversight of men’s and women’s water polo programs. Morphy serves on several committees. She has been on the NCATA Awards Committee since 2021, along with the Athletics Gender Equity working group that same year.

In 2020 she was appointed to the Middle States Committee and since 2019 has been a Public Speaking Adjunct in the School of Communication & the Arts.
 
Morphy was selected to attend the Women Leaders Institute for Advancement later in July 2024 and in the fall served as a Gannon First-Year Experience Facilitator.
 
A native of Syracuse, N.Y., Morphy previously served as head competitive cheer coach at Widener from 2011-13. She led the Pride to its first-ever competition title with a first-place finish in its division at the Reach the Beach National Championship in 2013, and the team was named grand champions of the college division at the event. She also led Widener to its first major national appearance during her first season, taking the Pride to the 2012 Cheersport National Championships.
 
Morphy earned her bachelor's degree in Communications from Drexel in 2010, then completed work on her master's degree in Higher Education in 2012. While at Drexel, she worked as an assistant at the ACHIEVE Center, helping student-athletes navigate their academic responsibilities and track their progress. In addition, she served as an assistant for development, maintaining records with current and potential donors.

Morphy, formerly Meghan Foran, was married during the summer of 2024 to Sean Morphy, who serves as the Media Center Coordinator at Gannon and is an adjunct professor in the Communication and Arts Department. He is 2004 graduate of Gannon and served as the head coach of the men's and women's water polo team after previously playing for the Golden Knights. They have two sons, Hewson and Leo.