Dennis A. Young
Associate Athletics Director for Major Gifts
252-737-4540
youngd@ecu.edu

After serving as Executive Director of the East Carolina Educational Foundation (Pirate Club) since 1991, Dennis Young was promoted to Associate Athletics Director for Major Gifts in March, 2006, where he will be responsible for the planning and execution of all major fund-raising efforts to meet the department’s future capital and endowment needs. 

Under Young’s leadership, the Pirate Club raised more than $35 million in capital gifts to fund the expansion of Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium, build the Murphy Center and construct the state-of-the-art Clark-LeClair Baseball Stadium. During his 15 years as Executive Director, the Pirate Club annual fund campaigns have also experienced a significant rise from $500,000 to nearly $4million for athletic scholarships. 

A native of Winston-Salem, N.C., Young returned to Greenville after earning his undergraduate degree in accounting from ECU in 1969. Young also played football for the late Clarence Stasavich during his college career and lettered in 1966 and 1967. 

Young and his wife, Ellen, are the parent of two children, Chip, of Virginia Beach, VA., and Allison Baise, of Greensboro, N.C., who has made Dennis and Ellen the proud grandparents of Mallory and Tanner.