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CORVALLIS, Ore. - Oregon State University President Ed Ray Wednesday named Marianne Vydra as interim OSU athletics director while the university completes a national search to select a new intercollegiate athletics director.

Todd Stansbury, Oregon State's current athletics director and vice president, announced last week he will leave Oregon State to serve as Georgia Tech's athletics director. Ray said Vydra and Stansbury will work together to provide for a "seamless leadership transition" to occur on Nov. 4.

Vydra served as interim director of Oregon State athletics in the summer of 2015, presently serves as deputy director of OSU athletics for administration and is the department's senior woman administrator. In February 2015, CollegeAD.com named her one of the top 10 senior woman administrators in the NCAA.

"I thank President Ray for the opportunity to once again serve in this role," Vydra said. "I also want to thank Todd Stansbury for assembling the best team in the nation. He brought some real stars in athletics administration to Oregon State and he allowed the stars already here to really shine. We will continue full steam ahead by executing our shared vision for the athletics department, the university and Beaver Nation."

Vydra serves on numerous OSU, Pac-12 Conference and national governance committees. She is the chairperson for the NCAA Women's Soccer and Softball committees; a member of the NCAA Women's Gymnastics Committee; and a member of Oregon State's President's Commission on the Status of Women.

Vydra previously served as vice president of the executive board of the Pac-12 and has been a member of several other conference committees. These include the long-range planning committee; student-athlete advisory committee; diversity initiative committee; women's basketball tournament committee; and the league's television committee. 

She came to OSU in 1992 after working as an academic counselor at the University of Maine.