Wallace Renfro, vice president and senior advisor to the president of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) presented the keynote address, "Honorable Competition in Collegiate Athletics,” at Washington and Lee University's eighth annual Institute for Honor on Friday, Jan. 23, in Lee Chapel.

The program this year for the Institute for Honor was "Sports in America: Playing Fair."

Renfro has worked more than four decades in the communications and public relations field, including more than 35 years at the NCAA. He has served as a spokesperson for the NCAA in every major-market newspaper in the country. His op-eds and columns have been published in USA Today, New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times and Atlanta Journal-Constitution and a number of other publications.

In his capacity as vice president and senior advisor, Renfro has written hundreds of speeches, position papers and Congressional testimonies; has testified before Congress on issues in college sports; and provides advice and counsel on a broad range of issues in intercollegiate athletics.

Renfro worked in university relations before joining the NCAA in 1972. He is the 2002 recipient of College Sports Information Directors of America's Lifetime Achievement Award.

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