Libby Ladrach has served as associate director of athletics since August 1, 2022, after previously serving as a counselor in The College of Wooster's Longbrake Student Wellness Center from 2019-22. Ladrach, who served as acting director of athletics during the fall 2023 semester, is also the department's Student-Athlete Advisory Committee advisor.

As associate director of athletics, Ladrach serves on the department’s senior leadership team and researches, designs, and implements best practices and comprehensive programming to promote student wellbeing and enhance the student-athlete experience and overall culture of the department. She develops and maintains mutually supportive and collaborative working relationships with key campus partners. Additionally, Ladrach works closely with SAAC.

Ladrach’s already adept to several of her responsibilities within the athletics department. During her time as a counselor on campus, Ladrach collaborated with the department to provide counseling services inside the Scot Center and Armington Physical Education Center (PEC), the main hub of the athletics department. Additionally, she coordinated conversations regarding campus life and mental health to individual varsity teams in collaboration with members of the coaching staff and was a presenter to SAAC during Div. III Week on campus mental health resources, taking care of yourself, and finding balance with sports and life. Ladrach also served on the search committee this summer for Wooster’s men’s lacrosse head coach, and previously served as a lecturer for several courses pertaining to sports and physical education.

Prior to returning to Wooster, Ladrach served as a counselor at Kenyon College for nearly three years. There, Ladrach worked closely with the athletics department to provide counseling services within the department and facilitated presentations by several mental health experts on campus. Her professional counseling career started at Wooster as a counseling intern during the 2015-16 academic year. She previously worked as a volunteer assistant basketball coach at Wooster during the 2014-15 season, while also completing a practicum as a counselor trainee while finishing up graduate studies at Walsh University.

As a basketball standout, Ladrach earned third-team All-Ohio honors as a senior at nearby Orrville High School following her senior year. She played one year at Div. I Robert Morris University before continuing her collegiate career at Capital University. She transitioned into a student coach role following a career-ending back injury and gained professional experience as an assistant to the athletic director while completing undergraduate studies.

Ladrach graduated from Capital in 2013 with a bachelor’s in art therapy and furthered her education with a master’s in clinical mental health counseling at Walsh in 2016. She holds a clinical mental counseling license from the Ohio Counseling Board and is a member of the American Mental Health Counselors Association and the American College Counseling Association.