Join us to meet Maura and learn more about how Yale Athletics is commemorating 50 years of varsity athletics for women.
Maura Grogan ’78 is the chair of the Yale Women’s Athletic Network (YWAN), the group spearheading the 50th celebration of women’s varsity athletics at Yale. Maura graduated from Yale College with a BA in English. During her sophomore year, she competed in the Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria as a member of the US Luge Team. During her junior and senior years, Maura played center on the Yale Women’s Ice Hockey Team, which gained Varsity status in the 1977-78 season.
She retired in 2019 after 40 years of working as an executive in the finance and nonprofit sectors. Her most recent job was running the Nonprofit Loan Fund of Tucson and Southern Arizona a Community Development Financial Institution certified by the US Treasury. From 1998 to 2004 as a consultant to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), Maura managed the creation and implementation of the first-ever financial benchmarking system, still used by every public television station in the US, as well as by CPB to advocate for funding from Congress. Early in her career, Maura spent 11 years in banking, working for First Interstate Bank and Bankers Trust Company in Los Angeles and HomeFed Bank in San Diego. Maura has chaired the boards of the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture in Scottsdale, AZ/Spring Green, WI and the Women’s Foundation of Southern Arizona in Tucson, AZ as well as served on numerous other nonprofit boards for the past several decades.
Maura lives in Tucson, AZ and Bridger, MT.
