MADISON, Wis. – Services have been scheduled Wednesday for Douglas Beard, a native New Englander who became one of the senior administrators of the University of Wisconsin-Madison athletic department.
Beard, 46, died at his Stoughton home Friday night, according to the death notice from Olson-Holzhuter-Cress Funeral and Cremation Service. No cause was given.
Beard served as senior associate athletic director at UW-Madison, overseeing operations of the university’s 23 sports programs, and had been on the staff since 2001. Before that, he was with the UW-Stout from 1987-89 and UW-Milwaukee from 1989-2001.