Jessica Van Meter-Bergholz has served at Rowan since 2010, and previously held the titles of Athletics Business Manager and Senior Assistant Athletic Director for Finance and Business Operations, before being elevated to Senior Associate Athletic Director for Internal Operations in September 2026.
In this role as Senior Associate Athletic Directo she will provide executive oversight of the department’s financial, business, and internal operations. Bergholz will lead long-range financial planning and budget strategy while also collaborating to identify and develop new revenue opportunities to increase resources for the Profs' programs and student-athletes.
She joined the Rowan staff in 2010 when she received an NCAA Business Manager grant, becoming the first to hold the Athletics Business Manager position at Rowan. During her 13 years at Rowan, she has helped oversee the doubling of the department's operating budget while also implementing 16 program-specific budgets in the 2022 fiscal year.
A former student-athlete, the native of Stow Creek Township, NJ, in Cumberland County, earned her bachelor of science degree in hospitality and tourism management from Fairleigh Dickinson University in Madison, NJ, in 2008. She was a four-year member of the Devils' field hockey team, while also playing softball as a freshman.
Upon graduation, she worked in the private sector as a Group Sales and Wedding Coordinator and was part of the first class in the master's degree program of sports administration at FDU, receiving her degree in 2010.
Van Meter-Bergholz is currently an adjunct professor in Rowan's College of Business, and was the first to teach the Intro to Sports Management class that started in 2020.
She is the co-owner of Van Meter's Christmas Tree Farm in her native Bridgeton, NJ, helping to manage the 200-acre farm and overseeing the operating expenses since 2009.
She also serves on the Alloway Township School Board of Education and volunteers as a T-Ball coach for the town’s athletic league.
Van Meter-Bergholz lives in Alloway Township, NJ, where she and her husband Daniel built their dream home. They have two sons, Sawyer and Eli, along with two dogs, Chase and Charlie.
