Joseph Setting has led the Duquesne Athletics business office since 2017. Serving in the position of Senior Associate Athletic Director/Chief Athletics Financial Officer since 2021, he also held prior titles of Associate Athletic Director for Business (2018-2021) and Assistant Athletic Director for Business (2017-2018). He is responsible for providing direct oversight and coordination of all business, internal operation and facility matters.
Setting serves as the athletic department liaison to the University’s planning/budget, controller, procurement, human resources, facilities management, auxiliary services and information technology offices. As sports program administrator, Setting oversees the women’s rowing, women’s lacrosse, women’s golf and acrobatics & tumbling programs.
Before moving into athletics administration, Setting was the head coach for women’s rowing at Duquesne from 2006-2017. During his tenue leading the program, the Dukes achieved a program best third place finish at the Atlantic 10 Rowing Championship in his first season. Prior to that accomplishment, the prior program best finish was seventh. In his eleven years at the helm of the women’s rowing program, Setting guided the Dukes to 17 total conference medals, including seven first place finishes.
In 2016, the Varsity 8 captured its first ever program medal placement at the conference championship (third) and successfully defended the placement the following year in 2017. Over the course of Setting’s leadership, the Dukes captured 184 medal placements (top three finishes), marking the most successful stretch of results in team history.
No stranger to the Bluff, Setting arrived to Duquesne in 1998 as an undergraduate student as a double major in information technology and communication studies, graduating in December of 2001 with a B.S and a B.A. As an undergraduate, he joined the men’s rowing team as a walk-on and quickly found a passion for the sport. He received his master’s degree in sports leadership from Duquesne in 2009.
A native of Newtown, Pa., Setting resides in Pittsburgh with his wife, Jennifer and daughter, Alana.
