Coastal Collegiate Sports Association

Gumbart became the fourth full-time Commissioner of the ASUN Conference in January 2007. He began his service with the conference, then known as the Trans America Athletic Conference (TAAC), in 1991 as its first Assistant Commissioner. He was promoted to Associate Commissioner in 1997, and to Senior Associate Commissioner in 2004.

Among his roles with ASUN, Gumbart has overseen the championships program, the addition of women’s soccer, men’s and women’s indoor and outdoor track & field, men’s and women’s lacrosse, and beach volleyball. He led the development of and remains the president of the Coastal Collegiate Sports Association (CCSA) which sponsors men’s and women’s swimming and diving and beach volleyball. Gumbart also led the development of officiating programs in volleyball, soccer, baseball and softball as well as the growth of the officiating consortium with the SEC which covers men’s and women’s basketball, baseball and softball. 

He directed the ASUN marketing program and all ASUN business administration operations. He coordinated the development of the first ASUN syndicated television package, the first conference-wide digital broadcast network, ASUN.TV, and led the move to become the first collegiate conference with 100% campus-based ESPN production capabilities. Gumbart has managed the ASUN IT systems, developed the first conference website, and directed conference sports scheduling.

Under Gumbart’s leadership, building membership strength has remained a focus. Over the past three years the ASUN has added five new universities, allowing the conference to initiate ASUN football. The University of Central Arkansas, Eastern Kentucky and Jacksonville State joined for the 2021-22 season, with Austin Peay and Queens University of Charlotte coming onboard for 2022-23. All but Queens sponsor football programs, joining Kennesaw State and North Alabama for the ASUN’s inaugural season in the fall of 2022. 

The ASUN inducted its inaugural Hall of Fame class in 2015. In the spring of 2016 the ASUN debuted a new logo and branding campaign, launched through student-athletes on social media. The ASUN has built a very strong digital media presence, including the production of its “Teammates” series which focuses on the challenging issues that our league, our schools and our country must address related to racial equity, justice and prejudice.

Gumbart’s extensive national committee service includes multiple NCAA and CCA appointments.

Current posts include:
NCAA Baseball Umpire Program, Communication Team, Chair (2016-present)
CCA22, Executive Committee, Treasurer (2016-present)
Coastal Collegiate Sports Association, President (2007-present)
NACDA Mentor Program (2018-present)

Other service roles while an ASUN staff member include:
NCAA Division I Council (2019 - 2021)
NCAA Competition Oversight Committee (2019 - 2021)
NCAA Officiating Steering Committee (2020)
CollegeInsider.com Postseason Invitation Tournament (CIT), Selection Committee (2017-2020)
NCAA Beach Volleyball Committee (2015-2019)
Collegiate Commissioners Association (CCA),President (2015-17)
Collegiate Commissioners Association (CCA), Executive Vice President (2013-15)
Coastal Collegiate Swimming Association, Executive Director (2007-2015)
Women’s College Basketball Officiating LLC, Board of Managers (2010-2013)
NCAA Playing Rules Oversight Panel (PROP) (2009-13), Chair (2011-13)
Collegiate Commissioner Association, DI Vice President (2008-09)
NCAA Management Council (2003-07)
Legislative Review Subcommittee
Membership Subcommittee
NCAA Championships and Competition Cabinet (1997-2002)
Certified Events Subcommittee
Administrative Committee
Nominating Subcommittee (chair)

The ASUN was one of the four founding conferences of the Coastal Collegiate Swimming Association, now the Coastal Collegiate Sports Association. Gumbart was instrumental in the organization of the league in 2007, and its 2015 expansion to sponsor Beach Volleyball. He served as its Executive Director during the league’s first eight years and still serves as the CCSA President, a role he has held since the conference’s formation.

Prior to joining the ASUN staff he worked at Stetson University in DeLand, Florida, from 1985-1991. He served as a graduate assistant in the sports information office his first two years while earning his master’s degree. He served as full-time assistant SID in 1987-88 and was promoted to director in 1988. Gumbart taught undergraduate marketing and consumer behavior courses as an adjunct professor in Stetson’s Business School. He served two seasons as information director for the New South Women's Athletic Conference, which later merged with the ASUN (then TAAC) in 1991.

He earned his bachelor’s degree in Economics & Business at Lafayette College (1984), and earned a Master of Business Administration degree from Stetson University (1987). He is an Accredited Public Relations Professional, earned from the Florida Public Relations Association (1991) and he completed the Strategic Negotiation Skills training program at the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution at the Pepperdine School of Law (2014).

Gumbart and his wife Mary Beth were married in 1993, and they have a daughter, Taylor, born in 2005.