Donna (Mulhern) Woodruff was named Associate Director of Athletics for Administration and Student-Athlete Development/Senior Woman Administrator at Stony Brook in April of 2004. On July 20, 2005, she was promoted to Senior Associate Director of Athletics/SWA.

Woodruff is a member of the Stony Brook Athletics senior management team and oversees several administrative units and staff including Compliance and Eligibility, Academic Advising and Student-Athlete Services, while also supervising women's basketball, women's lacrosse, women's soccer, softball, and men's and women's swimming.

In 2004-05, Stony Brook student-athletes had 157 student-athletes named to the America East honor roll and compiled an overall grade-point average of 2.98, both department bests since Stony Brook joined the America East in 2001.

Since her arrival at Stony Brook, she has also been named to the NCAA Certification Steering Committee, the Scholarship Coordinating Council, the Student Life Advisory Committee, the Undergraduate Recognition Committee, the President's Five Year Plan Task Force on Multicampus Development and most recently to the University Safety Council. Woodruff has also been trained to serve as a Diversity Fellow as a part of the President's initiative to address the goal of fostering and promoting positive cross cultural activities for the Stony Brook community.

Woodruff arrived at Stony Brook after serving for the last seven years as an athletic administrator at both Villanova and the University of Pennsylvania. The former Director of Administrative Services for Athletics at Villanova University, Woodruff represented Villanova's 24 teams on residence life, dining services and financial aid issues while coordinating all athletic camp operations. She was also responsible for the oversight of program operations for men's ice hockey, men's crew, men's volleyball, men's water polo and the athletic department equipment room. As a member of the compliance office staff, she was connected to all day-to-day operations and in charge of specific programs such as the NCAA Special Assistance Fund, the Student-Athlete Opportunity Fund and drug testing. During her tenure at Villanova, she spearheaded the Athletic Department Internship Program that supported 18 full-time interns.

Woodruff was also a member of the Villanova University Community Committee and leader of the Villanova Quality Enhancement team. She served on VU's NCAA Certification Steering Committee, the ECAC Field Hockey Selection Committee and as a representative at the first round of the 2002 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Tournament.

Prior to Villanova, Woodruff spent four years as an athletic administrator at the University of Pennsylvania. At Penn, she served as the contest scheduler for all 34 intercollegiate sports while creating and monitoring contest contracts for each sport. In addition, she collaborated on the coaches' yearly budget process and acted as the department's liaison between facilities and operations personnel, the athletic communications office and the associate athletic directors.

Woodruff began her career as an assistant field hockey coach at Penn in August of 1991. She stayed solely in that position for five years before assuming the dual role of assistant field hockey coach and athletic administrator. Along with her duties at Penn, from 1993-1996 she was a Regional Administrative Director for the U.S. Field Hockey Association where she was directly responsible for overseeing the USFHA Olympic Development Field Hockey program in Pennsylvania, the largest of 11 regions throughout the nation. She managed and organized over 650 athletes, 80 coaches, 15 athletic trainers and 15 site directors for participation in six months of training sessions following a curriculum developed by the United States National Coaching Staff.

Woodruff earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in English in 1990 from the University of Pennsylvania where she earned All-American status as a field hockey player. She helped lead her team to the Final Four of the 1988 NCAA Championship and remains the only player in school history to be named to the NCAA All-Tournament team. She also was an All-Ivy and Regional All-America pick in lacrosse. She later went on to receive her Master of Science degree in education in 2000 also from the University of Pennsylvania.