Saint Louis Billikens Athletics

Matthew Jakobsze, J.D., joined the Saint Louis University staff as Assistant Director of Athletics for Compliance & NIL in January 2024.

At SLU, Jakobsze leads the Billikens' compliance office and directs the Name, Image and Likeness (NIL) initiatives. He also serves on the Billikens' senior administrative staff.

Jakobsze comes to SLU with more than a decade of experience in college athletics. Most recently, he served as the Associate Athletics Director for Compliance at the University of Missouri Columbia since 2019, where he managed the day-to-day compliance operations and was a member of the department’s senior staff. At Mizzou, Jakobsze served as the sport administrator for the women’s gymnastics and women’s soccer programs, overseeing a gymnastics program that wrapped up the 2022 season with a fifth-place finish at the NCAA Championship, the highest in program history. Additionally, Jakobsze was heavily involved in the world of NIL – writing the department’s NIL policy, providing student-athlete, donor, and Collective education, and consulting on the state of Missouri’s NIL legislation. 
 
From 2017-21, Jakobsze served on the Board of Directors for the National Association for Athletics Compliance (NAAC), the industry’s leading professional development organization, where he served as the chair of the Marketing and Strategic Communications Committee, and later the Convention Committee. 
 
Previously, Jakobsze served as an Associate Athletics Director of Compliance at Eastern Michigan University (2013-19), an Assistant Athletics Director for Compliance at the University of Nebraska Omaha (2012-13), and as a Compliance Coordinator and law extern at Northern Illinois University (2009-12).
 
Jakobsze earned a B.A. magna cum laude in Psychology from Dominican University (River Forest, Ill.), where he was a men’s soccer student-athlete and team captain. He graduated with a Juris Doctor cum laude from Northern Illinois University’s College of Law. He and his wife, Courtney Oden Jakobsze, together raise two children, Harper and Calvin.