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NEW YORK, USA // Benita Fitzgerald Mosley serves as the Head of Community & Impact and President of FundPlay for LeagueApps. In this role, Fitzgerald Mosley helps guide LeagueApps in its commitment to shape a youth sports industry centered by a core belief in the power of equitable sport and a broader societal purpose to make the world a better place for all.

Fitzgerald Mosley, an Olympic Gold Medalist and purpose-led champion in sports and business, is responsible for stewarding LeagueApps partnerships with North American professional sports leagues and their respective youth development initiatives. She also drives the advancement of the NextUp community platform, which was named a finalist in the 2020 Hashtag Sports Awards for “Most Inspiring Engagement During the Sports Pause.”

As President of FundPlay, Fitzgerald Mosley leads this LeagueApps program to support youth sports organizations and foster sports experience opportunities for young people from underserved communities. LeagueApps created FundPlay to achieve its goal of impacting 500,000 kids by the end of 2022 through software grants, training, professional development, partnerships with aligned nonprofits and advocacy.

Fitzgerald Mosley also serves as a Senior Advisor for several firms, including Proteus International and 17 Sport. Named a Notable Women in Sports by ​​Crain’s New York Business​​ and a Game Changer by SportsBusiness Journal, ​F​ itzgerald Mosley also serves on the International Olympic Committee Sport and Active Society Commission, the PLAY Sports Coalition Steering Committee and the US Olympic & Paralympic Museum Board of Directors.

Her illustrious career as a track athlete was capped by winning a gold medal in the 100-meter hurdles in the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, making her the first American woman to accomplish this feat. Fitzgerald Mosley was named “Sportswoman of the Century” by ​The Potomac News,​ and “Top Female Sports Figure of the Century from Virginia” by ​Sports Illustrated.​ She is an inductee into the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame, Virginia High School Hall of Fame and Penn Relays Hall of Fame. She was one of eight U.S. Olympians to carry the Olympic Flag during the Opening Ceremonies of the 1996 Olympics, and was named "Hurdler of the Decade" of the 1980s by ​Track and Field News.

Prior to joining LeagueApps, Fitzgerald Mosley served as the Chief Executive Officer of the Laureus Sport for Good Foundation USA and also previously worked as Chief Operating Officer for the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee and Chief of Sport Performance for USA Track & Field.

Fitzgerald Mosley is a graduate of the University of Tennessee with a B.S. in Industrial Engineering and a charter member of the Tennessee Volunteers Hall of Fame.