Former Mizzou and NBA player now chairman of University of Missouri Board of Curators

Retired NBA player Jon Sundvold, once a star of Mizzou basketball, on Friday was selected as the new chair of the University of Missouri Board of Curators.

Sundvold, who in the 1980s played for the Seattle SuperSonics and later for the San Antonio Spurs and the Miami Heat, was appointed to the board of curators in 2017 by then-Gov. Eric Greitens.

“The best teams understand their strengths and weaknesses, both collectively and individually,” he said Friday. “The strengths that we have across the board make us pretty ‘deep.’ If there is a storm now and then, this group can handle it.”

After playing ball for Mizzou and receiving a bachelor’s degree in finance there in 1983, Sunvold went on to play nine years in the NBA. He later returned to Columbia and started a financial services firm, where he currently is president. He also works as a color analyst for ESPN, CBS Sports and the Tiger Sports Network

Also on Friday, curators elected Julia Brncic, who is general counsel for a pharmaceutical claims company, as their vice chair. Brncic was also appointed to the board in 2017.

She graduated from Purdue University in 1996 and went on to get a law degree in 2000 and a master’s in business administration in 2013 from Washington University in St. Louis.

Before taking her current position handling litigation for Express Scripts Holding Co., Brncic was a member of the law firm Polsinelli P.C.

This story was originally published November 16, 2018 at 2:51 PM with the headline "Former Mizzou and NBA player now chairman of University of Missouri Board of Curators."