﻿{"id":621843,"date":"2025-09-02T21:58:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T04:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=621843"},"modified":"2025-09-02T21:58:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T04:58:12","slug":"usa-swimming-cfo-eric-skufca-departs-for-new-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/usa-swimming-cfo-eric-skufca-departs-for-new-role\/","title":{"rendered":"USA Swimming CFO Eric Skufca Departs for New Role"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>USA Swimming CFO Eric Skufca Departs for New Role<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Eric Skufca,<\/strong> the chief financial officer of USA Swimming, has left to take the same position at a non-profit organization in Arizona.<\/p>\n<p>Skufca posted to LinkedIn last week that he is starting his new job with Solari Crisis and Human Services Inc., <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/solari-inc-arizona\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an organization based in<\/a> Tempe, Arizona, that provides individual and family services. He ends his time with USA Swimming after nearly seven years, having <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/usa-swimming-announces-executive-team-appointments-and-promotions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">joined the organization in Dec. 2018<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Skufca has previously worked with former USA Swimming CEO <strong>Tim Hinchey<\/strong> at Kroenke Sports and Entertainment (KSE) based in Denver. Hinchey was the chief marketing officer than team president of the Colorado Rapids MLS club for nearly six years from 2011-17. Skufca worked for Kroenke from 2013-18 as an audit manager and then for two years as the controller before shifting to Colorado Springs to work for USA Swimming.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/the-usa-swimming-war-of-words-how-we-got-here\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The USA Swimming War of Words: How We Got Here<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>SKE\u2019s holdings include the Rapids, Denver Nuggets, Colorado Avalanche, Los Angeles Rams, British soccer giants Arsenal and a real estate portfolio that includes many of those teams\u2019 venues and more. (KSE owns SoFi Stadium, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/los-angeles-2028-olympics-to-hold-swimming-inside-sofi-stadium-swimming-moved-to-second-week-of-games\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">which will host Olympic swimming at the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Skufca\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usaswimming.org\/news\/2019\/06\/13\/eric-skufca-chief-financial-officer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">role at USA Swimming<\/a> included departments for Accounting, Financial Planning &amp; Analysis, Financial Compliance, Treasury, Purchasing, and Travel. He is a certified public accountant who was a baseball player and team captain at the University of Northern Colorado and worked previously at the accounting firm Deloitte. He is a native of Littleton, Colorado.<\/p>\n<p>USA Swimming remains without a CEO since Hinchey stepped down in August of 2024. The departure of Skufca adds another vacancy in the c-suite for USA Swimming\u2019s board to try to fill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USA Swimming CFO Eric Skufca Departs for New Role Eric Skufca, the chief financial officer of USA Swimming, has left to take the same position at a non-profit organization in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8367,"featured_media":209794,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[73070,61840,2690],"class_list":["post-621843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-usa","tag-eric-skufca","tag-tim-hinchey","tag-usa-swimming"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.3 (Yoast SEO v24.3) - 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