Hall of Fame
A former student-athlete, Robinson was a four-year letterman in basketball and is the single-season and career record-holder in assists after playing point guard for Mississippi Valley State University. He was also named MVSU Athlete of the Year in 2002, receiving the President’s Scholar Award that same year. Robinson was inducted into the MVSU Athletics Hall of Fame in 2011.
In his current role as Vice President & Director of Athletics at Jackson State Robinson’s leadership has helped JSU Athletics win the C.D. Henry Award for the best all-around men’s sports program in the SWAC in 2022-23 and then again in 2024-25.
In May 2024, he was a recipient of the Roscoe Nance Lifetime Achievement Award by the SWAC Alumni Association. He also was named the 2024 YG&E Leader of the Year at Young, Gifted, and Empowered Awards show in April. Robinson was named a 50 under 50 recipient Mississippi’s Top Urban Elite Professionals in January 2025.
He is a seven-time National Athletics Director of the Year – (2024) HBCU Sports AD of the Year, (2024) Inside the HBCU Lab VP/AD of the Year, (2024) HBCU Legends AD of the Year; (2024) Light On College Sports HBCU AD of the Year; (2023) Black Student-Athlete Summit AD of The Year; and a 2022 and 2024 recipient of the Cushman & Wakefield AD of the Year awarded by the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA).
Robinson currently serves as chair of the SWAC’s Athletics Directors Committee, is a past president of the NCAA Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) Athletics Directors Association, and was the first African-American to hold the position from 2020 to 2021.