Sports Information Director
5th Year

He is also responsible for overseeing all publications and online efforts within the department, including www.parkathletics.com, which was named the best in-house NAIA website in 2009-10 and placed third in 2010-11, and serves as the official online home for Pirate athletics. Additionally, Wilson supervises game-day staff at all home events as well as other administrative duties within the Department of Athletics. He also serves as Park University’s play-by-play voice when the Pirates are on the road. In 2011-12, he will oversee an enhanced social media experience for Park University fans, as well as a renewed commitment to quality online video broadcasting.

The 2011-12 season will also bring on a new role, when Wilson splits duties as American Midwest Conference Sports Information Director with Columbia College Associate Director of Athletics Cindy Fotti. Fotti and Wilson will coordinate all promotional aspects for the conference, including weekly and postseason awards, preseason polls, social media efforts and the conference’s online home, www.amcsportsonline.com.

An active CoSIDA and NAIA-SIDA member, Wilson is involved in several national committees, and in 2011 he was named to an at-large position on the NAIA-SIDA Board of Directors. He is also involved in publications committees, serving as a contest coordinator of the NAIA-SIDA Walt McAlexander Baseball Brochure Contest as well as a judge in various CoSIDA competitions. In 2010-11, he produced a pair of top-billing media guides in NAIA-SIDA publications contests, winning the Walt McAlexander Baseball Brochure Contest and the NAIA-SIDA single-sport brochure contest for his women’s golf media guide. In all, 2010-11 produced five top 10 finishes in publications contests, for Wilson, bringing his career total to 13 top 10 NAIA-SIDA finishes.

A 2004 graduate of Kansas State University, Wilson began his career in sports information as a Graduate Assistant at Kansas Wesleyan University during the 2004-05 school year, assisting with the Coyote football, men’s basketball, baseball and women’s basketball programs. In 2005, he joined the athletic media relations staff at Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas, where he was the primary contact for women’s volleyball, women’s basketball and baseball, while also assisting with publicity efforts in the Bobcat football program.

While at Texas State, Wilson also provided basketball and baseball play-by-play on KTSW-FM. Away from San Marcos, Wilson assisted on the game-day staffs of the 2005 United States Basketball League Championship, the 2006 NCAA Women’s Basketball Regional in San Antonio and the 2006 NCAA Baseball Regional in Austin, Texas. During the 2005 football season, he also assisted the game-day efforts of the New Orleans Saints, who were relocated to San Antonio by Hurricane Katrina.

Prior to his work in sports information, Wilson was a play-by-play voice and account manager for KSAL-AM in Salina, Kan., as well as a contributing writer and assistant editor for Rivals.com College Baseball. He received top honors in the student play-by-play category by the Kansas Association of Broadcasters in 2003. Wilson and his wife, Sarah, reside in Roeland Park, Kan.