.  Kenny Mossman Position: Sr. Associate A.D./Communications

Kenny Mossman joined the OU staff in August of 2001 as director of media relations. In August of 2001, he was promoted to assistant athletics director and was promoted again to his current role as associate director for communications. Previously, he worked at Illinois State and Kansas State.

At OU, he oversees all communications aspects of the Athletics Department including media relations, publications, graphic design, internet services and SoonerVision. With his primary sport responsibility in football, he and his staff have promoted winners of the Heisman, Butkus, Lombardi, Nagurski and Thorpe Awards.

He came to Norman after serving 10 years as assistant athletics director/media relations at Illinois State. He built ISU's radio network into the largest in its history and helped negotiate the most extensive local television package aat the school. He also negotiated radio contracts that doubled the number of ISU women's basketball games on radio and added women's volleyball to the sports receiving live radio coverage.

While SID at Kansas State, the Wildcat visit was twice voted the top stop on the Big Eight Skywriter's Tour (in 1989 and 1990). He hosted the Jack Hartman Television Show in 1986 and was a color commentator on the Wildcat Basketball Network from 1984-91.

Mossman began his career as the sports editor at the Pratt, Kan., Daily Tribune, winning two Kansas Press Association awards while at the newspaper.

A graduate and Hall of Fame Inductee of Southwestern College in Winfield, Kan., Mossman lettered in basketball from 1978-81. He earned his bachelor's degree in health, physical education and recreation in 1981 and completed a master's degree in mass communications at Kansas State in 1989.

Mossman also teaches a sports public relations course at OU.