Chris Smith Email & Phone Number

Dallas, Texas, United States

- Primary contact for Football and Men's Swimming and Diving. - Handled all press releases, game notes and media requests for both Football and Men's Swimming and Diving. - Promoted both teams to the media after both captured conference championships in 2023. - Helped with transition on media and social fronts of both programs to the Atlantic Coast Conference beginning in 2024.

Denver, Colorado, United States

- Primary contact for Men’s Basketball (2016-23), Women’s Volleyball (2021-23), Men’s & Women’s Golf (2015-23).- Had primary oversight of social media platforms for Men’s Basketball, Volleyball, Women’s Basketball, Men’s Golf, Women’s Golf, Men’s & Women’s Swimming and Diving during my time at Denver. - Served as secondary contact for Men’s Ice Hockey during National Championship run in the Frozen Four in 2022 in Boston.- Worked as Media Operations for the 2023 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament first and second round games in Denver at Ball Arena. - Helped run Men’s Ice Hockey social media at the 2022 Frozen Four that generated 15.1 million impressions, 1.28 million views on social media, and added an estimated 27.5 million dollars in ad value. - Part of an athletic communications team that has hosted two NCAA Men’s Hockey Regionals in Loveland, Colo. (2021, 2022) and the Big 12 Gymnastics Championship (2022) in Magness Arena.- Since Fall 2021, Volleyball social media has jumped from 3,100 followers to over 6,050 on Instagram in a span of 19 months with over 1.7 million impressions and 974,898 views on same social platform just in the 2022 season (August-November).- Developed and implemented the Denver Athletics and Recreation App beginning in 2021 that promoted both athletic and recreation teams and events at the University.- Previously a primary contact for Men’s & Women’s Swimming and Diving (2021-22), Skiing (2021) and Women’s Basketball (2015-16, 20-21) in past seasons. - Promoted and covered 2021 NCAA National Women’s Slalom Champion Amelia Smart at NCAA Championships on social media.- Designed graphics and videos via Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Premier, took photos using DSLR camera, cut video highlights via Twitter Studio or video clips provided from creative team and made highlights via Adobe Premier that could be used for digital content on social media platforms.

Sioux Falls, South Dakota, United States

Primary contact for women’s soccer, women’s basketball, men’s golf, and baseball. - Scored sports that was primary contact for and handled publishing game notes, post-game recaps, features, and press releases.- Conducted and produced video interviews and graphic content with players and coaches from all sports.- Secondary contact for all other sports (football, men’s basketball, wrestling, track and field, cross country, volleyball, tennis).- Oversaw and developed the women’s basketball media guides for two seasons.- Media relations point of contact for the 2014 and 2015 NSIC Tournament in baseball.

Denver, Colorado, United States

- Responsible for researching and analyzing game statistics for radio personalities and writing feature stories for Nuggets.com.- Handled the preparation of pre-draft workout packets, press releases, game notes and pre- and post-game note packages.