Kevin Conway Email & Phone Number

Milwaukee, WI, US

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States

• Direct external media relations efforts for the university, including press releases, proactive pitching, and expert requests with local, regional, and national media
• Devise proactive strategies for earned media opportunities
• Prepare prep documents for senior leaders in advance of media appearances
• Participate in crisis communication planning and execution, as well as organization-wide safety messaging on behalf of the Marquette University Police Department
• Serve as media relations contact for nationally known Marquette Law School Poll

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

• Primary media relations contact for all 22 sports
• Managed department compliance efforts, including eligibility and rules education
• Spearheaded design and rollout of first-ever dedicated athletics logo
• Wrote feature stories, press releases and event recaps for department website—GO-RAIDERS.com
• Pitched feature stories and televised home events to local media, resulting in a front page feature article on the head men’s soccer coach and the department’s first-ever home live television broadcasts
• Executed department-specific marketing and promotional efforts

Greater Milwaukee Area

• Establish media contacts in the area and pitched story ideas to local and national media
• Design, write and edit media guides, news releases and game notes for assigned sports
• Layout and design of most department promotional materials, including all media guide covers, posters, schedule cards, brochures, and postcards
• Produce and direct live webcast events and all video content for department YouTube page
• "The Black & Gold Network" featured 345 videos and nearly 50,000 views in first full year (2011-12)
• Streamed 61 live events in 2011-12, reaching over 26,000 viewers

Oxford, Ohio

• Primary media relations contact for women’s soccer, men’s and women’s cross country, men’s and women’s track & field, men’s and women’s swimming & diving and softball
• Provided assistance as secondary contact for men’s basketball and tertiary contact for football at MAC Championship and GMAC Bowl games.
• Writing, editing and layout design of all media guides, news releases, game notes and programs, official scoring, coordination of interviews with members of the local media and traveling with teams for away contests
• Assisted in game day operations for home men’s basketball and football games

M.S., Sports Management

B.A., Broadcast Journalism