Lance Fleming Email & Phone Number

After graduating from Abilene Christian University in 1992 with a BA in Journalism and Mass Communications, I went to work full-time for the Abilene Reporter-News as a copy editor before moving over to become a sportswriter in February 1993. I worked at the ARN for five years, covering Texas high school athletics as well as the Dallas Cowboys (I spent a week in Phoenix in January 1996 covering Super Bowl XXX) before moving to Lubbock with my wife to work at the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal. While in Lubbock I covered Texas Tech from the academic side as well as the Lubbock Independent School District.After about 7 months in Lubbock, we moved back to. Abilene after I took the job as the Sports Information Director at ACU, which was NCAA Division II at the time. I worked at ACU from August 1998 until I left in July 2019, by which time ACU was an NCAA Division I member. I served as SID before moving up to Assistant Director of Athletics for Media Relations and then, finally, ending my 21 years of service as the Associate Director of Athletics. I had the good fortune to chronicle student-athletes who went on to careers in the NFL, future Olympians, and the program's first team to advance to the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament in 2019.I left ACU to join the team at the Abilene Independent School District in 2019, just a few months before the COVID-19 pandemic turned the world upside down. I spent a little more than three years as the Chief Communications Officer before moving to a new role in January 2022 as a Communications Specialist. I believe I'm finally utilizing my writing talent to help tell the great stories of students, staff and programs in the AISD.In addition to my work, I've been married to my wife, Jill, for 25 years as of April 18, 2022, and we have three children: Rex, Ashley, and Ryan. Rex passed away in November 2012 after a two-year battle against brain cancer. Ashley is 16 and the life of the party, while Ryan is 10 and a budding baseball player.My wife and I co-founded the Play 4 Rex Foundation in 2013 to help carry on Rex's legacy. In the nine years since we founded the foundation, we have raised more than $500,000 to help families who are facing pediatric cancer. We've also committed $250,000 to a new pediatric rehab gym at Hendrick Medical Center, and contributed $25,000 to a new Hendrick hospice facility and another $20,000 to the West Texas Rehabilitation Center. We host an annual golf tournament that is the largest private event in the area, raising more than $50,000 each year.

Listed skills include Social Media, Media Relations, Leadership, Editing, and 4 others.

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  Abilene Christian University

  Journalism And Mass Communication