Kyle Edmond - Assistant Director for Strategic Communications (Secondary Football, Men's Basketball, Baseball, Volleyball) - Staff Directory

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Kyle Edmond

Title:
Assistant Director for Strategic Communications (Secondary Football, Men's Basketball, Baseball, Volleyball)
Email:
Phone:
419-372-4027

Kyle Edmond rejoined the strategic communications department as an assistant director in September 2021 and is the primary contact for men's basketball, baseball, volleyball, and is the secondary contact for football. Since initially joining the department as a student in 2017, Edmond has served as the primary or secondary contact at one point for 12 of BGSU's 18 varsity sports.

Edmond previously served as an Intern with BGSU's Strategic Communications office, serving as the primary contact for volleyball, ice hockey and women's tennis, including a brief stint covering gymnastics before the season started. As an intern, Edmond oversaw all day-to-day media relations for the aforementioned programs. This included producing the record book and game notes, facilitating interview requests for players and coaches, compiling statistics, running social media accounts and contributing to the official website of BGSU Athletics (BGSUFalcons.com).

A native of Tiffin, Ohio, Edmond graduated from BGSU in August of 2019 with a bachelor's degree in sport management and a journalism minor. He earned a Master's of Arts in December 2023 from BGSU in Strategic Communications and Social Media.

As a student at BGSU he served for two years as a student assistant with Athletic Communications, overseeing men's and women's cross country during the fall 2018 season, as well as swimming and diving and women's tennis in the spring of 2019.

Additionally, Edmond served as a summer assistant with Heidelberg University (Tiffin, OH) under Jeff Garvin in Athletic Marketing and Information in 2017, as a Media Relations Intern with the Toledo Mud Hens during the 2019 season and a member of the stat crew for the Columbus Destroyers in the Arena Football League in 2019. Edmond also worked Super Bowl LII (Minneapolis, Minn.) and Super Bowl LIII (Atlanta, Ga.) as a member of the Sport Management Alliance student group at BGSU.

Edmond is the third generation in his family to work in the field of Sports Information. Kyle's father, Todd, and uncle, Tim, both worked as student assistants in the University of Toledo's sports information department during the 1980s and 1990s before both became high school teachers. His uncle, Ted, was a student assistant in the athletic training office at Kent State in the 1990s before becoming a teacher as well.

Kyle's grandfather, Dick, was an award-winning SID with Heidelberg University, then Heidelberg College, for nine years, winning national awards for his media guide designs and layouts and also served as a Sports Editor for both the Advertiser-Tribune (Tiffin, OH) and Bucyrus-Telegraph Forum (Bucyrus, OH) for 21 years. Dick Edmond was inducted into the Ohio Prep Sportswriters Association (OPSWA) Hall of Fame in 2001, the Crawford County Sports Hall of Fame in 2013 and the Heidelberg University Athletics Hall of Fame in 2021. Kyle gave the acceptance speech on behalf of his grandfather at the Heidelberg induction in 2021.