As Director of Athletics Communications, Marty Fuller works to maintain communications between the College's athletics department, the media, the North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) and the NCAA. He coordinates live audio and video streaming of home events, keeps in-game statistics, maintains the College's athletics web pages, produces media guides, game programs and brochures, writes game summaries, updates the athletics department’s main social media feeds and contributes articles to various campus publications. Fuller also oversees the operations of the Kenyon Athletic Association Hall of Fame and a team of student workers that helps him keep information about the College's twenty-two sports teams readily available to students, parents, alumni, media and fans.
Since arriving in Gambier, Fuller has won multiple national awards, including six ‘Best in the Nation’ citations for media guide publications, as well as district and national awards in the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) Fred Stabley, Sr. Writing Contest. He’s supervised four redesigns of Kenyon’s athletics website, aided the athletics department in hosting numerous NCAC and NCAA Championship events and helped create and launch the Kenyon Sports Connection, an effort to better utilize video in providing Kenyon fans with game highlights, coaches’ shows, postgame interviews and feature stories.
Fuller has had the privilege of writing nominations for over 50 CoSIDA Academic All-America award-winners. Five of those student-athletes were named Academic All-America Team Member of the Year and one was named the overall Academic All-American of the Year. Additionally, he has promoted 19 NCAA Championship teams, 30 NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship winners and the first NCAA Woman of the Year selected from a Division III institution.
Fuller is a long-time member of CoSIDA and has served on multiple committees, including taking on duties as a District Coordinator for the Academic All-America program since 2005. He has served on several NCAC and campus committees, as well.
After earning a journalism degree from Bowling Green State University in 1995, Fuller worked as a sports writer and sports editor for a few daily Ohio newspapers. He then moved on to work as sports information director at Wilmington College before coming to Kenyon in 2001. He currently lives in nearby Mt. Vernon, Ohio with his wife Kirstin and their two daughters.
