MAIN CONTACT: Men's basketball, men's & women's golf, softball and volleyball
SECONDARY CONTACT: All other programs

Scott Ward came to Greeley and the University of Northern Colorado as assistant media relations director in spring 2008 after serving for nearly three years as assistant sports editor with Sun Newspapers in Kansas City, Mo.

At the Sun, Ward worked alongside a staff of five writers in the production of multi-award-winning sports sections for six weekly community newspapers. Prior to his time with the Sun, Ward worked as an assistant statistics editor at The Kansas City Star and as a copy editor and page designer at the Columbia Missourian in Columbia, Mo.

Ward serves Northern Colorado as the main media contact for the Bears' volleyball, men's basketball, softball and men's and women's tennis programs, while filling in as the secondary contact for Northern Colorado's other 12 athletics programs.

In this role, he produces game notes, leads the game-day stat crew team and provides Web site coverage for volleyball, men's basketball and softball. He also produces various other publications for the Bears, including Northern Colorado's completely revamped Athletics Recruiting Guide and other promotional posters and game-day items.

Ward graduated with a bachelor's degree in journalism in 2004 from the Missouri School of Journalism, one of the finest journalism institutions in the world. He and his wife, Sarah, a second-grade teacher in Windsor, Colo., live in Evans, Colo.