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Chris Masters is in his 11th year on the athletic media relations staff at Notre Dame, and his second as associate director. He is the primary media relations contact for the Fighting Irish women's basketball and women's soccer programs, and also serves as the on-site content editor for the official Notre Dame athletics web site (UND.com), helping to coordinate extensive redesigns of the site in the summers of 2009 and 2011, and currently overseeing a four-person student web editing staff.
In addition, he has spent time as the media relations contact for the University's men's and women's tennis, men's golf and men's and women's cross country/track & field programs, while serving as the secondary contact for the Fighting Irish football program. He remains connected with the publicity efforts for the Notre Dame football team as a supervisor of the gameday statistics crew at Notre Dame Stadium and a liaison with the NCAA statistics office in Indianapolis.
During his tenure at Notre Dame, Masters has promoted four Final Four squads (the 2010 national champion Fighting Irish women's soccer team, as well as Notre Dame's 2008 women's soccer and 2011 women's basketball national runners-up, and the 2009 women's soccer national semifinalist), along with eight basketball and four soccer All-Americans (including 2008 Hermann Trophy recipient Kerri Hanks), worked with eight BIG EAST Conference championship teams, and earned 18 regional or national citations for his publications from the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA), most recently garnering national runner-up honors for his 2010 women's soccer media guide. In addition, he has worked as a play-by-play broadcaster on radio broadcasts and Internet webcasts of Irish women's basketball, volleyball and softball contests.
Masters also has collected considerable experience as a tournament media coordinator, overseeing publicity efforts at the 2005 and 2010 NCAA Men's Golf Central Regional, the 2011 NCAA Women's Golf Central Regional and the 2008 BIG EAST Women's Soccer Championship, all hosted by Notre Dame. What's more, he has served on the media relations staff at nine of the past 14 NCAA Women's Final Fours, and has even spent time as the official scorer at the 2007, 2010 and 2011 BIG EAST Softball Championships.
Prior to coming to Notre Dame, Masters spent three years (1998-2001) as assistant sports information director at Western Kentucky University, serving as the media relations contact for the Lady Topper women's basketball and volleyball programs. He also spent time as the publications coordinator for WKU's entire 20-sport athletics department, assisted in the development of the school's official athletics web site (www.wkusports.com), and served as media relations coordinator for the 2000 Sun Belt Conference Women's Basketball Championship, hosted by Western Kentucky.
In 1996, Masters graduated cum laude with a bachelor's degree in journalism and politics & government from Ohio Wesleyan University, while also serving as a student assistant in the OWU sports information office. Two years later, he earned his master's degree in mass communications (public relations emphasis) from Kansas State University, where he also worked in the KSU sports information office as both a student assistant and graduate intern, specifically focusing on the Wildcats' women's basketball and volleyball programs.
An active member of CoSIDA since 1996, Masters is in his 13th year as a district coordinator on that organization's Academic All-America Committee.
Born May 2, 1974, in San Francisco, Calif., Masters now makes his home in Mishawaka.
