LEBANON, Ill. (June 18, 2021) – McKendree University Athletics Director Anthony Francis announced on Friday that Ben Greenberg, an 18-plus year veteran in the intercollegiate athletic communications business, has been named as the school's new Sports Information Director. Greenberg will officially begin his duties at McKendree on Monday, June 28.

"Ben is an experienced, well respected veteran in the industry so we're excited about him joining the bearcat family," said Francis. "Throughout the interview process, it was clear that Ben is passionate about all the things we're looking for in a Director of Sports Information. Amongst many things, I'm most excited about his love for promoting student-athletes and sharing the success of others. His selfless personality will fit in well with our staff and coaches. I look forward to the immediate impact Ben will have on our department." 

Greenberg comes to McKendree University after serving as the Sports Information Director the past three-and-a-half years at Webster University, a 14-sport NCAA Division III school that is in Webster Groves, Mo., and is a charter member of the St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference.

"I'm beyond excited to become a part of the McKendree Bearcat athletics family. I want to thank Anthony (Francis) and Massey (Arnold) for putting their trust and faith in me to step in and lead the sports information office at McKendree University," Greenberg said. "I couldn't be more excited about this new opportunity in my career with McKendree and I can't wait to get started."

Prior to coming to McKendree, Greenberg spent the past three-plus years serving as the Sports Information Director at Webster University. During his time at Webster, he managed all facets of athletic communications for the Gorloks. 

In his time at Webster, Greenberg saw the Gorlok athletic teams achieve numerous successes at both the conference and national level and those successes culminated in 2020-21 with men's golfer Will Hocker becoming the first Gorlok student-athlete to win an individual NCAA Division III national championship as he captured medalist honors at the 2021 NCAA Division III Men's Golf Championships. Along with individual national title in men's golf, Greenberg covered an NCAA Division III national runner-up in men's track and field in 2019 and covered Webster's 2019 baseball team that advanced to the NCAA Division III World Series. In his three-plus years at the school, Webster won 15 regular season SLIAC titles, 18 SLIAC Tournament championships and earn 12 appearances in the NCAA Division III Championships. 

"McKendree has an outstanding tradition of athletic success and I am excited to have the chance to tell the stories of success that Bearcat student-athletes achieve in competition, in the classroom and in the community," Greenberg added. "I am thrilled to once again get the chance to work at the Division II level and also get the opportunity to work in a league as strong and competitive as the Great Lakes Valley Conference."

Prior to coming to Webster, Greenberg had spent 14 years working in the intercollegiate athletic communication business, including spending 11 of those 14 years working at the NCAA Division II level. He served four years (2012-16) as the Assistant Athletic Director for Athletics Communications at Florida Southern College in Lakeland, Fla., that was a member of the Sunshine State Conference and spent seven years (2005-12) as the Sports Information Director at Arkansas Tech University in Russellville, Ark., that competed for six of those years in the Gulf South Conference and is currently a member of the Great American Conference. 

Before working at the NCAA Division II level, Greenberg began his sports information career at the NCAA Division I level as he was a media relations assistant during the 2002-03 school year at Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas, and then spent two years (2003-05) as the Sports Information Director at Chicago State University.

Greenberg is an active member of CoSIDA and has served on numerous committees within the Association, including currently serving on both the Job Seekers and Publications Contest Committees. He was a South Region representative to the Division II CoSIDA Board of Directors from 2014-16 and was a South Region coordinator for both the Daktronics Men's Basketball and Women's Volleyball programs and a member of the D2SIDA men's and women's basketball ranking committees.

Greenberg, who is an Omaha, Neb., native, is a 1995 journalism and mass communication graduate from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He and his wife, Tanya, were married in 2008.