Jeremy Kniffin hired as CMS sports information director

After a national search that involved many excellent candidates, Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Athletics has hired Jeremy Kniffin as its next sports information director. Kniffin begins his tenure with CMS on August 20, 2018.

A former Claremont native, Kniffin served on the communications staff at Pomona College for four years from 2011-2015, where he became the first full-time sports information director for Pomona-Pitzer Athletics. He was in charge of the promotion and publicity of all 21 varsity sports programs and launched the department's social media accounts during his tenure.

"I am extremely excited to return to Claremont and become a part of CMS Athletics," Kniffin said. "During my career, I have always enjoyed promoting student-athletes who excel academically and have interesting stories to tell outside of athletics, and working for an athletic department that won three national titles last year while still maintaining some of the highest academic standards in the country is a perfect fit. I'm thrilled for the opportunity to help share their stories."

Kniffin has spent the last three years working in the athletic communications staff at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut, serving as the primary contact for the women's volleyball, men's basketball and men's lacrosse programs, while also assisting with the supervision of three graduate assistants. He was promoted to an assistant athletic director position earlier this summer.

"Jeremy knows the Claremont Colleges, he definitely knows the sports information world, and he understands Division III athletics," Interim Director of Athletics Mike Sutton said. "All of those components added up to making Jeremy a great fit for CMS Athletics. I am really happy to have him on board."

Prior to accepting the job at Pomona, Kniffin had 13 years of experience at the NCAA Division I level, including 11 at Hofstra University on Long Island, where he handled sports information duties for men's and women's soccer, men's basketball and softball. His publicity efforts resulted in numerous national media stories, including a back-page feature in The Sporting News on the success of the Hofstra softball program. He also worked for two years at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, where he was the contact for men's and women's soccer, women's basketball, and men's lacrosse.

Kniffin got his start in the sports information industry as an Asa S. Bushnell Intern at the Eastern College Athletic Conference in 1993-94, before becoming the sports information director at Division II LIU Post on Long Island, where he worked for four years. While at LIU Post, he also worked in the media relations venues at the Goodwill Games and the U.S. Open Golf Championship when both were held on Long Island.

A 1992 graduate of Colgate University, Kniffin majored in economics and minored in philosophy, while serving as a student assistant in the sports information office and sports editor of the student newspaper.