Football
Bonnicksen, Colin
Colin Bonnicksen
- Title:
- Director of Football Operations
- Phone:
- 243-2969
TWITTER - @c_bonnicksen
Bonnicksen is in his fourth year as UM’s director of football operations in 2018.
Before coming to Montana in 2015, he was the assistant athletic director for athletic communications at Colorado School of Mines and previously served as Mines’ sports information director for three years after joining the Mines athletics staff in December of 2011.
While at Mines he was responsible for the promotion of the Orediggers’ 18 intercollegiate athletics programs through the school’s athletics website (www.csmorediggers.com), in addition to composing press releases, print publications, game programs, and game notes while keeping track of statistics and records.
He also served as the Orediggers’ primary contact for football, volleyball, men’s basketball, wrestling, baseball and golf. He oversaw a 74% increase in news stories on the Mines’ web site during his tenure.
He was named the 2013 RMAC Cambell/Marshall Sports Information Director of the Year for the 2012-13 academic year, as voted on by the conference’s 14 sports information directors. In addition, he was an American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) 2012 Chad Burger Media Award honoree for volleyball coverage in the South Central Region.
Bonnicksen came to Mines following a one-and-a-half-year stint as the associate director of athletic media relations at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke in Pembroke, N.C. While there he oversaw the audio/video streaming efforts of the athletic department and also produced and served as the occasional host of The Black and Gold Report - the highest rated TV show in its time slot in major markets located in both North Carolina and South Carolina. He also served as the play-by-play voice for UNCP’s online webcasting efforts for football and wrestling.
Prior to his stint at UNCP, he was a graduate assistant in the sports information office at Northern State University in Aberdeen, S.D. He also was an intern in the athletic communications department at his alma mater, Minnesota State University-Mankato.
The Bonnicksen File
Hometown: Ringsted, Iowa
Alma Mater: Minnesota State-Mankato ‘08 (B.S. Sports Management), Northern State ’10 (M.S. Education with an emphasis in health, physical education and coaching)
Family: Wife Colleen, Daughter Amelia
Bonnicksen is in his fourth year as UM’s director of football operations in 2018.
Before coming to Montana in 2015, he was the assistant athletic director for athletic communications at Colorado School of Mines and previously served as Mines’ sports information director for three years after joining the Mines athletics staff in December of 2011.
While at Mines he was responsible for the promotion of the Orediggers’ 18 intercollegiate athletics programs through the school’s athletics website (www.csmorediggers.com), in addition to composing press releases, print publications, game programs, and game notes while keeping track of statistics and records.
He also served as the Orediggers’ primary contact for football, volleyball, men’s basketball, wrestling, baseball and golf. He oversaw a 74% increase in news stories on the Mines’ web site during his tenure.
He was named the 2013 RMAC Cambell/Marshall Sports Information Director of the Year for the 2012-13 academic year, as voted on by the conference’s 14 sports information directors. In addition, he was an American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) 2012 Chad Burger Media Award honoree for volleyball coverage in the South Central Region.
Bonnicksen came to Mines following a one-and-a-half-year stint as the associate director of athletic media relations at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke in Pembroke, N.C. While there he oversaw the audio/video streaming efforts of the athletic department and also produced and served as the occasional host of The Black and Gold Report - the highest rated TV show in its time slot in major markets located in both North Carolina and South Carolina. He also served as the play-by-play voice for UNCP’s online webcasting efforts for football and wrestling.
Prior to his stint at UNCP, he was a graduate assistant in the sports information office at Northern State University in Aberdeen, S.D. He also was an intern in the athletic communications department at his alma mater, Minnesota State University-Mankato.
The Bonnicksen File
Hometown: Ringsted, Iowa
Alma Mater: Minnesota State-Mankato ‘08 (B.S. Sports Management), Northern State ’10 (M.S. Education with an emphasis in health, physical education and coaching)
Family: Wife Colleen, Daughter Amelia
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