Doug Hoffman is in his 18th year as the Communications Director and 27th year with the Utah State athletics department as he joined the staff in December, 1998.
Hoffman, who was promoted to Associate Athletics Director in 2013 after serving as an Assistant Athletics Director for six years, spent eight years as the Associate Athletic Media Relations Director at Utah State.
As the Communications Director, Hoffman oversees the publicity of Utah State’s 16-sport program, working closely with the media, USU staff, coaches and student-athletes, while serving as the football and golf contact.
Under Hoffman, USU’s Athletic Communications Office has twice (2011, 2015) been recognized by the Football Writers Association of America (FWAA) for earning its “Super 11” Award, which annually recognizes the best 11 media relations departments in the nation.
At Utah State, Hoffman has been the athletic department’s media coordinator for eight NCAA Basketball Tournaments and 10 bowl games, while promoting 21 All-Americans (16-football, 5-men’s basketball), including just the third consensus football All-American in school history. Additionally, Hoffman has worked with six Aggie football and men’s basketball teams that have been nationally ranked. Furthermore, the media relations office has launched two Heisman Campaigns under Hoffman.
Along with his duties as Athletics Communications Director, Hoffman is also the chair of USU’s Athletics Hall of Fame Selection Committee and serves as the department’s curator, which included the research and development of USU’s Athletics Hall of Honor in 2009.
Hoffman came to Utah State after spending one year at Indiana State where he worked with volleyball and the nationally ranked baseball program. Prior to that, he was a graduate assistant in the media relations office at Wyoming from 1994-97.
Hoffman, who graduated from Wyoming in 1993 with a bachelor’s degree in communications, was an all-conference basketball player during his senior season at Hot Springs County High School in Thermopolis, Wyo. A native of Mitchell, S. D., he and his wife Shellee have three sons, Chase, Davis and Easton.
