Will Roleson is in his fourth year as Associate Commissioner for Communications and Multimedia at the Horizon League following two as Assistant Commissioner for Communications.
In addition to serving as the League’s primary media contact for men’s basketball, he coordinates television and radio partnerships and handles future scheduling for men’s and women’s basketball. He also is co-chair of the Indianapolis Local Organizing Committee’s media services committee for the 2010 NCAA Men’s Final Four.
Roleson previously was the SID at Kent State University, where he handled media relations for an 18-sport program and managed a staff that included three full-time assistants, an historian and various students. He was the primary media contact for Kent State’s Division I-A football program for five years and the men’s basketball team from 2000-2002, during which time the Golden Flashes twice advanced to the NCAA Tournament, including a run to the Elite Eight in 2002.
A native of Brookville, Ind., Roleson served as an assistant editor at Host Communications, Inc., in Lexington, Ky., from 1994-96, and was an intern in the men’s sports information office at the University of Wisconsin from 1993-94.
Roleson graduated cum laude from Miami (Ohio) University in 1993 with a bachelor’s degree in mass communication.