Phil Caskey
August 11, 2008 10:42 AM | General
Associate Sports Information Director
(304) 293-2821
Phil.Caskey@mail.wvu.edu
Phil Caskey is in his ninth season with the West Virginia University Athletic Department and was promoted to Associate SID in December, 2008, after serving his previous tenure as the office's assistant.
A native of Martinsburg, W.Va., Caskey is the primary media relations contact for Mountaineer women's basketball and serves as the secondary contact for WVU football. He also assists with the overall operation of WVU's 15 other varsity sports and supervises a student staff that consists of three graduate assistants and two student assistants.
Prior to his full-time tenure in the sports communications office, Caskey served two years as a graduate assistant in the office from 1999-2001 as the primary media relations liaison for Mountaineer baseball, wrestling and men's soccer.
A seven-time, award-winning College Sports Information Director's of America national and district feature writer, Caskey is also a visiting instructor in WVU's College of Physical Activity and Sport Sciences graduate sport management program and WVU's Perley Isaac Reed School of Journalism online curriculum classes. He has also served as media coordinator for numerous WVU and NCAA hosted sporting events and is currently tri-authoring a media relations in sport textbook.
Caskey garnered his bachelor's of science degree in journalism, with a specialization in public relations, from West Virginia University's Perley Isaac Reed School of Journalism in 1999.
He earned his master's degree, also from WVU, in sport management in 2001.
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