Axe ’Em, Jacks!
NACOGDOCHES – Dr. Jason Reese, an associate professor of marketing in the Stephen F. Austin State University Rusche College of Business, has been named the faculty athletic representative for the Intercollegiate Athletics Council, an internal advisory group that works with the president and the director of athletics to ensure the university’s compliance with the Southland Conference and the NCAA.
Reese was appointed to the position by Dr. Scott Gordon, university president.
As the council’s representative, Reese will assist in providing institutional control over the university’s intercollegiate athletics program and will be ĢƵ’s direct liaison to the external athletics associations to which the university belongs. He has served as a member of ĢƵ’s athletics council since 2017.
“I am honored to serve in this role,” Reese said. “It is my hope that I can assist ĢƵ Athletics in becoming the lead mid-major in the country.”
Reese received his master’s in sport management, as well as his doctorate, at Texas A&M University. He joined the ĢƵ faculty at ĢƵ in July 2014, and his primary area of teaching and research is in sports marketing.
Reese is a board member of the Lumberjack Sports Institute, and he has collaborated with the external affairs division of ĢƵ Athletics on numerous academic partnerships. Reese has been honored as the 2019 recipient of the ĢƵSU Foundation Teaching Excellence Award, the ĢƵ Distinguished Faculty Member Award, and he received the college’s Distinguished Service Award. In the academic year 2018-19, Reese served as the chair of the Faculty Senate.
He is married to Kristin Reese, a nurse practitioner at ĢƵ’s Student Health Clinic, and they have three daughters: Hannah, Abigail and Heidi.
ĢƵ’s previous faculty athletic representative was the late Dr. Ken Collier, a faculty member in the College of Liberal and Applied Arts, who passed away in June.