COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – The Mountain West introduced as we speak that Sean Harris has been employed as affiliate commissioner for sports activities administration and championships.

As a member of the senior management workforce, Harris will oversee the operations of all Olympic sports activities championships and function the game administrator for a number of sports activities.

Harris involves the MW after spending the final 12 months and a half in the identical function on the West Coast Conference.

At the WCC, Harris was the game liaison for a number of sports activities and was the match director for the league’s males’s and girls’s basketball and baseball tournaments. During this time, he additionally launched males’s water polo as a WCC-sponsored sport, efficiently led efforts to safe a brand new venue for the baseball match and labored carefully with key stakeholders to extend income for the league’s basketball and baseball postseason occasions. He served because the WCC liaison to the Sports Administration and Championships Cabinet, was the WCC lead for the Diversity Equity and Inclusion Committee and was a member of the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Administrative Board.

Prior to his time on the WCC, Harris spent 9 years on the Pac-12 Conference, working his approach up from administrative fellow to assistant commissioner for sports activities administration and championships. In addition to serving as the game administrator for a number of sports activities on the Pac-12, he was additionally the assistant match director for the Pac-12 Women’s Basketball Tournament and managed the league’s awards course of and merchandise program and supported sponsorship activations at Pac-12 championships.

Harris additionally labored with Pac-12 Networks because the division liaison with convention scheduling and championship productions and had a key management function within the Pac-12’s Global Grant Program.

A former observe and discipline student-athlete, Harris was a member of the NCAA Track and Field Committee from 2016-21, serving because the Committee Chair in 2021.

A local of Kent, Washington, Harris was a decathlete at Washington State University from 2008-13. He graduated in 2013 with a level in sports activities administration earlier than including a grasp’s diploma in sports activities administration from the University of San Francisco in 2017.

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