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GREG GREENWELL
TWITTER: @DEPAULSID
DIRECTOR OF ATHLETICS COMMUNICATIONS Greg Greenwell is in his 12th year at DePaul as a member of the athletics communications staff and his third as the director of the department. He was named to his current position in July 2009 as serving as interim director over the previous six months. In this role, Greenwell oversees the communications and publicity efforts for DePaul’s 15 intercollegiate athletics programs. He enters his 12th year at DePaul after serving as assistant director since July 2000. Over the last 11 years, he has handled the primary communications efforts for men’s and women’s basketball, men’s and women’s soccer, golf, cross country, and track and field. Additionally, he also handles the daily operation of DePaul’s athletics website and served as the media coordinator for the 2006 NCAA Women’s Basketball First and Second Rounds and assistant media coordinator for
the 2005 NCAA Men’s Basketball Chicago Regional which were held at Allstate Arena in Rosemont. Prior to joining the Blue Demons, he spent a year as the assistant media relations director at Texas Tech University, where he worked with the baseball and volleyball programs. Greenwell also spent time working for the Chicago White Sox, Indianapolis Colts and in the Indiana University media relations department. From 2005-10 he worked for MLB.com as a stats stringer at selected Chicago White Sox and Chicago Cubs home games. Additionally, he also worked in the media operations at the 2004 U.S. Open at Olympia Fields Country Club, the 2005 World Series at U.S. Cellular Field and the 2007 CONCACAF Golf Cup at Soldier Field. The native of Palmetto, Fla., played baseball and graduated from Flagler College in 1997 with a degree in sport management and minor in business administration. He and his wife, Jennifer, reside in the Chicago suburb of Vernon Hills with their sons, Nolan and Brady.
LINDA JEPSEN
ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT Linda Jepsen is in her ninth year as the administrative assistant for the Blue Demon men’s basketball staff. Jepsen is responsible for the daily operation of the basketball office. Among her duties are handling head coach Oliver Purnell’s schedule as well as travel arrangements and general clerical and administrative responsibilities for the entire coaching staff. Jepsen joined the Blue Demons after spending 11 years as a member of the Conference USA staff, where she was the Director of Sports Services. She joined the league in 1992 when it was formed as the Great Midwest Conference and continued her duties when C-USA was
born in 1996. In her duties at the Chicago-based conference, she provided executive support to the Commissioner and associates, handled budgetary issues, worked on competition schedules, coordinated travel and hotel arrangements and served as a liaison to institutional staff at remote locations. Jepsen got her start in athletics in 1977 when she was the Administrative Assistant to the Athletic Director at Oak Park River Forest High School, a position she held until 1992. Jepsen, who graduated from DePaul’s School for New Learning in the spring of 2008, resides in LaGrange, Ill. Linda has a son Erik and daughter Britta, who is a DePaul graduate.
TRACY MOSS
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF ATHLETICS ACADEMIC ADVISING Tracy Moss is in her fourth year at DePaul as an assistant director of athletics academic advising. She handles the day-to-day academic services for the men’s basketball and women’s tennis programs while also acting as the department’s tutor coordinator. Over the last two seasons, eight men’s basketball student-athletes have earned BIG EAST All-Academic Team honors while the team posted it’s best academic effort in program history in 2010-11. Additionally, Moss also help DePaul’s cumulative grade point average for all 15 programs set a record at 3.353 in 2009-10. Moss joined DePaul in September 2008 following a year as assistant director of academic services for student-athletes at Eastern Illinois University. With the
Panthers, she redesigned how EIU handles its Study Hour Program to maximize the production of each studentathlete at the Lantz Academic Center. Moss was a four-year student-athlete at the University of Illinois as a member of the track and field team. In her four-year career was listed as a top five performer in the discus and was a three-time Big Ten Scholar-Athlete Award winner. She graduated with degrees in accounting and finance from Illinois in 2003 before completing her masters degree in sport management from Illinois in 2006. Moss lives on Chicago’s northside and has completed multiple marathons including the Chicago marathon in 2004 and 2006.
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