Chris Day is in his sixth year in his current role and a 25-year veteran in the sports information of the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference world.
He is the primary athletic communications contact for several Maverick sports including cross country, men’s lacrosse, softball, tennis, triathlon, indoor and beach volleyball, swimming & diving, track and field and assists with several other sports.
Day began his career as a student assistant at CMU, known as Mesa State College at the time, as a college freshman and completed his bachelor’s degree with honors in mass communications and a minor in mathematics in 1999. He also served as the media relations intern at the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference in Colorado Springs in the summers of 1997 and 1998.
He then obtained his first full-time position as the sports information director at Adams State University, where he worked for 14 years through 2013. He was named as the inaugural and only 3-time individual winner of the J.W. Campbell/Con Marshall Award, given to the RMAC’s top sports information director each year. He also helped CMU win two more of those awards in 2018 and 2021.
Later promoted to the role of associate athletic director, Day wore a large number of hats running the gamut from sports information/media relations to eligibility and compliance and spearheaded the Grizzly Club fundraising efforts, which brought in more than $300 thousand each year through the corporate partnership and individual membership programs.
Day also chaired the ASU Athletics Hall of Fame Committee and served as the assistant coach and recruiting coordinator for the ASU men’s golf team. He also served as the meet director for numerous championship events, including 2010 and 2011 NCAA Division II Indoor Track & Field Championships that ASU hosted in Albuquerque, New Mexico, one of his most memorable career highlights.
In his time at Adams State, he also had the opportunity to promote 15 NCAA Division II National Championship Cross Country and Track & Field Teams and numerous individual national champions, and National Athlete and Coaches of the Year selections and hundreds of all-Americans.
Recently, Day was inducted into the ASU Athletics Hall of Fame.
In 2011, Day began his role as the director of the Western Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association, organizing many facets of the psudeo-conference’s awards program and promoting the men’s and women’s games in the Western United States, which helped lead to an opportunity as a lead statistician for the 2014 FIL World Lacrosse Championships, hosted in Denver.
He continued in the WILA role while serving as the interim Associate AD/Sports Information Director at CSU Pueblo during 2014 and then returned to Grand Junction that fall, working part-time as a public address announcer and swim and track meet timer before moving into his current role in the fall of 2017.
Day is also a 9-year veteran soccer referee and serves as the referee assignor for Fire FC and Thunder Mountain United, Grand Junction’s two youth soccer clubs and is a U.S. Soccer Federation Referee Mentor.
He and his wife Beth, a school psychologist for School District 51, have been married for 17 years. Their son Noah, a seventh grader at Redlands Middle School, is a multiple-time medal winner in swimming for the Colorado Special Olympics State Games and is an honorable team member of the CMU Swimming & Diving Team.
