Houston Christian University Athletics

Russ Reneau was named Assistant Athletic Director for Media Relations and Broadcasting on Jan. 1, 2019, after serving for eight years as Director of Athletic Media Relations at HBU. He oversees the communications efforts for the department’s 17 NCAA Division I sports programs, is the primary contact for football, baseball and indoor and beach volleyball and coordinates the Husky Sports Network video broadcasts for basketball, baseball, softball, soccer and volleyball.
 
He is the play-by-play voice for HBU baseball and volleyball. Reneau has seen the Huskies’ official athletics website, HBUHuskies.com, through three redesigns, designs the department’s printed marketing and promotional materials and serves as the branding and licensing liaison for HBU’s Under Armour apparel contract. He was also behind the campaigns which landed shortstop Tyler Depreta-Johnson the ABCA/Rawlings Gold Glove in 2018 and linebacker Garrett Dolan back-to-back All-America honors in 2016 and 2017. He began working at HBU as a statistician in 2007 and provided coverage for the baseball and volleyball programs in 2009, before moving into his full-time role.
 
Reneau was the assistant director of media relations and internet coordinator at Baylor from 2003-06. He was the primary contact for volleyball, track & field/cross country, men’s and women’s golf, and worked extensively with the men’s and women’s basketball and baseball programs as the secondary contact. He assisted with the coverage of women’s basketball’s first national title in 2005, then accompanied the women’s tennis team to Athens, Georgia, for its NCAA appearance and the baseball team to Omaha for its College World Series appearance later that same year.
 
In 2004, Reneau provided coverage as Baylor’s Jeremy Wariner and Darold Williamson earned spots on the United States Olympic Track & Field team. Wariner won the gold medal in the 400 meters, while the duo helped lead the USA to gold in the 4x400-meter relay. Reneau oversaw two redesigns of BaylorBears.com and served as the play-by-play voice for Baylor Volleyball. He was also the assistant director at Jacksonville University form 2001-03, where he was the contact for baseball, women’s basketball and volleyball and began his career in collegiate athletics as the women’s soccer, swimming and cross country contact at Rice University in 2000.
 
During the 2005-06 academic year, Reneau’s design of the Baylor Men’s Golf Media Guide was ranked second nationally, while the Baylor Women’s Golf Media Guide was ranked fourth nationally by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA). He was an official scorer at the 2003 NCAA Volleyball Championship in Dallas, served on the Local Media Committee for the 2011 NCAA Men’s Basketball Final Four and 2010 South Regional, both held at NRG Stadium in Houston. He also served on the Local Organizing Committee as HBU co-hosted the 2016 NCAA Men’s College Cup (soccer) held at BBVA Compass Stadium.
 
A Houston native, Reneau graduated with a bachelor’s degree in journalism and corporate communication from Baylor in 1998 and earned a Master of Science in sports leadership from Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 2014. He has been a member of CoSIDA for 18 years and is also a member of the Football Writers Association of America, the United States Basketball Writers Association, the National College Baseball Writers Association and a voter for the STATS FCS Football Top 25 Poll.