Kevin Trainor
In his 30th year full-time with the University of Arkansas, Kevin Trainor is the chief public relations officer for Razorback Athletics.
Trainor is in charge of the department’s engagement with former student-athletes in all sports, including the A Club. Trainor coordinates the department’s executive and crisis management communications, is the department’s FOIA coordinator and is a department liaison with the Razorback Foundation, the University of Arkansas Sports Hall of Honor, University Relations, the National Football Foundation, the Arkansas Sports and Southwest Conference Halls of Fame. He is also in his 15th year as the sports administrator for Razorback Baseball and his third year as the sports administrator for Razorback Volleyball.
Trainor currently serves as the 70th president of the College Sports Communicators (formerly CoSIDA). He also serves as a board member and treasurer for the Southwest District of Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) and the past president of the Northwest Arkansas PRSA Chapter. In addition, he is on the board of directors of the Arkansas Sports Hall of Fame, the College Baseball Foundation, the Southwest Conference Hall of Fame, the Brandon Burlsworth Foundation and is an ex-officio board member of the Football Writers Association of America (FWAA).
Trainor has been selected to serve many of the most prestigious sporting events in the country. He has worked as the primary team media relations liaison to one of the competing teams in each of the first 10 College Football Playoff National Championship games. For more than a decade, Trainor has been the press conference moderator for the nationally televised SEC Football Media Days.
He has also been selected to serve as the press conference moderator at the National Football Foundation College Football Hall of Fame induction weekend, numerous SEC Football Championship Games and the SEC Women’s Basketball Tournament. Trainor has been a member of the media relations team for more than 27 Cotton Bowls, two NCAA Men’s Basketball Final Fours and numerous Master's Tournaments for CBS Sports.
A University of Arkansas graduate in journalism in 1994, he also earned his master’s at Arkansas in 2005.