University of West Florida

Brian Henry was named Director of Athletic Communications at the University of West Florida in August of 2015.

During his time at UWF, he has promoted more than a dozen all-Americans, 12 College Sports Communicators Academic All-Americans and numerous top-10 programs. He served as the primary contact for the men's tennis program's 2017 national championship and football's historic run to the 2017 national title game as a second-year program and 2019 National Championship.

He has been the media coordinator of more than a dozen NCAA Championship events hosted by UWF, along with eight Gulf South Conference postseason tournaments.

Henry created the UWF Sports Network and is the executive producer of Argo Sports Insider, the 30-minute television shows that air regionally for 32 weeks from September through April. He also oversaw the move to bring all video production in-house in the fall of 2022 and designed the centralized athletics video control room in the summer of 2023.

He currently serves as the 2nd Vice President on the D2SIDA Board and has completed terms as a NCAA South Regional Advisory Committee Member for women's tennis and as a D2SIDA South Region Representative. He is also a member of the CSC Professional Development and Academic All-America Committees.
 
Henry came to Pensacola after a 4-year stint as the associate athletics media relations director at the University of Massachusetts. During his time, he worked with three postseason teams in men's basketball, including the program's first appearance in the NCAA Tournament in 16 years in 2014, along with Atlantic 10 championships in softball (2012) and men's swimming & diving (2015). He has also served as the media director for the 2013 and 2015 A-10 Softball Championships.
 
Henry was at the forefront of a number of important events at UMass, including the football program's transition to the Football Bowl Subdivision and Derrick Gordon's landmark announcement in April 2014 when he became the first openly gay Division I men's basketball player. He also successfully promoted a pair of Academic All-America honorees in men's soccer and Michaela Butler at the 2013 & 2014 NCAA Swimming & Diving Championships where she earned three all-America honors in diving, becoming the first All-American diver in conference history.
 
Prior to his time at UMass, Henry served three years as the Sports Information Director at Lamar University from 2007-10. In addition to working with the baseball, men's basketball, men's and women's golf, women's soccer and volleyball teams, that was also the time the university restarted the FCS football program after a 20-year hiatus. He led the department into the social media realm, creating the first twitter accounts and authoring the first-ever athletics blog at LU.
 
He also worked at the University of Missouri and UTEP for three years from 2004-07 and completed an internship at Vanderbilt University.

Henry has worked on the media coordination staffs of more than 20 bowl games, including 10 Cotton Bowl Classics. He also did an internship with the American Junior Golf Association in the summer of 1999.
 
A 2004 graduate of Troy University with a degree in journalism and sports information, he worked three years in the SID office where he served as the contact for the Trojan baseball, golf and volleyball teams. He also worked in the SID office at SMU from 1996-99.
 
A native of Tucson, Ariz., he and his wife Tracy have a daughter, Abigail, and a son, Andrew.