Chris Coombs

Biography

Chris Coombs joined the WVU Department of Intercollegiate Athletics in February of 2023, where he serves as an Assistant Director of Athletics Communications and the primary contact for the WVU women's basketball and rifle teams. Coombs previously served as the Sports Information Director at Lindsey Wilson College, an NAIA institution, in Columbia, Kentucky. He joined the Lindsey Wilson staff in 2017 where he served as a Sports Information Intern before moving into the program's assistant SID role. He worked as the department's assistant for three years beginning in the fall of 2018 before taking over as the head of the department in 2021. During his tenure with Lindsey Wilson, Coombs helped lead the communication efforts for one NAIA football national championship (2020) and one NAIA volleyball national championship (2017). A Warren, Pennsylvania native, Coombs was responsible for managing the communication efforts for twenty-six varsity sports. His department accrued fifteen national honors from the annual NAIA-SIDA Media and Publications Contest for his work on graphics, feature stories, feature videos and media game note packets at Lindsey Wilson. Coombs earned his bachelor's in sport management and a bachelor's in journalism from Miami of Ohio University and his master's degree in sports management from Cumberland University.