Bio

Kennan Timm's 37 years as UW-Oshkosh's sports information director have extended well beyond the coordination of the publicity for the school's 19-sport athletics program.  

Timm has served as the host media relations director for the finals of 31 NCAA Division III Championships as well as over 50 Division III regional tournaments.

In 2007, Timm became the first sports information director in Division III history to host two different national championships on the same weekend when UW-Oshkosh hosted the finals for both baseball and men's and women's outdoor track & field. He also duplicated the task in 2008.

Following the retirement of UW-Oshkosh Director of Athletics Allen Ackerman in 2010, Timm became the local committee chair for the Division III Baseball Championship that was held in Appleton from 2000-18.

Timm has organized and chaired three major fund-raising activities at UW-Oshkosh, including the Titan Extravaganza Party which has raised nearly $300,000 for the athletics department since 1992. A Titan Getaway Raffle he created brought in over $57,000 from 1991-97.

Since arriving on the UW-Oshkosh campus for the 1985-86 academic year, Timm has been in charge of publicizing one of the most successful athletics programs in Division III history. UW-Oshkosh has captured 31 Division III titles during Timm's tenure, including three during the 1995-96 academic year.  

Timm began his sports information career as a student assistant at UW-La Crosse. He was named the school's full-time sports information director in 1983 and served in that capacity for the following two years. Timm's tenure at UW-La Crosse included the promotion of four NCAA Division III championship teams. He also served on the school's Wall of Fame Committee and helped form the L-Club, the major fundraising organization of UW-La Crosse athletics.

The Oshkosh West High School graduate was a member of the wrestling media relations staff at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles (Calif.) and worked three years as a radio/television spotter in the press box for Green Bay Packer preseason and regular season football games. Timm has been the official statistician for the Wisconsin High School All-Star Football Classic since 1985 and the official scorer the WIAA state baseball tournament in Appleton since 1998.

Timm, a winner of 18 publication awards from CoSIDA and the NAIA, has seen seven of his former student assistants continue in the sports information profession. Among them are former University of Minnesota Associate and UW-Platteville Sports Information Director Becky Bohm, former UW-La Crosse Sports Information Director Todd Clark and current St. Norbert College Sports Information Director Dan Lukes.

Timm, a 1990 graduate of UW-La Crosse, was inducted into the CoSIDA Hall of Fame in 2012. He was also named the winner of CoSIDA's prestigious Warren Berg Award in 2009.

Timm, and his wife, Janis, are the parents of daughter, Jennifer, and son, Cory.

8/26/2021