Bio

Kennan Timm's 37 years as UW-Oshkosh's sports information director have extended well beyond the coordination of the publicity, keeping statistics, managing the website and producing publications for the school's 19-sport athletics program. 

Timm has served as the host media relations director for the finals of 31 National Collegiate Athletic Association 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 during the same weekend when UW-Oshkosh hosted the finals for both baseball and men's and women's outdoor track & field. UW-Oshkosh and Timm 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 at Fox Cities Stadium in Appleton from 2000-18.

Timm has organized and chaired three major fundraising activities during his tenure 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 overseen publicizing one of the most successful athletics programs in Division III history. UW-Oshkosh has captured 34 national 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 1982 and served in that capacity for the following two years. Timm's tenure at UW-La Crosse included the promotion of four national championship teams. He also helped form the L-Club, the current 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 as a radio/television spotter in the press box for Green Bay Packer preseason and regular season football games from 1993-97. Timm has been the official statistician for the Wisconsin High School All-Star Football Classic since 1985 and the official scorer the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association State Baseball Tournament in Appleton since 1998.

Timm, a 1990 graduate of UW-La Crosse, was inducted into the College Sports Information Directors of America 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, live in De Pere with their daughter, Jennifer, and son, Cory.