Jim Hall, UGF Athletic Director

College: Northwest Missouri State University, M.S. Education: Health & Physical Education; Grinnell College: B.A.: History

Hometown: Fresno, CA

Email: jhall01@ugf.edu

Phone: 406-791-5926

Seasons at UGF: 1st Season as UGF Athletic Director

Jim Hall enters his first season as the Athletic Director at the University of Great Falls. He began his duties in August 2007. Hall comes to the University of Great Falls from Fresno Pacific University where he has been the women’s basketball coach since the 2005-2006 seasons. He left on March 1, 2007 because he wanted to pursue other administrative options including becoming an athletic director.

Before his job at FPU, Jim guided the women’s basketball teams at Simpson University in Redding, California and the University of Minnesota-Morris for three seasons.

He has turned around some floundering programs into national champions. The women’s basketball team at Simpson University never had a winning season before Hall took over the program. Under his leadership, Hall experienced their first winning season, earned a NAIA post-season berth, and won three consecutive National Christian Collegiate Athletic Association (NCCAA) II West Region Championships while compiling a 54-40 record. His 2002 team took home the NCCAA Division II Final Four National Championship. He was named the NCAAA II West Regional Coach of the Year.

In 2003, he took over the women’s team at the University of Minnesota-Morris (UMM), a NCAA Division II school that had gone winless in the two previous seasons (0-56). The team improved to 13-14 in Hall’s second season in 2004 and 10-15 in 2005.

This will be his first time as an athletic director but he has broad administrative background including serving as Title IX compliance offer in an athletic department and served as the Athletic Facilities Coordinator at Tennessee Temple University in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Jim is a native of Bedford, Indiana and graduated form Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa in 1995 with a bachelor’s degree in History. He was also a member of the Grinnell College basketball team where his team led in scoring in both his junior and senior seasons. In 1997, he attended Northwest Missouri State University in Maryville, Missouri where he completed a master of science in education (health and physical education).

Kevin Scott, UGF Sports Information Director

College: University of Montana-Western, 2002, BA: Business & Communications

Hometown: Great Falls, Montana

Email: kscott01@ugf.edu

Phone: 406-791-5916

Seasons at UGF: 1st Season as Sports Information Director

Kevin Scott enters his first season as the Sports Information Director (SID) at the University of Great Falls. He began his duties in July 2007. He is no stranger to UGF Athletic as he was on the University of Great Falls Athletic Association Lancer Booster Club for the past three years. He served as their Marketing Coordinator and created a monthly newsletter called the Lancerette that went out to all the fans and UGF students and staff with game recaps and other UGF athletic news.

He is in charge of the creating and sending out the Argo athletic press releases from the athletic department to the media outlets, fans and UGF staff and students. The new SID will also update the Argo Athletic website with news stories, rosters, sports schedules, etc. as well as calling in and faxing Argo scores and stats and other information to the media. During the sports season, he will post scores on the NAIA Scoreboard and Frontier Conference websites for fans.

Kevin is a graduate of Centerville High School in Sand Coulee, Montana and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Business & Communications from the University of Montana-Western in Dillon, Montana. This is the same college that produced current Lady Argo basketball coach Shawn Chaffin and assistant coach Jeff Graham. The new SID played basketball for Centerville and was a member of their Pep Club.

In 2002, he completed a college internship at KFBB-TV (ABC-TV affiliate in Great Falls, Montana) where he worked in various departments including sales/marketing, news/sports reporting, weather reporting and in the master control/commercial production departments.

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