Mike DeGeorge - Deputy AD/Brand & Communications - Staff Directory

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Mike DeGeorge

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Deputy AD/Brand & Communications
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Mike DeGeorge was named deputy athletics director/brand & communications for Florida Atlantic University in November 2023. In this role, DeGeorge serves on the department's executive leadership team, while overseeing the communications, marketing, creative and broadcast units.

Working closely with Vice President and Director of Athletics Brian White on department-wide strategic communications and brand enhancement initiatives, DeGeorge acts as the primary spokesperson for FAU Athletics. Additionally, he serves as the sport administrator for women's soccer.

DeGeorge possesses nearly two decades of Division I collegiate experience, including six years at Duke University (2017-23) where he was executive director of communications and led the media relations efforts for men's basketball.

While with the Blue Devils, DeGeorge directed the communications efforts for the school's high-profile men's basketball program and was the team's liaison to the local and national media. He helped promote and publicize multiple national award winners, including two national players of the year and a pair of No. 1 NBA draft picks in Zion Williamson and Paolo Banchero.

DeGeorge spearheaded the communication strategies and media planning for the retirement announcement of Hall of Fame head coach Mike Krzyzewski and hiring of new head coach Jon Scheyer in 2022. He also collaborated regularly with the program's creative team that manages the most-followed social media accounts in collegiate sports -- @DukeMBB.

In 2019, DeGeorge was promoted to Duke's executive director of communications and assumed oversight of the eight full-time communications staff members. He served on the external relations leadership team, spent time as the men's golf media contact and was the secondary sport administrator for the baseball program.

DeGeorge moved to Duke following a two-year stint as the assistant athletics director for communications and broadcasting at Kennesaw State University where he led the communications, creative and broadcasting units, and served as the football media contact.

Serving on the department's leadership team during the birth of its Division I football program, DeGeorge, in strategic efforts to enhance and expand Kennesaw State's brand in the Atlanta metro area, negotiated the school's initial media rights contracts. KSU became the first Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) program in a Top 10 media market to secure a local television agreement.

He spent five years on the sports information staff at Georgia Tech as the primary contact for football and baseball, and five years prior at the University of Richmond, where he was the media contact for football, which won the 2008 Division I National Championship, and baseball.

A native of Buffalo, N.Y., DeGeorge holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Dayton and began his career in collegiate athletics as a communications intern at Xavier University in 2006.