Thomas Jefferson University

Rob Cunningham took over the position of Director of Athletic Communications at Jefferson in November 2018.

Cunningham came to the Rams after spending two years as the Assistant Director of Athletic Communications at his alma mater, Rowan University. While in Glassboro, Cunningham was the primary contact for 10 of the Profs' 18 intercollegiate sports at the Division III level. He was the lead athletic communications contact for three NCAA Tournament events as Rowan hosted the first and second rounds of the men’s soccer tournament in 2016 and 2017 as well as the first and second rounds of the women’s lacrosse tournament in 2018. In this role, Cunningham produced the tournament program, coordinated all media needs, compiled the official statistics and facilitated all postgame press conferences. Cunningham previously served Rowan as Athletic Communications Assistant from 2013-15. He was also a student worker in the Athletic Communications office for three years.

Between his two stints in Glassboro, Cunningham was the first-ever Assistant Director of Sports Information at Delaware Valley University (2015-16). While in Doylestown, Cunningham launched the first DelVal Athletics YouTube channel and produced video content featuring game highlights and student-athlete achievements. He also made numerous improvements to the DelVal Athletics website.

During his undergraduate career at Rowan, Cunningham was an active member of both Rowan Radio 89.7 WGLS-FM and the Rowan Television Network (RTN). He served as Sports Director of WGLS for the 2012-13 year and was Sports Producer of RTN in the spring of 2011. Cunningham was the In-Studio Host and Producer for the Wilmington Blue Rocks (Advanced-A affiliate of the Kansas City Royals) on WGLS for the 2012 season.

Cunningham provided commentary for several radio and television broadcasts of Rowan athletic events, including the Rowan baseball team’s 2013 New Jersey Athletic Conference Championship victory. He was also the producer of the RTN series, Face Off, a sports talk show, from 2011-13. In addition, Cunningham was the men’s soccer beat writer for the University’s student-run newspaper, The Whit, for two seasons. After graduating, he continued to assist WGLS by serving as an on-air DJ on Sunday evenings from 2013-18.

Cunningham’s work has been recognized by the Broadcast Education Association, Garden State Journalists Association, Hermes Creative Awards and Society of Professional Journalists. He is a member of the Philadelphia Sports Writers Association and College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA). Cunningham serves on the Charities Committee of the Eastern College Athletic Conference Sports Information Directors Association as well as the CoSIDA Young Professionals Committee. He previously spent time as an official scorer for the independent Camden Riversharks of the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball.

Cunningham earned a pair of bachelor’s degrees in radio/television/film and broadcast journalism from Rowan in 2013 and received a master’s in sport science with a concentration in sport administration from Lock Haven University in 2018. A native of Egg Harbor Twp., N.J., he now resides in Blackwood, N.J.