Cody Clark enters his third season at Auburn University at Montgomery and has spent more than seven seasons on a collegiate athletics administration team.
Steering the AUM athletics communication team, Clark has led a successful transition of volleyball and basketball broadcasts to Flo Sports, in alignment with the GSC's streaming deal with the company. He also instituted multi-camera productions across all other live-streamed sports for the first time in school history.
Under Clark's leadership, the department has seen tremendous growth across all social media platforms, highlighted by a 67 percent increase in followers, engagement, and impressions on the AUM baseball social media accounts. He also implemented digital content strategies that increased web traffic by 15 percent. He has helped transition the Warhawks to a completely digital game-day program experience and serves as the play-by-play broadcaster for AUM baseball games on the Warhawk Sports Network.
In Clark’s collegiate athletics tenure, he has covered four NCAA National Champion swimmers, four NCAA baseball tournament appearances, one NCAA Division II World Series, a Gulf South Conference regular-season baseball championship, a GSC baseball tournament championship, four NSISC swimming and diving championship teams, and a GSC Baseball Coach of the Year. He has helped promote four CSC Academic All-Americans, one United Soccer Coaches Scholar All-American, two ITA All-Americans, 35 GSC All-Academic team honorees, 38 CSC Academic All-District selections, 53 All-Americans, 67 All-Region honorees, and 82 All-GSC selections.
Clark ran successful promotional campaigns for three Dave "Boo" Ferriss Trophy Finalists (an annual award given to the Mississippi Collegiate Baseball Player of the Year), two Conerly Trophy Finalists (awarded to the best college football player in the state of Mississippi), and a USA Baseball Golden Spikes Award semifinalist. He also handled the social media campaign for the first baseball player in NCAA Division II history to be named the American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA)/Rawlings National Player of the Year in consecutive seasons.
Before joining the Warhawks, Clark worked at Delta State University, where he was responsible for all things digital in the athletics communications department, including oversight of digital media strategies and content, the athletics website, publication/graphic design, supervision of graduate assistants, part-time staff and student-workers, and management of the Statesmen Sports Network. Additionally, he served as the radio and live-streaming play-by-play broadcaster for football, men's basketball, and baseball. Additionally, Clark was instrumental in creating the Statesmen Nation mobile app.
Clark also spent two years at Delta State from 2016-2018, where he served as an External Relations/Athletic Communications graduate assistant. He worked with the cross country, soccer, basketball, and baseball programs and also served as a broadcaster of soccer matches and midweek radio broadcasts of Statesmen baseball.
Before his second stint with the Statesmen, Clark worked with Hubbard Broadcasting in West Palm Beach, Fla. as the sports update anchor for Fox Sports 640 and as a producer on NewsTalk 850 WFTL.
Following his two years as a graduate assistant, Clark worked with the National Basketball Association's (NBA) Orlando Magic as its Broadcast Coordinator. In that role, he assisted with the day-to-day operations of the Magic Radio Network and served as a locker room correspondent for home games. He also produced halftime features, other audio content, and Orlando's daily in-season radio show, Magic Drive Time.
"We are lucky to have Cody, and his wife Katherine, here in Montgomery with our Auburn University at Montgomery family," Assistant AD for External Relations Tim Lutz said. "Cody has a proven background in professionally promoting programs and student-athletes and brings a wealth of broadcasting experience to our department. His work is well-respected within the Gulf South Conference and across the nation through his involvement with CSC. He is the ultimate team player and conducts himself with class anytime he represents AUM. I look forward to the future of our talented sports information team under Cody's leadership."
A native of Lexington, S.C., Clark earned his undergraduate degree from Waldorf University in Forest City, Iowa, where he was a four-year member of the Warriors' cross country and track and field teams. He was a four-time Daktronics-NAIA Scholar-Athlete and twice earned All-Conference honors in cross country. He also served as the station manager for KZOW 91.9 FM, Waldorf's student radio station, and was the radio play-by-play announcer for volleyball and men's and women's basketball. Clark earned a Master of Science in Sport and Human Performance with a concentration in Sport Management from Delta State in 2018.
As an active College Sports Communicators (CSC) member, Clark was recently recognized with a 2023-2024 "Best in NCAA Division II" award in the organization's Creative & Digital Design contest for his statistical milestone graphic celebrating former softball player Olivia Aycock, who set new program records in career hits and career runs scored.
Clark chairs the GSC Athletics Communicators Committee, serves on the AUM Athletics Hall of Fame committee, and serves as a unit representative on AUM's Staff Council. He served as the Media Coordinator for the 2024 South Region I softball tournament and was the emcee for the 2024 AUM Athletics Hall of Fame induction ceremony. He represented AUM and the NCAA Division II South Region on a working group of Athletics Communicators that helped prepare and plan the division's 50th-anniversary celebration throughout the 2023-2024 athletics year. Clark also completed Auburn University at Montgomery's AUM Aspire program, a leadership development program for AUM supervisors.
Clark also serves as a D2CSC men's basketball national Top 25 poll and South Region poll voter.
He and his wife, Katherine, reside in Montgomery with their son, Cove.
