Woodruff Joins UM Communications Staff
Sept. 7, 2011
CORAL GABLES, Fla. – BIG EAST veteran Amy Woodruff will join the Athletics Communications staff for the University of Miami on Sept. 7.
“We are excited to welcome an experienced communications professional to the best basketball league in college athletics,” said Chris Freet, Associate AD for Communications. “Following two years of hoops experience in the BIG EAST, our basketball program and Coach Larranaga have welcomed a new addition that is one of the rising talents in the industry.”
Woodruff is leaving the University of South Florida after a five-year stay with the Tampa-based school. She worked primarily with men’s basketball, as well as serving as the secondary contact for football and handling oversight for communications interns and the student workforce in her most recent position. In previous years, Woodruff also served as the primary contact for baseball, men’s and women’s soccer, men’s and women’s golf and sailing, as well as the secondary contact for women’s basketball.
Woodruff was the media contact for the Bulls basketball team during the 2009-10 campaign that saw USF play in the postseason NIT for the first time in eight years. She also promoted junior guard Dominique Jones for AP Honorable Mention All-America honors.
Throughout USF’s 2008 baseball season, the Gallatin, Mo., native successfully promoted Ryan Lockwood to Collegiate Baseball Newspaper Freshman Player of the Year and both Lockwood and Stephen Hunt to Freshman All-America status.
Away from USF, Woodruff was a media assistant for the 2009 Super Bowl, held in Tampa, and served as the assistant media coordinator for the 2011 NCAA Basketball Second and Third Rounds.
Prior to USF, Woodruff was a communications assistant for the American Junior Golf Association and directed the sports information department at Graceland University in southern Iowa for three years.
Woodruff graduated cum laude from the University of Alaska Fairbanks with a degree in news-editorial journalism and a minor in cold lands geography. At UAF, she was nationally ranked in three-point shooting percentage and three-pointers made and set school records in three-point shots made in a game, season and career for the Nanook basketball team.
The student speaker at her May 2002 commencement, Woodruff was the first student-athlete to graduate from UAF with leadership honors and earned the Most Assists with Children award her junior year, for her community service efforts.
The valedictorian of the Gallatin High School Class of 1998, she was all-state in softball, basketball, shot put, discus, academics, band and choir while serving as the Student Council President.
