Matt Ensor

Title: Senior Director of Communications

Matt Ensor joined the Big 12 Conference as Senior Director of Communications in August of 2024 after a nine-year stint in a variety of positions in the Athletic Communications Office at the University of Arizona. In his current position, Ensor manages the day-to-day strategic communications of Big 12 Football, advances the conference’s football narratives and storytelling and serves as media relations director for the Big 12 Football Championship game among other key duties.

Ensor spent nine years at the University of Arizona, which began as the Associate Director of Communication Services and primary Men’s Basketball contact for three seasons. He was named head of the communications office in 2018 and was promoted several times through the years, reaching Associate A.D. for Communications in 2023. During his time leading communications on behalf of the athletic department, he oversaw five full-time communications staffers, two full-time sports photographers and 10 undergraduate student interns. Ensor’s other duties included serving as the crisis communication lead with campus partners.

During his first three seasons in Tucson, the Wildcats won back-to-back regular season and Pac-12 tournament championships while producing a pair of consensus All-Americans and top-10 NBA Draft picks in Deandre Ayton and Lauri Markkanen.  
 
Ensor spent three years at the University of New Mexico Athletics Department prior to arriving in Tucson. He was the primary contact for a variety of Lobo teams, including men’s basketball, men’s soccer, women’s basketball and women’s soccer during his time in Albuquerque. He was also the media relations coordinator for the MLS's Colorado Rapids' exhibition hosted by UNM and the George Strait and Martina McBride concert held in The Pit.

He joined UNM after spending the previous year as the Assistant Sports Information Director at Division II Georgia Southwestern. There he was the primary media contact for the Hurricanes' men's soccer, women's basketball and softball teams. He also assisted with GSW's seven other athletic programs.

His entrance into the athletic communications field was as a graduate assistant at Virginia Commonwealth University during the 2010-11 academic year. His time in Richmond was highlighted by his involvement with Coach Shaka Smart and the VCU Rams' magical run to the Final Four of the 2011 NCAA Tournament as the secondary media contact for the team.

Ensor grew up in Eugene, Oregon and graduated from the School of Journalism and Communication at the University of Oregon in 2009. He earned his master's degree from the Center for Sport Leadership at VCU in 2011 where he also currently serves on the Alumni Advisory Board of the CSL at VCU that focuses on growing exposure for the program, expanding the alumni network and fundraising for scholarships.