Ashton Happ

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐠𝐞 𝐒𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐬: 𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐧 𝐒𝐦𝐢𝐭𝐡 Every game recap. Every senior-day tribute. Every long-form feature. Someone wrote it. In college athletics, the people who tell everyone else's stories almost never get one of their own. The communicators working at the stat table and long after the final whistle are the ones quietly molding how an entire department is seen by its fans. Today @FanWord is launching The Storytellers of College Sports, a series in partnership with @CollSportsComm, that puts those people at the front of the storytelling for once. Each feature profiles a communicator shaping the voice of their program. And tells the story of how they got there, what they've built, and the work that stays long after the year ends. First up — @BradenSmith2020, Director of Athletic Communications at @NWUSports: the-storytellers-of-college-…