Grant Cohen enters his second season with Tarleton State Athletics in 2025-26 as the Assistant Athletic Director for Media Relations.
Cohen serves as the primary media contact for the women’s basketball, men’s golf and tennis programs in addition to being the secondary contact for football. Cohen leads the sports information track and the media relations efforts to further Tarleton State Athletics coverage and awareness. He also assists in the game day operations for all other sports.
The Wichita, Kansas, native has worked with five professional tennis tournaments, four professional sport organizations and four NCAA Division I institutions during his career. In his first season at Tarleton State, Cohen earned one of the most meaningful honors for young communications and creative professionals in college sports in his first season as a Texan. Cohen was one of 30 honorees nationwide to be named to the College Sports Communicators 30 Under 30 Class of 2024.
Prior to his arrival at Tarleton State, Cohen was the Assistant Director of Strategic Communications at Nevada for two seasons. Serving as the primary sports information director for women’s basketball and women’s soccer, Cohen increased social media engagement and led the reconstruction of NevadaWolfPack.com. Cohen’s video on soccer coach Vanessa Valentine’s journey to the U.S. Beach Soccer Team was awarded “Best Video Feature” by United Soccer Coaches in its 2023 Media Contest.
Returning to collegiate athletics in 2022, Cohen spent the 2021-22 season in professional tennis. As the Media Relations Manager for HolterMedia in Jacksonville, Florida, Cohen was the media relations director for various professional tennis tournaments, including World TeamTennis, Spring Tennis Festival and the ATP Tour’s Delray Beach Open. He also assisted with the media relations efforts with ATP Tour tournaments, such as the US Men’s Clay Court Championships in Houston and the Western & Southern Open in Cincinnati.
Cohen’s professional sports background includes stints with teams from four professional sport organizations, including the Washington Commanders, Nashville Predators, NBA Summer League and the Reno Aces.
Cohen began his athletic communications background as a student at Wichita State, where he worked with softball plus men’s and women’s golf. Cohen worked as a graduate assistant at Belmont and served as the SID for women’s soccer, baseball and men’s tennis. His baseball game notes placed third in the nation for spring sports game notes in the 2021 College Sports Communicators Publications Contest.
Cohen earned a bachelor’s degree in communications with a journalism emphasis from Wichita State University in 2019. He earned a master’s degree in Sport Administration from Belmont University in 2021.
