Commissioner Reid Amos

Reid Amos brings an extensive background in administration and athletics to go with a sincere passion for the NCAA Division II experience as the Mountain East Conference commissioner.

Amos, the unanimous choice by the MEC Board of Directors in November 2012 to serve as commissioner, has helped direct the league to extreme heights in just a short amount of time with the MEC having earned a reputation as a regional and national power.

In virtually each of the 23 sports sponsored by the MEC, teams have reached new heights since associating with the conference. Since the conference began competing in 2013, 15 teams have reached the national semifinals and eight have played for a national championship. The MEC has also produced three of NCAA Division II championships with Wheeling’s title in volleyball in 2015 and the University of Charleston’s championships in men’s soccer in 2017 and 2019 -- the first ever team NCAA championships for any school in any sport.

Amos has also expanded the number of championships offered during his seven years. The MEC began with 17 championships in its first year, and then expanded to add women’s lacrosse and then used a strategic partnership with the Great Midwest Athletic Conference to add a championship in men’s and women’s swimming. Lastyear, theMECbecamethefirstNCAAconferencein the country to conduct a championship in the sport of acrobatics and tumbling. This year, the league added championships in wrestling and indoortrackand field, giving theleagueatotal of23championships -- among the most of any Division II league in the country.

In addition to his daily duties, Commissioner Amos recently began a term on the NCAA Division II Championships Committee. The committee is the primary oversight group responsible for administering policies and procedures surrounding the division’s 25 championships. The committee oversees the budget and conduct of these championships, as well as the

qualification and selection procedures foreach. All Division II sport committees report directly to the Championships Committee.

Prior to his Championships Committee appointment, was a member of the NCAA Division II Football Committee, including the last two as the chair. As chair, he helped oversee the bid process and site selection for the 2018 Division II Football Championship in McKinney, Texas.

Amos is also an active member of the Division II Conference Commissioner’s Association (D2CCA) as chair of the public relations committee. In thatcapacity, he helped the D2CCAbecome the official sponsor of the NCAA Division II all-region teams.

Amos has also helped lead efforts to help land NCAA championships in the MEC’s footprint. The league has co-hosted multiple softball and lacrosse championships, and served as the host for the 2019 NCAA Division II Men’s Golf Championship at The Resort at Glade Springs.

Commissioner Amos has helped raise the visibility of the league and its institutions with the development of the MEC Digital Network and the creation of the the Mountain East Conference Football “Game of the Week,” which has drawn thousands of online viewers since its inception. He also forged a partnership with WV MetroNews to deliverhigh-definition video streams on the web and provide radio coverage for the football and basketball games across the

region. In addition to multiple network-wide regular season basketball broadcasts, WVMetroNews will provide live coverage for the fourth-straight year of the MEC Basketball Tournament, including 14 high-definition video webcasts.

Prior to his role as commissioner, Amos was the Vice President of Broadcasting at West Liberty University. He was promoted to that role following a successful stint as the Executive Director for the WLU Office ofCommunications.

During his time at West Liberty, Amos’s work was instrumental in the growth of West Liberty University Television (WLTV-14), which today reaches more than 100,000 cable homes in West Virginia and Ohio. Known throughout the Upper Ohio Valley as the “Voice of the Hilltoppers,” he served as play-by-play announcer for approximately 50 televised football and basketball games each year at West Liberty.

Amos served as executive producer and play-by-play man on several WLTV telecasts that have aired on ROOT Sports, the regional cable sports network in Pittsburgh that reaches 2.5 million cable homes. He achieved a major coup when he successfully negotiated and coordinated the first-ever live telecast of the 2012 WVIAC Tournament’s men’s basketball championship game on ROOT Sports.

In addition to his experience as a member of the West Liberty University’s senior staff and broadcaster at West Liberty, Amos also has the benefit of being a successful collegiate coach and NCAA administrator. He enjoyed a highly successful run as head men’s golf coach at Fairmont State University from 2003-07. A two-time WVIAC Coach of the Year and the 2007 NCAA Division II East Region Coach of the Year, Amos led the Falcons to a pair of WVIAC championships, five consecutive NCAA Division II regional tournament bids and the 2007 NCAA Division II East Region championship. His career coaching record at Fairmont State was a sparkling 450-215-7 (.677).

From 2009-13, Amos served in NCAA governance as a member of the NCAA Division II Men’s Golf National Committee that administers the NCAA Division II national championship tournament. As part of that role, Amos has served as Chair of the Atlantic/East Regional Committee and has been the NCAA’s site representative for the NCAA Division II Atlantic/East Regional each year since 2009. Along with fellow national committee members, he served as a site representative for the NCAA Division II national championship tournament and was appointed Chair of the NCAA Division II Men’s Golf National Committee for the 2012-13 season.

Along with his work in broadcasting and athletics, Amos also brings extensive communications and marketing experience to the table. Since 2003, he has been the owner/operator of Intermedia Solutions, LLC, a multimedia consulting company working with many of the institutions he now serves in the MEC.

Amos was responsible for developing the largest Division II tournament radio network in the nation and has also worked as director of business development for an information technology government contractor as well as director of operations for a radio ownership group.

Amos cut his teeth in the broadcasting business during 13 years as Sports Director at WMMN-AM radio in Fairmont, W.Va., where he handled play-by-play duties for the football and basketball teams at Fairmont State. He began working at the station while still a student at FSU.

A Fairmont native and a graduate of Fairmont Senior High, Amos graduated from Fairmont State in 1994 with a B.A. in Speech Communication and earned his Master’s Degree in Communications from West Virginia University in 1996. He resides in Fairmont with his wife, Jennie, and their children, Elizabeth and Cate.