Primary Communication Contact: Football, Volleyball, M/W Basketball, Softball, Men's Lacrosse
JaeLynn Ellison enters her 11th year with Jewell in 2025-2026, serving as Senior Associate Athletics Director/Senior Woman Administrator and advisor of the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee.
• July 2015 | Named Coordinator of Media Relations
• July 1, 2017 | Elevated to Director of Sports Information & Operations
• July 1, 2019 | Selected to serve on the NCAA-II Volleyball Midwest Regional Advisory Committee (2019-2022)
• July 1, 2019 | Elevated to Assistant Athletics Director for Communication
• July 7, 2020 | Named to GLVC Diversity & Inclusion Committee
• June 2022 | Nominee for College Sports Communicators Rising Star Award
• June 3, 2023 | Named Senior Woman Administrator
• October 2023 | Selected to the GLVC Strategic Planning Committee
• July 1, 2025 | Elevated to Senior Associate Athletics Director
• Is an active member of the College Sports Communicators (CSC) serving on the Academic All-America Core Committee
• Graduate of the CSC Diversity and Inclusion Fellowship
• Member of the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA)
• Graduate of the Doniphan Leadership Program
• Became the first woman to serve as the lead statistician for the NCAA-II Men's Basketball Elite Eight and National Championship, doing so in 2023, 2024, and 2025
• Placed third nationally in 2019 and fifth in 2022 in the College Sports Communicators (CSC) Publications and Digital Design Contest (College Division) for her men's basketball game notes
• Placed fifth in the nation in 2023 in the CSC Publications and Digital Design Contest (Winter Statistics Milestone category) for a graphic recognizing Mason Alexander's all-time career minutes record and was 12th nationally in 2025 with a graphic celebrating the same milestone by Jordan Jermain
• Has served on panels on behalf of CSC speaking regarding various topics, including operating the communication office during the pandemic and leading as a woman in a male-dominated industry
• Served a three-year term on the NCAA-II Midwest Volleyball Regional Advisory Committee
• Has served as the NCAA Site Representative for the Midwest Regional Volleyball Championship four times
• Selected to serve as a member of the GLVC Strategic Planning Committee in October 2023
• Was named the Director of Sports Information in 2017, becoming one of the youngest female lead SIDs in the country
• 2022 nominee for the Rising Star Award by College Sports Communicators, recognizing top athletics communication professionals under the age of 30
• Served a two-year term as a member of Jewell's Staff Council and was a 2024 nominee for the College's Staff Member of the Year award
• Served as the Sports Information Director at Labette Community College in Parsons, Kansas
• Responsible for implementing a new live stream system, two social media platforms, as well as compiling record books for three sports
• Her photography has been featured in six Kansas Associated Press award-winning pieces
• A fourth-generation collegiate athlete, Ellison played four years of softball, including two at fellow GLVC member, Drury University
• Was an All-Conference selection as a pitcher at Labette Community College, leading the Cardinals to a national ranking as high as No. 5, and a top-8 appearance at the NJCAA Division II National Tournament
• Led the Cardinal staff in innings pitched, ERA, and opponent batting average while walking only 15 batters in more than 122 innings of work as a sophomore
• Ranked 25th nationally in ERA in 2012 and graduated as the program's leader in career ERA
• Was also a two-time Academic All-Conference selection
• Led the Hollister High School (MO) softball program to the first district championship in a girls sport in school history and the first back-to-back titles in any sport
• Was a two-time All-Conference, All-Area and All-District selection in softball while also earning All-Conference and All-Area honors in basketball
• Named the school's Female Athlete of the Year as a senior
• Became first softball player in Hollister High School history to compete at the collegiate level
• A native of Forsyth, Missouri
• Holds an associate degree in communication from Labette (2012), a bachelor's degree in multimedia production and journalism from Drury University (2014) and a master's degree and graduate certificate in recreation and sport management and intercollegiate athletic administration from Western Kentucky (2021)
• Her mother Karen was the first member of the women's basketball 1,000 point club at College of the Ozarks (MO) while her father Jeff also played baseball for CofO
