Andrew Melroe is in his fifth year with Mizzou Athletics and second as an Associate Director of Strategic Communications. His primary responsibilities include handling the communications efforts for women’s basketball, tennis, while assisting with football.
Melroe is in his second year as the main contact for the nationally-ranked women’s basketball program. In 2018-19, Melroe handled the communications efforts for the program’s fourth consecutive NCAA Tournament appearance, and helped lead the charge for publicity of the team’s first-ever All-American, Sophie Cunningham.
In his first three years at Mizzou, Melroe served as the SID for the wrestling and track & field/cross country programs. Both team’s enjoyed much success during this term, as the wrestling team captured three conference titles, while the two programs combined for eight top-20 NCAA team finishes, eight individual national titles, 27 individual conference titles and 36 individual All-America honors. During this tenure, Melroe gained the experience of promoting two of most successful athletes in Mizzou Athletics history, J’den Cox and Karissa Schweizer.
Melroe oversaw the publicity efforts for Cox’s 2016 Olympic bronze medalist run, orchestrating numerous media and public appearances, which included a campus-wide kickoff event, a welcome back reception and Cox singing the national anthem at Memorial Stadium prior to a Mizzou Football game.
Before arriving in Columbia, Melroe worked for the Minnesota State University Moorhead Athletic Department over the 2014-15 athletic season and for the Mountain West Conference from July-October 2015. At MSUM, Melroe was the primary media contact for the men’s basketball and volleyball teams. He assisted in the image of Dragon Athletics while in Moorhead by creating a team-specific twitter page for the men’s basketball team and establishing graphic design for social media use throughout all of its sports. As a social media intern at the Mountain West, Melroe assisted in the social media preparation and execution for the conference’s football and men’s basketball media day events, held in Las Vegas. Melroe worked to reach a wider audience while working in conference office by creating graphics for social media use and launching a snapchat account for the conference.
Melroe graduated from the University of Missouri with a bachelor’s degree in Parks, Recreation and Tourism with an emphasis in Sport Management in August 2014. While at Mizzou, he worked as an intern for the volleyball team and the Mizzou Strategic Communications office, where he volunteered at the 2014 SEC Football Media Days.
A native of Eagan, Minn., Melroe graduated from Eastview High School in Apple Valley, Minn., in June 2010 where he was a videographer for the football and hockey teams.
Melroe and his fiancé, Megan, live in Columbia.