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Three Promoted to Assistant Athletics Director

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Three Promoted to Assistant Athletics Director

BATON ROUGE — Jim Hawthorne, Kevin Wagner and Ward Wyatt have been promoted to Assistant Athletics Directors at LSU, Director of Athletics Skip Bertman announced on Wednesday.

Hawthorne, who is in his 20th years as the “Voice of the Tigers,” has been promoted to assistant athletic director for radio, while Wagner has been promoted to assistant athletic director for television. Wyatt has been elevated to assistant athletic director for marketing.

Hawthorne, who handles the play-by-play for LSU football, men’s basketball and baseball, handles affiliate relations for the LSU Sports Network as well as any LSU programming on the network.

Wagner oversees the television department within the LSU athletic department, which includes TigerVision as well as the producing and directing of all of the coaches TV shows.

Wyatt will handle the day-to-day dealings with LSU corporate sponsors as well as the marketing and promotions of football, men’s basketball and baseball.