Ryan Powell serves as the associate director in the media relations office, serving as primary contact for football, men's basketball and baseball.

Powell comes to UND after most recently spending two years as associate director of athletics communication at the University of Central Florida, where he served as the primary contact for UCF's 2007 Conference USA champion football team and 2008 NCAA East Region qualifying women's golf team.

While at UCF, Powell successfully promoted the school's first consensus football All-American, Kevin Smith, who was a third-round pick in the 2009 NFL Draft by the Detroit Lions. Powell also served as the media coordinator for the 2007 NCAA Women's Golf Championship in Daytona Beach, Fla.

Prior to his stint at UCF, served two years as the associate director of media relations with Conference USA, based in Irving, Texas. At C-USA, he served as the league's co-contact for football and primary contact for indoor and outdoor track and field, cross country and softball. He also served as interim men's basketball contact during the 2005-06 season.