Entering 2025-26: 5th Year
Alma Mater: WKU ('15 & '21)
Sheldon Dossett joined Campbellsville University in June 2021. He serves as the lead communications director for Campbellsville University’s Athletics and oversees the Assistant Director of Athletics Communications, athletics communication graduate assistants, and the many student interns hired each year.
In service of those duties, Dossett publishes weekly press releases, coordinates press conferences for major announcements, maintains historical records and data, up-to-date photo files, and current team statistics, supervises the athletic department’s on-line website, handles staging as it relates to media needs for home athletic events, arranges interviews for athletes and department personnel with local and national media representatives, seeks to procure publicity for athletic teams, coaches, staff, and student-athletes, and prepares information contained in game-day programs. Additionally, Dossett coordinates the design and distribution of athletic marketing materials and manages social media efforts in cooperation with athletics staff, coaches, and administration.
Dossett is also responsible for promoting the philosophy and objectives of the University's athletics program through marketing and branding. Furthermore, Dossett handles the nomination of student-athletes and coaches for awards throughout the year, including Academic All-MSC, NCCAA Scholar-Athlete, NAIA Scholar-Athlete, and MSC Student-Athlete of the Year, as well as MSC, NCCAA and NAIA Players of the Week. He also serves as liaison with coaching staffs for the annual awards night each spring.
Before joining Campbellsville University, Dossett served as Academic Outreach Specialist at Western Kentucky University for nearly 4 years. He graduated from WKU with a Bachelor of Arts in Public Relations (2015) and a Master of Science in Recreation and Sport Administration with a Concentration in Intercollegiate Athletic Administration (2021). While in the Master's program at WKU, Dossett was a Media Relations intern with Western Kentucky University Athletics.
In 2022-23, one of Dossett's assistants Zach Clements earned the Mid-South Conference Assistant Sports Information Director of the Year Award.
Dossett and his wife Hilary live in Campbellsville with their daughter Ruby and dogs Kirby and Coco.
