Inside Athletics | 3/23/2025 12:05:00 PM

Granville, Ohio- Denison University Athletics Communications is excited to announce the addition of Hailey Owens as the Assistant Director of Athletics Communications & Digital Media. Owens brings extensive experience in photography, videography, graphic design, and traditional sports information responsibilities such as writing and scoring.

She joins Denison's Athletics Communications staff after a year and a half as the Associate Director of Athletics Communications at Otterbein University. Before working as a Cardinal Owens spent six years at Baldwin Wallace University. While there, she was a two-year letterwinner in softball and earned her bachelor's degree in sports management in the spring of 2021. From 2021-23, she remained in Berea, Ohio, as an athletic communications graduate assistant while she earned her MBA with a focus on sports management. At BW, she served as the primary contact for cross country, golf, swimming and diving, tennis, and track and field. She also managed and oversaw all tasks relating to social media, videography, graphic design and photography.

Director of Athletics Communications Ashleigh Jones shared, "I'm ecstatic to have Hailey join the Denison Athletics Communications staff. Much like me, she believes in training and developing students so that they are equipped with transferable skills that translate into their respective professional careers. Hailey has a vision for Dension Athletics, and as I continue to build our team of professionals, I look forward to finding ambitious and creative people to help us elevate Denison throughout the Midwest and beyond."

Owens will lead content creation and management of all the Denison Big Red social media accounts while assisting Jones in rebuilding the Denison Sports Network student workforce. One of her main responsibilities will be supporting and developing young creatives while also assisting in covering all 26 of Denison's varsity programs.