Andy Seeley joined the UCF Athletics staff in June 2012 as Assistant Director of Athletics for Communictations. He was promoted to Associate Director of Athletics for Strategic Communications in 2016.
Seeley is responsible for the creation and implementation of a strategic communications plan, coordination of media coverage and serves as UCF Athletics' primary spokesperson. Seeley supervises the athletics communications office, is responsible for the department's community relations efforts and serves as managing editor of UCFKnights.com, UCFKnights.TV and War-On-I4.com. He is the day-to-day media relations/communications contact for the Knights' football program, the men's and women's golf teams and also the UCF Athletics administrative team.
In addition to his role at UCF, Seeley has been a member of the College Sports Information Directors Board of Directors as an officer from 2013-2018. He served as the organization's president during the 2016-17 school year.
Seeley came to UCF from Minnesota, where he spent four years as the associate director of athletic communications and served as the primary media contact and communications manager for the Golden Gophers' football and men's gymnastics programs. During his time at Minnesota, Seeley developed and spearheaded department-wide implementation of blogs, interactive live-event blogging and the increase of video content on the Gophers' website. He created public/media relations campaigns for student-athletes and teams and also managed Minnesota's social media channels.
Prior to his stint at Minnesota, Seeley spent four years at Utah, where he concluded his tenure as the associate sports information director, handling publicity efforts for the men's basketball and women's soccer programs. During his time with the Utes, Seeley also worked closely with football, women's basketball and baseball.
Seeley served as the sports information director at Northwest Missouri State University from 1997-2004. He was responsible for all communications efforts for Northwest, which is one of the top athletics programs in NCAA Division II. During his tenure at Northwest, the Bearcats won two NCAA D-II championships in football and advanced to two Elite Eights in men's basketball.
Seeley began his athletic communications career with USA Roller Sports. He served as sports information director for the Lincoln, Neb.-based organization, which is the national governing body for roller speed skating, roller figure skating and roller hockey and is affiliated with the United States Olympic Committee.
Seeley earned his bachelor's degree in physical education from Northwest Missouri State University in 1994. He is a native of Milford, Neb. He is married to the former Jill Draper and has two children - Bryant, who is currently serving in the United States Navy and Morgan, who is in middle school. Seeley and his family reside in Orlando.