Brian Hennessy

Brian Hennessy is in his 23rd year at Clemson and serves as a senior associate director of athletic communications. The Clemson, S.C. native also worked as a student and graduate assistant in the athletic communications office for six years (1995-00).

He is responsible for all operations for baseball and is the secondary football contact. He served as coordinator of publications, as he was editor of Orange The Experience magazine from 2015-18. Hennessy also coordinates the office’s photography, including managing the photographers and digital photo library.

He has written and edited the baseball guide (1998-00,03-23) and football guide (2002-14,17-23). He has received numerous CoSIDA and College Sports Communicators honors for his baseball guides, including No. 1 national rankings in 2014 and 2017, and No. 2 rankings in 2005, 2015 and 2016.

He has been responsible for layout and editing of the football gameday programs since 2002 and had it ranked No. 1 in the nation for the 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022 series, and No. 2 in 2008, 2012 and 2013.

He graduated from Clemson in 1998 and received a master’s degree from Clemson in 2000.