Brent Ingram is in his third year leading the athletics communications staff at Baylor and his first in 2024-25 as associate athletics director. He is the sport administrator for Baylor's tradition-rich baseball program.
Ingram joined the Baylor staff as assistant athletics director in Aug. of 2022 after spending four years at UTSA as the associate director of communications. He is tasked with the overall leadership of the communications office and as the primary contact for Baylor football.
He joined the UTSA staff after spending two years at UT Arlington and the previous 12 years working at the University of Kentucky.
He has worked with a diverse group of sports during his career, including baseball, men’s basketball, football, men’s and women’s tennis, track & field and cross country, men’s and women’s soccer, rifle and volleyball.
He was the president of the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association in 2022 and has been on the board of the NCBWA for the last 10 years, including his current role as Associate Executive Director, and serves on the College Sports Communicators Stabley Writing Contest and Publications Contest committees.
Ingram, the 2015 USA Baseball National Team Press Officer and 2016-21 Co-Vice President of the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association, was responsible at Kentucky for all the publicity efforts for the baseball program, and served as the assistant contact for UK football.
Ingram served as the Kentucky baseball contact for 12 seasons and was the men's soccer contact for seven, also working with the UK rifle program during a national title run. He worked with UK football as the secondary contact from 2013-15, marking his second tenure with the program, also serving as an assistant during the 2006 Music City Bowl Championship season.
Ingram played a vital role in UTSA's 17-sport intercollegiate athletics program, working with nearly every sport on campus while serving as the men's basketball communications contact and working alongside UTSA's legendary SID, Kyle Stephens with football. He joined the staff in San Antonio in 2018, which followed two years at UT Arlington.
In 2015, Ingram joined USA Baseball to serve as the press officer for the collegiate national team. During the summer tour, Team USA won series meetings with the senior national teams from Cuba and Taiwan. USA's pitching staff, combined with Florida A.J. Puk, Missouri's Tanner Houck and Texas A&M's Ryan Hendrix worked a no hitter vs. the Cubans, marking the first ever no-hitter allowed by Cuba.
In 2014, Ingram promoted one of the top players in the history of college baseball, two-way star AJ Reed. Reed became the third unanimous national player of the year in Southeastern Conference history, leading the NCAA in homers, slugging and OPS, while becoming the first player in conference annals to lead the league in wins and homers. Reed won the Golden Spikes Award, Dick Howser Trophy, Baseball America College Player of the Year, Collegiate Baseball Player of the Year, America Baseball Coaches Association National Player of the Year, Perfect Game National Player of the Year, SEC Male Athlete of the Year and SEC Player of the Year, also claiming the John Olerud Two-Way Player of the Year Award. Reed was a consensus first-team All-America honoree and was the first pick of the second round of the 2014 MLB Draft by the Houston Astros.
In over a decade working with the Kentucky baseball program, Ingram successfully promoted a school-record five All-America selections, including a program-first two honorees in 2008. In Ingram's years with UK baseball, a school-record 72 players were picked in the MLB Draft or signed free-agent professional contracts, including 22 players drafted in the top 10 rounds since 2008. Pitching stars James Paxton (2009) and Alex Meyer (2011) became the third and fourth UK players picked in the first-round picks in the 49-year history of UK in the MLB Draft, with Meyer going 23rd overall in the 2011 MLB Draft to the Washington Nationals.
His 2016 baseball media guide was judged as the nation's top baseball media guide by CoSIDA in 2016.
During a historic 2012 UK baseball season, the Wildcats shattered nearly every school record and boasted some of the top individual players in program annals, including consensus freshman All-America selections Austin Cousino and Reed, with Gary Henderson named Southeastern Conference Coach of the Year. After the year, a school-record nine players were drafted, second-most of any school in the nation. The Wildcats soared to a No. 1 national ranking for the first time in program history and shattered a bevy of school records during the best campaign in the 114-year history of the program.
During his time with men's soccer, several UK stars earned unprecedented accolades, including the first two freshman All-America honorees in program history in back-to-back seasons, and defender Barry Rice was named the third and fourth All-America selection in school annals, with Ingram creating a new statistical category to benefit Rice's promotion, the only of its kind in the nation.
Ingram graduated in December of 2006 from the University of Kentucky with a degree in communication and a minor in sports management. He began his career in sports information as an intern for the Kentucky High School Athletic Association from 2000-2006, under KHSAA veterans Butch Cope, Julian Tackett and Marilyn Mitchell, and began working as a student assistant in the UKMR office during the summer of 2004. As a student assistant in 2006, Ingram worked as the secondary contact for the baseball program under primary contact Scott Dean, with the Wildcats completing a worst-to-first turnaround in claiming the SEC Championship and hosting the first NCAA Regional in program history.
He spent the 2006-07 school year working as the media relations assistant at UK, handling baseball, rifle and assisting the football program under longtime UK football SID Tony Neely. In addition to his time at Kentucky, he has worked conference and NCAA championship events ranging from baseball, men's and women's basketball, men's and women's soccer, softball, volleyball and track and field. During the 2013 volleyball season, he served as the media coordinator for the first and second rounds and the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament at Memorial Coliseum. Ingram served as the official scorer for the 2009 and 2010 SEC Baseball Tournament and as the official scorer for the 2011 Lexington Softball NCAA Super Regional.
He is a member of the College Sports Information Directors Association of American (CoSIDA), the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) and is a member of the Board of Directors for the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (NCBWA). Ingram's publications have been listed among the tops in the nation by CoSIDA, including Kentucky's 2009 and 2016 Baseball Media Guide, which finished as the nation's best. In 2010-11, the UK baseball poster - conceptualized by marketing director Nathan Schwake and creative director Kim Troxall - was named as the best poster among all of the NCAA's spring sports.
Ingram is a native of Gainesville, Fla., and the son of Dr. Dewayne and Pat Ingram. He is married to the former Courtney Phifer of Amarillo, Texas, and the couple has a daughter, Harper Jo Ingram, and a son, Reed Phifer Ingram.
