Welch Suggs has been involved with college sports as an athlete, an administrator, and mostly as a journalist for more than 20 years. He teaches journalism at the University of Georgia and is involved in a new program in sportswriting and reporting. Suggs graduated from Rhodes College cum laude in 1995 as a Walter D. Bellingrath Scholar. A track and cross-country runner at Rhodes, Suggs won four individual Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference titles and was a three-time team captain. He studied journalism at the University of Missouri at Columbia, where he worked as a graduate assistant in sports information. After an internship covering the NCAA for The Kansas City Star, Suggs was hired by the Dallas Business Journal to cover sports and the energy industry and then transferred to Charlotte, where he covered college sports and arena development for Street & Smith s SportsBusiness Journal during its inaugural year. In 1998, he moved to Washington, D.C., to cover college athletics for The Chronicle of Higher Education. He was promoted to senior editor of the athletics section in 2002. During his years at the Chronicle, he covered seven NCAA conventions, 10 Final Fours, and numerous scandals, crises, and cultural changes in college sports across the country. In 2003, Suggs signed a contract with Princeton University Press to write the first definitive history and analysis of the impact of Title IX, the 1972 law guaranteeing educational equity, on college sports. In 2005, Princeton published A Place on the Team: the Triumph and Tragedy of Title IX, to critical acclaim. Later that year, he left the Chronicle and began work on a Ph.D. at the University of Georgia's Institute of Higher Education. At the Knight Commission, he directed external relations, issues management, and the redesign of the Commission's web site. In 2007 he joined the UGA administration as Assistant to the President and liaised with the university Athletic Association, the NCAA and other groups on- and off-campus. In 2011, he joined the faculty of the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication and teaches writing, editing, and sports journalism. Welch and Claire Suggs live in Athens, Georgia, with their daughter Molly and son Alex.
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