Kansas Athletics Announces the Hiring of New Media Relations Assistant

June 3, 2010

LAWRENCE, Kan.– –

The Kansas Athletics media relations department announced June 3 the hiring of Abbey Mastracco, as its new media relations assistant and is scheduled to start July 1. Mastracco will take on the duty as the media relations contact for cross country and track and field as well promoting KU’s sports.

Mastracco comes to KU from Loyola University, where she served as the media relations contact for women’s basketball, women’s volleyball, men’s golf and men’s and women’s tennis.

Mastracco graduated from California State University, Long Beach in 2009 with a B.A. in journalism and a minor in political science.

While at CSULB, she worked for many different sports publications including: Daily Forty-Niner, Collegebaseballinsider.com, Fox Sports Network as well as the Examiner.com.