Troy University Athletics
Staff Directory
- Title:
- Executive Associate Director of Athletics / Communications, Branding & Creative Content (Football, Men's Golf, Women's Golf)
- Email:
- Phone:
- 3832
Adam Prendergast joined the Troy Athletics staff in January 2012 and has served as the primary media contact for the Troy football, men's golf and women's golf programs each year. He was promoted to Executive Associate Athletics Director for Communications, Branding and Creative Content in the summer of 2025. Additionally, Prendergast serves as the sports administrator for the Troy men's basketball program.Â
Prendergast also served as Troy's primary baseball contact during the 2012 and 2013 seasons and still serves as the official scorer for Troy baseball.
Prendergast joined the Troy staff in Jan. 2012 following four and a half years as the Director of Media Relations at the University of Louisiana at Monroe.
A native of State College, Pa., ÂPrendergast Âgraduated from Auburn University in 2003 with a degree in mass Âcommunications. He earned his master's degree in strategic communications from Troy University in 2021. During his undergraduate years at Auburn, he worked with Auburn’s athletics media relations department in many facets.
After graduating from Auburn, Prendergast served as the sports Âinformation intern at Samford University in Birmingham, Ala., for one year. Following his stint at Samford, Prendergast began working at Spring Hill College in Mobile, Ala., a member of the NAIA, in the summer of 2004. Prendergast then spent two years as the Assistant Director of Media Services at Campbell University in Buies Creek, N.C.
He is a member of the College Sports Information Directors of ÂAmerica (CoSIDA) where he served on the Academic All-America Committee, the National Collegiate Baseball Writers ÂAssociation and the Football Writers Association of America. Prendergast served on the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association Board of Directors and was the organization's president in 2025.
Prendergast wrote feature stories for the award-winning Auburn Football ÂIllustrated game program and the award-winning Samford Football Game Program. He has been published in the Birmingham News, Birmingham Post-Herald, Opelika-Auburn News and The Over the Mountain Journal.
He was named the inaugural Chair of the Sun Belt Conference Sports Information Directors in the summer of 2014.
He is married to the former Kelley Smith of Birmingham, Ala. The couple has three children, Ethan, Emma Kate and Noah.
