Bryan Johnston

Biography

Responsibilities: Johnston has direct oversight of the athletics communications office at Georgia Southern as the Senior Associate Athletics Director for Communications. As a member of the Athletics Executive Staff, Johnston oversees the strategic communications team and serves as the primary point of contact for all executive-level communications, including Director of Athletics Chris Davis and football head coach Clay Helton. He also oversees strategic messaging plans to maximize brand awareness and organizational initiatives while also serving as liaison with university communications. In his current role as a member of the External Leadership Team, he works with the external relations team in making sure his area is synced up with the athletics marketing, GATA Productions, creative services and athletics ticketing departments to best tell the Georgia Southern story, drive revenue and ticket sales/attendance and ensures everything is on brand. He also heads up the media relations for the football squad, traveling with the team and taking care of all media requests, as well as rifle and men's golf. In June of 2020, he was given sport supervisor roles of the nationally-ranked rifle squad and was one of the lead members of the search committee that identified and hired head coach Soren Butler in 2023, who was named the national coach of the year just a year later. Joined GS Athletics Staff: August, 2015 Prior to Georgia Southern: Johnston spent 16 years at Virginia Tech as th