South Dakota State Promotes Hove

Jason Hove has been named Sports Information Director at South Dakota State.

Hove has been Assistant Sports Information Director at South Dakota State since July, 1998.

A native of Bricelyn, Minn., Hove received a bachelors degree from SDSU in 1996, earning the Kappa Tau Alpha Award as the top senior scholar in the journalism program.

As an undergraduate at SDSU, Hove was on staff of The Collegian (SDSU student newspaper), serving as editor-in-chief during the 1995-96 school year, and he also served one year (1994-95) as a student assistant in the sports information office.

After graduation, he was at the Mitchell Daily Republic from May of 1996 to July of 1998.

His appointment will be effective July 1. He succeeds Ron Lenz, who retires as sports information director at SDSU on June 30.