Andrea Chaknis Named SMU Athletic Public Relations Assistant
Andrea Chaknis has been named athletic public relations assistant at SMU, effective August 1, 2007. She will assume primary contact responsibilities for volleyball, men's and women's swimming and diving, men's and women's tennis and rowing.
Most recently, Chaknis served as the athletic communications fellow at Harvard University, where she designed and oversaw the implementation of Harvard athletics' multimedia web-streaming program. She also acted as staff writer for the school's 41 varsity sports teams, with numerous season outlooks, season recaps, student-athlete profiles and feature stories to her credit.
A native of Florida, Chaknis is a 2002 graduate of the Florida State University.