Steve Fenk was promoted to Assistant Athletic Director/Media Relations in December of 2005 after serving as interim media relations director for 18 months. He had served as assistant sports information director since September of 1990. Fenk’s main sport responsibility is with the football program. He oversees a staff of four full-time employees and several student interns.
Fenk is a member of the College Sports Information Directors of America, the Football Writers Association of American and the Basketball Writers Association of America and is a voting member for the State of Oregon Sports Hall of Fame.
Prior to arriving at OSU he served as the men’s sports information director at Montana State University in Bozeman from 1988-90.
Before his hiring at Montana State, he served as a public relations intern for the Pacific‑10 Conference office in Walnut Creek, Calif., and as a press row assistant for the Golden State Warriors of the National Basketball Association. While at the Pac‑10 office, he was involved mainly in women's basketball, baseball, volleyball and the 1988 Rose Bowl.
Fenk earned a bachelor’s degree from Oregon State University in 1987 and also has an associate of arts degree from Mount Hood Community College (1984) in Gresham, Ore.