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Lamar Chance enters his seventh year as an Assistant Athletics Media Relations Director at the University of Memphis in 2009-10. Chance, who works primarily with the nationally-ranked Tiger basketball team, joined the Memphis Athletics Media Relations staff prior to the start of the 2003-04 basketball season.
At Memphis, Chance handles the day-to-day publicity for the Tiger basketball squad. He also assists with media press box operations for home Memphis football games. During his six basketball seasons, Chance helped promote six Tiger All-Americans (Burks, Carney, Douglas-Roberts, Evans, Rose and Washington Jr.), three Freshman All-Americans (Banks, Evans, Rose and Washington Jr.), a consensus National Freshman of the Year (Evans) and a Naismith National Coach of the Year recipient (Calipari).
Prior to joining the Memphis staff, Chance worked seven years (1996-2003) at the University of Mississippi for CoSIDA Hall of Famer Langston Rogers. While at Ole Miss, Chance was responsible for the day-to-day media relations for the Rebel basketball team, and he helped promote three All-Americans (Ansu Sesay, Keith Carter and Rahim Lockhart) and a Naismith National Coach of the Year award winner (Rod Barnes). Chance also directed the press box operations for all Ole Miss home football games and edited the Ole Miss football game programs.
Chance graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1991 with a degree in Radio, Television, Motion Pictures. He worked as a student assistant in the Tar Heel Sports Information Office for two years under CoSIDA Hall of Fame media relations director Rick Brewer. Upon graduation, Chance accepted an internship at the University of Connecticut in Storrs, Conn., where he served as the media relations contact for baseball, ice hockey and women's soccer during the 1991-92 season.
Before his arrival at Ole Miss, Chance served as Assistant Media Relations Director at the University of Massachusetts for CoSIDA Hall of Famer Howard Davis and Bill Strickland. While at UMass from 1992-95, Chance primarily handled publicity for the women's basketball team and assisted with publicity for the Minuteman football squad. He also oversaw the coverage of UMass' 25-sport Olympic program.
Chance is a member of the College Sports Information Directors of America. A native of Albemarle, N.C. (40 miles east of Charlotte), he worked the 1996 and 1997 NCAA Women's Basketball Final Fours (Charlotte, 1996; Cincinnati, 1997) and the 1995 NCAA Field Hockey Final Four (Wake Forest University, host). He married the former Kristin Wagner on June 19, 2009.
