Richard Stern is in his fifth year as a member of the San Diego State Athletics Media Relations Department and is responsible for the publicity of the Aztecs’ men’s basketball and water polo programs.
Stern came to SDSU after a 13-plus year stint at San Jose State where he was in that time the secondary contact for football and the primary contact for women's soccer & basketball and softball while assisting with cross country, and tennis.
Stern started in the sports information field as a student at Northern Arizona University before entering the private sector. He returned to college, finishing his journalism degree at San Jose State and earned a master's degree in sports management from the same institution.
Stern is a member of the College Sports Communicators (CSC), United States Basketball Writers Association (USBWA) and spent nearly a decade working with the United States Golf Association (USGA) on its West Coast championships.
In his spare time, he enjoys big game hunting, cliff diving and motorcycle ice racing.