Richard Stern joined the San Diego State Athletic Communications Department in May of 2019 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.