Chris Hemeyer

Biography

Chris Hemeyer, a member of the Campbell University staff since 2011, serves as senior associate athletics director for external affairs.

Leading the external team and reporting to the director of athletics, Hemeyer was promoted to his current position in January of 2023. Hemeyer strategically plans and manages the athletic department’s creative content, digital media, broadcasting, marketing, and strategic communications, as well as athletic alumni, sponsorship, and season ticket holder relations.

Serving as the play-by-play voice for Fighting Camel football and men’s basketball broadcasts since his arrival in Buies Creek, Hemeyer was promoted to assistant AD for broadcasting and digital media in 2021, associate AD in 2022, and continues to be the play-by-play voice for Campbell Athletics.

At Campbell since 2011, Hemeyer has also done baseball, softball, volleyball, soccer, women’s lacrosse and wrestling play-by-play on ESPN3 and ESPN+. In addition, Hemeyer is the emcee of Big South Conference Football and Basketball Media Days, the Big South Hall of Fame and Awards Banquets, and was chosen to emcee the NCAA Men’s and Women’s College Cup Banquets. Hemeyer is also the executive producer and host of the CAMMYs, Campbell Athletics end of year awards show.

In 2017 and 2018, Camels’ marketing and digital media staff was recognized by NACMA (National Association of Collegiate Marketing Administrators) as one of the top 10 Marketing Teams of the Year. In 2017, Campbell was the only school with less than 20,000 students selected, and one of only two non-FBS institutions honored.

Hemeyer joined the Fighting Camel staff in 2011 from Kinston, N.C., where he was Director of Broadcasting and Public Relations for the Kinston Indians, the Cleveland Indians affiliate in the Carolina (Class A) League. In his six years with the Indians, the radio network grew from one to four stations. He also produced and hosted a weekly television show, Tribe Talk, and spearheaded the All-Star Student Program, which reached more than 65,000 elementary students in Eastern North Carolina.

In addition to Hemeyer’s play-by-play work with the Indians, he also spent three seasons as the play-by-play voice for the first half of the East Carolina University baseball season. Hemeyer’s play-by-play experience includes fill-in work for East Carolina men’s basketball broadcasts from 2008-11. He was also the voice of Lenoir Community College men’s basketball from 2008-11.

His football experience includes television sideline reporting for ECU football games on MASN and Comcast Sports. Hemeyer was also the studio host for Ohio University football radio broadcasts on the Ohio Sports Network. In 2010, Hemeyer hosted a post-game call-in show for East Carolina football and a weekly radio talk show on WGHB in Greenville, N.C. From 2006-10, Hemeyer was the voice of high school football in Craven County, calling multiple state championship games.

Hemeyer arrived in North Carolina in 2001, spending five years at WCTI-TV, the ABC television affiliate in New Bern, where he worked as a sports reporter and anchor. He graduated from the University of Missouri in 1999 with a Bachelor’s degree in journalism.