JACKSON – Millsaps College athletic director Tim Wise announced today the addition of sports information assistant Scott Slarks to the athletic staff, becoming the second full-time employee responsible for the publicity of all 18 intercollegiate sports.

Slarks comes to Millsaps from Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minn., where he spent four years as a student assistant in the sports information department and also was president and a two-year member of the club volleyball team from 2007-09. He graduated Cum Laude in May 2009 with a B.A. in management.

While working in the sports information department, Slarks was the primary statistician for the hockey, soccer and baseball teams, responsible for maintaining the athletics website and record books and provided play-by-play and color for various sporting events. He also helped create media guides and wrote game stories for the Gusties.

As an intern for Millsaps for the 2009-10 season, Slarks will be the primary media contact for volleyball, women's soccer, women's basketball, men's and women's golf, men's tennis and softball. Slarks officially began work Tuesday, Aug. 25.