Skiing
- Title:
- Sports Information
- Email:
- curtis.snyder@colorado.edu
Curtis Snyder has been a part of the CU Athletic Department for all but five years since 1994 and he currently serves as the Associate Athletic Director for Athletic Communications since November 2023 after serving in the interim role as the head of the department starting in January 2023. In 2025, he added responsibilities as the sport supervisor for CU's 21-time national championship ski program.
Previously at CU, he has served as the Assistant Athletic Director in the Sports Information office from 2018-22, the Director of Digital Strategy from 2016-18, Director of Digital Marketing from 2015-16, Digital Marketing Director/Associate Sports Information Director from 2012-15, the Associate Sports Information Director from 2008-12, an Assistant Sports Information Director from 1998-2003, adding Internet Managing Editor to that title in 1999, and first as a Student Assistant SID from 1994-98.
He currently oversees the communications efforts for the entire athletic department and works specifically with the football, skiing and women's tennis teams. In his time at CU, he has worked as a primary contact for nine different programs as well as handling primary duties for the Ralphie Program and CU's spirit teams. He has also had a heavy hand in CU's digital footprint, working on the first iteration of the athletic department website in 1996, being one of the first full-time website managers in college athletics in 1999, establishing CU's on-line brand as CUBuffs, obtaining the domain cubuffs.com and establishing official social media channels on various outlets from 2008-17 while also establishing the digital content department in 2015.
Snyder was the championship co-director for the 2016, 2018 and 2024 NCAA Skiing Championships that CU hosted in Steamboat Springs, and has served as the webmaster and official scorer for the Rocky Mountain Intercollegiate Ski Association (RMISA) since 2008. He has served as the official scorer for the most of the NCAA Ski Championships since 2012 and added an official role assisting with media and technology efforts at the championships in 2025.
His five years spent away from CU was at Duke University, where he served as the director of Internet operations from 2003-08, managing the day-to-day operations of GoDuke.com and had various SID duties for the football, men’s and women's basketball and women's volleyball programs. He developed the most comprehensive collegiate database in the nation for Duke men's basketball that he still helps maintain for the Blue Devils. While on staff, he accompanied the basketball team during the postseason, during which time the Blue Devils captured two ACC Championships and a berth in the 2004 Final Four in San Antonio. He also traveled with the women’s basketball team to the 2006 Final Four in Boston.
He was honored as the CU staff member of the year in 2024 when he was also honored with the College Sports Communicator's Changemaker Innovation Award for his development of a live team scoring system for collegiate skiing. He was also honored by CSC (formerly CoSIDA) with a 25-Year Award in 2023. He was awarded an “Honorary C” in 2014 for his dedication to the department and been a part of the staff that has won nine Super 11 Awards from the Football Writers of America as one of the top communications offices in the nation. He was also named one of three finalists for staff member of the year in 2011 and '13. As a student, Snyder worked with the volleyball and men’s basketball programs and was presented with the Athletic Director’s medal for service to the department.
He also currently serves as a statistician for the Denver Broncos and has in the past as a back-up statistician for the NBA’s Denver Nuggets, NBL's Colorado Xplosion and the AVP (pro beach volleyball tour). He has been an active member of the College Sports Communicators (CSC) and served on the technology committee for five years (2007-11) and has been a member of the Division I Board for College Sports Communicators since 2024. He also serves as adjunct instructor for the journalism department at CU, teaching Social Media Storytelling for two years and an Athletic Communications class as part of the Sports Media Minor since 2022.
Born on Sept. 2 in Boulder, he graduated from Boulder High School in 1994, where he was a fourth-generation student and lettered three times in basketball. His grandmother graduated from CU in 1929, his grandfather was recruited to CU by Frank Potts to be a decathlete and also to play basketball and football and his father, mother and sister all attended CU. He is married to the former Kami Carmann, a four-time letterwinner and two-time captain of the women’s basketball team at CU. The couple resides in Erie and has three children, twins Lucy and Sam, and son Cooper.
