Kevin Fenstermacher was named the Deputy Director of Athletics for Communications and Administration at Westminster on November 28, 2022 after spending more than a decade with the Presidents' Athletic Conference (PAC).
Fenstermacher will oversee the department’s strategic communications while developing additional methods to build positive engagement and collaboration with the College’s internal and external audiences. He also serves a key role on Director of Athletics' Jason Lener’s administrative leadership team.
On July 1, 2012 Fenstermacher joined the PAC as its assistant commissioner/director of communications. His title was changed to deputy commissioner in 2020. He also served as an advisor to the PAC Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) and had additional duties in the areas of conference championships, rules compliance and governance.
Fenstermacher was selected to participate in the 2019-20 cohort of the NCAA Pathway Program, a premier program for senior level athletic administrators aimed to prepare individuals to excel as directors of athletics or conference commissioners. He began a four-year term as a member of the Division III Ethnic Minority and Women's Internship Grant Selection Committee in September 2015, serving as chair in 2018-19. He is in his third year as a member of the Division III Strategic Alliance Matching Grant Selection Committee.
An active member of the Division III Commissioners Association (DIIICA), Fenstermacher served as chair of Association's assistant commissioner's group from 2016-19.
He has assisted with Division III's Student Immersion Program at seven NCAA Conventions, helping expose 40 ethnic minority students each year to Division III, its membership and its governance process with the goal of building a pipeline of talented ethnic minority candidates, with an interest in Division III coaching and/or administration, in an effort to ultimately diversify the division.
Fenstermacher arrived at the PAC from conference member Thiel College in 2012, where he had served as associate director of athletics since 2010. His duties included working as NCAA compliance coordinator and overseeing the day-to-day operations of the sports information office and its assistant directors, while taking a lead role in promoting and managing the Rissell-Schreyer Dome, the College's air-supported dome structure. He assisted in the planning and promotion of athletic-related summer camps and conferences and collaborated with departmental personnel and other campus constituencies to help in the areas of academic monitoring and student-athlete support.
Fenstermacher began his Thiel career as sports information director (2001-05) and added the title of assistant athletic director in 2005 before spending two years (2008-10) as a member of the information technology department at the College.
A native of Erie, Pennsylvania, Fenstermacher is a 2000 graduate of PAC member Bethany College. He earned a master's degree in leadership with a concentration in sports leadership from Duquesne University.
