Wabash College Athletics

Harris is in his 26th year as athletics and recreation communications director at Wabash College. In addition to those duties, Harris is also the advisor to 91.3 FM, WNDY, the College's student-run radio station.
 
Harris came to Wabash in 1999 as the College's sports information director after working in television, newspaper, and radio in several media markets. Harris was named the Director of Sports Information and Sports Marketing in 2008. In 2019, he was named Athletics and Campus Wellness Communications Director. Harris received the Bob Williams Helping Hand Award from the Indiana Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association in 2023 for serving the state's media outlets throughout his career.

Harris' 2010 Wabash College Football Media Guide was judged Best in the Nation among College Division programs by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA). His article for the Wabash Magazine, "54 Steps," was named Best in Region and placed second in the nation in the 2009 Fred Stabley Writing Contest conducted by CoSIDA. A member of CoSIDA since 1999, Harris served as a regional representative to the DIII-SIDA Board of Directors from 2009-2011. He is also a member of the Academic All-America Committee. Harris also worked on the testing group for Genius Sports' NCAA Live Stats football software development and has assisted with other software packages from that company.

Harris worked for seven years at the Journal Review newspaper in his hometown of Crawfordsville, Indiana, beginning in the circulation department as a district manager. He was named circulation director in addition to assuming weekend sports reporter duties a year after joining the paper. Harris eventually took over as the IT director for the paper for two years before departing for The Tribune in Seymour, Indiana. Harris spent 1997 and 1998 in Seymour as the production director and circulation director for The Tribune.

Harris got his start in sports at WCVL-WIMC radio in Crawfordsville. Hired as a part-time weekend disc jockey, he quickly moved to a full-time afternoon shift before being named sports director a year later. Harris added play-by-play-announcer to his duties, covering local high school football, basketball, baseball, and softball games for the station. He was the play-by-play announcer for the first Crawfordsville High School soccer match in history. Harris was eventually named the station's program director and chief operations officer before moving to the Crawfordsville Journal Review.

While at the newspaper, Harris also worked as a freelance technician for Lingner Group Productions and ESPN. He was a regular in-car camera and pit lane talent technical coordinator and stage manager for ESPN's Saturday Night Thunder series. Harris worked for the Emmy Award-winning crew that developed the "tread cam" used at Indianapolis Raceway Park for the Saturday night sprint and midget car races. He also worked for two seasons in the pits during weekend qualifying for the Indianapolis 500 for both ABC and ESPN. He also spent a summer traveling to Mexico with ESPN to help produce camera shots for the network's Baja 500 and Baja 1000 race coverage. Harris financially supported the 2024 Emmy Award-winning documentary Over There: Hoosier Heroes of the Great War.

Harris has also spent the past 31 seasons working with the Indianapolis Colts as a game-day assistant. He has spent the last 18 seasons as the primary computer entry person for the Indianapolis Colts. His duties with the Colts allowed him to serve on the statistics crew for Super Bowl XLVI in 2012. He transitioned to an NFL employee as a Game Statistics Information System (GSIS) primary entry technician for Colts games, beginning in 2019.
 
Harris also has been a statistician and spotter for CBS/Mutual Radio, CBS Television, and Fox Sports Television's  NFL broadcasts. He served as the co-director of the Site Control group, providing services to men's and women's teams participating in the NCAA Division I Basketball Tournament games at Lucas Oil Stadium and Gainbridge Fieldhouse. He worked with Site Control at the Men's Finals Four in 1991, 1997, 2000, 2006, 2010, and 2015, the Women's Final Four in 2005 and 2011, and the Women's Championships for Division I, II, and III in 2016. Harris has also worked as part of the game day statistics crew for the Big Ten Football Championship game since 2011.

Harris attended Illinois State University, majoring in theater. He served four years as a member of the Sugar Creek Players advisory board and volunteered his time as a lighting designer. Harris is a 1982 graduate of Crawfordsville High School. In 2011, he was named an honorary alumnus of Wabash College, Class of 2003.

Harris resides in Crawfordsville.