Eastern Michigan Athletics

Football

vs
Northern Illinois

Oct 11 (Sat)

TBA

Jacob Kirkendall
Jacob Kirkendall

Jacob Kirkendall begins in his ninth year as the director of football operations for the Eastern Michigan University football team. His primary responsibilities include coordinating travel arrangements, high school recruiting visits, camps, speaking engagements and community outreach programs.

The 32-year-old Kirkendall spent the 2007 campaign as the director of football operations/video coordinator at Dartmouth College.   

A native of Lucas, Ohio, Kirkendall graduated from Ohio University in 2007 with a degree in sport management.

As a senior at Ohio, he interned as the assistant director of operations and video coordinator for the football team that won the 2006 Mid-American Conference East Division championship.

In 2005, Kirkendall was the videographer for Ohio University football and assisted the director of football operations. Throughout his undergraduate career he was also the office assistant in the Recreation and Sports Sciences Department.