University of the Pacific

Robbie Kleinmuntz was named Senior Associate AD for Strategic Communications in Dec. 2023. In his role with the Tigers, Kleinmuntz will oversee all aspects of the athletics communications, marketing, content creation and video departments.
 
Kleinmuntz arrived at Pacific after serving as Associate AD for Communications at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi. In his three years with the Islanders, Kleinmuntz publicized a department that won 20 conference championships and made 12 NCAA Tournament appearances. It included back-to-back trips to March Madness in the 2022 & 2023 NCAA Tournaments in men's basketball while helping raise the program's profile regionally and nationally.
 
Kleinmuntz transitioned A&M-Corpus Christi's live streaming platform from in-house Islanders Digital Network broadcasts to ESPN+ for national exposure on the worldwide leader. He was responsible for the institution's first-ever self-produced ESPN+ broadcast in 2021 for volleyball and continued it into soccer, men's & women's basketball, baseball, softball and tennis seasons.
 
Kleinmuntz arrived at A&M-Corpus Christi after rebuilding a sports information department from scratch at Alcorn State University from July 2016 – Nov. 2020. He started as Director of Sports Information and was promoted to Assistant AD for Sports Information in March 2018 after reviving a department that had no prior stats, photos or records to work off of.
 
Kleinmuntz successfully restored media guides and/or record books for football, men’s basketball, women’s basketball, soccer, volleyball, softball and men's and women's track & field. Alcornsports.com also saw over a 500 percent increase in press releases after his first year from 2015-16 to 2016-17.
 
Kleinmuntz was awarded 2018-19 HBCU Sports Information Director of the Year by Black College Nines. He publicized a highly successful Braves football program that won back-to-back SWAC Championships in 2018 & 2019 and played in the Celebration Bowl each year in nationally televised games on ABC.
 
Prior to Alcorn, Kleinmuntz spent three years as Assistant Director of Media Relations at the University of Louisiana Monroe from 2013-16. He was the primary contact for a men's basketball program that shot up to the top of the Sun Belt Conference standings after back-to-back 20-win seasons and a pair of postseason appearances.
 
Before ULM, Kleinmuntz worked as a communications assistant at the Sun Belt Conference office, and a sports information graduate assistant at Northwestern State. He experienced serving as the primary contact for soccer, volleyball, men's basketball, softball, track & field, tennis and swimming & diving during those stints.
 
As an undergrad, Kleinmuntz worked as an athletics media relations student intern at his alma mater the University of Pittsburgh. He worked in the Pitt Media Relations office when the men's basketball team was ranked No. 1 in the nation on two separate occasions. Kleinmuntz also wrote for the school newspaper, The Pitt News, as a sports writer and interned for the Pittsburgh Sports Report newspaper.
 
Kleinmuntz earned his bachelor's degree as a double major in journalism and history from Pitt in 2010, and his master's degree in sports administration from NSU in 2012. He lettered in tennis at Highland Park High School (Illinois).