Alexa Low

Alexa Low was promoted to Director of Athletic Communications in August of 2022, taking over as the head of the department and recruiting a staff of eight to include two full-time employees, two graduate assistants, three photographers, and a graphic designer. In this leadership role, she oversees all 23 Division I teams at UIW and coordinates all media inquiries for the athletic department. Low restarted the UIW Athletics Hall of Fame after a two-year hiatus and headed a complete UIW Athletics website redesign.

Low joined UIW as a graduate assistant in August 2021 and was promoted to Athletic Communications Coordinator within three months and the head of the department a year later. She received a Bachelor of Arts in Communication with a minor in Sports Management from Quincy University (QU) and is pursuing a master's degree in Sport Management from UIW. Prior to UIW, Low worked with Rapsodo as an Event Coordinator and with Alamo City Hoops as a basketball reporter. She spent two years as an intern with the Quincy University Athletics Communications Office where she worked directly with the Sports Information Director (SID) for all Quincy Athletics. During her time at QU, she worked as a sports writer for the local newspaper, the Herald-Whig, covering football, basketball and volleyball and ran social media for the women's basketball team. On top of all this, she played all four seasons for the QU women's basketball team, serving as captain her last to seasons and a member of the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC).

In addition to working within athletics, she interned with the United States Air Force Research Laboratory in the corporate communications office writing for the AFRL website and newspaper.