FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: AUG. 04, 2025

The Kentucky High School Athletic Association introduces an addition to its Executive Staff today with the hiring of Louisville native Brian Milam from WKYT-TV in Lexington as its Communications and Media Relations Director. Milam joins the Communications team at the Association and fills the vacancy held by Connor Link, who departed this summer.

“We are extremely pleased to add Brian to our communication team. His passion for high school athletics and athletes is well known and has been shown in his decades-long work with two Kentucky CBS affiliate stations,” said KHSAA Commissioner Julian Tackett. “Brian has worked with many of our member schools, athletic directors, coaches, athletes, our staff and various media across the state. Taking this step for him and KHSAA comes at a great time, and working with our Publications and Event Services Director, Jenny Elder, will give us a tremendous communications team. Both have extensive backgrounds in our state and allow for continued growth in the vital communications parts that surround not only our events, but also our year-round efforts. We wish Connor Link and his family the best as they are able to transition back closer to their families and know he will be an asset to his new employer.”

Full details: https://khsaa.org/brian-milam-joins-khsaa-executive-staff/

Jenny Elder

Event Services & Social Media Director

Congrats Brian!

Brian's coverage of eastern Kentucky in the late 90s and early 00s was fantastic, and he's kept himself very plugged into things in Kentucky high school sports. From my interaction with him, Brian is very on par with Gary Ball in terms of his knowledge set for high school sports around the state. I would expect him to hit the ground running on this one....and personally speaking I definitely like seeing some outside influence being brought into the KHSAA. It's a good move for ANY organization to look to the outside every once in a while if they want to stay at the top of their trade.

This is great! Congrats to Brian and the KHSAA!

16 hours ago, Colonels_Wear_Blue said:

Brian's coverage of eastern Kentucky in the late 90s and early 00s was fantastic, and he's kept himself very plugged into things in Kentucky high school sports. From my interaction with him, Brian is very on par with Gary Ball in terms of his knowledge set for high school sports around the state. I would expect him to hit the ground running on this one....and personally speaking I definitely like seeing some outside influence being brought into the KHSAA. It's a good move for ANY organization to look to the outside every once in a while if they want to stay at the top of their trade.

His YouTube page is a great ride down memory lane. Tons of old clips and stories he produced on mountain schools for WYMT.

https://www.youtube.com/@bmilam5