Stephen Featherston joined the Tennessee State University athletic department in August of 2022 as the Assistant Director of Athletic Communications before being promoted to the Director of Athletic Communications in the fall of 2023.
Featherston, a native of Mexia, Texas, comes to Nashville after spending one year DII Southern Arkansas University as the Assistant Director of Athletic Communications. Before SAU, he spent over two years at Division III East Texas Baptist University as a graduate assistant under longtime SID Adam Ledyard.
While at ETBU, Featherston assisted with the website management, pregame, postgame, and gameday coverage, and social media content creation for all 22 Tiger athletic programs. He served as the lead statistician for volleyball, baseball, and softball, while also overseeing all live-streaming operations for ETBU home athletic events.
Featherston and Ledyard were honored for their graphic design work in the 2019-20 College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) Publications and Digital Design Contest where the ETBU softball and men's basketball schedule posters ranked first and second, respectively, in District 6 of the college division.
Prior to joining Ledyard's staff in Marshall, which was named the 2019-20 American Southwest Conference Sports Information Department of the Year, Featherston was a student assistant in the sports information office at Howard Payne University. In his one year, he served as the primary contact for the men's and women's golf and tennis programs in addition to assisting the office in day-to-day and game-day operations.
He earned a bachelor of science in communications from HPU in December of 2018 and received his master of arts in strategic communications from ETBU in August of 2021. He played one year of D1 football at the University of Incarnate Word in 2014. Featherston played in all 11 games as the long snapper during his freshman campaign.
Featherston is a CoSIDA member.
