COMMERCE CITY, CO. - The Colorado Rapids announced today that JASON GILHAM has been named the team's new Director of Media Relations. Throughout his ten years in professional sports media relations, he had worked in the National Basketball Association, National Football League, Arena Football League and Major League Soccer. Gilham enters his first season in MLS having spent the previous six years in the same capacity in the AFL, including the past two seasons with the Colorado Crush.
Prior to his work with the Crush, Gilham was the Director of Communications with the Georgia Force from the team's inaugural season in 2002 to its National Conference championship in 2005. He began his career in professional sports with the Cleveland Cavaliers during the 1997-98 campaign and has also worked in the media relations departments for the Cleveland Browns (1999) and Atlanta Falcons (2000-2001).
Gilham earned his degree in business/organizational communications and minor in sociology from Otterbein College located in Westerville, Ohio, where he played soccer for the Cardinals.
