Proving that you can go home again, Cris Belvin re-joined the Stetson University Athletic Department in October of 2013.
With nearly 20 years of athletics communications experience, Belvin serves as the primary contact for men’s basketball, lacrosse, men’s and women’s soccer, and men’s and women’s tennis for the Hatters. He also serves as the secondary football contact.
Belvin last worked at Stetson from 1997-2001 as the Sports Information Director. In his previous stint with the Hatters, Belvin was the Media Coordinator for the 1999 NCAA Men’s Basketball 1st and 2nd Rounds in Orlando, and also worked with a Stetson baseball team which was nationally ranked and appeared in NCAA Regional play in 2000 and 2001.
Belvin left Stetson in 2001 for Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Okla., where he served spent 10 years – four as the Associate Director of Media Relations and six as Assistant A.D. for Media Relations. In his decade of service to ORU, Belvin was privileged to work with Golden Eagles teams which appeared in three NCAA Men’s Basketball tournaments, one NCAA Women’s Basketball tournament, and 10 NCAA Baseball regionals.
Belvin had a front row seat for some of the greatest modern achievements in ORU history. One of his proudest moments at ORU was when the baseball team captured the 2006 Fayetteville Regional championship and appeared in Super Regionals for the first time in school history.
In November of 2006, Belvin was courtside when the Golden Eagles defeated No. 3 Kansas, 78-71, in men’s basketball at Allen Fieldhouse.
After a decade at ORU, Belvin worked one year as the Director of Media Relations at UNC-Greensboro.
A 1994 graduate of Ouachita Baptist University, Belvin began his athletics career at Austin Peay State University, where he spent two years (1994-96) as the Assistant Sports Information Director. He followed his stint at APSU with a year as the Sports Information Director at Arkansas-Monticello.
Belvin and his wife, Melissa, reside in DeLand. They have a 7-year old white lab named Tucker.
