Jon Erickson enters his fourth year at Yale in2013-14 and his third season as the Director of Women's BasketballOperations. He also serves as a Sports Information Assistant forYale’s Sports Publicity Department, serving as the primarymedia contact for women’s basketball and baseball.
During his first three seasons at Yale,Erickson has assisted a staff that guided the Bulldogs to theirfirst-ever WNIT appearance in 2011 and to a 16-win season for justthe third time in their 39-year history in 2011-12.
As Director of Basketball Operations, Ericksonis responsible for coordinating all areas of the women’sbasketball team’s travel, including transportation, lodging,scheduling practice and shootaround times, and making arrangementsfor team meals. He also assists in game preparation in the area ofstatistical analysis.
Erickson brings a tremendous passion for thegame of women’s basketball to Yale with more than 10 years ofexperience in the game of women’s basketball, including sixyears of working alongside the women’s basketball team at theUniversity of Connecticut and 11 seasons of working with theWNBA.
During that time, Erickson has had the honor ofworking alongside Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame members TeresaEdwards and Geno Auriemma, Women’s Basketball Hall of FamerJennifer Gillom, as well as Olympic gold medalists and WNBAAll-Stars Seimone Augustus and Diana Taurasi.
While working at Yale, Erickson also works as ateam statistician and game day public relations assistant for theWNBA’s Connecticut Sun. In this role, Erickson serves as theteam’s primary scorekeeper during all home games whileworking as a secondary media contact for the Sun’s mediarelations department.
Prior to coming to Yale, Erickson was thePublic Relations Manager for the WNBA’s Minnesota Lynx forthe 2007 and 2008 seasons under head coach Don Zierden. During histime with the Lynx, Erickson directed all publicity efforts for theLynx, traveled with the team to all road games, and managed theteam’s website and social media efforts.
Before moving into public relations with theLynx, Erickson spent 12 years as a sports writer, with the lastnine of those years as a sports staff writer for the JournalInquirer newspaper, a daily newspaper in the Hartford-metro area.While at the Journal Inquirer, Erickson assisted with thepaper’s coverage of the UConn women’s basketball team,which included reporting assignments at the NCAA Women’sFinal Four in 2002, 2003, and 2004, which coincided withUConn’s three consecutive national championships.
Erickson first discovered his passion forwomen’s basketball as a member of the Varsity Pep Band atUConn during the Huskies’ 35-0 season in 1995, which endedwith the school’s first-ever NCAA national championship inbasketball.
Erickson lives in West Haven, Conn., with hiswife Melanie and their four children, Taylor (11), Madison (10),Cailyn (6) and Andrew (3).
