Kate Daugherty joined Thomas More Athletics as the Assistant Director of Sports Information in January 2026 and is currently in her 1st year. She serves as the main contact for men's soccer, women's and men's volleyball, rugby, football, women's and men's bowling, women's and men's lacrosse, and Esports. She is the main contact for all word rosters.
She previously served as the Assistant Director of Athletic Communications at King University in Bristol, Tennessee. While at King, she helped run media coverage for 29 varsity sports, including the hosting duties of the Conference Carolinas Acrobatics & Tumbling Championships and Men’s Volleyball Championships. She also covered former King wrestler Sarah Hildebrandt during her gold medal win at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games and numerous appearances by current athletes at NCAA National Championships.
Prior to King, Daugherty was the Athletic Communications Graduate Assistant at the University of Akron in Ohio, serving as the primary contact for women’s volleyball and women’s swimming & diving and secondary contact for softball and women's lacrosse. During her time with the Zips, she covered a gold-medal at the Pan-American Championships for Team Canada, a Team USA Paralympic Swimming National Team member’s Para American Record in the 200-yard butterfly and the women’s swimming & diving program’s 10th team conference championship in 11 years.
In addition to her experience in college athletic communications, Daugherty brings a multitude of experience in other areas of the sports industry.
Since 2013, she has worked for the ACP Productions Radio Network as an On-Site Producer/Engineer, Spotter, and Social Media Coordinator for northeast Ohio high school football radio broadcasts that air through the Salem Media Group stations in the Cleveland area. For 5 years, Daugherty served as an Operations Assistant at the Pro Football Hall of Fame helping with the planning, execution, and post-event wrap up for the annual Enshrinement Weekend, Black College Football Hall of Fame Classic game, and the OHSAA Football Championships.
During the 2023 USFL spring football season, Daugherty was an Equipment Assistant for the Pittsburgh Maulers during their championship game appearance season. She also has experience with Media Operations, assisting the communications team during NASCAR race weekend at the Bristol Motor Speedway in both September 2024 and September 2025. She also assisted the OHSAA with Media Operations during the 2019 and 2025 Football Championship weekends. From 2020-2024, Daugherty assisted with gameday operations and media operations during a multitude of Great Midwest Athletic Conference Championships.
The Ohio native earned her bachelors in Sport Management and Business Administration from Malone University in 2023. During her time at Malone, she served as the Sports Information Intern for 3.5 years where she was the primary contact for women’s basketball and softball. She also served as the Malone women’s basketball team manager for four seasons, including the Pioneers' at-large bid to the 2023 NCAA Division II National Championship tournament.
In April of her senior year, she completed and successfully defended her undergraduate thesis examining the community impact and personal legacies of one of the top-10 high school rivalries in the United States - St. Edward vs Saint Ignatius (in the Cleveland area). It is published on the OhioLINK Electronic Theses & Dissertations Center.
Daugherty is currently finishing her Masters of Sport Science/Coaching with a concentration in Sport Administration through the University of Akron.
