Vanden Acker, who replaced interim SID JoJo DePagter last month, came to Lawrence from the Oshkosh Northwestern. Vanden Acker's duties include coordinating media coverage for Lawrence's 23 varsity sports, serving as head statistician for home events, and distributing event results to local, state, and national media.
Vanden Acker is a Menasha, Wis., native and award-winning sportswriter who worked at the Northwestern from November 1992-December 1999. Vanden Acker covered professional, high school, and college sports from November 1992 to March 1997. Vanden Acker spent his last two-and-a-half years at the Northwestern serving as the assistant sports editor.
A 1989 graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, Vanden Acker was the reporter at the Ripon Commonwealth-Press from October 1989-November 1992.