Jon Kasper

  • Title
    Senior Associate Commissioner/Championships
  • Email
  • Phone
    801.392.1978

Jon Kasper joined the Big Sky Conference in September of 2004. He currently serves as the Senior Associate Commissioner of Championships, which he was promoted to in March of 2019.

He previously has served as Assistant Commissioner for Media Relations, Director of Championships, and Assistant and Associate Commissioner of Champiosnhips.

Kasper oversees  planning and coordination of most of the Big Sky Championships. He also serves as the sport administrator for women's golf and softball.

Kasper also handles the league's television and video streaming contracts, as well as the Big Sky Conference Hall of Fame. 

In 2021, Kasper was appointed to the NCAA Division I Women's Golf Committee. He was selected to serve as the Chair of the Committee for the 2024-25 academic year. He served as an NCAA site rep at the 2022 NCAA Regional hosted by Stanford, the 2023 regional hosted by Washington State and the 2024 regional hosted by UNLV. He also also worked the 2022, 2023 and 2024 National Championships.

Kasper came to the Big Sky Conference from the Missoulian in Missoula, Mont., where he spent 10 1/2 years as sportswriter, the last seven covering the University of Montana football team, the Big Sky Conference and Football Championship Subdivision. He also covered a variety of prep and college sports, and designed pages for an award-winning sports section, while also contributing time to the "Sports Guys" radio program, which aired in Missoula.

In 2003 and 2004, the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association named him the Montana Sportswriter of the Year. In addition, Kasper was named one of the top Football Championship Subdivision football writers by the Sports Network for the 2002 and 2003 seasons.

Kasper earned his bachelor’s degree in journalism with an emphasis in radio/television from the University of Montana in 1997. While at UM, he hosted and contributed to Montana Griz Monthly, a 30-minute weekly sports program.

Kasper is a past member of the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association, as well as College Sports Information Directors of America, the Football Writers Association of America, and the United States Basketball Writers Association.

Kasper served as a timeout coordinator during the first and second rounds of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship in Indianapolis, Ind., in 2005, in Spokane, Wash., in 2007, 2010 and 2014,  in Tampa, Fla., in 2008, in Minneapolis, Minn., in 2009, in Denver, Colo., in 2011, in Portland, Ore., in 2012, in Salt Lake City in 2013, Spokane, Wash., in 2014 and Portland, Ore., in 2015,   Kasper also served as a media assistant during the 2010 NCAA West Regional, the 2017, 2019 and 2024 NCAA First & Second Rounds in Salt Lake City, Utah, 

He was born in Minot, N.D., and graduated high school from Charles M. Russell in Great Falls, Mont. In June of 2008, Kasper married Mackenzie Hunter. The two are the parents of a daughter, Catherine, born Feb. 20, 2010, and a son, J.J., born April 7, 2014.