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Scott Slarks begins his first year at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville as the Sports Information Graduate Assistant. He will assist with daily operations in the sports information office with director Eric Hess. Slarks will also serve as a play-by-play broadcaster for SIUE Athletics. A native of Owatonna, Minn., Slarks joins the Cougars after serving as the Interim Director of Sports Information at Millsaps College in Jackson, Miss., where he served as the primary media contact for all of the Majors' 18 Division III intercollegiate sports. Slarks is a 2009 Cum Laude graduate of Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minn., with a degree in business management. As an undergraduate, he served as a student assistant for four years in the Sports Information Department and was president and a two-year member of the club volleyball team. While working in the Sports Information Department, Slarks was the primary statistician for the hockey, soccer, and baseball teams; was responsible for maintaining the athletics Web site and record books, and provided play-by-play and color commentary for various sporting broadcasts. He also helped create media guides and wrote game stories for the Golden Gusties. A member of CoSIDA, Slarks has been highly involved with athletics over the last six years, working as a lead statistician for the annual Schwan Cup high school hockey tournament in Blaine, Minn. He also served as a rink coordinator at the USA International Hockey Cup, which included supervising eight hockey rinks at the world's largest ice arena. Slarks is the son of Gary, a Facilities Analyst for Federated Insurance Co., and Judy, a first-grade teacher at Medford Elementary School. Scott has an older brother, James (28). He currently resides in Edwardsville, Ill.