John Kean

John Kean serves as a consultant in the athletic communications office at Missouri S&T, where he spent 34 years as the athletic communications director for the program.

During his tenure at S&T, Kean has earned recognition on the both the conference and national levels. He was inducted in 2021 to the College Sports Communicators Hall of Fame and three years later, was named as the recipient of the Warren Berg Award by CSC.

Kean was selected for the Dr. Thomas Kearns Service Award from the GLVC in 2018 and the Roy Pickerill Distinguished Service Award from D2CSC in 2023. He also served for four years as the president of D2SIDA before doing a three-year term on the CSC Board of Directors from 2018-21. He was also the president of the MIAA sports information directors during the 1995-96 academic year.

He has also served on various committees, including as a vice chairman on the College Division Management Advisory Committee within CSC, the GLVC’s scheduling committee and the programming subcommittee during the creation of the GLVC Sports Network. He has also assisted with several NCAA regional and national events, including nine men’s basketball and two women’s basketball Elite Eight championships and was the internal public address announcer for the 2017 NCAA Division II football championship game in Kansas City, Kan. In addition, Kean has been part of the Division II CCA All-America program, serving as the national coordinator for the softball program for 15 seasons and as a regional coordinator for the men's basketball program.

Kean has earned three district writing awards from CSC, earning a first place award in the historical feature category for District Seven in 2006 and the second in 2022. In 2026, he earned the national story of the year award for a season recap in the college division from CSC after winning the top award in the district, a story that highlighted Missouri S&T's historic 2024-25 men's basketball season.