After a two-year stint at LSU-Alexandria, Jonathon Zenk returned to Northwestern State as its assistant director of communication in July 2022.
Zenk works as the main contact for women's soccer and men's and women's track and field.
During his tenure at NSU, he has covered three All-Americans in track and field: Zachaeus Beard (2023 indoor, 2024 outdoor), Djimon Gumbs (2024 indoor) and the women's 4x400 relay team (2024 outdoor). Beard in the outdoor earned a first team selection in the 100-meter dash.
He collected a third-place LSWA finish in 2023-2024 for a feature written on sprinter Lynell Washington carrying on her father's legacy following his death.
Zenk, who was a graduate assistant at in the NSU sports information department from 2018-20, spent the past two years as the sports information director at LSUA, where he coordinated public relations and media coverage for all seven of the the school’s athletic programs.
After his first year at Northwestern State, he was presented the Louisiana Sports Writers Association’s Ace Higgins Award, given to the state’s top student assistant sports information staffer.
Zenk graduated in 2012 from the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. There, he worked for the ‘Fourth Estate,’ the school paper throughout his time in school. At Green Bay, he covered men’s and women’s tennis, men’s and women’s basketball, men’s and women’s swimming and diving and women’s volleyball.
While at Green Bay, he covered a women's basketball program that made its first appearance in the Sweet 16 in 2011, featuring future WNBA draft pick Julie Wojta, as well as a men's basketball team that featured future NBA draft pick Alec Brown and future NBA point guard Keifer Sykes.
Following his time at Green Bay, he has written stories online for sites, such as Packers Talk, Twins Daily and Football Dialogue.
A native of River Falls, Wisconsin, Zenk was a sports intern at the River Falls Journal in 2007, where he covered softball.
