The University of Alabama at Birmingham Athletics
Men's Basketball
- Title:
- Creative Services Manager
- Email:
- othompso@uab.edu
Oli Thompson is in his first year as Manager of Creative Services at UAB. He leads UAB’s creative team and manages both digital and social media content for our athletics teams.
Prior to UAB, Thompson was the Video Coordinator of Creative Content at Southern Illinois University, overseeing their creative video content as well as in-venue and digital media. This included being a part of the media efforts of SIU’s back-to-back softball conference championships in 2023 & 2024.
A native of the United Kingdom, Thompson moved to the US in 2021 and was a Graduate Assistant for Ball State Sports Link, one of the Nation’s top ranked undergraduate programs for video production at Ball State University. This is also where he obtained a Masters in Telecommunications with a focus in Digital Storytelling.
Prior to moving to the US, Thompson worked as a media producer for Cardiff City FC, a professional soccer club, from 2018-2021. This included one season in the Premier League with the Bluebirds.
He also collected a Master’s degree in Sport Broadcast and undergraduate degree in Sport Performance Analysis from Cardiff Metropolitan University. Working with their media department, Cardiff Met Sport TV.
