[MSC] Kelly Wells Named Athletic Director at Pikeville

Story by: University of Pikeville Athletics

PIKEVILLE, Ky. -- University of Pikeville men's basketball coach Kelly Wells has been named Athletic Director. UPIKE President Burton J. Webb, Ph.D., announced Wells will assume his position July 1 as the university heads into its 2018-19 season. Wells will succeed Robert Staggs, who is taking on a role in external relations in addition to coaching softball for a 15th season.

"The university expresses our deepest gratitude to Robert Staggs for his years of service to the athletic department as athletic director and softball coach," said Webb. "We are pleased by his decision to continue coaching softball as he takes on several new responsibilities in external relations. We are equally pleased that Kelly Wells, who has more basketball wins than any coach in UPIKE history, has accepted this new role as athletic director. Kelly's skills and dispositions fit his new role well and we look forward to great days ahead."