Weber State University Athletics
Staff Directory
- Title:
- Assistant Athletic Director for Communications (FB, MBB, TF)
- Email:
- Phone:
- 801-626-7414
Paul Grua is in his 22nd year in Weber State Athletics. In 2011, he was named the Director of Athletic Communications. In 2025, he was elevated to Assistant Athletic Director for Communications.
In his role, Grua serves as the primary communications director for all of WSU’s 16 NCAA sports, with specific responsibilities for football and men’s basketball. His work includes press releases, website updates, bios, statistics, historical content, interviews, videos, and more.
He also oversees Weber State's social media, creative, video, and online presence and also hosts the 'Cat Tales podcast, the official podcast of Weber State Athletics. He also assists in football scheduling and has organized the WSU Basketball Alumni Classics, hosted by Damian Lillard.
Grua has also been involved in WSU's transition to a new athletics website, new mobile app, and increased social media presence. He also oversaw the marketing efforts for Wildcat Athletics during the 2020-21 season.
He has been active in the College Sports Communicators (formerly CoSIDA) and has attended multiple national conventions. He currently serves as a member of the CoSIDA Special Awards Committee and has previously served on the New Media Committee.
He has also served as the media coordinator for multiple Big Sky Championships from several sports hosted at Weber State. Grua was also the media room coordinator at the 2024 NCAA Men's Basketball First and Second Round Tournament games in Salt Lake City.
He was named the Director of Athletic Communications in April 2011, after working for seven years at Weber State as a Sports Information Assistant. He also worked for three years during that time as a Marketing Assistant and the Marketing Coordinator.
In his first season as Director of Athletic Communications, 2011-12, he helped promote and coordinate numerous media and NBA scout inquiries surrounding All-American Damian Lillard and his rise to the NBA. During the 2023-24 season, he also promoted and coordinated media and NBA scout requests for Dillon Jones, who was named Big Sky MVP and was a finalist for the Julius Erving Award.
From 2017-20, Grua helped promote the Wildcat football program that has won four-straight Big Sky titles, and advanced to the FCS Semifinals in 2019.
In his 20 years with Weber State Athletics, Grua has worked in media relations and marketing, and promotions. He began working at Weber State in January 2004 as a Sports Information Assistant, where he handled men’s and women’s indoor and outdoor track and field and men’s and women’s tennis for Weber State. He served as the media coordinator for the 2004 Big Sky Tennis Championship and 2004 Big Sky Outdoor Track and Field Championships, both held in Ogden.
In August 2004, he was hired full-time as the Assistant Media Relations Director. In October 2005, Grua was the media coordinator for the 2005 Big Sky Men’s and Women’s Cross Country Championships in Ogden and in 2007 and 2013, he was the media coordinator for the NCAA Mountain Region Cross Country Championships, also in Ogden. He was also the Meet Director for the 2010 Big Sky Men’s and Women’s Outdoor Track and Field Championships at Weber State.
In 2008, Grua moved to the Marketing & Promotions department with the athletic department where he was the Assistant Marketing & Promotions Director. In 2010 he was named Marketing Coordinator and was responsible for the Marketing of all of WSU Athletics as well as game management and operations.
Prior to coming to Weber State, Grua worked as the Assistant Information Director for the Big Sky Conference in the fall of 2003 where was the league contact for women’s soccer and men’s and women’s Cross Country. He served as the media coordinator for the 2003 Big Sky Women’s Soccer Championship.
A native of Ogden, Grua holds two degrees from Weber State University. He graduated in 2002 with a bachelor’s degree in Communication. While a student at Weber State, he served as Sports Director for both the campus radio station KWCR and the Weber State Television News station. He also helped the WSU Sports Information office with the computer statistical program for men’s and women’s basketball games. He has also worked as a producer at Sports Radio AM-1280 “The Zone” in Salt Lake City and as an intern for KSL-TV. During the 2002 Salt Lake Winter Olympics he worked as a broadcasting systems operator. He is a 1995 graduate of Ogden High School.
In 2013, Grua graduated with a master’s degree in Professional Communication from Weber State. As part of his master’s project, he wrote a history book on the 50th Anniversary of the Weber State men’s basketball program.
Grua married Melissa Hales in July 2005. The couple has four children, Seth, Levi, Avery and Rachel.
