Guiding the communications outreach of Linfield's 19 varsity athletic programs, Kelly Bird is in his 21st year as the college's sports information director. His areas of oversight include the Linfield Athletics Web site, sports publications, radio broadcasting, video display board, video Webcasting, athletics newsletter, and the Linfield Athletics Hall of Fame.

Since joining the staff in 1989, Bird has covered a remarkable spectrum of accomplishment by Linfield student-athletes, teams and coaches. He coordinated media coverage of Linfield’s 2004 NCAA Division III national championship football team, 2007 national championship softball team, Gagliardi and Melberger award-winning quarterback Brett Elliott, and the college’s NCAA-record 53-year streak of consecutive winning football seasons. Coverage of Linfield athletics has appeared in Sports Illustrated, USA Today, the Los Angeles Times and the New York Times, on cable networks ESPN, CSTV and FoxSports, and on Web sites CBS Sportsline and D3football.com.

Over the last five years, he has promoted eight CoSIDA Academic All-Americans, including volleyball player Lindsay Harksen, who was the Academic All-American of the Year in 2005.

Bird was honored as Linfield's Administrator of the Year for the McMinnville campus in 2007 and received the Northwest Conference SID of the Year award for the 2007-08 academic year.

He produced 22 nationally award-winning sports brochures, including five publications that were judged "Best in the Nation" by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA).

Bird serves as the Division III representative with the National Association of Collegiate Marketing Administrators and was a co-recipient of a 2009 “Best of NACMA” award for video display board presentation.

He has mentored dozens of sports information student assistants, many of whom advanced to entry-level jobs in the fields of journalism, sports information, graphic design and Web site design.

Bird spent 14 years at The Oregonian newspaper in Portland as a sports-statistics editor and worked for as an announcer for five years at KUIK radio in Hillsboro. He is a graduate of Portland Community College.

Born in Calgary, Canada, Bird grew up in Tigard, Ore. He and his wife, Jolene, live in McMinnville, with their two school-age daughters, Karlee (9) and Jillian (6).