Staff Directory
Hairston II, Cecil
Cecil Hairston II
- Title:
- Associate AD/Ticket Operations & Sales
- Email:
- Phone:
- 303-492-8337
Cecil Hairston II is in his fourth year as the associate athletic director for ticket operations, sales and services, joining the department on May 1, 2019.
Hairston, 43, is a veteran in the ticketing profession, as he brings 15 years of on-campus experience with previous stops at Bowling Green State University, Oregon State, Cincinnati and most recently Boise State. He has focused on revenue generation while fostering customer service driven cultures, having led ticketing teams that achieved the highest attended home football and men’s basketball games in Cincinnati history as well as the top 10 attended football games in Oregon State history, where he also led the unit that was responsible for the highest number of season ticket sales in school annals.
At his previous schools, he has coordinated ticket sales for eight football bowl games: Hawai’i (two), Sun (two), GMAC, Emerald, Las Vegas and Alamo, and while at Oregon State, handled the College World Series ticket distribution for the Beavers’ back-to-back national champion baseball teams in 2006 and 2007.
Hairston began his professional career at his alma mater, serving as the assistant director of ticket operations at BGSU in 2004-05; he then moved on in a similar capacity at Oregon State (2005-08), before being named director of ticket ops from 2008-10. He was promoted to assistant AD at OSU in 2010, where he oversaw ticket operations, concessions and merchandising. He returned to his home state (Ohio) in 2015, where he would serve three years as the assistant athletic director for ticket operations at the University of Cincinnati.
He moved back to the Pacific Northwest for a year (2018), working as the general manager for IMG College/Learfield and Boise State University.
Hairston graduated from Bowling Green State University in 2004 with a bachelor’s degree in the school’s Sport Management program. At BGSU, he made the Dean’s List on several occasions.
He was born November 7, 1978 in Columbus, Ohio (he has four sisters), and graduated from Columbus’ Beechcroft High School, where he lettered in football. His hobbies include travel and cooking; he also takes pride in being a “third-generation left-hander,” following his dad and grandfather as southpaws. He is married to the former LaTisha “Tish” Swann, and the couple has three children, Jordyn (23), Rashawn (20), and Rahman (15).
Hairston, 43, is a veteran in the ticketing profession, as he brings 15 years of on-campus experience with previous stops at Bowling Green State University, Oregon State, Cincinnati and most recently Boise State. He has focused on revenue generation while fostering customer service driven cultures, having led ticketing teams that achieved the highest attended home football and men’s basketball games in Cincinnati history as well as the top 10 attended football games in Oregon State history, where he also led the unit that was responsible for the highest number of season ticket sales in school annals.
At his previous schools, he has coordinated ticket sales for eight football bowl games: Hawai’i (two), Sun (two), GMAC, Emerald, Las Vegas and Alamo, and while at Oregon State, handled the College World Series ticket distribution for the Beavers’ back-to-back national champion baseball teams in 2006 and 2007.
Hairston began his professional career at his alma mater, serving as the assistant director of ticket operations at BGSU in 2004-05; he then moved on in a similar capacity at Oregon State (2005-08), before being named director of ticket ops from 2008-10. He was promoted to assistant AD at OSU in 2010, where he oversaw ticket operations, concessions and merchandising. He returned to his home state (Ohio) in 2015, where he would serve three years as the assistant athletic director for ticket operations at the University of Cincinnati.
He moved back to the Pacific Northwest for a year (2018), working as the general manager for IMG College/Learfield and Boise State University.
Hairston graduated from Bowling Green State University in 2004 with a bachelor’s degree in the school’s Sport Management program. At BGSU, he made the Dean’s List on several occasions.
He was born November 7, 1978 in Columbus, Ohio (he has four sisters), and graduated from Columbus’ Beechcroft High School, where he lettered in football. His hobbies include travel and cooking; he also takes pride in being a “third-generation left-hander,” following his dad and grandfather as southpaws. He is married to the former LaTisha “Tish” Swann, and the couple has three children, Jordyn (23), Rashawn (20), and Rahman (15).
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