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JON BURIANEK
ATHLETIC ADMINISTRATION
Senior Associate Athletic
Director/Facilities Development
& Business Affairs
Jon Burianek is in his 37th year with the
CU athletic department, his 22nd as the
associate athletic director for internal
affairs. He was named a senior associate AD
on July 1, 1999, with the added responsibility
of facilities development to his role.
Burianek, 59, was also CU’s athletic
ticket manager from 1970 to 1987. He
assumed those duties in 1970, as he is truly
one of the athletic department’s “home
grown” veterans. His first job was a student
assistant in the business office while
attending CU in the late 1960s. After becoming ticket manager, his duties
were expanded in 1979, as he became an assistant athletic director.
He attended the University of Colorado and was a chemistry major,
and also attended the University of Oslo (Norway) as a junior in 1966-
67, studying in the same field. When he returned to Boulder that
summer, he began working in athletics, and the following year, he
became basketball ticket manager while still an undergraduate.
In fact, his 36 years of full-time service to the department now ranks
second all-time among non-coaches at the University and third overall.
CU’s first athletic director, Harry Carlson, spent 38 years with the
program; Frank Potts, who coached the cross country and track teams
for 41 years, is the only other person to serve CU athletics longer. In
1984, Burianek was awarded the “Honorary C” for his contributions to
CU athletics.
Entering 2004, he has worked 389 consecutive CU football games
(home, road and neutral), as the streak started with Colorado’s 49-19
win at Air Force in 1970. He stopped counting long ago how many men’s
and women’s basketball and volleyball games he has worked… after
reaching 1,000 (the number is likely approaching 1,500).
Burianek was the tournament manager for the 1985, 1989 and 1996
NCAA West Regionals, hosted by the University and held in Denver, and
served in a similar capacity for the 1990 Final Four. He is a past president
of the Collegiate Athletic Business Management Association, and
has been an officer in the organization since 1985.
Born August 29, 1945 in Chicago, Ill., Burianek attended Pueblo
South High School where he lettered in cross country, track, and golf. He
is married to the former Nancy Tilden of Cedar Rapids, Iowa. They have
three children, Amanda Miller, Jason (24, who lettered in football at CU
and is now a high school coach in Illinois) and Elsa (21). The Burianek
family resides on a farm on the outskirts of Boulder, and they raise cattle
and pigs and participate regularly in stock shows around the region.
JOHN MEADOWS
Senior Associate Athletic
Director/External Affairs
John Meadows is in his sixth year as the
senior associate athletic director for external
affairs, as he joined the Colorado staff
on February 1, 1999.
Meadows, 61, was a long-time executive
with the Coors Brewing Company. He
worked for over 33 years at Coors’ main
operation in Golden, retiring in early 1999
as the director of corporate relations, a
position he held since 1984. In that role, he
coordinated marketing and promotions,
including building local, regional and
national relationships with community
leaders in a number of cities. He also worked with different local chapters
in the area of community relations with organizations such as the
Urban League and the National Council of LaRasa.
He was also responsible for setting forth relationships with a variety
of colleges and universities around the country, primarily in the markets
where Coors had breweries (Colorado, Virginia and Tennessee). He
developed corporate contributions and strategies with almost a dozen
schools.
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He started at Coors in 1965 as an ironworker apprentice. He went
into brewery administration a year later, and spent a number of years
(1966-81) working in employee, labor and industrial relations. He then
spent four years (1981-84) as a manager in Coors’ corporate relations
department, and was named the director of the same area in 1984. In his
last four years at Coors, he developed and implemented strategies for
Coors in diversity management.
A long-time Boulder resident, Meadows has plenty of ties to CU. He
lettered for the Buffs once in football, playing tight end and defensive
end in 1960 and 1961. A history major, as a sophomore he was a member
of CU’s 1961 Big Eight championship team that went to the Orange
Bowl. He caught three passes for 24 yards in the 25-7 loss to Louisiana
State in that game.
Born January 31, 1943 in Detroit, he graduated from Royal Oak High
School, where he lettered in football, basketball and track. He is married
to the former Lindalu Parker, a CU graduate, and they have four children,
Robert, Brooke, Dodge and Sara. He is a former board member of
the National Council of LaRasa and the Denver Urban League, two community
service organizations. He is also currently on the advisory board
for the Sportswomen of Colorado, and is a former board member of the
Women’s Sports Foundation.
CHRIS MAY
Associate Athletic Director/
Sport Programs & Revenue
Development
Chris May is in his sixth year as an associate
athletic director, his second for sport
programs and revenue development.
He was promoted to associate AD for
marketing and revenue development on
July 1, 1999, and in November 2002, he took
on administrative and supervisory responsibilities
for men’s and women’s cross
country, men’s and women’s indoor and
outdoor track and women’s soccer. He was
also given administrative responsibility for
men’s basketball and was promoted to the senior management team for
the department.
He is in his 20th year in the athletic department, as he joined CU in
September 1985 as a ticket office staff member. Four months later, he
switched roles and was named special assistant to the associate athletic
director. He was named promotions director the following June (1986),
when he also took over management of the athletic department’s executive
car club. He was promoted to assistant athletic director for
marketing and promotions on July 1, 1990, and spent nine years in that
capacity.
He oversees the entire marketing and promotions area, which generates
over $3 million annually from radio, television, signage and event
sponsorships and sales, licensing, event development and the new
video display boards, which were first installed for the 1999 season at
Folsom Field. Also included in his duties are working with KCNC-TV and
KOA-Radio, CU’s official television and radio stations.
In 2002, May orchestrated a seven-year agreement with Learfield
Sports to outsource the multi-media rights for all CU sports programming.
Those rights include radio (Clear Channel), television (AT&T
Broadband) and all in-stadium/arena sponsorships.
He is the committee co-chair for Athletics 2010, the department’s
strategic plan that serves as the blueprint for the future that includes
four main goals of education, winning, facilities and culture. He is also
the department’s liaison for the Mile High Showdown, the annual football
game against in-state rival Colorado State (held for six years in
Denver before returning to the Boulder campus in 2004).
May, 41, graduated from Iowa State University with a B.S. degree in
marketing in 1985. He lettered twice in track at Iowa State, running the
800-meters and on the relay teams. He earned his master’s from CU in
business administration in August 1988.
Born March 12, 1963 in Princeton, Ill., he graduated from Muscatine
(Iowa) High School, where he lettered in cross country, track and basketball.
He was inducted into Muscatine’s Sports Hall of Fame in August
2002 for his role on the school’s only undefeated 4x800 relay team. He is
married to the former Joanne Crone, and they have two children, Lucy
(9) and Jack (7).