MOUNT PLEASANT, MICHIGAN -- Brian Brunner, who directed the Chippewa Athletic Fund to new heights in 2012 and 2013, will return to Central Michigan University Athletics as the associate athletic director for development.
Brunner, a CMU quarterback from 2004-2008 and a team captain in 2008, spent the last two years as the assistant athletic director for annual giving at South Dakota State University. Under his leadership, the Jackrabbit Club had a 77 percent increase in annual fundraising in two years.
“He’s a Chippewa,” Director of Athletics Dave Heeke said. “I’m not sure anybody can speak to student-athlete experience and the need for it as well as he can.