Staff Directory

Elliott Carr

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Assistant Athletics Director of Strategic Communications (Men's Basketball, Football, Women's Lacrosse, Rugby, M/W Golf, M/W Skiing)
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Elliott Carr joins Dartmouth College athletics as an Assistant Athletic Director of Strategic Communications after almost seven years at Princeton University, where he served as an Assistant Director of Athletic Communications.

At Princeton, Carr managed communications and media relations for the prestigious men's the basketball team. During this time, he led the content and media relations strategy during the team's run to the Sweet 16 in 2023 which resulted in $366,630,624 estimated publicity, along with program’s three-straight Ivy League titles from 2022-2024. During that stretch, he facilitated interviews with major media outlets including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Sports Illustrated, GQ Magazine and The Athletic, as well as television appearances on ABC, CNN, CBS, ESPN and the BBC. He oversaw a 541% increase in followers of the Princeton men's basketball program's Instagram account and started the "Journey to Jadwin" feature story series, which earned him a 2026 College Sports Communicators (CSC) Fred Stabley Sr. Writing Contest Runner-Up Award in District Two for his profile on Blake Peters '25.

He was part of a creative team that won 12 national awards in the CSC in the Publications and Digital Design categories and was named a recipient of Princeton's Tiger Award in April 2022, an honor recognizing employees who have gone above and beyond in their job responsibilities.

In addition, Carr served as an Assistant Producer and handled the deployment of Hard Cuts, a YouTube series offering an inside look at the Princeton men's basketball program. “The Xaivian Lee Story” from season seven won a Mid-Atlantic Emmy in the Sports Story Short Form category. Carr was also Princeton’s point of contact to the production crew for the CBS documentary “Think. See. Do. – The Legacy of Pete Carril’ which aired during the 2023 NCAA Tournament.

In 2022, Carr created an Instagram account for the Princeton women’s volleyball team, and it had grown to 14,100 followers by August 2026. He successfully pitched feature stories of Princeton women’s volleyball players to newspapers including the San Diego Tribune and the Kansas City Star, along with other regional publications. Carr served as the primary contact for up to 13 teams at Princeton, and pitched the story “’How did I get here?’ To Princeton from Tibet, one tennis player’s remarkable road” which was featured on the back cover of the New York Times.

At Princeton, Carr oversaw the athletic communications student-worker program

Prior to Princeton, Carr spent 11 months at Long Island University and a year at North Carolina State, where he served as an Athletic Communications Assistant from 2017-18. In that role, he served as primary communications contact for four teams and as a tertiary contact for football.

Carr began his career as a Graduate Assistant for Sport Information at North Central College from 2015-17, where he served as primary communications contact for four teams and communicated the department's social media strategy with the college's marketing department.

He earned a Masters of Organization Leadership - Sports Leadership from North Central College in 2017 and a Bachelor of Arts in Communications from Clarke University in 2012 where he was a member of the men’s basketball team and earned academic all-conference honors as a senior. Carr also played semi-professional basketball in Australia and was named to the Hume City Broncos Team of the Decade for 2011-2020.

Carr is joined in the Upper Valley by his wife Colleen and son Leon.