Southeast Missouri State has announced the hiring of Jeffrey Honza as the school's sports information director.

Honza was the associate director of media services at Southern Illinois University-Carbondale for nearly nine years.

Honza is a graduate of Ashland University in Ohio where he earned a degree in communications. Honza and his wife Sarah have a son Benjamin.

"Jeff brings to Southeast his experience at SIU, knowledge of the media in the part of the country and great technical skills with new media," Southeast athletic director John Shafer said in a release.

Honza, who begins his duties July 1, will replace longtime SID Ron Hines, who is retiring at the end of June.