Katharine Palmer

Position: Administrative Assistant

Katharine Palmer joined the Virginia men's basketball staff in 2012 as an administrative assistant. She provides operational support for the men's basketball program and serves as the first point of contact in the men's basketball office. Palmer maintains student-athlete, AAU, high school and alumni databases. She assists in coordinating travel arrangements and designs monthly newsletter and contributes to the program's social media efforts.

Palmer previously spent five years as an assistant director with the University of Virginia Athletics Media Relations office. She worked with the Cavalier field hockey, swimming and diving and softball teams.

Before arriving at UVa, Palmer, a native of Defiance, Ohio, spent two years at the University of Wisconsin where she worked with the women's soccer team and assisted in publicity for the football and women's basketball programs.

Palmer graduated from The Ohio State University with a bachelor's degree in communications in 2005. She worked four years in the athletics communications office as an undergraduate and interned for a semester with the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) in Colorado Springs, Colo., in 2003.