Patrick Meehan begins his fifth year as Assistant Athletic Director for Strategic Communications as he joined Centenary Athletics on August 5, 2019. Meehan supports and promotes Centenary’s 21 current men’s and women’s athletic teams and assisted with the launch of three new sports in the 2020-2021 academic year: men’s and women’s cross country, men’s and women’s track and field, and competitive cheer and dance. He also assisted in the announcement of Centenary's return to the gridiron in November of 2021 as football returns to the school in the fall of 2024.

Meehan, a Baton Rouge native who grew up in Shreveport, has worked in or close to the athletics industry at several different levels for the past two decades, and came to Centenary from his high school alma mater, Loyola College Prep. While at LCP, he worked in alumni relations, development, and athletic department fundraising from 2016-19. Meehan is also active with the school’s alumni association and is currently serving as past president of the Flyer Alumni Association.

Meehan began his career in sports information at LSU-Baton Rouge, where he was a student assistant with the LSU Sports Information Department from 2000-04 and had the opportunity to work numerous major athletic events, including five NCAA baseball regionals and three super regionals, the 2002 NCAA Division I Track and Field Outdoor National Championship, and two SEC men’s basketball tournaments. He also worked the 2004 NCAA Women’s Basketball First & Second rounds and covered the 2004 SEC Men’s Golf Championships in sea Island, Ga. During his days as a student assistant at LSU, Meehan served as the primary contact for women’s soccer, men’s golf, and men’s and women’s swimming and diving, and was the secondary contact for baseball.

After graduating from LSU in August of 2004 with a bachelor’s degree in general studies, Meehan spent a year as a media relations assistant at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). While at UAB, Meehan was the primary contact for the women’s soccer and softball teams and was the secondary contact for the football team. Meehan picked the right time to be at UAB as the Blazers enjoyed unprecedented athletic success in 2004-05 as the women’s soccer team won a conference tournament title and made the NCAA Tournament for the first time in school history and the football team made its first bowl game appearance in school history.

Meehan returned home to Shreveport in August of 2005 to work for the Independence Bowl Foundation as a media relations assistant and then media relations/PR director for six years (2006-12). He coordinated all communications efforts for the bowl game and the foundation on game day and throughout the year as well as assisting in fundraising and advertising and marketing campaigns. Meehan also created a program called the “Kid’s Corner Youth Ticket Donation Program” which paired local businesses with non-profit organizations and agencies in the Shreveport-Bossier community enabling hundreds of disadvantaged youths the opportunity to attend the Independence Bowl on an annual basis.  

Meehan has worked 23 NCAA baseball regionals and super regionals, numerous LHSAA championships, multiple NBA preseason games and NCAA Women’s Basketball First & Second Rounds held at LSU, and served as media coordinator for the 2011 NCAA Women’s Basketball First & Second Rounds held at the CenturyLink Center in Bossier City. Meehan was part of the game day communications staff for a pair of Sugar Bowls in 2005 and 2009.

In his first year at Centenary, Meehan covered both the 2019 SCAC Women’s Soccer Championship in Georgetown, Texas and the 2020 NCAA Division III Men's Basketball Championship in Richardson, Texas. The Ladies soccer team had the best season in program history as they posted a 16-3 record and made the semifinals of the conference tournament. The men’s basketball team likewise completed one of its most successful seasons in program history and best in the division III era. The Gents won their first SCAC Tournament title to earn an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament for the first time in school history, as the Gents finished 18-10 and went 15-5 in SCAC play.

Meehan documented the run by the Centenary baseball team to the NCAA Division III Championship for just the second time in the division III era (2012-present) in 2022 as The Diamond Gents won the 2022 SCAC Tournament title on May 8 in Cleburne, Texas with a 10-5 victory over nationally-ranked Trinity. Centenary's memorable season came to an end on May 21 in LaGrange, Ga. when the Diamond Gents fell 14-9 to the Panthers after dropping a pair of games the day before to lose the "best of five" series 3-0.

Meehan serves on the SCAC Sports Information Directors sub-committee, is one of the staff liaisons on Centenary's Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC), and has worked a pair of SCAC Baseball championships in Cleburne, Texas. 

He is a member of The Louisiana Sports Writers’ Association and the College Sports Communicators (Formerly College Sports Information Directors of America - CoSIDA). He is a past member of the local church relations committee in conjunction with Broadmoor Methodist Church and The Fuller Center for Housing of Northwest Louisiana Inc. Meehan is actively involved with and supportive of Volunteers of America North Louisiana and its Visionaries and Cherish the Children of God organizations as well as The ARC Caddo-Bossier Goldman School and Child Development Center. 

Meehan has a son, Jacob (11) who is already an avid Ladies and Gents fan and can be found at a Centenary home athletic event any chance he gets.