Mike Parrish Hometown: Hershey, Pa. Last College: West Virginia '06 Position: Director of Operations At Arizona: First Year; fourth year in college atheltics

Mike Parrish - Director of Football Operations

Mike Parrish, 28, was appointed by head coach Rich Rodriguez as Arizona's director of football operations in early December 2011.

Parrish served as Rodriguez' director of operations at Michigan in 2010 and was an operations assistant in Ann Arbor for the first two years of Rodriguez' tenure.

Parrish will be the staff's liaison to academic support staff, the university's admissions office for enrollment issues, the athletic department's compliance office, plus serve in directing team travel, the football calendar, recruiting processes and many other day-to-day activities for the staff.

Parrish, 28, served as Michigan's director of football operations in 2010 and was a recruiting/operations assistant for the Wolverines from 2008-09. He was an intern with Steiner Sports marketing and memorabilia agency in New Rochelle, N.Y. in 2005.

A native of Morgantown, he earned bachelor's (2006) and master's (2008) degrees from West Virginia and was active in athletic marketing and outreach activities when Rodriguez was head coach there.