FAMU alumnus Antoine Bell has been named interim athletic director for The University of Alabama in Huntsville following the death of Jim Harris, the university’s athletic director for the past 15 years.Bell joined the UAHuntsville athletics staff in 1998 as Sports Information Director and was later promoted to Associate Director of Athletics for Media Relations. During his career, he has worked two years at Morris Brown College in Atlanta, and six at Alabama A&M University. His career began as a student assistant at Florida A&M University in Tallahassee, Fla., in 1985. He served in that capacity for four years. Bell earned a degree in broadcast journalism from Florida A&M in 1989.
In 2008, Bell was appointed to the NCAA Statistics Advisory Board.
In addition to his work in sports information, Bell has worked in several other areas of communications. He was Sports Producer at WO9BI-TV in Tallahassee. He also was an on-air personality at WAMF Radio as well as a staff intern at the Tallahassee Democrat newspaper.
While at Alabama A&M, Bell hosted several television and radio sports shows. He also served as color analyst on the basketball radio broadcasts. Bell has also done some play-by-play on the UAH basketball broadcasts on the radio as well as the internet.
A native of Birmingham, Bell and his wife Gwen, also of Birmingham, have one daughter, Ariel Monet.