Mike Christy joined Arizona Athletics in June of 2019 and was promoted to Director of Sports Photography in December of 2021. As the athletics department’s in-house photographer, the UArizona graduate is in charge of photography coverage of all home events, collateral marketing shoots, maintaining the department’s photo archives and supervising paid and volunteer photo staff.
Christy has enhanced photography operations at Arizona in a variety of ways, which included launching content management systems using the PhotoShelter and INFLCR platforms. His work at Arizona has been published in a variety of outlets, including The Today Show, CBS, ESPN, MLB and the NCAA.
He joined arrived at Arizona Athletics following seven years as a staff photographer at the Arizona Daily Star in Tucson.  Christy is an award-winning photographer who covered the Wildcats for Tucson’s daily newspaper and the University of Arizona’s Daily Wildcat newspaper prior. His sports photography work has won nearly every award in the state of Arizona, including recognition by the Arizona Photojournalism Awards and the Arizona Newspapers Association.
Christy also spent time as an adjunct faculty member at the University of Arizona School of Journalism in 2017 where he taught the department’s Beginning Photojournalism class, which is a required course for all Journalism students.
He is a 2011 graduate of the School of Journalism at the University of Arizona. Mike and his wife, Emily, were married in November of 2022.
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