September 2024

September 2024

Jeff's Amazing Kettle Corn joined the Knox Sports Client family in September 2024. They partner with Virginia Tech, South Carolina, and Clemson to help meet their goals of introducing their unique product to loyal fans.

February 2024

February 2024

Chappell Hill Sausage Company joins the Knox Sports family. They partner with the Frisco RoughRiders in order to increase brand awareness, induce trial through concessions sales, and generate revenue in the DFW Metroplex through an in-market register-to-win promotion.

June 2023

June 2023

Tyler joins the Knox Sports team in June of 2023! Tyler graduated from LaGrange College with a degree in Business Administration and a minor in sports management. He worked for both Vinik Sports and IMG Academy before joining the Knox Sports team.

Honduras 2021

Honduras 2021

We returned to Honduras. While there, we delivered over 600 uniforms to kids in four villages as well as aided in building a house for a family who lost their home in a hurricane.

August 2021

August 2021

Knox Sports is excited and honored to name Tallahassee Memorial Hospital as one of our clients. TMH has recently been named by U.S. News as a Best Hospital in Florida, and we are looking forward to shepherding their sports negotiation and execution efforts in their region.

February 2021

February 2021

Taylor joins Knox Sports. Taylor has a unique background with both experience in the sports marketing world and education. She left the field of elementary education as a First-Grade teacher to return to the world of sports. Taylor graduated from the University of South Carolina and was a Division I collegiate swimmer.

November 2020

November 2020

Advent Health joined the Knox Sports client family! They will partnering with various youth sports teams to help meet their marketing goals!

November 2020

November 2020

Uncle Charley's committed to joining the Knox Sports client family in November of 2020, and we are pleased to announce that they have just entered into a partnership with the Cleveland Indians as the Official Sausage of the Indians.

August 2020

August 2020

We created a podcast! Knox Talk is a bi-weekly podcast that is centered around the world of sports sponsorships. Paul hosts it along with his co-host and friend, Brandon Parks!

April 2020

April 2020

Tijuana Flats joins the Knox Sports client family! They enter into partnerships with the University of Florida and Florida State University.

March 2019

March 2019

Knox Sports welcomes Papa Murphy's into the Knox Sports family as our newest client!

February 2019

February 2019

Knox Sports welcomes Indiana Farm Bureau into the Knox Sports family as our newest client! They are working with Purdue and Indiana University to meet their marketing goals.

July 2018

July 2018

Knox Sports returned to Honduras for a mission trip. We donated over 700 soccer uniforms to kids in local villages and helped to build a house for a family of four.

February 2018

February 2018

Morgan Swem joins Knox Sports after finishing her collegiate experience at Florida Southern College.

May 2017

May 2017

We welcomed Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Company of Arkansas to the Knox Sports team.

January 2017

January 2017

Knox Sports celebrates its 20th Anniversary!!

July 2016

July 2016

Knox Sports went back to Tegucigalpa, Honduras for uniform donation and a House Construction project.

April 2016

April 2016

Michigan proudly becomes the 6th State Farm Bureau organization in the Knox Sports family. Combining cutting-edge community service with record-breaking register-to-win concepts at Michigan, Michigan State and the Detroit Pistons.

March 2016

March 2016

Auburn, Alabama's Chicken Salad Chick joins the Knox Sports client roster as they remake all their collegiate sponsorship contracts throughout the South. Using online codes and social cues to track new customers, these unique promotions made a splash in Minor League Baseball a year later.

February 2016

February 2016

Knox Sports acquires Polk's Meats as a new client. Polk's carved out enticing new partnerships with Mississippi State, Alabama and Minor League Baseball teams all over the South serving Polk's Meats in the stands.

June 2015

June 2015

Knox Sports acquires Vology as a client. Vology partnered with the Tampa Bay Lightning to entitle the new Vology Loge area at Amalie Arena

June 2014

June 2014

Knox Sports travels to Costa Rica for the company's fourth mission tip. We donated soccer, basketball and volleyball equipment, uniforms, and assisted with the upgrading of an indoor sports recreational area.

February 2014

February 2014

The University of Idaho, Idaho State, and Boise State are all beneficiaries of renewed partnerships stewarded through Knox Sports as they added Idaho Farm Bureau Insurance to the client family at Knox Sports

May 2013

May 2013

Virginia529 College Savings Plan becomes a Knox Sports client with the redevelopment of their UVA and VT sponsorship.

June 2011

June 2011

Knox Sports takes a trip to Tegucigalpa, Honduras for mission work. We donated soccer uniforms, assisted in building an indoor soccer field and donated school supplies and sports equipment to a local school.

January 2011

January 2011

Knox Sports finalizes the Entitlement deal for Farm Bureau Live; an amphitheater in Virginia Beach.

March 2010

March 2010

Knox Sports picks up Huntington Bank as our newest client. Huntington is a large Midwest Bank that has a major presence in Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Pennsylvania and West Virginia.

September 2009

September 2009

Florida Farm Bureau Insurance is welcomed by the Knox Sports family and begins long-term partnerships with both Florida and FSU.

September 2009

September 2009

Knox Sports proudly manages over 20 Sports Sponsorship Consultation clients with over $8 million in annual sponsorship assets with over 60 professional & collegiate relationships.

July 2009

July 2009

Knox Sports adds Texas Farm Bureau Insurance to the client family. Activating lead generation and membership benefit programs with 9 Texas universities and 12 minor league baseball programs

June 2009

June 2009

Second Knox Sports Marketing Mission Trip to Tegucigalpa, Honduras.

December 2008

December 2008

Tampa Bay area credit union, Achieva Credit Union, hires Knox Sports to create grassroots local sports sponsorship.

August 2008

August 2008

South Carolina Farm Bureau Insurance uses Knox Sports to completely remake their Clemson and South Carolina partnerships.

January 2008

January 2008

Jennifer Kniese joins the Knox Sports team after stops at the Florida Panthers, USF and the University of Southern Mississippi.

January 2008

January 2008

Knox Sports moves into their new, wholly owned headquarters in Tampa, FL.

December 2007

December 2007

Sponsorship Consultation Client list grows to 16 with Knox Sports managing over $5 million in sponsorship assets.

August 2007

August 2007

Knox Sports picks up another important grocery client with BI-LO based in Greenville, SC. This relationship is highlighted by the creative BI-LO No Dough concept where customers get free tickets to their favorite professional and collegiate events with purchase.

June 2007

June 2007

First Knox Sports Marketing Mission Trip to Tegucigalpa, Honduras.

February 2007

February 2007

Knox Sports picks up a new client in Virginia Farm Bureau Insurance. Incredible results in hospitality, member benefits, new client data generation and unique traffic to agent offices.

March 2005

March 2005

Innovative in-house ticketing programs for HomeBanc Mortgage created by Knox Sports change the way the sports sponsorship industry handles hospitality and ROI.

October 2004

October 2004

Knox Sports is hired to oversee first outbound brand campaign for startup Bank of St. Petersburg. The USF athletic platform-based program helps Bank achieve all their commercial revenue goals in under 6 months.

August 2003

August 2003

Sponsorship Consultation Client list grows to 13 and on behalf of Honduras' Banco Ficohsa, Knox Sports gets involved in World Cup for the first time.

September 2002

September 2002

Knox Sports served as the lead consultant for the new naming rights deal representing the St. Petersburg Times as they closed the contract with the Tampa Bay Lightning at the “St. Pete Times Forum”.

December 2001

December 2001

Awarded Youth Sports Contract from Land O'Frost to create and execute the single most successful youth sports sponsorship program in the US. Today Knox Sports manages the LOF program which sponsors over 13,000 teams in 28 US cities and took Land O'Frost from 8th in lunch meat sales in 2001 to 3rd today!”

November 2001

November 2001

Knox Sports Marketing logo gets a new look.

August 2000

August 2000

Knox Sports VP Melissa Calipari joins the team after a stint with the Tampa Bay Rays and WQYK.

March 2000

March 2000

Sponsorship Consultation list grows to eleven and Knox Sports wraps up first few event and venue entitlement contracts including the Hops Marathon and GTE Classic.

January 1999

January 1999

Knox Sports takes on their first International client in Honduras. This was the start of more than a decade of work in Central America for our company.

March 1998

March 1998

For the first ever Devil Rays game played in Tropicana Field, Knox Sports was tabbed by GTE (now Verizon) to create and distribute the Opening Day giveaway.

January 1998

January 1998

Staff increases to two people as client list doubles in first few months.

December 1997

December 1997

Knox Sports Begins Operations in Clearwater, FL. Founder Paul Sickmon started the company after five years of working in the athletic department at Florida State University and a decade as the Director of Sponsorship and Advertising with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

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