Samuel Hersh currently serves as the Associate Director of Compliance, but began working in the compliance department at UNLV as a graduate assistant and eventually started in a full-time capacity in 2020. In his current role, he serves as a compliance liaison overseeing day-to-day compliance operations for the the baseball, men’s and women’s soccer, and men’s golf programs. Additionally, he has added a major role in the department’s name, image and likeness program “The Vegas Effect.”
Hersh is a former baseball student-athlete at Newman University, earning his bachelor of arts in sports communication in the fall of 2018 with a minor in pre-law. The Wichita, Kansas native was also a member of the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee. Hersh earned his master’s degree in urban leadership in 2021 from UNLV.