SPRINGFIELD -- Missouri State has added a pair of alumni to its athletics staff, with Danielle Niepert joining the department as the Director of Marketing and Promotions, and Caroline Boone serving as Coordinator-Partnership Services for Missouri State Sports Properties. 

Niepert has been part of MSU athletics since 2015, beginning with an internship that included time in the areas of game day operations, ticketing and compliance. 

After graduating with a recreation, sport and park administration degree in July 2016, Niepert completed a graduate assistantship for the department, earning her Master of Professional Studies: Sports Management in May 2018 after a two-year stint working with marketing and promotions, including event management, Bearfest Village, game day promotions, and coordinating the Future Bears kids club.

Boone joins the Missouri State Sports Properties staff after graduating in 2017 with degrees in psychology and child and family development. A native of Wynne, Ark., Boone spent five years on the women's golf roster at MSU from 2012-17, culminating in a fifth-place individual finish at the 2017 Missouri Valley Conference Championship, helping the Bears earn the team title. She earned the MVC State Farm Good Neighbor award in the spring of 2016.