Parker Kruckenberg joined North Dakota State University as an assistant athletic director for development in September 2021.
Kruckenberg spent two years at the Minnesota State University Moorhead Foundation from 2019-21 as the associate director for development, where he worked regionally to identify, cultivate, solicit, and steward gifts for MSUM.
Prior to that, he was an assistant baseball coach for five seasons -- three at Montana State Billings (2015-2017) and two at Northeastern State in Tahlequah, Okla. (2018-2019). Kruckenberg also worked as a volunteer assistant baseball coach at Eastern Illinois in 2013 and NDSU in 2014.
A native of Fargo, N.D., Kruckenberg earned a bachelor's degree in sport management at the University of Minnesota in 2011 and a master's degree in applied kinesiology from Minnesota in December 2012.
He and his wife, Erin, live in West Fargo with their daughters, Addison and Shae.