Matt Stepan is a very busy man.

You probably know that he is the director of athletics at alma mater, Montana Tech. That is a job that is probably closer to 80 hours than 40 hours per week during the school year. It takes up a ton of time during the summer, too.

Still, you might also see Stepan coaching baseball or wrestling, helping run the Mining City Little Guy Football League or serving on community boards such as the Chamber of Commerce and Advantage Butte.

Until recently, Stepan also refereed high school football and wrestling. He likely will again when his children are no longer competing in those sports at the high school level.

You will be hard pressed to find somebody who is more invested in his community than Stepan, who graduated from Butte Central in 1999 before playing football at Montana Tech, where he earned a degree in business and information technology in 2004. He also won the prestigious Ed Simonich Award while playing for Coach Bob Green’s Orediggers.

After working in California and Utah, Stepan and his family moved back to the Mining City around 2019. After three years of working as the external associate athletic director at Montana Tech, he was named director of athletics in 2017.

To say that hire was a home run by the Orediggers is a huge understatement. The Montana Tech athletic department is now at the top of the Frontier Conference. For the first time in 30 years, Tech won the Bandy Memorial All-Sports Trophy for the 2022-23 school year.

Listen in to this podcast as Matt talks about winning the Bandy Award, the state of the Oredigger athletic department and his road that led him to a job he says he truly loves. Listen as he talks about how it was wrestling that led to his opportunities at Tech.

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