Isaiah Childers was named the Thundering Herd's Director of Marketing and Promotions in February of 2005. During his first year, Isaiah has solidified Marshall as a future leader in sports marketing by winning two first place awards and "Best of Show" at the 2006 NACMA Awards in New Orleans. The two awards were for Ticket Sales Piece and Single Day Attendance Promotion-Football, which also won "Best of Show". The "Best of Show" is awarded to the top 5 best marketing ideas out of over 1,100 entries. Childers served as the Assistant Director of Athletic Development with Marshall's Big Green Scholarship Foundation in 2004-05 and oversaw the Big Green office's operations for the last two months of his tenure with the Big Green. During that time, his duties included oversight of the foundation's annual fund, priority seating, and event planning.

The Huntington, W.Va., native earned his bachelor's in business administration from Marshall in 2002, and a masters in business administration from Marshall in 2004 after serving in the Big Green office as a graduate assistant for two years. Isaiah was apart of the last graduating class at Vinson High School in 1998.