Kevin Ruple, the sports information director at Baldwin-Wallace College, has been selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America to receive the Warren Berg Award for 2004.
He will receive his honor as part of the organization's Awards Banquet on Wednesday, June 30 at CoSIDA's annual workshop, being held this year in Calgary, Alberta.
The Warren Berg Award is given annually to a CoSIDA college-division member who has made outstanding contributions to the field of college sports information, and who, by his or her activities, has brought dignity and prestige to the profession.
Ruple has been the sports information director at Baldwin-Wallace College since 1983. He began his long career as an intern in the sports information office at the College of Wooster in 1982.
He is known throughout the nation and by sports information directors at schools of all levels as one of the outstanding mentors and teachers in the business. Currently, there are 18 of his former student assistants currently working in collegiate or professional athletics media relations or athletics administration positions.
Ruple has attended the last 20 CoSIDA workshops, and served a term on the organization's board of directors as a college division representative. He is currently a member of the Academic All-America Committee, and has served previous terms on the job services and publications committees.
His involvement in college division athletics has included a term on the Pizza Hut / Champion Division III All-America Committee, and he served for eight years as the national chair of the Don Hansen Football Gazette All-America team, as well as two other seasons as the North Region chair. He is a three-time past president of the Ohio Athletic Conference Public Relations Task Force.
Ruple has assisted with numerous championships for the Ohio High School Athletic Association, and has served as venue chief for the AAU National Junior Olympics Track Championships. He assisted with the Ohio Sports Festival and Ohio Games for 10 years.