College Sports Information Directors of America

Patrick Clark has been hired as Southeast Missouri State’s assistant sports information director, announced Athletics Director Don Kaverman. Clark will oversee all aspects of media coverage and event management for Southeast’s’ women’s volleyball, women’s basketball, women’s gymnastics, women’s tennis, softball and baseball.
 
Clark comes to Southeast after spending the past year at ESPN where he was a research coordinator for college football and women’s college basketball. His responsibilities included the research and development of story ideas on ESPN’s Emmy award-winning coverage of college football. He then moved on to the Connecticut Army National Guard, where he served as a public affairs official. Clark, who is in his 11^th year as a member of the US Army National Guard, also served as a journalist for The Connecticut Guardian.
 
Clark’s previous experience includes serving as a media relations associate at the University of Missouri. At Missouri he served as the wrestling contact and swimming and diving contact for both nationally ranked teams. He served as the media director for the 2003 Big 12 Wrestling Championships.
 
Before Missouri, Clark started his sports information career as a student assistant at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. He served as the primary contact for both the men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams. He organized and oversaw the 2002 Missouri Valley Conference Swimming and Diving Championships. He also assisted in all aspects of Salukis men’s basketball teams’ run to the “Sweet 16."
 
A 2001 graduate of Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, Clark was a three-time letter winner in football for the Salukis as a defensive back. He has a bachelor’s degree in mass communications and is a native of Fairview Heights, Ill.