College Sports Information Directors of America

Matt Gagne, a 2004 Bates graduate,
has been named interim sports information director at
Bates College. He replaces Aaron Todd, who leaves
Bates to become the sports information director at
Merrimack College.

Gagne graduated from Bates in May with a degree in
English. He interned in the Sports Information Office
for four years as a student, briefly overseeing the
office on an interim basis the beginning of his junior
year. He also free-lanced for Bates Magazine.

Gagne was co-editor-in-chief of the Bates Student his
senior year and sports editor his junior year. He also
free-lanced as a sportswriter, working for the
Lewiston Sun Journal, the Portland Press Herald and
Foster’s Daily Democrat (Dover, N.H.).

The summer after graduation Gagne attended the
Columbia Publishing Course, an intense six-week
program covering all aspects of book and magazine
publishing. This fall he worked as a sportswriter for
the Concord Monitor and the Nashua Telegraph in New
Hampshire. He also free-lanced for Varsity New
England, a start-up regional magazine dedicated to
high school sports.

As a student, Gagne also directed intramural sports
programs on campus and coached a fifth- and
sixth-grade basketball team for two years in Lewiston.