Angelo State Names New SID
Dave Wester, who has more than a decade of sports
information experience including the last five in the Lone Star
Conference, has been named sports information director at Angelo
State University.
Wester, the sports information director at Southeastern
Oklahoma State University since 2000, will assume his duties Dec. 5
in San Angelo. He succeeds M.L. Stark Hinkle, who has held the
position for the past dozen years. Hinkle is moving with her family
to Hutchinson, Kan., where her husband, Eric, has accepted a new
job.
At ASU Wester will be responsible for media relations,
statistical record-keeping, athletic website management and other
duties in support of the five Ram and six Rambelle sports, competing
in the Lone Star Conference (LSC) and NCAA Division II.
He has served on the official statistical crew for
several LSC conferences tournaments and events. He on statistical
crews for the University of Tulsa for four years, handling football
and basketball, and for the Tulsa Talons of the Arena2 Football
League for a year.
Prior to assuming his duties at Southeastern Oklahoma,
he worked for the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics
three years as sports information assistant and two years as manager
of information systems. His multiple responsibilities included
serving as media coordinator for national championship events in
seven different events and maintaining the association's computer
network and official website. He began his sports information
career as a student assistant at Oklahoma City University.
Wester is active in several professional organizations,
including the College Sports Information Directors of America
(CoSIDA). He has served on CoSIDA's Academic All-America Committee
since 2003. He also serves on Don' Hansen's Football Gazette West
Region Committee, on the National Collegiate Baseball Writers of
America Rating Committee as chair for the South Central Region, and
on the Bob Cousy Award Nomination Committee for NCAA Division II.
Wester holds a bachelor's degree in mass communications
with an emphasis in advertising from Oklahoma City University. He
has also done graduate work in education at Southeastern Oklahoma.