Pretzer Named SID at Bryn Mawr College

Zachary M. Pretzer will join the staff of the Bryn Mawr College Athletics and Physical Education Department as the College's first full-time sports information and compliance director on July 11. Pretzer is a native of Vermilion, Ohio.


Pretzer comes to Bryn Mawr from the University of Tennessee's flagship Knoxville campus, where he earned an M.S. in sport management and worked as a sports-management assistant. At UT, Pretzer designed, maintained and wrote news and feature stories for the university's Adidas Partners in Sport program Web site; he also wrote for several university periodicals. While earning his master's degree, Pretzer coached Knoxville's Farragut High School baseball team to back-to-back AAA state championships.

The move to Bryn Mawr represents a return to the world of liberal-arts colleges for Pretzer, who graduated from Oberlin College in 2003 with a major in history and a minor in physical education. During his undergraduate years, he served as sports editor for the Oberlin Review, an award-winning student newspaper, and as a sports-information assistant in the college's athletics department. As a member of Oberlin's baseball team, he broke 13 team records and won, among other honors, the John N. Stern/North Coast Athletic Conference Award for athletic and academic excellence.