Catholic Names Baur SID
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Catholic University of America welcomes Mike Baur as its new sports information director.
Baur comes to Catholic from Winthrop University in South Carolina where he served as a media relations assistant in the athletics department. He was the main media contact for the Eagle's baseball and women's soccer teams while assisting with other sports including men's and women's basketball and volleyball.
In 1998, Baur began his media career in Milledgeville, Ga., as the news/sports director at WMVG/WKZR Radio. In 2000, he served as a reporter for the South Carolina News Network and later as a producer/announcer for "Primetime Sports," a popular sports talk show on WISW-AM in Columbia, S.C.
Baur earned a bachelor's degree in broadcast journalism in 1998 and a master's in mass communications from the University of South Carolina in 2004.