Ryan Yanoshak, a graduate assistant at the school last year, has been appointed sports information director at East Stroudsburg University effective immediately. He has worked in the position on an interim basis since July 1. Yanoshak, 30, will be responsible for publicizing and promoting the Warriors’ intercollegiate athletic program. He will write releases, produce programs and media guides and handle game coverage for the school’s 19 teams and more than 450 athletes. He also will maintain the ESU athletic website.
The Hanover Township native is a graduate of Bloomsburg University where he served an internship in the sports information office. He has completed requirements for his master’s degree in Management and Leadership with a concentration in Sport Management at ESU.
“As a graduate assistant, I was able to see what an SID does, how challenging the position is and how fulfilling, it can be,” Yanoshak said. “The position gives me the opportunity to be involved in sports and to interact with coaches and athletes on a daily basis which I really enjoy.” Yanoshak previously worked as a sports writer and editor for eight years, five and a half at The Citizens’ Voice in Wilkes-Barre. He covered national and local sports including writing articles on the Scranton-Wilkes-Barre Red Barons and NASCAR auto racing.
He also worked as a sports writer for the Berkshire Eagle in Dalton, Mass., serving as backup beat writer for the Pittsfield, Mass. Class ‘A’ baseball affiliate of the New York Mets, sports editor of the Milton (Pa.) Standard Journal where he directed a staff of two full-time reporters and eight correspondence, and as Sunday editor and copy editor of Hernando Today in Brookville, Fla. He left the newspaper field for three years and worked as media manager and marketing coordinator for the Schoeneman Corporation in Pottsville, directing a $3-million national television and print campaign for proprietary schools.
“Having worked at newspapers and with an advertising agency, my background is a little different than that of most SIDs,” Yanoshak explained. “I know what information I needed and wanted from an SID when I was a sports writer so this gives me a head start in approaching this job.”
During his graduate assistantship at ESU, Yanoshak served as assistant tournament director of the 62nd annual Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference Wrestling Championship held in the Koehler Fieldhouse and was the primary media contact for a number of sports including women’s basketball and baseball. In May, he received a President’s Outstanding Service Award for his contributions to the community. He was a coordinator of a joint effort between the ESU men’s basketball team and the Pocono Medical Center’s Dale and Frances Hughes Cancer Center to sell bracelets to benefit the center.
In addition, he was an active member of the ESU Sport Management Club, serving as chairman of the media relations committee for Super Soccer Sunday and helping to organize the club’s annual golf tournament.
Yanoshak took over as the interim SID this summer when Chris Myers, the former director, resigned to accept a position as the sports information director at the University of Virginia-Wise campus.
Yanoshak will report to Doug Smith, director of University Relations at the school, and will work closely with Tom Gioglio, ESU athletic director. His office is in the Koehler Fieldhouse. He will supervise a staff of a graduate assistant and eight student workers.