College Sports Information Directors of America

Shane Baxley and Marcel Pourtout have been named assistant media relations directors at the College of Charleston, it was announced by the Colleges assistant athletics director for media relations Tony Ciuffo.

We are delighted to have Shane and Marcel join the College of Charlestons media relations staff, said Ciuffo. Obviously, they are very talented young men who will do an outstanding job promoting CofC athletics.

A Charleston native, Baxley joins the Cougar media relations staff after serving as the interim sports information director at his alma mater, Southeastern Oklahoma State University.

While at Southeastern, he oversaw media relations for 10 sports at the University. In addition to his duties, Baxley served as media relations coordinator for the Lone Star Conference Mens Basketball Postseason Tournament this past basketball season, assisted at the conference golf tournament and was the official scorer at the conference softball tournament. He assisted with the conference cross country meet in 2005 while a graduate assistant at Southeastern.

Prior to his stint at Southeastern, he was a sportswriter at the Durant (Okla.) Daily Democrat, the Paris (Texas) News and the McCurtain (Okla.) Daily Gazette. As an undergraduate at Southeastern, Baxley was the sports editor for the campus newspaper, The Southeastern.

Baxley earned his undergraduate degree in public relations and advertising in 1996.

Pourtout comes to the College after stints at Georgia Tech, where he worked for the sports information office, and the Atlanta Silverbacks Soccer Club, where he marketed the Silverbacks.

Prior to his involvement in athletics, Pourtout worked in public relations for the Communities in Schools of Georgia, Inc., and the Williams Mills Agency in Atlanta.

Pourtout earned his degree in English and communication studies from Vanderbilt University in 2003.