Svoboda Promoted to Director of Harvard Athletic Communications
Kurt Svoboda has been promoted to Director of Athletic Communications at Harvard. Svoboda, who is in his third year overall at Harvard, will serve as the departmental spokesperson responsible for disseminating information for the nation’s largest Division I intercollegiate athletic program to appropriate organizations.
Svoboda will work directly with the football, men’s basketball and baseball programs as well as several others. In 2006, he served as the media coordinator overseeing over 200 media members at the NCAA Women’s Basketball Championship event held at the TDA Banknorth Garden.
Before coming to Harvard, Svoboda served as the Director of Sports information at Saint Anselm College from 2001-2005. He was the recipient of 18 district and national publications awards including the nation’s top divisional baseball media guide in 2003, the best media guide cover in 2005 and a second place finish in the 2002-03 men’s basketball media guide design.
A 2000 graduate of Colby- Sawyer College, Svoboda was a four-year letter-winner with the baseball team, earning academic all-conference honors and playing on two conference championship squads. Svoboda graduated Magna Cum Laude with a B.S. in exercise and sport sciences and a discipline in sport management.
Upon graduation, he served as the first-ever James “Lou” Gorman Publicist for the New England Collegiate Baseball League (NECBL) while also working as an Assistant Director of Sports Information at Franklin Pierce College.
After a two-year stint as an assistant baseball coach in the NECBL, he returned to the central office as Deputy Commissioner responsible for player contracts and eligibility.
In addition to his duties at the College, Svoboda has served as an official scorer for the N.H. Fisher Cats AA-level baseball team, and the N.H. Wolves Arena Football League team. He is also active in area AAU baseball programs.
Svoboda, who is pursuing his master’s degree at Harvard, resides in Cambridge, Mass. with his fiancé, Joanna.