Austin, Texas -- The College Sports Infomation Directors of America (CoSIDA) has accepted an invitation from the National Association of Sports Public Address Announcers (NASPAA) to become an affiliate organization.
"CoSIDA is excited to become an affiliate member of the National Association of Sports Public Address Announcers," 2010-11 CoSIDA President Larry Dougherty said. "The organization's mission is to raise the level of professionalism in that field, and as the athletic communications arm of college athletics CoSIDA supports this goal and will do what we can to help NASPAA achieve it going forward."
"CoSIDA is an outstanding association with tremendous leadership," remarked Brad Rumble, NASPAA Executive Director. "It is one of the most well known and respected management organizations in collegiate athletics. In light of the fact that many communications and information directors at the collegiate level hire and assign their schools' P.A. announcers, it is important for NASPAA to have a formal relationship with CoSIDA. We believe that CoSIDA can serve as a resource for NASPAA and help expose our program and services to the CoSIDA membership. We will also continue to work with the CoSIDA leadership to have someone from that organization participate in selecting the College NASPAA P.A. Announcers of the Year."
The NASPAA's mission is to raise the level of professionalism of public address announcing by serving as a resource for training, education and professional development for those individuals who provide their services to sports events at all levels nationwide.
The two organizations have agreed to share resources wherever possible such as CoSIDA members being able to use the NASPAA Job Posting Board on the NASPAA website at no charge. More information on NASPAA can be obtain by going to
www.naspaa.net and CoSIDA at
www.cosida.com.
About CoSIDA - "Strategic Communicators for College Athletics"-
The College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA), now in its 54th year, was founded in 1957-making it the second oldest management association in intercollegiate athletics. Today, it is a vibrant 2,400-plus member national association comprised of the sports public relations, communications and information professionals throughout all levels of collegiate athletics in the United States and Canada.
CoSIDA has two primary missions: 1) Help the communications and media relations professionals at all collegiate levels with professional development and continuing education as it relates to strategically dealing in an effective manner with the various issues, challenges and opportunities that now exist within the fast-paced and ever-changing communications environment. 2) Play a significant leadership and resource role ( i.e. "Strategic Communicators for College Athletics") within the overall enterprise of collegiate athletics.
CoSIDA founded in the mid 1950's the highly regarded "Academic All-America®" program, unquestionably viewed as the premier awards program in intercollegiate athletics for honoring combined academic and athletic excellence. CoSIDA, which became an affiliated partner with NACDA (National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics) in December of 2008, continues to fully manage and administer that program today.