This profile on Charles Bloom, Southeastern Conference (SEC) Associate Commissioner of Media Relations, is the 12th in a series of profiles and features on CoSIDA's 2011 Special Awards recipients. Bloom will be inducted into the CoSIDA Hall of Fame on June 28 at the annual CoSIDA Convention taking place in Marco Island, Florida.
See link to original release and the March/April schedule of the Special Award profiles/features, below.
THE CoSIDA SPECIAL AWARDS FEATURES SERIES
March
Tue. 1 Special Awards general announcement
Thr. 3 Capital One Academic All-America Hall of Fame release
Thr. 3 Ann King (The Sage Colleges): 25-Year Award
Tue. 8 Kent Cherrington (Plymouth State University): 25-year Award
Thr. 10 Justin Doherty (University of Wisconsin): Arch Ward Award
Tue. 15 Rob Knox (Kutztown University): Rising Star Award (College Division)
Thr. 17 Jim Daves (University of Virginia): 25-Year Award
Tue. 22 Diane Nordstrom (University of Wisconsin): 25-Year Award
Thr. 24 Chevonne Mansfield (SWAC): Rising Star Award (University Division)
Tue. 29 Dr. Bill Smith (University of Arkansas): Bob Kenworthy Community Service Award
Thr. 31 Kevin Ruple (Baldwin-Wallace College): Lester Jordan Award
April
Tue. 5 Rich Herman (Clarion): CoSIDA Hall of Fame & Warren Berg Award
Thr. 7 Paul Madison (Western Washington): CoSIDA Hall of Fame
Tue. 12 Charles Bloom (Southeastern Conference): CoSIDA Hall of Fame
Thr. 14 Thomas Nelson (St. Cloud State University): 25-Year Award
Tue. 19 Mark Beckenbach (Ohio Northern): CoSIDA Hall of Fame
Thr. 21 Brian DePasquale (University of Albany): 25-Year Award
Thr. 28 Debby Jennings (University of Tennessee): Trailblazer Award
May
Tue. 3 Walt Riddle (Saint Leo University): Lifetime Achievement Award; and 25-Year Award
Fri. 6 Tom Kroeschell (Iowa State): 25-Year Award
Tue. 10 Mike Moran (USOC); Lifetime Achievement Award
Thr. 12 Joe Seil (Nazareth): 25-Year Award
Tue. 17 A. John Pearson (Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference): Lifetime Achievement Award
Thr. 19 David Moross (Colorado College): 25-Year Award
Tue. 24 Dan McDonald (Northwestern State [La.] and Southwestern Louisiana: CoSIDA Hall of Fame
Thr. 26 Dave Beyer (Mercer University): 25-Year Award
Tue. 31 Lee Corso (ABC/ESPN Sports): Jade Wade Award
other profiles in the schedule to be announced; schedule subject to change
by Tammy Boclair, former CoSIDA President (2003-04) and Alday Communications, Inc. Vice-President (Franklin, Tenn.)
Charles Bloom has been a member of the athletic communications community for 30 years and has served as an active member of CoSIDA since 1985.
He is a CoSIDA Past President, serving in that role during the 2007-08 academic year, and is a current Board of Directors member whose innovative thinking has factored into the development and implementation of some of CoSIDA’s recent major initiatives, including creation of the Executive Director position and the partnership with NACDA.
The Associate Commissioner (Media and Public Relations) at the Southeastern Conference currently serves as the Chair and Board liaison with University Division Management Advisory Committee.
“I am delighted to lear
n of Charles’ induction into the CoSIDA Hall of Fame and pleased to know that his profession appreciates him as much as we do in the Southeastern Conference,” SEC commissioner Mike Slive said. “Charles is a warm, caring and thoughtful man with high energy and considerable talent. He is highly respected by all who work with him including his colleagues, journalists, editors, public relations professionals and the by the many charitable organizations who benefit from his generous spirit.
“On behalf of all of us in the Southeastern Conference we congratulate Charles and thank him for all he has done for us and for his chosen profession.”
Bloom has been at the SEC since 1995 and has risen from director of media relations to assistant commissioner to his current position. In those roles he has served as the conference office’s primary media contact for football, the media director for the conference’s football championship game and men’s basketball tournament as well the conference administrator for baseball. He assisted in the development of the Bowl Championship Series, with the creation of its standings formula and media policies, and later served as its Media Relations Director.
Bloom has kept the SEC at the forefront of emerging media trends with the development and implementation groundbreaking of social media strategies and an internet media policy.
He has fostered publicity campaigns such as the SEC Sportsmanship Award, voted on annually by the conference’s athletics directors to student-athletes to showcase acts of positive character and sportsmanship. He also assisted in the coordination and use of a game clock at the 2010 SEC Baseball Tournament, an initiative which has been adopted by the NCAA Baseball Rules Committee for use in all college games.
Before he joined the SEC, Bloom spent seven years at East Carolina University where he graduated from the university’s Supervision Institute. As Sports Information Director and later Assistant Athletics Director for Media Relations there, he created the school’s media relations office policies and procedures manual an external affairs mission statement.
Bloom also was an assistant sports information director at both the University of Mississippi and Louisiana State University. He began his career as an undergraduate student assistant at Nevada-Las Vegas and as an undergraduate and graduate student at the University of South Carolina.
Bloom is married and a father of two who is an active member of numerous professional organizations and community service projects.