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CSC continues its week-long announcements of the 2023 Special Award recipients by honoring 19 former and current members with Lifetime Achievement Award honors and 18 with 25-Year Awards for a quarter century of service.
The CSC Lifetime Achievement Awards are presented to members who have served at least 25 years in the profession and who are retiring, have retired, or are leaving the athletic communications profession.
Receiving their Lifetime Achievement Awards this year are:
- David Alexander – College of St. Rose, Assistant Athletics Director for Communications (left profession)
- Paul Allan – Minnesota State University, Senior Deputy Athletic Director for External Operations (retired)
- Herb Benenson – University of California, Berkeley, Associate Athletic Director, Communications (retired)
- Dave Blanchard – Luther College, Sports Information Director (retired)
- Geoffrey Hassard – SUNY-Oneonta, Assistant Athletic Director/Sports Information Director (retired)
- Samuel Jefferson, Jr. – Jackson State University, Sports Information Director (retired)
- Brian Laubscher – Washington and Lee University, Director of Internal Communications
- John A. Martin – Colorado State University, Assistant Director of Strategic Communications and Brand Enhancement
- Eric McDowell – The Eric Idea Agency, President
- Brad Nadeau – Middlebury College, Director of Athletic Communications (retired)
- Dennis O’Donnell – University of Rochester, Athletic Communications emeritus (retired)
- Layne Pitt – University of Wisconsin-Stout, Sports Information Director (retired)
- Bill Powers – Hawai’i Pacific University, Assistant Athletic Director, Strategic Communication (retired)
- Dave Reed – Colorado College, Athletic Communications Associate Director (retired)
- Lenny Reich – University of Mount Union (posthumously)
- Mike Scala – Montclair State University (posthumously)
- Joe Seil – Nazareth College, Assistant Athletic Director and Sports Information Director (retired)
- Steve Shutt – Wake Forest University, Associate Athletic Director for Athletic Communications (retired)
- Roots Woodruff – University of Alabama, Associate Athletics Communications Director (retired)
CSC’s 25-Year Award is presented to CSC members who have completed 25 years full-time in the sports communications profession (as of July, 2023) or who have been a member for 25 years. A complete list of 25-year Award recipients for 2023 is below.
A closer look at the individuals honored today:
CSC Lifetime Achievement Award
Presented to individuals who have served at least 25 years
in the sports information profession (as of July 2023) who are retiring or leaving the profession.
Voted on by the Special Awards Committee.
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
David Alexander – College of St. Rose, Assistant Athletics Director for Communications
After 30-plus years at The College of Saint Rose,
David Alexander left the school in the fall of 2022 to take a similar position with the New York State Bar Association.
The assistant athletic director of communications at the time of his departure from Saint Rose, Alexander was one of just four full-time people in the entire athletic department when he was hired there in the summer of 1992. Since then, Saint Rose has grown to 19 intercollegiate sports at the Division II level and won a national championship in women’s soccer in 2011. He has also managed the public information end of four basketball NCAA Tournament Elite Eight appearances, eight women’s soccer national semifinal appearances and the baseball team’s 2000 World Series berth.
While at Saint Rose, Alexander was honored by the school with the Service Excellence Award in 2007. In 2019, the Eastern Athletic Communications Association (now EAST-COMM) awarded him the prestigious Irving T. Marsh Award for excellence in the athletics communications field.
He was the recipient of 25-Year Award from the College Sports Communicators in 2017.
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Paul Allan – Minnesota State University, Senior Deputy Athletic Director for External Operations (retired)
Minnesota State Senior Deputy Athletic Director for External Operations
Paul Allan, who had led MSU’s athletic communications for more than 37 years, announced his retirement from collegiate athletics in December 2022.
At the time of his retirement, Allan’s tenure at Minnesota State was longer than any currently serving athletic communications professional at a Minnesota college or university. During his career, Allan was recognized nationally for his contributions to college sports information, including being named the 2007 recipient of the Warren Berg Award and being inducted into the CSC Hall of Fame in 2009. He also was presented with the North Central Conference Legacy Award in 2008.
Beginning in January 2023, Allan assumed the role of Director of Communications for the United States Hockey League.
A Calgary, Alberta, native, Allan joined the Minnesota State Athletics staff in the fall of 1985 as sports information director. He was named assistant AD/communications in 2003, associate director of athletics in 2009 and senior deputy director/external operations in 2022.
During his years overseeing MSU athletic communications, the Mavericks won four national team championships. Allan also publicized hundreds of conference champions, NCAA postseason qualifiers (teams and individuals), as well as academic award honors at the university, conference, regional and national levels.
Allan, who spent three years in the sports information office at Northern Arizona University prior to coming to Minnesota State, is a 1982 West Texas State (now West Texas A&M) graduate and owns a master’s degree from Minnesota State.
Allan served as a press officer for the U.S. Olympic Committee at two U.S. Olympic Festivals (1990 in Minneapolis and 1991 in Los Angeles), one Winter World University Games (1999 in Poprad, Slovakia) and one Winter Olympic Games (1992 in Albertville, France). Allan was the Venue Press Chief for hockey at the 2002 Olympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City and also spent three years as the league information director for the Northern Collegiate Hockey Association (1989-92).
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Herb Benenson – University of California, Berkeley, Associate Athletic Director, Communications (retired)
Herb Benenson spent 32 years at UC Berkeley before retiring in May of 2022. He was Cal’s lead spokesperson and oversaw the department’s athletic communications office for 15 years. He began at Cal in 1990 as the department’s women’s sports information director and went on to become the Bears’ men’s basketball communications contact for 16 years. He began supervising Cal’s athletic communications office in 2007.
He previously received a 25-year Award from the College Sports Communicators in 2016 and was at Cal for 58 national championships while working with 90 head coaches and seven athletic directors.
He began his career as a student assistant at the University of Texas and later served as a graduate assistant at the University of Tennessee.
Benenson earned his bachelor’s degree in journalism from Texas in 1985 and an MBA from Tennessee in 1988.
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Dave Blanchard – Luther College, Sports Information Director (retired)
Dave Blanchard has spent more than 35 years in athletic media relations, including the last 30-plus years at Luther College where he was the school’s first full-time sports information director. The SID at Luther since 1992, Blanchard began his career with at stint at Bethel University (Minn.) as SID/assistant men’s basketball coach from 1987-92.
He was a volunteer at the 1996 Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta.
Blanchard received a CSC 25-Year Award in 2018.
A Staples, Minnesota native, Blanchard was an all-conference men’s basketball standout at Division III Bethel where he was inducted into the school’s hall of fame. He is a graduate of Bethel and earned a Master’s degree from the University of St. Thomas in athletic administration.
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Geoffrey Hassard – SUNY-Oneonta, Assistant Athletic Director/Sports Information Director (retired)
SUNY Oneonta Assistant Director of Athletics and Sports Information Director
Geoff Hassard retired in July of 2022 after 23 years at the college. Hassard spent 30 years overall as an athletics communications professional, including five years at WPI in Worcester, Mass. as its sports information director.
Hired in the summer of 1999, he was Oneonta’s first full-time SID and spent 16 of his 23 years in the dual role of Assistant Athletics Director.
He served a three-year term (2008-11) on the CSC Board of Directors and also served on the ECAC-SIDA (now EAST-COMM) Executive Board for nine years, culminating with his Presidency in 2012-13. In 2015, he received the organization’s college division Irving T. Marsh Award, which recognizes excellence in and service to the profession.
Hassard added a 25-Year Award from CSC in 2019.
He was solely responsible for elevating the technological capabilities of the sports information area including hardware and software in the domains of statistics and livestreaming of athletics events. He oversaw the first livestreams of an NCAA Division III National Championship in 2003 and NCAA Cross Country Regional Championship in 2010. Hassard also was the host of numerous NCAA and ECAC Tournament events including the 2003 women’s soccer national championship weekend.
Hassard served as the chair of the College’s Athletic Hall of Fame Committee and sat on the College’s Institutional Communications Group, which was charged with the development and implementation of communication and branding strategies for the college.
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Samuel Jefferson, Jr. – Jackson State University, Sports Information Director (retired)
A 2014 inductee into the College Sports Communicators Hall of Fame,
Sam Jefferson logged a 29-year career at his alma mater, Jackson State (1973-2002) where he covered some of the school’s most celebrated student-athletes, including legendary football running back Walter Payton.
A native of Centreville, Miss., Jefferson was named SID of the Year by the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) nine times – including a stretch of six years in a row from 1997 to 2002. His nine selections are far more than any other individual in the 102-year history of the SWAC.
A winner of the CSC 25-Year Award, Jefferson also won the BCSIDA Perseverance Award and the SWAC Alumni Association Lifetime Achievement Award. He was inducted into the SWAC Hall of Fame in 2008 and into the Jackson State University Sports Hall of Fame in 2016.
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Brian Laubscher – Washington and Lee University, Director of Internal Communications
Brian Laubscher, director of athletic communications for 24 years Washington and Lee University, has been promoted to director of internal communications for the university, now serving the campus at-large in communications. He had served the university since 1998, first as sports information director, and then as director of athletic communications beginning in 2019. Prior to that he was an athletic communications assistant at Lafayette College.
Laubscher received several awards from his time in athletic communications, including garnering the ODAC Sports Information Office of the Year Award three times. He received a 25-Year Award from CSC in 2021 and added a President’s Award in 2022.
Active on the conference and national level, Laubscher has served in a number of roles including as chair of the Old Dominion Athletic Conference Sports Information Directors (2007-09) and chair of the College Sports Information Directors Association (CoSIDA) Scholarship Committee (2018-22). He also served on the Board of Directors for the United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Coaches Association (USILA).
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
John A. Martin – Colorado State University, Assistant Director of Strategic Communications and Brand Enhancement
A 26-year veteran of collegiate athletics media relations,
John A. Martin served Colordao State University as assistant athletic communications director from 2015-22. He went to Colorado State after spending more than five years as assistant athletics director for communications at James Madison University. While serving as the primary contact for football, women’s lacrosse and men’s and women’s golf, Martin also handled the design and daily upkeep of JMUSports.com, production of online video and audio content and statistical compilation and media coordination at all athletics events.
In his time at JMU, Martin also assisted with the men’s basketball program’s participation in the 2013 First Four and second round play, and promoted five finalists for various football national player of the year honors.
Prior to his tenure at JMU, Martin served as assistant athletic director for media relations at Coastal Carolina from 2002-10 and was assistant sports information director at Eastern Michigan University for four years, assistant SID at the University of Detroit Mercy for two years, and director of basketball operations for the Oklahoma City Cavalry in the Continental Basketball Association (CBA) for two years.
He is a 1992 graduate of the University of Oklahoma with a bachelor’s degree in marketing and a master’s in 1994 in sport management with a concentration in public relations.
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Eric McDowell – The Eric Idea Agency, President
Eric McDowell dedicated numerous years to service in the CSC organization and was a multi-award winner. McDowell received a 25-Year Award from the College Sports Communicators in 2008, was inducted into the CSC Hall of Fame in 2009, served as the organization’s President in 2014-15 after serving as a college division member on the board of directors from 2005 to 2008 and added the Warren Berg in 2016.
His 40-year career in athletic media relations began as the SID at the University of New Haven in 1980. He was named the SID as a junior in college and remained as the head of the office once he graduated.
In 1986, he made the transition from SID to Assistant SID at the University of New Hampshire. While at UNH, he served as the assistant from 1986 to 1991. In 1991, he was promoted to Director of Sports Communications and Internal Marketing. During his years at New Hampshire, he also served from 1988 through 1991 as the Information Officer of the Yankee Conference, a Division I-AA football league.
McDowell, a native of Dennis, Mass., served as the SID at Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo for five years, and then became the Director of Media Relations for the NBA’s Golden State Warriors. Working in the fourth-largest media market for the NBA.
McDowell returned to the East Coast and later worked for the Lowell Lock Monsters of the American Hockey League, and served at SUNY Brockport for four years. McDowell was a media supervisor for the 1996 Centennial Olympic Games in Atlanta and volunteered at numerous NCAA Championship events for a variety of sports and divisions.
He served as assistant director of athletics-sports information at Union College in Schenectady, N.Y., from 2005 to 2017.
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Brad Nadeau – Middlebury College, Director of Athletic Communications (retired)
Brad Nadeau spent 27 years serving as the Director of Athletic Communications at Middlebury College.
While at Middlebury, Nadeau served as the host SID for over 100 NCAA, NESCAC and ECAC Tournament contests, including four NCAA Men’s Hockey Championships, a pair of NCAA Women’s Hockey Championships, as well as the NCAA Skiing Championships in 2001 and 2013. The Panthers had a total of 14 Sports Illustrated “Faces in The Crowd” and have captured 38 NCAA national team titles and 21 individual national championships during Nadeau’s tenure.
In 2020, Nadeau received the Irving T. Marsh Award from ECAC-SIDA (now EAST-COMM) for excellence in the field of sports Information. He served as ECAC-SIDA President in 2015 and continued to serve the organization as a Past President through 2020. In 2019-20. In the summer of 2019, he was recognized by CSC with its 25-Year Award.
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Dennis O'Donnell – University of Rochester, Athletic Communications emeritus
After an illustrious career that spanned 42 years, the last 34 at the University of Rochester,
Dennis O’Donnell retired as Director of Athletic Communications in June of 2022.
He arrived at Rochester in 1988 and became one of the most recognized individuals among College Sports Communicators members. O’Donnell earned the CSC 25-Year Award in 2006 and was elected to the organization’s Hall of Fame a year later in 2007. He was honored with the Warren Berg Award in 2010, presented annually to an individual who has made outstanding contributions to the field of sports information and brought dignity and prestige to the profession.
O’Donnell served on the CSC Board of Directors from 2002-2005 and he played a key leadership role as the Rochester area colleges hosted the 2002 CSC workshop, plus EAST-COMM (formerly ECAC-SIDA) workshops in 1999 and 2011. The EAST-COMM organization also honored O’Donnell with two of its major awards. In 2003, he received the Irving T. Marsh Service Bureau Award. More recently in 2019, O’Donnell was named the recipient of the Pete Nevins Award for Distinguished Achievement, honoring his advancement of the athletic communications field and advocacy for intercollegiate athletics.
O’Donnell also serveld eight years at the United States Merchant Marine Academy in the mid 1970’s and 1980’s.
In September 2022 (along with fellow Lifetime Achievement Award recipient Joe Seil of Nazareth College), the Rochester Red Wings (Minor League Baseball team of the International League and the Triple-A affiliate of the Washington Nationals) recognized O’Donnell in their Field Walk of Fame for outstanding service to the University of Rochester.
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Layne Pitt – University of Wisconsin-Stout, Sports Information Director (retired)
Prior to his retirement,
Layne Pitt spent nearly 45 years covering 2,000 Blue Devils athletic contests, with 28 of those years as the University of Wisconsin-Stout’s Sports Information Director.
Pitt received a 25-Year Award from the College Sports Communicators in 2020. He previously was named the Midwest Division III Sports Information Director of the Year by the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA).In 2019, he received the Chancellor’s Academic Staff Award for Excellence from UW-Stout. The award recognizes members of the academic staff who have demonstrated outstanding ability and performance and show potential for future professional contributions to the university.
From 2005 to 2008, Pitt was the sports information director for the Northern Collegiate Hockey Association (NCHA).
At UW-Stout, Pitt is the chairman of the Hall of Fame committee and a member of the Chancellor’s Athletic Advisory Committee.
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Bill Powers – Hawai'i Pacific University, Assistant Athletic Director, Strategic Communications (retired)
Bill Powers is a two-time 2023 CSC award recipient, as he also has been selected to be
inducted into the College Sports Communicators Hall of Fame at the 2023 Convention.
Powers completed 35 years in athletics media relations with stints at Texas A&M University-Commerce/East Texas State University, Stephen F. Austin State University, Midwestern State University , New Mexico State University and Hawai’i Pacific University.
In addition to work on numerous CSC committees, Powers was national chairman of the Daktronics Division II Football All-America team from 2003-07, President of D2SIDA from 2020-2022 and was part of the first CSC Advisory Committee after the leadership restructuring in 2020. He received 11 CSC publication awards, was Lone Star Conference Broadcaster of the Year in 1988 and 2010, Hawai’i Pacific University Ke Kaukahi Individual Staff Award of Excellence, Spring 2018 From 2018-22, he was also a member of the NCAA Division II Men’s and Women’s Tennis Committee.
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Dave Reed – Colorado College, Athletic Communications Associate Director (retired)
Dave Reed joined the athletic department at Colorado College 26 years ago. Prior to working at Colorado College, Reed worked in athletic media relations at the University of Dayton (1989–91), The Ohio State University (1992–93) and the University of Notre Dame (1993–96). He served as media coordinator for several Big East, Midwestern Collegiate Conference and NCAA Division III Championships.
Reed was honored by the American Volleyball Coaches Association as recipient of its prestigious Grant Burger Media Award for the 2009- 2010 academic year in recognition of his work as CC’s volleyball contact and as a national NCAA Division I volleyball columnist for ESPN.com.
In 2017 Reed was the recipient of the College Sports Communicators’ annual college division Achievement Award, which recognizes members who have made outstanding contributions to the field of sports information in their role as an associate or assistant director. In 2021 he received the Warren Berg Award and he added a 25-Year Award in 2022.
A native of Piqua, Ohio Dave graduated from the University of Dayton majoring in communications.
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Lenny Reich – University of Mount Union (posthumously)
Leonard “Lenny” Reich Jr., age 48, lost his courageous battle with cancer on October 17, 2022 while serving at the University of Mount Union.
One of the leaders in NCAA Divison III, Reich served as assistant director of athletics/sports information at the University of Mount Union, working at the Ohio school for 14 years through June (2008-2022). He added the Assistant AD title in 2012.
Lenny served on the CSC Executive Board of Directors from 2019-2022 as an at-lLarge representative. Among his numerous honors, Reich received the organization’s Warren Berg Award in 2019 for outstanding service and commitment to college division athletic communications efforts and also received his CSC 25-Year Award at the 2022 convention.
Reich’s legendary career spaned decades — from his start at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania to stops at Centenary (N.J.) College, Gulf South Conference, Defiance College and Marian (Wis.) College. Reich worked at Capital University from 2000-08 until he landed at University of Mount Union in 2008.
Reich also was a past president of the Division III Sports Information Directors Association (D3SIDA) and he received the Bill Nichols Media Award from the Ohio Athletic Conference.
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Mike Scala – Montclair State University (posthumously)
Mike Scala passed away on August 25, 2022 after a multi-year battle with cancer while serving as the director of sports publicity for the Montclair State University Redhawks. He had worked at Montclair State since 1999.
The longest-serving SID in the NCAA Division III New Jersey Athletic Conference (NJAC) as of 2022, Scala served as director of sports publicity at Montclair State for 23 years (1999-2022). He also held stints as director of athletic communications at Monmouth University from 1997-99, served as director of media relations for the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) from 1995-97 and worked at ESPN’s Sports Ticker (1995).
Scala later joined the National Football League, serving the New York Jets as deputy crew chief of its statistics crew and offensive caller through the 2021 season. Scala also was part of the New Era Pinstripe Bowl stat crew at Yankee Stadium (2018-2021).
Scala was an October 2019 inductee into the Montclair State Athletics Hall of Fame and a 2020 College Sports Communicators 25-Year Award recipient. In February 2016, Scala was honored with the Bob Kenworthy Division III Football Communications Award, which is presented to communications professionals that have made a significant impact both on and off the field.
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Joe Seil – Nazareth College, Assistant Athletic Director and Sports Information Director (retired)
Joe Seil started his career at Nazareth in 1986 and was witness to four National Championship teams and more than 60 Empire 8 titles.
Seil completed his 36-year career at the NCAA Division III school this past spring, having served as assistant athletic director since 2005. A local native of Rochester, Seil is a past recipient of the Charlie Wagner Award from the Rochester Press-Radio Club. He won numerous publication awards from CSC, including “best in the nation” honors, and Fred S. Stabley Writing contest national and district awards.
In 2011, Seil was honored by both CSC and the ECAC (now EAST-COMM). He was selected EAST-COMM’s Irving T. Marsh Award honoree for outstanding contributions to the sports communications profession and was recipient of a 25-Year Award from CSC.
In September 2022 (along with fellow Lifetime Achievement Award recipient Dennis O’Donnell), the Rochester Red Wings (Minor League Baseball team of the International League and the Triple-A affiliate of the Washington Nationals) recognized Seil in their Field Walk of Fame for outstanding service to Nazareth College.
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Steve Shutt – Wake Forest University, Associate Athletic Director for Athletic Communications (retired)
Steve Shutt, Wake Forest’s Associate Athletic Director for Athletic Communications retired in October 2022 following 13 years at Wake Forest and 40 years in the Media Relations field.
During his time at Wake Forest, Shutt helped document the accomplishments of two NCAA championship teams, 10 ACC championship teams, five national players of the year, 76 All-Americans and eight football bowl teams.
Shutt joined the Demon Deacons in 2007 after having served as an Associate Athletic Director at Wofford College in Spartanburg, S.C. Shutt is the second-longest serving athletics communications director at Wake Forest.
Prior to Wofford, Shutt was the Associate Commissioner for Public Affairs for the Southern Conference, where he was responsible for managing the publicity and media relations efforts of the Conference.
He is a 2008 recipient of a 25-Year Award from the College Sports Communicators.
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Robert "Roots" Woodruff – University of Alabama, Associate Athletics Communications Director (retired)
Roots Woodruff started in sports communications as a volunteer assistant for CSC Hall of Famer Claude Felton, following his career as a four-year University of Georgia swimming and diving letter winner. He capped his UGA tenure with the Bulldog’s Alex Patterson academic honor, graduating in the winter of 1990 with a bachelor’s degree in journalism.
During his 30-plus years at Alabama, Woodruff oversaw the Crimson Tide’s highly successful Academic All-America nomination program, boosting UA to fifth in all-time honors among NCAA DI programs and second since 2000, 2010 and 2020. He also nominated and promoted numerous national and conference honorees, including a Honda Cup winner, multiple Honda Award winners, NCAA Award of Valor, NCAA & SEC Postgraduate Scholarship recipients, and several CSC Academic All-Americans of the Year.
Woodruff served as media host for a pair of NCAA gymnastics championships as well as numerous NCAA regional, super regionals and SEC Championships. His UA tenure included serving as the primary contact for four NCAA gymnastics champions and as part of the communications efforts for seven national football championship teams.
As a member of the CSC, he was honored with Story of the Year recognition and a number of “Best in the Nation” honors in the Fred Stabley Sr. Writing Contest. He also earned over a dozen “Best in the Nation” certificates in CSC’s publications contests over the years. In 2022, Woodruff was recognized with the CSC’s 25-Year Award.
25-Year Award Recipients
Congratulations to the following group of athletic communications professionals who have reached the quarter century of service to the profession!
25-Year Award
Presented to CSC members who have completed 25 years in the athletics commiunication profession (as of July, 2023).
Vetted and voted on by the Special Awards Committee.
How do I calculate my 25-year service to CSC?
To receive a 25-year award at the CSC UNITE convention, you must have been in the sports information profession full time and/or an active member of the organization for 25 years, at the time of the annual June convention. Your 25-year total must be met by July 1. Thus if you started full time work as of July 1, 1998, your 25 years would be completed in June of 2023 and you would receive the award this academic year — and be saluted with a feature story leading up to the 2023 convention. If you started in October of 1998, you would complete 25 years in September, 2023 and would receive your award at the 2024 convention.
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Rick Bender
Dartmouth College
Senior Associate Athletics Director for Varsity Athletics Communications |
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Heather Brocious
William Paterson University
Director of Athletics Communications and Compliance |
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Lisa Champagne
NESCAC
Assistant Director for Media Relations |
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Mark Fleming
Moravian University
Director of Athletic Communications |
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Kevin Gilmore
California State University, Monterey Bay
Assistant Athletics Director, Communications |
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Ed Haas
Collegiate Water Polo Association
Director of Communications |
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Jamie Hall
Youngstown State University
Assistant Director of Athletics Communications |
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Chad Jackson
Georgia Southern University
Director of Athletic Communications |
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Ken Johnson, Jr.
MIT
Director of Communicataions, Promotions and Marketing |
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Susan Lax
University of Kentucky
Director of Athletic Communications and Public Relations |
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Todd Miles
University of Oregon
Associate Director - Athletic Communications |
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Chuck Pool
Rice University
Assistant AD/Athletics Communications |
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Chip Ransom
Shepherd University
Sports Information Director |
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Curtis Snyder
University of Colorado
Assistant AD/Sports Information |
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Don Stoner
Augsburg University
Sports Information Director |
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Matt Sullivan
University of Louisiana
Director of Athletics Communications |
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Eric Trainer
University of Tennessee
Associate Director of Media Relations |
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Todd Wetmore
Liberty University
Associate Athletics Director for Communications |
Honoree information complied by CSC Special Awards Committee Chairman Jeff Hodges (University of North Alabama) and Barb Kowal, CSC Director of Professional Development and External Affairs.