National staff contact for:
- Matters related to membership
- Matters related to committees and committee service
- Coordination for the Academic All-America® Hall of Fame induction event
- Awards management and distribution for the Academic All-America program
- Troubleshooting for Academic All-America® nominations and voting
- Mentorship Program
- Convention Attendance Grant
- Staff liaison to AAA Core, AAA Hall of Fame, Membership Recognition, Mentorship, Goodwill and Wellness, and Job Seekers committees
- Staff liaison to NAIA and Canadian Institutions cabinets
Laurie Bollig joined the College Sports Communicators national office staff in November 2014 as the Director of Membership Engagement.
Bollig is primarily responsible for the daily management of CSC’s member information, including renewals and registrations, updating profiles and managing the membership and awards databases. In addition, she coordinates the mentorship program and the association’s committees and is the staff liaison to the Academic All-America Core Program Committee, the Academic All-America Hall of Fame Committee, CSC U, the Diversity and Inclusion Committee and the Goodwill and Wellness Committee.
Bollig began her career in sports information as a student assistant while attending Western Kentucky University. Her first full-time job was as an athletics communications assistant for Doug Vance at the University of Kansas. She served as the media contact for baseball and women’s basketball.
Bollig enjoyed a nine-year career in the publishing and special events areas at the NCAA. She was the NCAA staff liaison to the men’s and women’s basketball rules committees, was the primary editor of the NCAA’s legislative manuals and finished her career in special events where she helped launch the association’s first fan festival – Hoop City – at the Division I Men’s Final Four. When the NCAA moved its headquarters to Indianapolis in the fall of 2000, Bollig became the first marketing and communications manager for The Structure Group – a multi-million-dollar energy consulting and software company. During her seven years with Structure, she led a marketing effort that saw the company founder recognized as one of Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneurs of the Year, the company experience unprecedented growth and the software group begin an extremely successful users group conference.
She got back into sports in 2009 with Premier Sports Management, a sports marketing firm in Overland Park, Kan., where she managed communications and social media for the NFL 101 Awards, the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame and the Senior CLASS Award.
Bollig is an avid reader and continues to be a big fan of high school and college sports, attending many Kansas Jayhawk football, volleyball and basketball games.
A native of Evansville, Ind., Bollig lives in Olathe, Kan., with her husband, Jeff, who is a former sports information director. The couple has two adult children, Courtney and Kyle, and a fantastic son-in-law, Zane Clark.