College Sports Communicators

On-Demand College Sports Communicators WebinarUsing web and social media analytics to make data-driven decisionsThe presenters discussed the importance for athletic communicators and creatives to gather data and insights in real time as it pertains to your web and social media content. They discussed how social media data mining gives you key insights into your audience so you can learn what kind...

On-Demand College Sports Communicators WebinarWorking with soccer stats & stat rulesLearning about the sport of soccer, its rules, and and producing accurate statistics. Generating consistent statistics and consistent stat reporting are essential duties of each athletic communications department. From our 2023-24 CSC Statistics and Stat Rules Webinar Series, this webinar featured leading colle...

On-Demand College Sports Communicators WebinarWorking with volleyball stats & stat rulesLearning about the sport of volleyball, its rules, and and producing accurate statistics. Generating consistent statistics and consistent stat reporting are essential duties of each athletic communications department. From our 2023-24 CSC Statistics and Stat Rules Webinar Series, this webinar, with five lea...

On-Demand College Sports Communicators WebinarWorking with football stats & stat rulesLearning about the sport of football and producing accurate statistics. Generating consistent statistics and consistent stat reporting are essential duties of each athletic communications department. This webinar, with five leading pro and college football statisticians, featured a discussion and insights on:...

These five CSC members – from NCAA Division I, II, III and Canadian institutions – held a discussion and Q&A on broadcasting your live events, presenting insights and takeaways on the following topics:• a variety of ideas on how to recruit and develop students to assist in broadcasting roles;• building strong relationships with your media carriers, and deciding on who to use• production and li...

Provided by the College Sports Communicators Diversity & Inclusion Committee---If you’re looking for dictionary definitions and a lecture on how to be perfect when it comes to navigating the LGBTQ+ discussion, then you’ve come to the wrong place! If candid, raw, and real discussions are more your vibe, then you are encouraged to click the link and grow your heart, mind, and soul for the next 5...

Hosted by the CSC U CommitteeHeadlining this webinar for young professionals, emerging professionals (graduate assistants, graduate and undergraduate student interns and assistants, and those interested in the college athletic communications career path) were four young professionals, all leaders in their early years as athletic communicators. These young CSC members — including two who just earne...

The discussion focuses on postseason competitions and the roles that SIDs play to providing appropriate and timely information to a host media coordinator and the media covering broadcasts – regardless of the division of competition. What are the necessary information pieces and what is the preparation that the media and media hosts need from SIDs to ensure that there is a great broadcast and a gr...

This College Sports Communicators (CSC) podcast is from the Dec. 14, 2022 CSC U Committee webinar series and focused on The Joy of Sports Communications: What We Love About CSC And Our Work.” The audience was comprised of new college athletic communications and creative professionals and graduate assistants, graduate and undergraduate interns and student. The CSC U professional development series...

What do employees really want from their workplace culture? It’s essential to build a culture of collaboration and engagement (versus specialization) in college athletic communications, especially as we continue to navigate through the effects of the pandemic, limited resources, and the departure of colleagues which puts strain and stress on your efforts. Hear from these three professionals who ha...

In this challenging time of shortened staffs and resources, our four presenters have a frank discussion on how to bolster your office staff and office content production with techniques and strategies to successfully find, teach, engage and mentor your student assistants. As students split their time between school, work, friends and sports, they want to see or understand the ways they make a diff...

On Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2022 CoSIDA leaders and members of the strategic branding identity working group held an open forum/Q&A for members interested in learning more about the CoSIDA organizational name change and the voting which will take place August 31, 2022.

Ashleigh Jones is wrapping up her third year with DePauw Athletics, where she joined in August of 2019 as the Assistant Director of Athletics Communications. Prior to joining the Tigers, she was the lead operations coordinator and assistant coach for Pink Elite Basketball from 2014 to 2019 while also working with ATI Physical Therapy. With Pink Elite, she helped coach one of eight teams to state q...

Adele Burk has been on the staff at the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) since 2013 and was promoted to her current position of Associate Director of Championships & Compliance in July 2021. She provides administrative support for conference championships, compliance assistance to conference members, manages use of logo marks and licensing, and serves as administrative li...

Cindy Potter is CoSIDA President and Senior Deputy Director of Athletics at Columbia College (Mo.). She discusses her favorite parts of working in collegiate athletics communications as well as the importance of work-life balance in the industry. She joins 2021-22 CoSIDA intern Brandon Jones for the finale of the Executive Session podcast series with the 2021-22 executive board. Potter is the firs...

Jessica Poole is CoSIDA’s First Vice President who will take over as President this summer. At Chicago State, she is Senior Associate AD of External Operations and Revenue Generation. Poole sits down with 2021-22 CoSIDA intern Brandon Jones to discuss her favorite parts of being a CoSIDA board member among other topics in the industry.

John Paquette is the Senior Associate Commissioner of Sports Media Relations for the Big East Conference. Within CoSIDA, Paquette is the Second Vice President and Co-Liaison to the Professional Development & Education Committee. He joins 2021-22 CoSIDA intern Brandon Jones to discuss his favorite parts of the collegiate athletic communications industry as he enters the "back nine" of...

Kevin Trainor is CoSIDA's Third Vice President in 2021-22 and the executive board liaison to the Advocacy Committee and the Professional Development Committee. At the University of Arkansas, he is the Senior Associate AD for Public Relations & Former Student-Athlete Engagement. In this episode of Executive Session with CoSIDA intern Brandon Jones, he discusses both the positives and negat...

Sam Atkinson, CoSIDA's Past President, is the Associate Athletics Director for Communications at Gallaudet University. On this episode of Executive Session Podcast, he discusses his favorite aspects of the athletic communications industry as well as what needs to be improved while also mentioning the importance of family. Atkinson served as CoSIDA President during the 2020-21 academic year, a...

Jeff Hodges, CoSIDA's Secretary and Special Awards Committee Chair, and the Assistant Athletics Director of Communications at the University of North Alabama, discusses what drew him to CoSIDA, the great connections he's made in the organization, and the new awards he's created outside of CoSIDA among other topics. Hodges was inducted into the CoSIDA Hall of Fame in 1997 and has als...

Tommy Chasanoff, Assistant Athletics Director of Sports Information at University of the Cumberlands, is in his fifth year at the university. The four-time Paralympic Medalist was elevated to his current position as Assistant Athletics Director in July of 2020. In September of 2020, Chasanoff became the first Patriot to be named NAIA Sports Information Director of the Year in addition to being vot...

Mike Robles, CoSIDA’s College Division Representative for the West Region and the Director of Communications for California Community College Athletic Association, sits down with 2021-22 intern Brandon Jones for this week’s episode of Executive Session. He discusses his favorite parts of the athletic communications industry throughout his career as well as the importance of board members having an...

Katie Mucci, CoSIDA’s At-Large Representative and Assistant Commissioner for New Media and Technology at the Missouri Valley Conference, discusses the difficulty of navigating an athletics communications office during the pandemic, changes the industry needs to make, and more. Mucci was the 2021 CoSIDA Rising Star Award winner in the University Division and also received the President's Award...

Dan Ruede, CoSIDA’s College Division Representative for the Northeast Region and the Associate Director of Athletics for Strategic Communications at the University of New Haven, discusses the importance of his family in his career, his love for traveling, the need for more staffing in the athletic communications industry, and more. He's joined by CoSIDA intern Brando Jones.

On this episode of Executive Session, CoSIDA’s Central Region College Division Representative Mary Beth Challoner joined 2021-22 intern Brandon Jones to discuss her unique perspective on the athletics communications Industry. University of Toronto’s Manager of Events & Marketing also reminisces on her time spent as a collegiate hockey player and other aspects of her personal life.