FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Holly Clark, Randolph-Macon
(804) 752-3712
 
August 7, 2006


Randolph-Macon College Signs New Sports Information Director

ASHLAND, Va. – Randolph-Macon College is pleased to announce the addition of Chris Kilcoyne as the college’s new sports information director.

Kilcoyne will be responsible for organizing all the sports information needs for the Yellow Jackets’ 15 athletic programs, as well as maintaining the athletics Web site.  Kilcoyne will assume his duties beginning Friday, August 4, 2006.

Kilcoyne comes to R-MC after spending the previous two years as the Sports Information Director at the Old Dominion Athletic Conference.  While at the ODAC, Kilcoyne handled all of the sports information duties for the league’s 22 sponsored sports, while serving as the media relations coordinator for the NCAA Division III volleyball, football and men’s basketball championships co-hosted by the City of Salem and the conference. 

Prior to his work with the ODAC, Kilcoyne was a Sports Information Assistant at Campbell University in Buies Creek, N.C. from 2002-2004.  Kilcoyne served as the main contact for women’s soccer, wrestling, cross-country and baseball teams.  In addition, he was involved in hosting both the 2002 Atlantic Sun Women’s Soccer Championships and the 2003 A-Sun Cross-Country meet. 

A 2002 graduate of ODAC-member Roanoke College, Kilcoyne gained valuable experience working with each of the school’s 19 varsity sports as a student.  He also assisted the ODAC and the City of Salem during National Championship contests. 

Kilcoyne hails from Holden, MA, and is a member of the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSida), the Virginia Sports Information Directors (VaSID) and the East Coast Athletic Conference Sports Information Directors' Association (ECAC-SIDA).  For more information, please contact Holly Clark at (804) 752-3712 or hclark@rmc.edu.

 

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