Pacific Media Guides Honored By CoSIDA, USA Volleyball
Pacific's athletic media guides are honored as among the best in the nation this year in competitions conducted by both the College Sports Information Directors of America and USA Volleyball
FOREST GROVE - Pacific University's athletics media guides have once again been honored as among the best publications of it's kind in the nation, earning citations for excellence by both the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) and USA Volleyball.
The Pacific Sports Information Office earned a total of seven awards in CoSIDA's annual publications contest, including a pair of "Best In The Nation" citations. The honors will be bestowed during the organization's annual convention later this month in Tampa, Fla.
The 2007 Pacific Volleyball Guide was honored as "Best In The Nation," in the CoSIDA's Women's Volleyball Guides, Division C contest, which evaluated guides produced for publications at the NCAA Division III, NAIA and junior college levels.
In addition, USA Volleyball honored the guide with its prestigious Viggo O. Nelson Collegiate Media Guide Award. The honor recognized the media guide as the best in the nation from a school with an enrollment of 5,000 students or less. Pacific was the only school outside of the NCAA Division I level to be recognized by the sport's national organizing body this year.
Pacific also received "Best In The Nation" and "Best Cover" citations from CoSIDA for the 2007-08 Pacific Swimming Media Guide. The competition involved guides from the NCAA Division II, NCAA Division III, NAIA and junior college levels. It is the second time the Pacific swim guide has been named "Best In The Nation," having first been so honored in 2005.
In addition to the "Best In The Nation" honors, Pacific took second place in CoSIDA's Women's Basketball Guides Division C contest, fourth place in both the Men's Soccer Guides Division C and Softball Guides Division C contests and sixth place in the Men's Basketball Guides Division C contest.
Pacific's athletic media guides are designed, written and produced by Pacific University Sports Information Director Blake Timm. Jaime Valdez provided the action photography in the guides, which were printed by Lasko Printing in Portland, operated by Pacific alumni Derek and Tina Lasko.
In his nine years as Pacific's sports information director, Timm has won a total of 22 publication awards from CoSIDA, which includes five "Best In The Nation" citations. In addition to the CoSIDA honors, both USA Volleyball and Amateur Wrestling News have recognized Timm's publication work.
Click Below To View Pacific's 2007-08 Athletic Media Guides
Men's Soccer
Women's Soccer
Volleyball
Men's Basketball
Women's Basketball
Wrestling
Swimming
Baseball
Softball
Lacrosse
Posted by Blake Timm (timmbr@pacificu.edu) on Jun 17, 2008