Sports Information

Assistant AD for Media Relations

8TH YEAR AT NSU

Jason Pugh took the reins of the Northwestern State sports information office in May, 2019 following the retirement of longtime assistant athletic director/sports information director Doug Ireland. In five-plus years at Northwestern State, Pugh has coordinated publicity for three baseball All-Americans — pitcher Adam Oller (2016 Collegiate Baseball; American Baseball Coaches Association), David Fry (2018 Collegiate Baseball) and Logan Hofmann (2020 Collegiate Baseball). He spearheaded efforts to ensure all NSU baseball games are available via streaming audio beginning in the 2017 season, broadcasting select home and road games solo or serving as the color commentator on Demon Sports Network coverage. During his 12-year tenure at The Times, Pugh was the Northwestern State football and men’s basketball beat writer from 2010-2013 and covered the 2012-13 NSU team that captured the program’s third NCAA Tournament berth. While at The Times, Pugh covered the first three World Series that took place in Texas, one College World Series, one NCAA Men’s Final Four and Super Bowl XLV. He has won first-place awards in Best Feature Story and Best Sports Story from the Louisiana Press Association and first place in Best Prep Feature from the Louisiana Sports Writers Association. While a student at Louisiana-Lafayette, Pugh was the sports editor of the campus newspaper, The Vermilion, for two years and was a part of the sports information office for three years. In 200001, Pugh was the primary media contact for the inaugural season of Lady Cajuns soccer and for the nationally ranked Ragin’ Cajuns baseball team, which made its lone College World Series appearance the previous year. He was the media relations contact for the 2001 Sun Belt Conference Baseball Tournament in Lafayette. Pugh was named the 2001 Louisiana-Lafayette Department of Communication Outstanding Graduate. He completed his master’s in sport management from the Mark H. McCormack Department of Sport Management at the University of Massachusetts in May 2015.

Matt VINES

Assistant Sports Information Director

7TH YEAR AT NSU

Former sports journalist Matt Vines stepped into the assistant sports information director role in May 2019 after serving three years as the assistant director of communication at Northwestern State. Vines covers and promotes men’s basketball and softball, assists on football and soccer and oversee graduate assistants on a variety of other sports. Vines, a former sports writer at The Jackson (Tennessee) Sun, The (Monroe) News-Star and The (Shreveport) Times, began his sports information career as a graduate assistant in 2015 before joining the university as its assistant director of communications. Since becoming an SID, he’s won a first-place feature writing award from the Louisiana Sports Writers Association. In his print journalism career, Vines won two first-place feature awards and one third-place feature awards from the Tennessee Associated Press Managing Editors. He also won various other quarterly awards from his employer Gannett. He covered high school, college and a handful of professional sporting events in his 10 years in newspapers.

Brad WELBORN

Assistant Communication Director

3RD YEAR AT NSU

After running the sports information show at Louisiana College, Brad Welborn is beginning his second year as the assistant director of communication Welborn began his Northwestern State tenure in July and will be covering volleyball, women’s basketball and track and field assisting in other duties. At Louisiana College, Welborn was responsible for the publicity and statistics for the school’s 18 athletics programs. He used his technical skills to implement live video streams for all Louisiana College home sporting events as well as a social media presence for the Wildcats on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. That included graphics and schedule posters as part of the publicity package. Welborn has won two Louisiana Sports Writer’s Association feature writing awards and a radio sports story award from the Louisiana-Mississippi Associated Press. He placed in the “best sports writer” category at the Southeast Journalism Conference.

They cover The Demons: primary meDia ouTleTs

Daily Newspapers

-LaMar Gafford, Sports, Alexandria Daily Town Talk, P.O. Box, 7558, Alexandria, LA 71306 (318-487-6351, fax 487-6315) - Jimmy Watson, Sports, The Times, 222 Lake Street, Shreveport, LA 71101 (318-459-3296, 800-462-6436, fax 459-3301) - Perryn Keys, Sports, Baton Rouge Advocate, P.O. Box 588, Baton Rouge, LA 70821 (225-383-1111, fax 388-0371) - Russell Hedges, Sports, Bossier Press Tribune, 4250 Viking Dr., Bossier City, LA 71111 (318-352-3618, fax 747-5298) - Leesville Daily Leader, P.O. Box 619, Leesville, LA 71446 (318-239-3444, fax 318-238-1552)

Non-Daily Newspapers

- NSU Current Sauce, Kyser Hall, Natchitoches, LA 71497 (318-357-5456, fax 357-6564) - Sports, Times-Picayune/NOLA.com, 3800 Howard Ave., New Orleans, LA 70140 (504-826-3405, fax 826-3401) -Natchitoches Times, 904 Hwy. 1 South, Natchitoches, LA 71457 (318-352-3618, fax 352-7842)

Television Stations

- Dylan Domangue, KALB-TV, 605 Washington St., Alexandria, LA 71306 (318-445-6397 exts. 516, 523; fax 442-7427) - James Hadnot, KSLA-TV, 1812 Fairfield Ave., Shreveport, LA 71104 (318-677-6709, fax 677-6705) - Wesley Boone, John Sartori, Sam Rothman, KTAL-TV, 3150 N. Market St., Shreveport, LA 71107 (318-629-7134, 7133, fax 318-629-7171) - Alex Anderson, Daniel Brown, KTBS-TV, 312 E. Kings Hwy., Shreveport LA 71104 (318-861-5838, fax 318-862-9431) - David Antilley II, NSU-TV, 104A Kyser Hall, P.O. Box 5273, Natchitoches, LA 71497 (318-357-4417)

Campus Radio Station

- KNWD, 109 Kyser Hall, P.O. Box 5273, Natchitoches, LA 71497 (318-357-5693)

Wire Service

- Bret Martel, Associated Press, 1001 Howard Ave. Suite 200A, New Orleans, LA 70113 (800-662-7717, 504-523-3931, fax 586-0531)

Conference/NCAA Offices

- Southland Conference, 2600 Network Blvd., Suite 150, Frisco, TX 75034 (972-422-9500, fax 422-9225) - Jim Wright, NCAA Statistics, P.O. Box 6222, Indianapolis, IN 46206 (317-917-6222, fax 917-6888)

National Outlets

- USA Today, 7950 Jones Branch Dr., McLean, VA 22107 (703-276-3400) - Sports Illustrated, Time/Life Building, New York, NY 10020 (212-522-5782, 212-9774540/4541) - Sporting News, Box 56, St. Louis, MO 63166 (800-433-1886, 314-993-7111) - CBS Sports, 51 W52nd St., 30th Floor, New York, NY 10019 (212-975-5162/3559) - ABC Sports, 1330 Ave. of the Americas, New York, NY 10019 (212-456-7777) - ESPN, ESPN Plaza, Bristol, CT 06010 (203-585-2154/2125, 800-843-6416) - CNN, One CNN Plaza, 100 International Blvd., Atlanta, GA 30348 (404-822-1588)

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