MIKE DONLIN JOINS PRESTOSPORTS
ROCKVILLE, MD (20 March 2007) - PrestoSports has named college athletic media relations veteran Mike Donlin to its staff as an Operations Specialist. Donlin will join the company on April 2, 2007. His primary role will be to educate and train both current and new clients. Additionally, he will be involved with new site set up, feature development and testing with a focus on PrestoSports' institutional clients.
"We could not have found a better fit," said PrestoSports President Serge Knystautas. "Mike has the right balance of technology and sports information experience that will enable him to really impact our clients in a positive manner.”
Donlin
comes to PrestoSports from Le Moyne
College where he served as the Sports Information
Director since December of 1999. Donlin has publicized the
college’s athletics department, which includes 14 NCAA
Division II teams and two Division I programs, through a period of
unmatched success. In the past seven years, Le Moyne has garnered
21 NCAA tournament berths and the men’s lacrosse team
captured the school’s first two national championships.
An active member of the college’s Web Advisory Committee and
its Integrated Marketing Committee, Donlin has spearheaded three
redesigns of the college athletics web site, including its current
incarnation at www.lemoynedolphins.com
– a site powered by PrestoSports.
“I am grateful for the opportunity to join PrestoSports at
this exciting time in its history,” Donlin said.
“They’ve offered us innovative solutions which not only
made me more efficient, but more importantly helped us raise the
profile of Le Moyne College athletics. We’ve received
outstanding support from PrestoSports, and I’m excited to
help provide that same client dedication to the growing
PrestoSports family.”
In addition to his responsibilities at Le Moyne College, Donlin
has served on the ECAC
Sports Information Directors Association (ECAC-SIDA) Executive
Board, the CoSIDA Academic All-America Committee and
ECAC Division II Championship Committee.
A graduate of Colgate University with a double concentration in
English and History, Donlin was named the recipient of the
ECAC-SIDA Bill Esposito Award in 1998. He earned a Master’s
degree in Education from Le Moyne College in 2005.
Donlin began his career in athletics at his alma mater. At
Colgate, Donlin was an undergraduate assistant, intern and
Assistant Director of Athletic Communications under CoSIDA Hall of
Famer Bob Cornell. At Colgate, Donlin was also a starter at third
base for the school’s final two seasons of intercollegiate
baseball.
A native of Vestal, N.Y., the 31-year old resides in Cazenovia,
N.Y. with his wife Nicki and their son
Jack (1).
Donlin's new contact information at PrestoSports is 301.841.7327
or via email at mike@prestosports.com.
