ENMU Sports Information Office to Receive Award for Volleyball Media Guide

PORTALES, N.M. — Eastern New Mexico University sports information director Robert McKinney and former graduate assistant Matt Brady have been selected for awards in the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) publications contest for their efforts in creating the 2004 ENMU Volleyball Media Guide. The media guide placed fifth in the nation for Volleyball Guides/Division B. Certificates and awards in the publications contest will be presented at the CoSIDA Workshop in Philadelphia, July 3-6.

Brady was primarily responsible for creating the volleyball media guide, with assistance and editorial support from McKinney. Additional help came from David Ortega, ENMU graphic designer, who created the front cover and inside front cover designs, and from Jeramiah Portillo, who took most of the photographs. The media guide was printed on the ENMU campus by University Printing Services.

The ENMU volleyball media guide was ranked behind media guides from West Texas A&M University, the University of Nebraska-Omaha, Pittsburg State University (Kansas) and Western Washington University in the Division B contest. Division B included media guides produced by sports information offices at NCAA Division II colleges and universities.

McKinney, who has worked in sports information since his years as an undergraduate at Baker University in Baldwin City, Kan. (1980-84), has earned a total of 15 publication awards at five different colleges and universities. His awards include two publications and one cover ranked first in the nation. The award for the 2004 ENMU Volleyball Media Guide is his second since joining the ENMU Athletic Department staff for the 1998-99 academic year. The ENMU football game programs for the 2000 season placed third in the nation.

Brady served as the graduate assistant for sports information at ENMU during the Fall 2004 semester. He currently resides near Amherst, Massachusetts. Later this month, he will begin a yearlong internship in the sports information office at Northeastern University in Boston, where he will work mostly with the volleyball, men’s hockey and women’s hockey teams.