Tuscaloosa, Ala. – Minnesota State University, Mankato assistant athletic director for communications Paul Allan will be inducted into the College Sports Information Directors of America Hall of Fame on Thursday, June 25, at the organization’s annual workshop in San Antonio, Texas.
Allan, who just completed his 24th year at Minnesota State Mankato, has been at the school since 1985. He supervises public relations and media operations for the Department of Athletics and provides oversight of the department’s marketing, promotions and community relations initiatives.
Under Allan’s direction, the athletic communications office has won 19 CoSIDA national publication awards, including 10 “Best in the Nation” citations. The Calgary, Alberta, native has served on several committees at the university and with CoSIDA. In 2007 Allan received the Warren Berg Award. He also was presented with the NCC Legacy Award in 2008.
Allan, who spent three years in the sports information office at Northern Arizona University prior to coming to Minnesota State Mankato in 1985, is a 1982 West Texas State graduate and earned a master’s degree from Minnesota State Mankato .
Allan has served as a press officer for the U.S. Olympic Committee at two U.S. Olympic Festivals (1990 in Minneapolis and 1991 in Los Angeles), one Winter World University Games (1999 in Poprad, Slovakia) and one Winter Olympic Games (1992 in Albertville, France). He served as the venue press chief for hockey at the 2002 Olympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City, and spent three years as the league information director for the Northern Collegiate Hockey Association (1989-92).
In addition to serving on several committees at Minnesota State Mankato and with CoSIDA, Allan is a member of the Harlon Hill National Advisory Committee, which selects the NCAA Division II football Player of the Year.
In summer 2007 Allan received the Warren Berg Award – given annually to a CoSIDA college division member who has made outstanding contributions to the field of college sports information and who, by his or her activities, has brought dignity and prestige to the profession. He received the NCC Legacy Award in 2008.
Allan and his wife, Lori (a 1992 Minnesota State Mankato graduate), live in Eagle Lake, Minn., and have three sons – Seth, Sean and Jack.
He is one of five sports information professionals to be inducted into the CoSIDA Hall of Fame at the San Antonio Workshop. He joins McNeese State’s Louis Bonnette, Union College’s Eric McDowell, South Carolina State University’s Bill Hamilton and Vanderbilt University’s Tammy Boclair in the Class of 2009.
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