Wartburg SID tabbed ‘rising star’

I know this isn’t necessarily volleyball-specific, but congratulations to Wartburg sports information director KatieJo Kuhens for winning the College Sports Information Directors of America Rising Star Award, college division. The Wartburg site provided live volleyball streams from creative angles and had some of the best volleyball photography.

Sports information departments all around the Central and Midwest regions were great last season. The fact that some guy can sit at a computer and follow two volleyball regions with relative ease is a testament to the SID’s. It’s also nice to be able to watch a match on the east coast, west coast and points in between whenever there’s a desire because many (most?) programs have the resources to do so. The live coverage page on the right rail has grown exponentially since the blog’s inception. Match recaps and previews, stats, and box scores in the two regions have reached a nearly uniform level of expediency as well.

I may try to amp up my kudos for providing great coverage. Off the top of my head, I know I have mentioned Saint Mary’s in the past. Again off the top of my head, I also like the depth of the streaming match commentary at: Washington-St. Louis, St. Scholastica, Edgewood, Luther, Elmhurst, Benedictine and most of the MIAC institutions. I don’t peruse many galleries, but the volleyball photography at St. Olaf is fantastic.

Congrats to Kuhens. Thank you to the others. [Sincerely not the reason for the post, but any and all SID’s can hire me if they so choose]

-Ricky Nelson