• 2025-26 academic year is his 20th at XULA . . . He joined the staff in July 2006
• Promoted from assistant athletics director for communications to associate athletics director for
strategic communications in 2020
• Promoted from sports information director to assistant athletics director for communications in 2017
• 2025-26 is his 34th full-time year as a college publicist . . . He was SID at the University of
New Orleans for 13 years (1987-2000) and assistant SID for one year (1986-87) at the University of Southwestern Louisiana
(now the University of Louisiana at Lafayette)
• His
promotional efforts helped XULA teams win two championships and 12-of-14 rounds in
online fan voting conducted separately by Black College Sports Network and the Intercollegiate Tennis Association during the spring of 2020
• Chosen conference SID of the year by his peers in the Red River Athletic in 2021-22 and 2022-23 and the Gulf Coast Athletic in 2018-19
• HBCU Digest's Jarrett Carter labeled him in 2015 as "one of the best sports information directors in the country"
• Tim Floyd — a men's basketball head coach in NCAA Division I for 23 seasons (Idaho, UNO, Iowa State,
USC, UTEP) — calls him the best SID he ever worked with
• NAIA recipient of a Grant Burger Media Award from the American Volleyball Coaches Association
for his coverage of the Gold Nuggets in 2016-17 . . . Was NAIA Southeast Region recipient of this award in 2018-19
• Cited for his baseball coverage as the 2021 winner of Sports Information Director of the Year in the small-school
division — NCAA Division II and NAIA members — from the website blackcollegenines.com
• Recipient of 101 awards, 32 for first place, for sportswriting and sports information
• Member of the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) and its scholarship committee
• Member of the NAIA Statistics, History, Records & Honors Committee
• Served three years (2015-18) as co-chair of the NAIA Statistics Committee
• Member since 2016 of the New Orleans Sports Awards Committee, sponsored by the Allstate Sugar Bowl
• Host SID while at UNO for NCAA Final Fours in men's basketball (1993) and women's basketball (1991)
• President of the Louisiana Sports Writers Association from 1994-96
• Received bachelor of journalism degree from the University of Missouri in 1981
• Sportswriter at the Shreveport (La.) Journal from 1981-86
• Earned his first bylines in 1974 as a 10th-grader, covering sports for The (Shreveport) Times4
• Born and reared in Shreveport and a 1977 graduate of Jesuit High School (now Loyola College Prep)
Favorites
Food: Fried shrimp po-boy, dressed
Candy: Hershey bar with almonds
Pizza toppings: Mushrooms and beef on a thin crust
Ice cream flavor: Cookies and cream
Cake: Chocolate
Flower: Orange calendula
Color: Red
Vacation destination: Italy
XULA Sports Publicists
1948-1953 Peter W. "Champ" Clark
Early 1970s Marty Mulé
1979-1997 Richard Tucker
1997-2000 Terri Burton
2000-2003 Corwin Murray
2003-2005 Bambi Hall
2006-present Ed Cassiere
