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Tyler Birnbaum is in his second year as Sports Information Assistant at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore.
His responsibilities include assisting with the publicity and public relations for the university's 15 Division I sports. In addition to serving as the primary contact for several sports, he assists in editing and designing of department publications, statistical compilation, game-day duties and media coordination.
Birnbaum, a native of Plainfield, Vt., is a 2008 graduate of Colby-Sawyer College in New London, N.H. He earned a B.S. in Exercise and Sport Sciences with a concentration in Sport Management and minor in Communications Studies.
Birnbaum spent two-and-a-half years in the Colby-Sawyer Sports Information Office as an intern and student assistant. He worked the summers of 2007 and 2008 with the Vermont Mountaineers of the New England Collegiate Baseball League as a media relations intern, producing comprehensive game notes and acting as the team's official scorer.
He covered the University of Vermont men's hockey team for U.S. College Hockey Online and several regional college hockey print publications from 2002-08, and interned in the UVM Office of Athletic Communications in 2002.
Birnbaum is a member of College Sports Information Directors of America, the Black College Sports Information Directors Association and the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association. |
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