Matthew Paras Email & Phone Number

Louisville, Kentucky, United States

Primary media contact for the women’s basketball and women’s soccer program.

South Bend, IN

• Primary media contact for the Notre Dame baseball and secondary contact for Notre Dame Football.
• During the spring of 2018, was the primary media contact for women's lacrosse and track & field.
• Directs and oversees content creation, aggregation and distribution responsibilities for baseball and football.
• Assisted with the football communications stuff during the run to the College Football Playoff in the 2018 season.
• Create compelling stories in written, video, social media, graphics or other innovative formats.
• Generate and oversee the distribution of record books/media guides, news articles and short-form video, stats and social media interactions.

Nashville, Tennessee

• Currently the sport contact for soccer and lacrosse for the 2017-18 athletic year.
• Director of communications for the Vanderbilt lacrosse and swimming programs in 2016-17.
• In charge of the social media accounts for each of my primary sports.
• Built and updated the player pages in the football game notes each week
• Film interviews with players and coaches, edit and upload to the official athletics YouTube account for multiple sports
• Produced the football postgame notes for all home games during the 2016 season and select men’s basketball games during the season

Louisville, Kentucky

• Composed the women’s basketball postgame notes after home games throughout the season, updated player and record pages in the game notes
• Scored 24 baseball games to begin the year along with a few softball games throughout the season
• Produced and maintained 15+ pages of the weekly football game notes throughout the season along with postgame notes for a select number of games
• Traveled with the football staff to road contests at Florida State, NC State and the Music City Bowl
• Continued to film postgame interviews and uploaded them to the official Youtube account for sports such as football, men’s basketball, men’s soccer and baseball
• Created, edited and designed press releases for U of L athletic contests, special events, teams, coaches, and student-athletes

Louisville, Kentucky

• Produced postgame notes following each women’s basketball home game
• Filmed postgame interviews and uploaded them to the website for sports such as football, men’s basketball, men’s soccer and baseball.
• Operated promotion, publicity, and game day operations of all 23 NCAA sports
• Composed press releases and game stories
• Maintained Louisville athletics social media sites
• Made contributions to the 2014-2015 Women’s Basketball Media Guide

Louisville, Kentucky

B.S. Sport Administration '14M.S. Sport Administration '16

Providence, RI

• Drafted and composed press releases for the office
• Put together donation bags to send out to donors and friends of the college
• Updated the donor contact list
• Facilitated in the preparation and execution of the 2013 Friar Golf Classic

Master'S Degree, Sport Administration

Bachelor'S Degree, Sport Administration