Thomas Donley Email & Phone Number

Primary media relations contact for men’s basketball, men’s golf, and women’s golf and secondary football; Overseeing six interns and seven student workers; Using social media, GoBlueRaiders.com, and relationships with local, statewide and national media outlets to promote MTSU athletics programs; Increasing men’s basketball Instagram followers by 32 percent; Creating and designing web pages within GoBlueRaiders.com using HTML/CSS through Sidearm CMS; Collaborating with video, graphic design, marketing and fundraising departments to plan and execute social media and PR campaigns; Serving as department liaison to Sidearm Sports and maintaining the department website; Updating game notes, media guides and record books for all three primary sports; Assisting with gameday media relations operations for football, including monitoring sidelines and helping with social media coverage; Assisting with fall baseball scrimmages by keeping stats in Statcrew; Using NCAA Live Stats and NCAA Manager to keep basketball statistics; Overseeing the stat crew on basketball game days

Arkadelphia, Arkansas, United States

Primary media relations contact for all 16 Ouachita Baptist athletics programs, including football, men’s and women’s basketball, baseball, softball, volleyball, men’s and women’s soccer, men’s and women’s tennis, women’s track and field and cross country, wrestling, and men’s and women’s swimming and diving; Led and developed a team of four student interns; Increased athletics social media follower bases exponentially through trend recognition and content evaluation; Oversaw the re-design of obutigers.com through Sidearm CMS; Maintained obutigers.com, creating and designing web pages using HTML/CSS within Sidearm CMS; Worked with local, statewide, and national media to promote Ouachita athletics; Created media guides for Ouachita football and men’s and women’s basketball for the first time in years from scratch; Updated statistical records for football, baseball, men’s and women’s basketball for the first time since 2004, 2016, 2001, and 2002, respectively and women’s cross country for the first time ever; Wrote bios for all current Ouachita student-athletes;

Urbana-Champaign Area

Primary media relations contact for men's tennis, women's golf, and women's gymnastics, as well as secondary women's basketball contact; Spent three months as interim women's soccer and men's golf contact and one day as baseball contact; Worked with local, statewide, and national media to promote assigned teams; Collaborated with video, graphic design, marketing and fundraising departments to plan and execute digital content and creative strategies to align with audience behaviors, goals and key messages to drive audience engagement; Assisted with football broadcast notes and game day press box operations; Provided broadcast/talent stats services for Fox Sports, ESPN and Big Ten Network national broadcasts; Used social media, fightingillini.com, and relations with local and national media to promote Fighting Illini athletics; Increased @illiniwgym Instagram follower base (second-most followed Olympic sport account on campus) by more than 20 percent from 13.2K to 16K through trend recognition and best practices; Updated and edited football game notes and programs; Wrote press releases, kept stats and records, produced game notes and media guides; Coordinated interview requests with media for nearly half of all Fighting Illini athletic programs.

Arlington, Texas, United States

Dallas, Texas, United States

Primary media relations contact for DBU men's and women's soccer, men's basketball, men's and women's golf, and men's and women's track and field and "contact 1A" for Division I mid-major powerhouse DBU baseball; Served as staff writer for the athletic department, writing feature stories, game recaps, and press releases covering all athletic teams; Media contact for 2017 Heartland Conference women’s soccer tournament and 2017 NCAA women’s soccer regional; Assistant media contact for 2018 Missouri Valley Conference baseball tournament; Filmed and clipped highlights and other videos for use on social media and in weekly highlight videos; Wrote press releases, kept stats and records, and used social media to promote Patriot athletics; Served as talent statistician for DBU basketball and baseball broadcasts; Assisted in media outreach to garner media attention in crowded DFW sports landscape; Produced baseball game notes; Edited baseball media guides; Created the DBU athletics historical database

Dallas, Texas, United States

Illinois, United States

Carbondale, Illinois, United States

Wrote feature stories for siusalukis.com and football and basketball game day programs; Stat Crew stats caller for football; Stat Crew caller and inputter for basketball; Stat Crew inputter for baseball; Updated baseball Twitter in-game; Digitized SIU baseball photo archive; Operated video cameras for football video board and ESPN3 basketball broadcasts

Quincy, Illinois, United States

Wrote and voiced ag news stories for radio stations in Quincy and Kankakee, Ill.; Gave live reports on both stations; Maintained station social media accounts; Maintained ad placement on five radio stations in Quincy, Ill.; Remotely covered agriculture-related events; Edited and voiced advertisement scripts

Carbondale, Illinois, United States

Wrote feature stories, previews, game recaps, and other articles covering football, baseball, men's and women's basketball, men's tennis, women's golf, high school football, harness racing, and other sports in the southern Illinois region; Also covered high school basketball, volleyball, and softball for the Southern Illinoisan regional newspaper; Used social media to enhance coverage of said sports

Master'S Degree, Sport And Fitness Administration/Management

Bachelor'S Degree, Journalism