Brian Baublitz Jr. was hired as the Sports Information Director on November 1, 2021 after serving as the Head Sports Information Director at Tuskegee University.
Baublitz serves as the media contact for all of Mississippi Valley State's 13 NCAA-sponsored athletic programs. He is responsible for inputting statistics, uploading content to the website including game previews, recaps, conference awards etc. plus providing in-depth social media coverage on all three of the major platforms (Facebook, Twitter and Instagram). His duties also include numerous miscellaneous jobs behind the scenes to go along with being the public address announcer and DJ for home soccer, baseball and softball events.
Prior to arriving at The Valley and his brief stint in the SIAC, Baublitz spent two stints as the Coordinator of Strategic Communication at Alcorn State University, stepping away for personal reasons amid the COVID-19 pandemic after previously serving as Assistant Sports Information Director. In total, he spent 17 months in Lorman, Mississippi where he oversaw women's basketball, baseball, volleyball, women's soccer, track and field plus cross country.
In the time between leaving in March of 2020 until returning in February 2021, he picked up a job working as the Sports Information Director for the Gulf Coast Athletic Conference (a HBCU conference in the NAIA) and working as the Sports Information Director at Rust College in Holly Springs, Mississippi.
Before Alcorn, Baublitz was the Assistant Director of Athletic Communications at Coppin State University in Baltimore, Maryland where he was the primary media contact for volleyball, women's basketball, women's bowling and softball.
He served as the Assistant Stage Manager for the Baltimore Brigade, a professional Arena Football League team, during the summer months between 2017-2018. With the Brigade, he assists with marketing and promotional spots for in-game contests while supervising the energy squad during the season.
His first gig in sports information came as a Sports Information Assistant during the 2017-18 basketball season with Prince George's Community College in Largo, MD. While in Largo, he was a jack-of-all-trades on game days as he had a different job each night. This included announcing, DJing, calling/inputting stats and mentoring students, sometimes simultaneously.
He earned a B.S. in Mass Communication and Communication Studies from Towson University in the Spring of 2016.
A native of Baltimore, Maryland, he found his niche of sports information through his part-time hobby as a public address announcer and DJ. After building relationships with various SID's in the field, he decided that Athletic Communications was where he belonged.
