Bio

Dale Long, who serves as the director of sports information at Georgia Gwinnett College, joined as the Continental Athletic Conference sports information director in August 2017.

While with the CAC he will oversee the league's social media, website, and serve on national voting committees.

Long has 16 years of athletic media relations experience promoting baseball, soccer and tennis teams, along with their student-athletes, at a variety of colleges across the country. As sports information director for 21 sports at Franklin College, he helped the Indiana college host national, regional and conference tournament events. He also was an assistant athletic media relations director at Florida Atlantic University (Boca Raton, Fla.), where he served as play-by-play broadcaster for baseball and women’s basketball. Long also was a media relations director and broadcaster for summer collegiate baseball teams in the Coastal Plain League (North Carolina) and Alaska Baseball League, and has been a sports correspondent for the Terre Haute Tribune-Star.

Long has written game recaps, news releases, feature stories and produced game notes that have brought forth media attention to his institutions and their student-athletes. Some of these feature stories and media pitches have resulted in coverage by ESPN, USA Today, NCAA’s Champion magazine, Baseball America, Collegiate Baseball Newspaper and local/regional media. He also successfully nominated seven Academic All-Americans by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA), along with several student-athletes for district academic honors; promoted a finalist for the NCAA Woman of the Year Award; and helped gain all-conference Player of the Week honors for numerous student-athletes.

Long earned first-place honors in CoSIDA’s publication contest, has experience in website design, and has brought new ideas in social media to increase fan interest in his institutions’ athletic teams. Professionally, he has been the official statistician for NCAA Division I and Division III baseball games, helped host the 2009 Sun Belt Conference women’s soccer tournament, handled statistics for the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team’s exhibition matches in Boca Raton, and was a member of the statistics crew for the 2016 NCAA Women’s Basketball National Championships in Indianapolis. He also has supported broadcasts of high school football and basketball games by ESPN.

A native of Terre Haute, Ind., Long earned a bachelor’s degree in communications, specializing in radio-television-film studies, from Indiana State University. He is living in Lawrenceville, Ga.