2024-25 RRAC Sports Information Director of the Year
Caleb Dunlop, LSU Alexandria

WACO, Texas – It's always important to make a good first impression, and the 2024-25 RRAC Sports Information Director of the Year nailed it. LSU Alexandria's Caleb Dunlop is honored with the award during his first year as the Generals' sports communicator.

Presented following each academic year, the RRAC SID of the Year award recognizes the individual who has performed the best at promoting their school's athletics program, collaborating with fellow SIDs, contributing to the conference, maintaining timely and accurate information, driving media coverage, conducting gameday operations, and expanding social media outreach and broadcast capabilities. It honors those that go above and beyond, while maintaining strong relationships across the conference. The award is decided through a vote among all RRAC sports information directors.

Making an immediate impact at LSUA, Dunlop has overseen a full-scale revamp school's Athletics Communication office. He retooled LSUA's athletics social media strategy, generating more than 100,000 views per month on Instagram during the men's and women's soccer season. Dunlop also oversaw the creation of Generals Bulletin and the LSUA Athletes of the Week.

Further, Dunlop created the first-ever game day programs for soccer home matches and re-introduced postgame interviews with coaches and players, including postgame press conferences at the Red River Athletic Conference Basketball and Softball Tournaments. He added play-by-play commentary to home softball and baseball games, as well as the RRAC Men's and Women's Soccer Quarterfinals. Dunlop served as the Generals' public address announcer at soccer, baseball, and softball. He also provides photos for LSUA home events. 

"Caleb has had a tremendous impact on the LSUA athletic department since his arrival last August," says LSUA Athletic Director Tyler Unsicker. "I have been so impressed with how well he has worked with our student-athletes in showcasing their many successes throughout the year and enhancing the overall student-athlete experience. This is a well-deserved award and we are proud to have Caleb at LSUA."

Dunlop wrote LSUA Athletics' first-ever feature stories on Men's Soccer player Mnqobi Mbili and Women's Soccer player Jaqui Guillermo. He followed those with stories on the Port Allen connection in Men's Basketball, the 2024-25 Women's Basketball Senior Class, and LSUA Softball's Julia Kwakernaak.

He promoted LSUA Women's Soccer's Hille Baumfalk and Fenja Leibner as the program's first Louisiana Sports Writers Association honorees.

"It's an honor to be recognized by my colleagues who understand the hours and commitment our role requires," says Dunlop. "This award isn't about me. It's about the incredible student-athletes I have the privilege of supporting every day. They're the heart of everything we do and I'm fortunate enough to be in a position to help tell their stories, capture their success, and shine a light on their hard work and dedication. I'm grateful for the opportunity to serve our student-athletes and proud to be part of a community that values and supports the work we do to enhance the student-athlete experience."

Prior to LSUA, Dunlop was the Assistant Director of Athletic Communication at Central Washington University from 2015-2022. During his time with the Wildcats, he was the primary contact for each of CWU's teams for at least one season. He primarily worked with women's soccer, men's basketball, softball, and men's rugby. Dunlop served as the play-by-play broadcaster and public address announcer for most Wildcat home games. During the 2017 NCAA Division II Football Regional, Dunlop provided play-by-play for the Wildcats opening round game against Texas A&M Commerce. He had a story on former CWU quarterback Reilly Hennessey published on NCAA.com, the only CWU story to hit the NCAA front page from 2015-2022.

As the primary contact for women's soccer, Dunlop promoted the program's first-ever CoSIDA Academic All-District honoree, Keilin Farrand, in 2016. He was also responsible for beginning live streaming at baseball and softball, as well as the creation of GIFs featuring CWU student-athletes which generated over 12 million views.

He also served as the co-chair for the Women's Basketball DII-SIDA West Region Media Poll and was a voting member of the Women's Basketball DII-SIDA National Media Poll. Dunlop served as the GNAC SID Chair from 2016-18.
 
Previously, he was at Dickinson State University (N.D.) where he was the Sports Marketing and Information Director. While at DSU, Dunlop was in charge of media relations, website management, statistics, and creating publications for the athletic department. He was the main contact for all 15 DSU varsity athletic and club programs. He oversaw the design and implementation of the Blue Hawks' website under PrestoSports and revamped social media usage in DSU athletics.
 
While at Coker College (S.C.), Dunlop served as the Sports Information Intern.  Over his four years, he was the play-by-play broadcaster for over 450 NCAA Division II athletic events, including the 2011 NCAA Division II Men's Soccer South Super Regional.  Dunlop was also the play-by-play broadcaster for the 2012 MCLA Championship Opening Round in Greenville, S.C. 

Outside of athletics, he has worked for Habitat for Humanity of Kittitas County and AIT Tech in Charlotte, N.C.
 
Dunlop is a native of Lewiston, Maine, and graduated with a B.A. in Communications from Coker in 2013. He resides in Alexandria.

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