PINEVILLE, La. – The Louisiana Christian University athletic department would like to officially welcome the newest addition to the administrative staff as athletic communications veteran Brian Baublitz Jr. has been named Sports Information Director, effective immediately. 

As the SID, Baublitz Jr. serves as the media contact for all of Louisiana Christian's ten NAIA-sponsored athletic programs. He is responsible for inputting statistics, and 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 select home events. 

Prior to arriving in Pineville, he revitalized the media relations departments at both Tuskegee University in Alabama and Mississippi Valley State University in Itta Bena, Mississippi, creating record books for all sports programs, providing game notes, setting up a social media directory, and making a championship central page among other projects. 

He first moved to the Deep South to spend two stints as the Coordinator of Strategic Communication at Alcorn State University, interrupted by 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 ASU in March of 2020 before returning in February 2021, he picked up a job working as the Sports Information Director for the Gulf Coast Athletic Conference working as the Sports Information Director at Rust College in Holly Springs, Mississippi. 

Baublitz broke into the business with Coppin State University in his hometown of Baltimore, Maryland where he held the role of Assistant Director of Athletic Communications, where he was the primary media contact for volleyball, women's basketball, women's bowling, and softball. 

He also served as the Assistant Stage Manager for the Baltimore Brigade, a former 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. 

He earned a B.S. in Mass Communication and Communication Studies from Towson University in the Spring of 2016. 

His wife, Chelsea Baublitz, is an athletic photographer from nearby Thibodaux, Louisiana and he has two kids, his daughter Maizie-Kate (8) and his son Riley (10). 

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