July 2, 2008
Notre Dame, Ind. – Alan George has been promoted to assistant sports information director at the University of Notre Dame. George joined the Irish sports information office for the 2007-08 season as a sports information intern. Also joining the Notre Dame staff are two new sports information interns for the 2008-09 year as Dan Colleran and Stephanie Fischer take over those positions as of July 1.
George, a 2005 graduate of Centre College, spent his first year at Notre Dame as the primary media contact for volleyball, men’s and women’s swimming and diving and softball. As a full-time assistant, George will continue with as the main contact for those three sports.
He joined the Irish staff after spending two years as an athletic media relations’ graduate assistant at Western Kentucky University. At Western Kentucky, George worked closely with the Hilltoppers’ swimming and softball programs and coordinated the media efforts for the 2007 Sun Belt Conference swimming and diving championships. He went on to work as an operations intern with the Lexington Legends (Class-A affiliate of the Houston Astros). He earned his master’s degree in Sports Administration from Western Kentucky in 2006.
George is an active basketball referee and baseball umpire, officiating both sports at the youth, prep and collegiate levels.
Colleran joins the Sports Information staff after spending the last two years as a graduate assistant in the Providence College Sports Information office while working on an M.B.A. in marketing that he received this past May. He graduated from Providence with bachelor’s degree in English in 2006 and worked in the sports information office as a student assistant since 2002.
As a graduate assistant, Colleran, a native of Walpole, Mass., served as the primary contact for Providence’s women’s hockey and women’s soccer programs while assisting the primary contacts with men’s hockey, men’s soccer, softball, men’s basketball and lacrosse.
Fischer comes to the Irish from Arkansas State University where she completed her undergraduate degree and began work on a graduate degree in just three-and-a-half years. She spent the last three years as both a student and graduate assistant in the Arkansas State University sports information office. Fischer graduated from ASU with a Bachelor of Science degree in journalism with an emphasis in photojournalism and is currently working towards her masters in Mass Communications with a major in journalism.
At Arkansas State, Fischer handled the media relations’ duties for volleyball, soccer, golf, baseball, bowling, tennis and track and field while assisting with football and men’s and women’s basketball.
A native of Stuttgart, Ark., Fischer has also worked in newspapers, serving as a sports assistant at the Jonesboro Sun covering baseball. From August to December of 2006, she was the news editor of the Arkansas State University Herald. From Jan. 2006 through May of 2006 she served as the newspaper’s photo editor.