ECAC-SIDA News

The ECAC-SIDA Executive Board recently announced the appointment of Jill Olsen, Assistant Director of Sports Information at Johns Hopkins, to the association's secretary position.

Olsen is in her third year as the Assistant Sports Information Director at Johns Hopkins University, where she is responsible for the coverage of 13 of the Blue Jays 26 varsity sports.

She began her career in sports information as a graduate student at North Carolina State University. Olsen spent two years as a student assistant in the NC State Media Relations office while pursuing her master’s degree in sports management. While at NC State, she worked at the 2002 and 2003 ACC Men’s and Women’s Basketball Championships as well as, the First and Second Rounds and the East Regional of the 2002 NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament. In addition, Olsen was the Media Relations Assistant for the Carolina Hurricanes in 2002.

After graduating from NC State in 2003, Olsen landed her first full-time job as the Associate Director of Sports Information at St. Lawrence University in Canton, NY. After two-and-one-half years in Canton, she relocated to Baltimore and Johns Hopkins University.

Olsen has been extremely active with ECAC-SIDA for the last several years, having served on the Workshop Committee for the 2007 ECAC-SIDA Workshop in Baltimore, and on the association's Charities Committee since 2006.