Northern Sun Intercollegiate athletic departments list 33 communications and media-relations staff positions across 15 of the 15 covered schools as of 15 Oct 2026 — 3% of the conference's 1,174 tracked positions, an average of 2.2 per department that has the function. Augustana University (SD) has the most (4). No communications & media relations hires, departures or title changes were detected in the last 90 days.
Data as of 15 Oct 2026.
Source: the official athletics staff directories of the 15 covered Northern Sun Intercollegiate schools, re-read on a rolling schedule; roles classified from published titles; changes from successive reads.
One row per covered department. "Positions" counts current (non-departed) staff whose classified role or published title places them in communications & media relations; changes are non-baseline hires, departures and title changes in those positions over the last 90 days, with same-day directory re-reads excluded.
| School | Division | Communications & media relations positions | All tracked positions | Hires (90d) | Departures (90d) | Title changes (90d) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Augustana University (SD) | Division II | 4 | 92 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Winona State University | Division II | 4 | 59 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Minnesota State University-Mankato | Division II | 3 | 121 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| University of Mary | Division II | 3 | 85 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| University of Minnesota-Duluth | Division II | 3 | 80 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Concordia University, St. Paul | Division II | 2 | 79 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Minnesota State Univ.-Moorhead | — | 2 | 73 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Southwest Minnesota St. University | Division II | 2 | 72 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| St. Cloud State University | Division II | 2 | 96 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| University of Minnesota-Crookston | Division II | 2 | 44 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| University of Sioux Falls | Division II | 2 | 77 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Bemidji State University | Division II | 1 | 64 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Minot State University | Division II | 1 | 85 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Northern State University | Division II | 1 | 80 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Wayne State College | Division II | 1 | 67 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Communications & media relations is the buying group for stats and live-data providers, media-relations software, broadcast and content-production vendors, creative-services tools. Typical titles in this group: Assistant AD for Athletic Communications; Director of Media Relations; Sports Information Director; Communications Assistant. Whistle customers filter these positions by conference, school, state and sport, see each person's name, title and contact details where the directory publishes them, and get an alert when one of the positions changes hands.
Positions are counted when the published job title matches the communications & media relations pattern (and not an exclusion such as student, intern or graduate assistant); the same rule produces the counts and the change tallies.
Change counts compare successive reads of each school's official directory; a school's first extraction and any day on which 25% or more of a roster appears or disappears at once (a re-read, not turnover) are excluded. This page is published when at least 3 covered Northern Sun Intercollegiate schools have the function and they list at least 10 positions between them; smaller combinations are kept out of search indexes.
33 current positions across 15 covered Northern Sun Intercollegiate athletic departments as of 15 Oct 2026; Augustana University (SD) lists the most (4).
Augustana University (SD), with 4 communications and media-relations staff positions out of 92 tracked positions.
0 changes in the last 90 days: 0 hires, 0 departures, 0 title changes, after excluding first reads and same-day re-reads.
From the staff directories athletic departments publish on their official websites, read automatically on a rolling schedule (NCAA Division I roughly weekly, Division II and III every three to four weeks). Whistle never publishes names, emails or phone numbers on public pages; staff can remove their details at any time at gowhistle.io/remove-my-info.