Michael Debates

Experience

1. Assistant Ad Communications & Pr

   South Carolina Gamecocks

   Aug 2016 — Present · Columbia, SC, US

   Serve as primary communications contact for men\'s basketball as well as men’s and women\'s golf. Worked as secondary contact with football for three seasons (2019-21).• Won Teammate of the Year for the 2021-22 academic year, which is annual employee of the year award voted on by all athletics staff. • Part of football communications staff in 2021 that won Super 11 Award from the Football Writers Association of America, which is presented annually to the best performing College Sports Communicators departments in the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision. Team won the Duke Mayo\'s Bowl that year in head coach Shane Beamer\'s first season. • Aided in two new major sport head coach roll outs: Lamont Paris (2022) and Shane Beamer (2020).• Maintain up-to-date statistics and game notes for coaches, media and other entities to ensure accurate information is delivered and reported.• Help manage team’s social media accounts and website pages to help drive content that publicizes the success and story of each individual program. • Aide in recruiting efforts for each team with various special projects. • Traveled with men\'s basketball during 2017 NCAA Tournament run, which culminated with an NCAA East Regional Championship at Madison Square Garden and the school’s first ever trip to the Final Four.• Sideline liaison for football – down on the field throughout the duration of the game to aid the media (sideline reporter, TVs and photographers) as well as facilitate and coordinate all in-game, postgame availability. • Helped lead the media coordination team for the first and second rounds of the 2019 NCAA Division 1 Men\'s Basketball Championship, hosted by the University of South Carolina at Colonial Life Arena, which featured two No. 1 seeds in Duke and Virginia.• Tournament director for Birdies With Beamer annual media golf outing, an 18 team, four-person best shot tournament with luncheon and media availability after.

Education

• Iowa State University

  Bachelor of Science (B.S.)

  2010 — 2014

Skills

• Teamwork
• Ap Style
• Media Relations
• Indesign
• Sports
• English
• Sports Writing
• Research
• Photoshop
• Microsoft Word
• Microsoft Excel
• Powerpoint
• Adobe Acrobat
• Public Speaking
• Press Releases
• Microsoft Office
• Social Media