CHAPEL HILL – Dave Lohse, a member of the University of North Carolina sports information/athletic communications staff for 42 years, will be inducted into the College Sports Information Directors of America Hall of Fame Class of 2019, the CoSIDA Board of Directors announced today.
A native of Griffith, Ind., Lohse began working in the UNC sports information office under the direction of Rick Brewer in 1977. He came to Chapel Hill after graduating from Purdue, where he was a student assistant in the Boilermakers’ SID office.
Lohse has, at some point in his five decades at Carolina, worked with almost all of its 28 varsity teams. He has spent the majority of his tenure as the public relations director for men’s lacrosse, women’s soccer, men’s and women’s swimming and diving and men’s tennis. He edited the men’s basketball media guides and men’s basketball and football game programs and assisted Brewer with football and men’s basketball for nearly 20 years.
“World-class universities should be represented by people who write well and Dave is someone one who writes beautifully and articulately,” says Carolina women’s soccer head coach Anson Dorrance. “I love being represented by a wonderful professional who takes his craft seriously. He writes beautiful stories about extraordinary students.”
He is the third sports information director from UNC to join the CoSIDA Hall of Fame with Jake Wade and Brewer, who oversaw Carolina sports information from 1975-2000.
In 2016, Lohse received the CoSIDA Achievement Award, given to a career associate/assistant. Lohse is just the second associate/assistant director to be elected to the CoSIDA Hall of Fame (joining Wisconsin’s Diane Nordstrom, who was inducted in 2018).
Lohse worked for the Unites States Olympic Committee at the Seoul Games in 1988 and for the local media staff in Atlanta in the 1996 Summer Games, where he was the director of press operations at the Aquatics Center.
Lohse has worked with 21 national championship teams and 87 ACC championship winning squads, six national champion swimmers and 17 national players of the year in men’s lacrosse and women’s soccer.
“Dave does all of the technical parts of the job very well, but what makes him a Hall of Famer is his commitment to doing what is best for the student-athletes and coaches he works with every day,” says Steve Kirschner, Carolina’s Senior Associate Director of Athletics for Communications. “He is a walking encyclopedia about Tar Heel Athletics, but it’s the relationships he builds with the students who both play for UNC and work in the communications office, their parents, siblings, grandparents, etc… that set Dave apart. His teams know he cares about them as people even more than what they accomplish in Tar Heel uniforms.”
Lohse is one of six SIDs who be inducted in the CoSIDA Hall of Fame in Orlando on June 10. The others include Jeff Bernstein of NYU, John Paquette of the Big East Conference, Maxey Parrish of Baylor, David Plati of Colorado and Mark Stillwell of Missouri State.
“Dave has been involved with all of our varsity teams at one time or another,” says Brewer. “But, he has become known nationally for his work with our women’s soccer and men’s lacrosse teams. Publicizing the players and coaches in just one of those programs would be a full-time job, but I believe he has somehow managed to handle each one as well as or better than any SID in the country."
A native of Griffith, Ind., Lohse began working in the UNC sports information office under the direction of Rick Brewer in 1977. He came to Chapel Hill after graduating from Purdue, where he was a student assistant in the Boilermakers’ SID office.
Lohse has, at some point in his five decades at Carolina, worked with almost all of its 28 varsity teams. He has spent the majority of his tenure as the public relations director for men’s lacrosse, women’s soccer, men’s and women’s swimming and diving and men’s tennis. He edited the men’s basketball media guides and men’s basketball and football game programs and assisted Brewer with football and men’s basketball for nearly 20 years.
“World-class universities should be represented by people who write well and Dave is someone one who writes beautifully and articulately,” says Carolina women’s soccer head coach Anson Dorrance. “I love being represented by a wonderful professional who takes his craft seriously. He writes beautiful stories about extraordinary students.”
He is the third sports information director from UNC to join the CoSIDA Hall of Fame with Jake Wade and Brewer, who oversaw Carolina sports information from 1975-2000.
In 2016, Lohse received the CoSIDA Achievement Award, given to a career associate/assistant. Lohse is just the second associate/assistant director to be elected to the CoSIDA Hall of Fame (joining Wisconsin’s Diane Nordstrom, who was inducted in 2018).
Lohse worked for the Unites States Olympic Committee at the Seoul Games in 1988 and for the local media staff in Atlanta in the 1996 Summer Games, where he was the director of press operations at the Aquatics Center.
Lohse has worked with 21 national championship teams and 87 ACC championship winning squads, six national champion swimmers and 17 national players of the year in men’s lacrosse and women’s soccer.
“Dave does all of the technical parts of the job very well, but what makes him a Hall of Famer is his commitment to doing what is best for the student-athletes and coaches he works with every day,” says Steve Kirschner, Carolina’s Senior Associate Director of Athletics for Communications. “He is a walking encyclopedia about Tar Heel Athletics, but it’s the relationships he builds with the students who both play for UNC and work in the communications office, their parents, siblings, grandparents, etc… that set Dave apart. His teams know he cares about them as people even more than what they accomplish in Tar Heel uniforms.”
Lohse is one of six SIDs who be inducted in the CoSIDA Hall of Fame in Orlando on June 10. The others include Jeff Bernstein of NYU, John Paquette of the Big East Conference, Maxey Parrish of Baylor, David Plati of Colorado and Mark Stillwell of Missouri State.
“Dave has been involved with all of our varsity teams at one time or another,” says Brewer. “But, he has become known nationally for his work with our women’s soccer and men’s lacrosse teams. Publicizing the players and coaches in just one of those programs would be a full-time job, but I believe he has somehow managed to handle each one as well as or better than any SID in the country."
