Lauren Bryne-Dunn

Highlights:
-Selected by the NCAA as one of thirty women to attend the 2023 Division III SWA Program.
- Searched MIAA golf manuals to find and eliminate gender inequities prior to the 2023-24 season.
- Began instituting Wellness Wednesdays and created a Mental Health Resources page for the MIAA website.

Sports Information Responsibilities:
- Serves as the athletic communications and sports information contact for the MIAA office.
- Uses various forms of social media to promote the conference via publication of competition results, conference events, awards, etc., and to promote student-athletes within the conference for their non-athletic accomplishments.
- Serves as the primary liaison to the institutional SIDs.
- Coordinates the MIAA award programs and promotes award recipients.
- Develops and organizes preseason polls for each sport.
- Assists in ordering and distributing of postseason awards.
- Oversees, enhances, and maintains the MIAA website.
- Produces multimedia content and materials for conference championships.
- Updates and maintains comprehensive archives for the MIAA.
- Creates championship materials including webpages, programs, scripts, etc.

Additional Administrative Responsibilities:
- Assists in the preparation of materials for administrators and coaches meetings.
- Conducts coaches meetings for assigned sports.
- Assists with the development and updating of conference schedules as necessary.
Serves as a liaison to coaching committees.
- Represents the MIAA at conference meetings, national events, conference championships, and national championships.
- Assists with the management and operation of MIAA championships.
- Served as the conference SAAC advisor.
- Updates and maintains the MIAA bylaws, policies, and procedures, and sport manuals.
- Supervises volunteers and interns (when necessary).
- Finalizes and distributes minutes for COA, BOC, coaches, SID, and other meetings.
- Oversees and publishes MIAA master administrative calendar.

- Assisted in publicizing the 17-sport intercollegiate athletics programs, specifically women’s basketball, cross country, swimming and diving, and tennis.

- Assisted in daily operations such as writing press releases, updating statistics, and organizing media material.

- Provided production assistance for media guides, game programs, flyers, and other materials and publications for use in publicizing and promoting WSU athletics.

- Provide assistance on statistical game day crew.

- Helped fill media requests (took pictures and video, act as a gateway between athletics department and outside media).

- Acted as the WSU representative at the 2019 GLIAC Swimming and Diving Championships.

- Helped facilitate a press conference in May 2019 to announce Wayne State’s partnership with the Detroit Pistons in building a new basketball arena.

- Acted at the representing SID when Wayne State hosted the 2019 NCAA Men’s and Women’s Midwest Tennis Regionals.

- Worked with a team to execute the gameday marketing promotion plans.
- Assisted with halftime programming.
- Distributed promotional materials at home games.
- Met and escorted promotional contestants to the field.
- Executed pre-game on-field contests.
- Executed post-game “Kids TD Run” promotion.
- Entertained/prompted fan engagement.
- Worked other events such as Training Camp and High School Game of the Week.

Assisted with all aspects of the Detroit Tigers Foundation 50/50 raffle program including, but not limited to the following:
-Coordinated set up and tear down of 50/50 Raffle kiosks.
-Assisted in the supervision and training of 50/50 raffle volunteers.
-Assisted with audit process, including cash counting and accounting.
-Assisted with troubleshooting and in-game management of raffle volunteers and supplies including kiosks, tablets and printers.
-Organized raffle supplies, including volunteer training materials.

Assisted with all aspects of the Detroit Tigers Foundation special fund-raising events including, but not limited to the following:
-Coordinated set up and tear down of silent and / or live auction.
-Assisted with check-in, program and auction execution including check out process.
-Assisted with ancillary fund-raising events such as grab bag sales, on-line auctions, as including events at Comerica Park and other venues.

Assisted with all aspects of the Detroit Tigers Foundation special youth baseball events and community ceremonies including, but not limited to the following:
-Assisted in the coordination of youth baseball events including clinics and tournaments as part of Play Baseball Detroit campaign.
-Assisted in the meeting, greeting and escorting of large youth baseball / community groups on the field at Comerica Park.

-Assisted at events including Miguel Cabrera's Keeping Kids in the Game, Matthew and Ashley Boyd's Kingdom Home Charity Event, Baseball Fantasy Camp for Kids and Tigers Summer Baseball Camps.