ECAC-SIDA News

ECAC-SIDA secretary and Johns Hopkins assistant sports information director Jill Olsen has been named the Collegiate Water Polo SID of the Year for the 2009 men's season in the organization's southern division.

Selected by the Collegiate Water Polo Association's Director of Communications, the SID of the Year award is presented to those offices which have achieved notable excellence in the field of water polo communications during the past academic year.

The Southern Division Sports Information Director of the Year, Olsen is currently in her fourth year as the Assistant Sports Information Director at Johns Hopkins University where she is responsible for the coverage of 11 of the Blue Jays 24 varsity sports, including the Division I men's water polo and women's lacrosse programs.

This year, she coordinated the compilation of the national men's water polo statistics while covering the Eastern Championship qualifying and Division III Eastern Champion Blue Jays' water polo team.

She began her career in sports information as a graduate student at North Carolina State University. She 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, Olsen worked at the 2002 and 2003 Atlantic Coast Conference (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 of the National Hockey League (NHL) in 2002.

After graduating from NC State in 2003, Olsen took a position as the Associate Director of Sports Information at St. Lawrence University in Canton, N.Y. before relocating to Baltimore and Johns Hopkins University.