TOWSON, Md. – Towson University has added Nicole Curtin to its Athletics Media Relations staff.
Curtin joins Towson as an assistant director of athletic media relations following a year spent as the full-time intern for athletic communications at Dartmouth College. Curtin will be the primary contact for women's basketball and field hockey along with other sports yet to be determined.
In the summer of 2017, Curtin began her time at Dartmouth where she served as the contact for women's basketball, both men's and women's soccer teams, softball, sailing, heavyweight rowing, lightweight rowing, men's squash and women's squash. She was the coordinator for communications for the 2018 Softball Ivy League Championship Series hosted by the Big Green and also was the host contact for the second-round NCAA College Cup game between Dartmouth and New Hampshire.
Before moving to Hanover, Curtin spent a year as an intern for the sports information office at Shepherd University in West Virginia. She assisted with daily responsibilities and game day duties regarding statistics for all home events for football, men's and women's basketball, baseball and softball.
While at Shepherd, Curtin was also responsible for an archival project for basketball records as well as updating information on the website. With her background in broadcast journalism production, she initiated a post-game video interview for football and basketball that she recorded and edited herself and was posted on the Shepherd YouTube page.
Curtin earned her master's degree in sport management in 2016 from the College of Physical Activity and Sport Science at West Virginia University before she started interning at Shepherd. The time spent in the Rams athletic department was her first taste of the communications field, as she wrote for the school newspaper while attending West Virginia.
It was from her experiences as a sports writer that she learned about sports information and wanted to continue along the journey.
In her senior year of college she was selected to be the sports editor of The Daily Athenaeum, a position she held until the final semester of graduate school and was one of the few if not the only woman to hold the title at the paper. Curtin covered almost every WVU team while she studied journalism and was on the sports section staff of The DA for three years, as well as a sports reporter for the broadcast show WVU News.
In 2015 Curtin received her bachelor's degree in journalism from West Virginia and began her graduate studies. She was born and spent her early youth in Gaithersburg, Maryland before moving to Harpers Ferry, West Virginia in 2002 and stayed in the Mountain State until 2017.
