Donnie Smith - Staff Directory
Donnie Smith
- Title:
- Assistant AD/Media Relations (FB, BOWL, GOLF)
- Email:
- Phone:
- 256-782-5915
Donnie Smith joined the Jax State Media Relations office in July of 2024 and serves as the primary contact for Gamecock football, bowling, and golf.
His team has hosted two Conference USA Football Championship games and has handled sports information and media relations requests for Jax State bowling which has made consecutive Final Four appearances and won the 2026 NCAA National Collegiate Bowling Championship.
He came to Jax State after 11 seasons at Southeastern University in Lakeland, Fla. as Assistant Athletics Director for Communications. He became The Sun Conference's first three-time Sports Information Director of the Year, and was the NAIA's first two-time national SID of the Year honoree. In 2023, he received College Sports Communicators Rising Star Award for the College Division. He was selected as the 2024 Clarence "Ike" Pearson Award recipient, which recognizes an NAIA sports information director for their outstanding contributions to the profession.
In addition to his responsibilities on campus, Smith assisted the NAIA as a national championship media coordinator for eight football championship games, as well as serving as official scorer for a pair of Softball World Series. He served as NAIA-SIDA President during the 2023-24 school year and was on College Sports Communicators' Executive Board for two years as College Division At-Large representative. For two years, he was part of the NAIA's National Administrative Committee (NAC), spent four years on the NAIA's Council for Student-Athletes (CSA), and was an ex-officio member of the NAIA's Council of Presidents (COP).
Prior to his work at SEU, Smith spent 10 years as a sportscaster at the Regional Radio Sports Network in Indiana and was presented the 2014 Marv Bates Indiana Sportscaster of the Year award by the Indiana Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association. He also worked with the Indiana Football Digest, contributing as a writer, designer, and editor for the nation's largest statewide preview magazine.
His team has hosted two Conference USA Football Championship games and has handled sports information and media relations requests for Jax State bowling which has made consecutive Final Four appearances and won the 2026 NCAA National Collegiate Bowling Championship.
He came to Jax State after 11 seasons at Southeastern University in Lakeland, Fla. as Assistant Athletics Director for Communications. He became The Sun Conference's first three-time Sports Information Director of the Year, and was the NAIA's first two-time national SID of the Year honoree. In 2023, he received College Sports Communicators Rising Star Award for the College Division. He was selected as the 2024 Clarence "Ike" Pearson Award recipient, which recognizes an NAIA sports information director for their outstanding contributions to the profession.
In addition to his responsibilities on campus, Smith assisted the NAIA as a national championship media coordinator for eight football championship games, as well as serving as official scorer for a pair of Softball World Series. He served as NAIA-SIDA President during the 2023-24 school year and was on College Sports Communicators' Executive Board for two years as College Division At-Large representative. For two years, he was part of the NAIA's National Administrative Committee (NAC), spent four years on the NAIA's Council for Student-Athletes (CSA), and was an ex-officio member of the NAIA's Council of Presidents (COP).
Prior to his work at SEU, Smith spent 10 years as a sportscaster at the Regional Radio Sports Network in Indiana and was presented the 2014 Marv Bates Indiana Sportscaster of the Year award by the Indiana Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association. He also worked with the Indiana Football Digest, contributing as a writer, designer, and editor for the nation's largest statewide preview magazine.
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