Tyler Stevenson was named the Sports Information Director at Indiana Tech in August of 2015 and is entering his sixth year at the school heading into the 2020-21 academic year. He handles all areas of the Sports Information office at Indiana Tech, including compiling and archiving statistics, writing news articles, managing the social media accounts for the Department of Athletics, maintaining the athletics website, handling administrative duties and serving as the primary media contact for all 26 varsity programs at Tech.
He is an active member of the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) and NAIA-SIDA, serving on the CoSIDA Academic All-America (R) Core Committee as a district coordinator and on the NAIA-SIDA Statistical Committee. He serves as the Wolverine-Hoosier Athletic Conference voting representative for the NAIA National Player of the Week voter in several sports, most recently men's and women's lacrosse, men's and women's tennis and men's wrestling. He has also served as a judge and coordinator for the NAIA-SIDA Publications and Media Contest. On campus he serves on the Athletic Hall of Fame and Student-Athlete Awards committees while he has been a part of several coaching searches. He was voted as the WHAC Patrick Moore-Mike Dean SID of the Year following the 2017-18 and 2018-19 year's by his peers and in September 2019 he was named the NAIA National SID of the Year for 2018-19 school year.
During his five years at Tech he has promoted 365 conference player of the week winners, 288 All-Americans, 63 national championship qualifiers, 50 conference champions, 43 CoSIDA Academic All-America Team selections, 38 national player of the week winners, 19 individual national champions and six team national champions.
Prior to arriving at Tech, he worked at NCAA Division I neighbor Purdue University Fort Wayne (formerly IPFW), where he was an Athletic Media Services Assistant, serving as the primary media contact for women's soccer and track and field. He also spent a semester at IPFW while he was an undergraduate student at nearby Manchester University in North Manchester, Indiana.
Prior to his time at IPFW, he served as the Media Relations Graduate Intern at Valparaiso University during the 2014-15 academic year, and was the primary media contact for 10 varsity sports. While at Valpo, he helped coordinate the media operations for two Horizon League Championships (Men's Basketball and Baseball) while serving as the official statistician for the Men's Basketball Championships at Valpo. Stevenson co-hosted a daily radio show, Talking Sports with the Trio, on the local campus station, WVUR 95.1 FM The Source, and served as a color commentator for football, baseball and softball games when called upon while also producing several basketball contests for the station. He graduated with his Masters Degree in Sports Media, earning Highest Distinction from the graduate school and being inducted into the Athenaeum Society, in May 2015.
Before attending Valpo, Stevenson completed an internship with USA Track and Field (USATF), the national governing body of the sport, in Indianapolis with the communications department. While at USATF, he was the lead writer for their Athlete of the Week program and served as the onsite media contact for three meets: the National Youth Outdoor Championships in Bloomington, Indiana, the National Junior Olympics in Houston, Texas, and the USATF Masters Outdoor Championships in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
He graduated from Manchester University, just 40 minutes southwest of Fort Wayne, in 2014 with a bachelor's degree in Sport Management and a concentration in Communications. While at Manchester he was a member of the Sports Information student work staff, Spartan Sport Management Club, and the football team. He currently lives in Fort Wayne with his wife, Kara and two sons, Carter and Nolan
