Fred Sington returned to Delta State University in May of 2014 and in his 13th year overall with the Office of Athletic Communications.
Sington, who serves the department as the Assistant Director of Athletic Communications/Development, returns to the sports information field after a brief period working in broadcast television.
Sington, who served as the DSU's Sports Information Director from 1998-2003, brings more than 20 years of media relations experience back to the Delta after spending the last three years as a freelance media specialist. His freelance tenure included television graphics and statistics for CSS, CBS, ESPN, Fox Sports South, Sun Sports, and Cox Sports networks as well as statistics and game day operations for Birmingham-Southern College, Jacksonville State, UAB, the University of Alabama and Samford University. He also co-hosted the Northeast Orthopedics Sports Review and served as play-by-play announcer for WAAX's High School Football Game of the Week.
During his first tenure with DSU, Sington was host media coordinator for several Gulf South Conference and NCAA Baseball and Basketball Regionals and ran a successful publicity campaign for 2000 C-Spire Conerly Trophy winner Josh Bright, during DSU's run to the NCAA Division II Football National title. He also served on the school's Strategic Planning Committee, hosted the Statesmen Insider Weekly Television Show and served two seasons as an assistant football coach in charge of kickers and punters.
Sington served as Assistant SID/Interim SID at the University of Louisiana at Monroe from 2003-2004 prior to heading to Birmingham-Southern College as Assistant Media Relations Director (2004-06) and Assistant Athletic Director for Media Relations (2006-08) following his time at Delta State. He left BSC to become Assistant SID at Jacksonville State University from 2008-10 before becoming co-owner/publisher of Crimson Nation Illustrated in 2010.
Sington has served as Chairman of the Media Relations Committee for the PapaJohns.com/BBVA Compass Bowl since 2006 and Statistics Coordinator for the Alabama High School Athletic Association's State Championship and All-Star events since 2008. The Gadsden, Ala., native also worked for the media relations staff at the NCAA Division II Baseball Championships from 1989-2004 under host schools Troy University and Valdosta State University and was a member of the 1996 Summer Olympic softball statistics team.
Prior to his first stop in the Delta, Sington was the Director of Sports Information at Gulf South Conference Member the University of West Alabama from 1995-98. Beyond the daily media relation duties at UWA, Sington handled the radio play-by-play for all basketball road games and was host of Tiger Talk, a weekly radio call in show.
Sington graduated from Troy University (then Troy State) with a B.S. degree in Journalism/Public Relations in 1992. The Gadsden, Alabama, native married Paula Bohannon of Gadsden, Ala., on January 15, 2003.
