Entering his 28th year with the Youngstown State Athletics Department in 2024-25 is Assistant Director of Athletic Communications Jamie Hall.
Hall, the longest-tenured athletics communications director in Youngstown State University history, serves as the primary media contact for the YSU men's basketball, softball and women's soccer programs and is also a secondary contact for football.
In the summer of 2023, Hall was recognized with the 25-Year Award from College Sports Communicators during CSCUNITE23 in Orlando, Fla.
As the men's basketball media relations director, Hall led publicity efforts for the first regular-season men's basketball championship and the first National Invitation Tournament berth in program history, postseason appearances in the 2012-13 and 2019-20 CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament (CIT), the 2021-22 The Basketball Classic Tournament, and the first six-consecutive winning seasons in YSU's Division I era.
During his first 11 years at YSU, Hall served as the SID for the volleyball and women's basketball programs from 1997-2008, covering two NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament teams. He also served as the media relations contact for the 2006 Horizon League Tournament Champion softball team that earned a berth in the NCAA Regional Tournament.
Hall also served as the media coordinator for the 2004 Horizon League Volleyball Championship and the 2022, 2021 and 2006 Horizon League Softball Championships.
He assists in the maintenance of the YSU athletics website - YSUsports.com - and is a member of the YSU Athletics Hall of Fame Committee.
During his time at Youngstown State, Hall has led publicity efforts for more than 80 all-conference selections, seven conference players of the year, eight coach-of-the-year winners, more than 30 academic all-district selections and five academic All-America picks.
Hall also spearheaded the publicity of the 2010 V Foundation Comeback Award Recipient - men's basketball player Dallas Blocker.
Hall has also worked as the media contact for the men's and women's cross country and track and field, swimming and diving and men's and women's tennis programs while at Youngstown State.
Prior to joining the YSU staff in 1997, Hall spent two years as a graduate assistant at Illinois State, where he served as the media relations contact for the Illinois State baseball and women's soccer teams.
An award-winning editor at Illinois State, Hall's 1995-96 Illinois State men's basketball game program was voted second in the nation by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) while the 1996 Illinois State football game program finished third in the nation for Division I-AA/FCS. His 1996 Illinois State Baseball Media Guide earned Best in the District honors.
A member of the College Sports Communicators (CSC) and the U.S. Basketball Writers Association, Hall earned his bachelor's degree in 1994 with a double major in sports management and business administration from Baldwin-Wallace (Ohio), where he played baseball for two seasons. He went on to earn a master's degree in sports administration from Illinois State in 1996.
Hall resides in Hubbard, Ohio, has a daughter, Alison, a grandson, Bennett, and a granddaughter, Vivienne.
