Contact Lisa Champagne
Lisa Champagne was named the NESCAC Assistant Director for Media Relations at the start of the 2016-17 season after spending 17 years at the University of Vermont. She oversees the conference's website, social media platforms, awards system and assists with conference championships.
Champagne held a variety of positions during her tenure at Vermont, joining the staff as the Assistant Director of Athletic Communications in 1998 and promoted to Director of Athletic Communications in May 2005. She was named Director of Social Media and Website Development in September 2015, overseeing the department's social media efforts and working on website enhancement and redesigns, while also serving as the primary media contact for men's and women's soccer, skiing and women's lacrosse.
While at Vermont, Champagne was involved in the redesign of Catamount website several times over, introduced new ways of disseminating information about UVM Athletics to the media, fans, and alumni, implemented social media into the athletic department, and initiated webcasting.
In June of 2018, Champagne co-hosted the ECAC-SIDA Workshop that was held in Burlington, Vermont. In 2013, she was honored with the prestigious Irving T. Marsh Award (university division), by ECAC-SIDA. The award, named after Irving T. Marsh, the ECAC Service Bureau founder and director, is given to a university and college division sports information director who in the opinion of the ECAC-SIDA membership and Executive Board, has exhibited excellence in the field of sports information. Champagne was the seventh woman to receive the honor since its inception in 1966. In 2008, she was honored with the Zabriskie Award for Excellence by the Vermont Athletic Department.
Champagne served as Director of Sports Information at Saint Michael's College for two years before arriving at the University of Vermont. She also spent two years in the sports information office at Quinnipiac University, serving as assistant director for 16 months before being appointed interim SID. Prior to her work at Quinnipiac, Champagne was a student assistant in the sports information office at her alma mater, Southern New Hampshire University, for three years.
In addition to her collegiate sports information experience, Champagne has also worked on the international stage. She served as a media relations staff member at Soldier Hollow for the Nordic, biathlon and Nordic-combined events at the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City, Utah. Champagne worked the 1999 and 2003 Women's World Cup, the Special Olympics World Games in 1995, and was a media relations volunteer at the 2004 USGA Women's Open held at the Orchards in South Hadley, Mass.
Champagne has played a role at several NCAA Championships in a variety of sports and headed up Vermont's athletic communications contingent at the 2005 and 2011 NCAA Ski Championship at Stowe. Most recently, she worked with USA Hockey and the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) to coordinate the media relations effort for the 2012 Ice Hockey Women's World Championships that were hosted by UVM and the City of Burlington.
Champagne earned a bachelor's degree in sport management from Southern New Hampshire in 1994 and a master's degree in business administration from Saint Michael's College in 2001. She was a two-sport athlete for the at Southern New Hampshire, competing in basketball and softball.
