Shea Stanton enters his second year as the Sports Information Director following his hire in the Fall of 2024. Stanton heads the day-to-day promotion of W&J's 28 athletics programs.
Stanton was most recently named to the inaugural class of the NCAA Division III Athletic Commicators Emerging Elite Program. Stanton was selected as one of the 30 Division III athletic communicators that were nominated this fall by their leaders and peers for participation in the program.
Stanton returned to W&J after a year stint as the Athletics Communications Specialist at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. There he assisted in the daily coverage and promotion of UWSP’s 26 NCAA Division III athletic programs.
This past year at UW-Stevens Point, one of Stanton’s successes was creating a new social media push called “Pointer Pause”, which centered around the behind the scenes thoughts and opinions of the UWSP student-athletes. Stanton also oversaw the introduction of the first UWSP women’s lacrosse team. Covering the day-to-day promotion of the inaugural program, Stanton led game day operations and social media efforts from the UWSP athletics outlets.
Prior to his time at UWSP, Stanton worked under previous Sports Information Director Aaron Thompson as the Intern Assistant Sports Information Director. He helped in a variety of capacities with W&J's 26 athletic programs, which included promotion of four conference championships in 2022-23.
Stanton comes to W&J after graduating from Indiana University of Pennsylvania in May 2022. He received his degree in Physical Education and Sport with a track in Sport Management. Stanton also minored in Marketing.
During his time as an undergrad at IUP, Stanton worked under Ryan Rebholz as a Sports Communication Student Assistant. His duties included updating the athletics website, writing press releases, game previews and input statistics for multiple sports using Statcrew and NCAA Live Stats. During the spring of 2022, Stanton served as the primary contact for the IUP baseball program.
