Director of Communications - Ed Haas

Appointed Director of Communications in July 2006, Ed Haas is responsible for developing, implementing, and maintaining an effective and creative communications program, including: designing, writing, and editing media guides, press releases and other promotional materials; coordinating the national varsity, club, Division III and Collegiate Water Polo Association (CWPA) polls; creating and maintaining the organization's web pages; and assisting at CWPA events for the second largest collegiate athletic organization in the United States.

During his tenure, he has overseen the league's technology driven initiatives that have kept the CWPA in a leadership position among NCAA athletic conferences.  Notably, the Collegiate Water Polo Association was the first water polo league to launch social media sites, including Facebook and Twitter, while becoming one of the first conferences in the NCAA to provide live video-streaming of championship contests through the league's partner Stretch Internet.

Named Director of Sports Information at Franklin & Marshall in July 2000 and promoted to Assistant Athletic Director in May 2001, he was responsible for publicizing the efforts of the Diplomats’ student-athletes in 26 varsity intercollegiate sports while overseeing an award-winning sports information operation and athletic department. 

During his tenure, he promoted a record number of successful NCAA Post-Graduate scholarship, Academic All-America and All-America campaigns, while garnering national print coverage in the New York Times, ESPN the Magazine, the Wall Street Journal, USA Today and Sports Illustrated among other publications.  Further, he rebuilt the athletic record books, streamed the first athletic events in the history of the college and launched F&M's website, GoDiplomats.com.

Beyond his communications responsibilities at F&M, he coordinated the institution's post-season championship apperances (Centennial Conference, ECAC, NCAA), while assisting in scheduling for both football and men's basketball.

He began his career as the Assistant Director of Athletics and Sports Information Director at Alvernia College during the 1999-2000 academic year.  At Alvernia, he oversaw the Crusaders' sports information, marketing and compliance functions, while earning the 2000 Compaq Computers National Play of the Year award in basketball and rebuilding the college's record books and website.

A graduate assistant sports information director at East Stroudsburg University during the 1990-2000 academic year under College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) Hall of Fame SID Pete Nevins, Haas assumed the role of interim sports information director during the spring while writing for the Pocono Record.

A former intern at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Charlotte, N.C., and the Harrisburg Heat professional indoor soccer team in Harrisburg, Pa., Haas is a 1998 graduate of DeSales University with Bachelor of Science degrees in Sport Management and Marketing.  He earned a Master's Degree in Education with concentration in Sport Management from East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania in May 2000.