Baseball Media Guide

Amanda Osburne
Director of Internal
Operations
Amanda Osburne is in her second year as
Director of Internal Operations at the South
Atlantic Conference.
Osburne’s responsibilities
include
maintaining and monitoring the day-to-day
business operations of the conference, in
and assisting with championship operations and compliance.
She is also the on-site administrator of the SAC Tennis Championship.
Osburne came to the SAC after
earning a Master of Human and Environmental
Science in Sport Management from the University of Alabama.
While at Alabama,
she worked in Athletic Student Services, where she ensured student-athletes at-
tended class, helped with tutoring and assisted the athletes with developing goals.
She also volunteered with media relations for
the 2010 BBVA
Compass Bowl.
Osburne graduated with her bachelor’s degree in commerce and business
administration -- also from the University of Alabama. She worked as a teaching
assistant in the business school during her undergraduate years.
In the summer of 2009, Osburne was an intern for the Director of Marketing
of the Bossier-Shreveport Mudbugs minor league hockey franchise. In the winter
of 2009, she served as an intern for the team’s General Manager.
Osburne is originally from Shreveport, La., and currently resides in Rock Hill.
Eric Wieberg
Director of Strategic
Communications
Eric Wieberg is
in his second year as
Director of Strategic
Communications
at the South Atlantic
Conference. He is
responsible for managing all public and
media relations, digital and social media,
championship
media coordination, awards
and publications
for the SAC, along with
strengthening the conference’s marketing strategies. He also serves as the liaison
to the SAC Athletic Trainers Committee, and is the on-site administrator for the SAC
Baseball Championship.
the conference’s website and enhanced the league’s social media presence to
encompass multiple
platforms. He also shifted the
SAC’s communication
efforts
towards a greater
focus on the student-athlete
experience through mediums
including blogs and feature stories.
plan.
Division I Men’s Basketball staff and the NCAA Postgraduate Internship program.
He performed a variety of duties associated with planning and operating the 2010
and 2011 NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championships, with a primary focus
on media coordination for the event’s 13 preliminary-round sites and the Final Four.
In addition, Wieberg provided project management support for the 2011 Final Four
“Tyler’s
Court”
community initiative, developed
resources for the championship’s
selection, seeding and bracketing process, and helped operate the NCAA’s mock
selection
programs. He also served on project teams
for the NCAA Emerging
Leaders Seminar and Final Four Career in Sports Forum.
Prior to joining the NCAA staff, Wieberg earned his Master of Education degree
in sport management from the University of Texas.
While at Texas,
he worked in the
Longhorn
Foundation -- UT’s athletic development arm – performing a variety of
fundraising and event planning duties.
Wieberg graduated in 2008 with his bachelor’s degree in business administration
from the
University of Kansas, where spent four years as a student assistant in
coordinator for the 2007 Big 12 Tennis
Championship and assisted the Big 12 at
multiple football and basketball championships during his time at KU.
While a
student at Kansas, he also completed a summer internship at the
National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) in Kansas City.
Originally from Lawson, Mo., Wieberg resides in Rock Hill.
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