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MEDIA INFORMATION
MEDIA RELATIONS STAFF
Director of Media Relations: Dan Benson
Office Phone: (701) 777-2985
Office Fax: (701) 777-4352
Cell Phone: (701) 740-2908
E-mail: danbenson@mail.und.nodak.edu
Assistant Director/MBB: Jayson Hajdu
Office Phone: (701) 777-2986
Cell Phone: (701) 740-7659
E-mail: jaysonhajdu@mail.und.nodak.edu
Publications Editor: Matt Schill
Office Phone: (701) 777-2668
E-mail: mattschill@mail.und.nodak.edu
Graduate Assistants: Lisa Persuitti, Brandon Wolf
Gameday Staff: Sue Hafner, Kent Keys, Jim Schothorst,
Melanie Thompson
Media Relations Mailing Address
UND Athletic Media Relations
Hyslop Sports Center, Room 126
2751 2nd Avenue North, Stop 9013
Grand Forks, ND 58202-9013
MEDIA INFORMATION
The 2006-07 University of North Dakota men’s basketball media
guide has been produced by the UND Athletic Media Relations to
provide information for the media in covering the Fighting Sioux
this season. We appreciate your interest and will do everything
possible to meet your needs. Please take a few minutes to read
through the information on this page and to familiarize yourself
with this publication. Thank you again for your interest and coverage
and enjoy the season!
MEDIA CREDENTIALS/PARKING
Media credentials will be issued only to working media, sports
information/media relations personnel, league officials or staff
members of competing institutions with a legitimate need for
access to the press box. Requests for media credentials, season or
single-game, for the 2006-07 season must be made in advance
with Jayson Hajdu (701-777-2986) in the UND Media Relations
Office. It is asked that you submit credential requests at least
one week prior to the game you will be covering.
The northwest parking lot of the Betty Engelstad Sioux Center
will serve as the media parking lot and can be accessed with your
media credential.
PRESS SEATING
Members of the media will be seated either at the courtside press
row table or in an auxiliary press box in the upper level of the
stands. Cheering and betting in the press box will not be tolerated
and violators will be removed from the press box.
PRESS BOX OPERATIONS
Game programs, game notes, statistics and media guides will be
available at press row prior to and during all home games.
Statistics will be distributed at half time and immediately following
each game. All working media will have access to wireless
Internet and phone data lines. A copy machine is also available in
the press box.
PHOTOGRAPHERS
Photography credentials are issued to media and institutional
photographers only. Photographers must remain in designated
areas of the arena.
RADIO/TELEVISION
The Betty Engelstad Sioux Center press row can accommodate
two radio stations, and two additional stations may be accommodated
in the upper press box. On-air television talent can also be
accommodated in the upper press box. Radio and television stations
wishing to broadcast games from the Betty Engelstad Sioux
Center are asked to contact basketball media relations director
Jayson Hajdu at least two weeks prior to the event you are covering.
INTERVIEWS
The UND athletic media relations office is eager to assist the
media with student-athlete and coach interview requests. In order
to help in this endeavor, it is asked that all media requests be
made in advance through basketball media relations director
Jayson Hajdu at (701) 777-2986.
Players will return phone calls once requested through the media
relations office. As per UND Athletics policy, phone numbers of
student-athletes will not be disclosed to members of the media.
Student-athletes and coaches are also available for interviews
before and after practice and all practices are open to the media.
However, it is asked that media members wishing to attend practice
contact Jayson Hajdu in advance.
The coaching staff and student athletes are also available for postgame
interviews and all interviews will take place in the studentathlete
lounge, adjacent to the main lobby of the Engelstad Sioux
Center. The locker room, training room and weight room are
closed to the media.
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