Dale Long joined the Georgia Gwinnett as Director of Sports Information in August 2017 and he oversees the promotion of the athletic department's six intercollegiate teams to local, regional and national media outlets through ggcathletics.com, social media, and videos.
In his six years at GGC he has helped promote 11 NAIA national championship teams and 16 teams capture conference championships. Long has twice been named the conference's Sports Information Director of the Year, winning the award in 2018-19 and 2020-21.
He earned the 2022-23 Gary Spitler Excellence in Publications award following three first-place finishes and the department collecting 19 top-10 finishes during the NAIA-SIDA Publications & Media Contest. He has tallied 17 top-10 finishes in the contest and four first-place finishes during his six years at GGC.
He has also been honored by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) for his writing and publications in national contests. Long took home top honors at the district level in the Fred Stabley, Sr. writing contest in 2018-19 while placing second nationally in the College Division Women's Soccer Media Guide category that same season.
Long also serves as the Sports Information Director of the Continental Athletic Conference, of which GGC is a member. He also was appointed to a two-year term on the NAIA-SIDA board of directors beginning in 2022-23.
He is a member of the CoSIDA Academic All-America Core Committee serving as a national coordinator. He has successfully nominated 29 GGC student-athletes to earn Academic All-America distinction since 2017. Long has also successfully nominated four student-athletes to win the NAIA's Academic All-American of the Year award, including two during the 2022-23 academic year in Tereza Koplova for Women's Tennis and Sydney Pelaez for Softball. That came after promoting Maria Genovese and Hunter Dollander to win the NAIA's Academic All-America Team Member of the Year award for Women's At-Large and Baseball contests, respectively, during the 2020-21 academic year.
Long has 14 years of athletic media relations experience promoting baseball, soccer and tennis teams, along with their student-athletes, at a variety of colleges across the country. As sports information director for 21 sports at Franklin College, he helped the Indiana college host national, regional and conference tournament events. He also was an assistant athletic media relations director at Florida Atlantic University (Boca Raton, Florida), where he served as play-by-play broadcaster for baseball and women’s basketball. Long also was a media relations director and broadcaster for summer collegiate baseball teams in the Coastal Plain League (North Carolina) and Alaska Baseball League, and has been a sports correspondent for the Terre Haute Tribune-Star.
Long has written game recaps, news releases, feature stories and produced game notes that have brought forth media attention to his institutions and their student-athletes. Some of these feature stories and media pitches have resulted in coverage by ESPN, USA Today, NCAA’s Champion magazine, Baseball America, Collegiate Baseball Newspaper and local/regional media. He also successfully promoted a finalist for the NCAA Woman of the Year Award; and helped gain all-conference Player of the Week honors for numerous student-athletes.
Long earned first-place honors in CoSIDA’s publication contest, has experience in website design, and has brought new ideas in social media to increase fan interest in his institutions’ athletic teams. Professionally, he has been the official statistician for NCAA Division I and Division III baseball games, helped host the 2009 Sun Belt Conference women’s soccer tournament, handled statistics for the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team’s exhibition matches in Boca Raton, and was a member of the statistics crew for the 2016 NCAA Women’s Basketball National Championships in Indianapolis. He also has supported broadcasts of high school football and basketball games by ESPN.
A native of Terre Haute, Indiana, Long earned a bachelor’s degree in communications, specializing in radio-television-film studies, from Indiana State University. He is living in Lawrenceville, Georgia.
