Mark Fisher - Sports Information Director

Mark Fisher is currently in his fourth year as Sports Information Director at Carnegie Mellon University.  Fisher came to Carnegie Mellon in September 2004 from Mercyhurst College in Erie, Pa., where he served as Assistant Sports Information Director for two years.

As the sports information director for Carnegie Mellon, Fisher oversees the daily operations of the sports information department, handles the athletic department publicity advertisement, keeps statistics, reports scores and writes press articles in promoting Tartan Athletics.

Fisher serves as the main contact for football, men's basketball, and golf. He splits coverage for volleyball, cross country and track, and tennis.

Fisher is a 2001 graduate of Edinboro University of Pennsylvania where he received his bachelor’s degree in business administration with a concentration in marketing.  While at Edinboro, he worked four years in the sports information department.  During the summer of 2001 he interned with the Erie SeaWolves, a Double –A Affiliate of the Detroit Tigers, and then worked one year with the Mahoning Valley Scrappers, a Single-A Affiliate of the Cleveland Indians in Niles, Ohio.

Other accomplishments of Fisher’s include a statistician for the past nine years at the Erie McDonald’s Classic, regarded as one of the top four team high school tournaments in the country, and a statistician for an NFL exhibition game in July of 2001 at Edinboro University.  He has also worked as a statistician for Comcast Cable sporting events.  In the spring of 2007, he assisted with the media relations efforts for the First and Second Round games of the NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Championships, hosted by the University of Pittsburgh at the Petersen Events Center.

He is a member of the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) as well as a member of the Eastern College Athletic Conference Sports Information Directors Association (ECAC-SIDA).

Fisher, originally from Pittsburgh, resides in Robinson Township with his wife Tara and their one year old daughter Alivia.