Mark Fisher Is one of the recipients of this year's EAST-COMM Irving T. Marsh Award.  Fisher has been Director of Athletics Communications at Carnegie Mellon since September 2004.
 
 

The Irving T. Marsh Award is considered one of the highest honors EAST-COMM bestows. It is given annually to one or two members who, in the opinion of the membership and Executive Board, has exhibited excellence in the field of athletic communications. The awards are presented annually at the spring workshop. First presented in 1966, the awards are named after Irving T. Marsh, the ECAC Service Bureau founder and director until his retirement in 1973.
 
 

During his tenure at Carnegie Mellon, the Athletics Communications Office has promoted a total of 160 Academic All-America honorees selected by College Sports Communicators (CSC), formally College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA). For 16 years. he oversaw the Athletics Corporate Partner Program and advertising and served as the departments IT liaison for seven years.
 
 

 
Before arriving in Pittsburgh, Fisher spent two years as the Assistant Sports Information Director at Mercyhurst University in Erie, Pennsylvania. 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 and ultimately got his start in Sports Information. Fisher served as a student worker within the sports information department for four years which led to him interning with a pair of Minor League Baseball Teams. Fisher initially worked for the Erie SeaWolves, a Double–A Affiliate of the Detroit Tigers in the summer of the 2001 before working one year with the Mahoning Valley Scrappers, a Single-A Affiliate of the Cleveland Guardians in Niles, Ohio.
 
 
 

Fisher quickly got involved in the Sports Information landscape and was the co-host of the Eastern College Athletic Conference Sports Information Directors Association (ECAC-SIDA) Workshop at the Renaissance Hotel in Pittsburgh, now known as Eastern Athletic Communications Association (EAST-COMM) in June 2012. He is a member of the College Sports Communicators (CSC), formally College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA), as well as a member of EAST-COMM where he served on the executive board for five years. Fisher held the position of Past President in 2017-18, President in 2016-17, First Vice-President in 2015-16, Second Vice-President in 2014-15, and was the College Division Representative in 2013-14.