Bio

Greg Prouty is in his second year as Director of Athletics Communications at Richard Bland College during 2017-18.  A 25-year veteran of college athletics communications and administration, he joined the Statesmen in July 2016.  During the 2016-17 academic year, Prouty promoted one All-America and 13 All-Region honorees, one National Player of the Week recipient and a District Coach of the Year selection.

Prouty arrived at Richard Bland from Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW), where he served as Assistant Athletics Director for Media Services from November 2015 to July 2016, overseeing the daily operation of the office, including the administration of the department website and social media content, as well as supervision of a full-time assistant, graduate assistant, video coordinator along with numerous part-time and student staff.  He served as the primary media contact for men’s basketball and baseball during 2015-16, promoting The Summit League Men’s Basketball Player of the Year and Coach of the Year, a Senior CLASS Award Finalist in baseball, as well as eight All-League honorees, 10 League Player of the Week recipients and two League Athletes of the Month among the two sports.  Additionally, Prouty helped secure an invitation (one of eight) for Max Landis to participate in the 28th Annual State Farm College 3-Point Championship during the Final Four at the Berry Center in Cypress, Texas on March 31, 2016.

Prouty's career includes 22-plus years at Longwood University (1991-95, 1997-2015), including 17-plus years overseeing athletics communications, most recently as the associate athletic director for media relations (2009-14).  During his tenure, he coordinated all publicity and promotion for Longwood’s 14 Division I programs, and was a member of the school’s senior management team for 10 years (2004-14) with supervisory oversight of four sports: men’s soccer, women’s soccer, and men’s and women’s cross country, along with athletics video services during the most recent five years.  Prouty had previously served in an assistant athletic director (2004-09) role.  He had a significant role in the school's reclassification to NCAA Division I from Division II (2002-07), an extended process that initially began with discussions in 1998.

Prouty promoted hundreds of student-athletes for All-Conference, All-District, All-Region and All-America honors while at Longwood, including the 2001 NABC NCAA Division II Men's Basketball Player of the Year, as well as for numerous Academic honors.  He had direct sport coverage for all 14 teams at one time or another, most recently handling men’s basketball, baseball, women’s soccer, men’s and women’s golf, and men’s and women’s cross country.  Prouty served a three-year term on the Big South Conference Hall of Fame Committee (2012-15), and was on the MVP Sports Media Training Advisory Board (2010-13), as well.

Prouty was the assistant sports information director at Longwood (1991-95) before serving two years as the sports information director at Lynchburg College (1995-97).  He is a member of the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) and the Virginia Sports Information Directors (VaSID), and has served previous stints with CoSIDA’s charity, ethics, publications contest, and publications awards publicity committees.

A native of Norwich, Ohio, Prouty earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in public relations with an option in sports information from Eastern Kentucky University in December 1988.  He completed a one-year internship at ABC affiliate WTVQ-TV in Lexington, Ky., and then worked with the Indianapolis Colts during the 1989 NFL season as a public relations intern. 

Greg and his wife Paula, a Longwood graduate, have a daughter, Megan (19), who attends Virginia Tech and will graduate in May 2018.