Blake Timm
Sports Information Director
timmbr@pacificu.edu
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1998 graduate of Pacific University, Blake Timm
has served as Pacific's sports information director
since 1999.
Timm is in charge of the daily publicity and media relations for Pacific's 20 intercollegiate sports, which compete as part of NCAA Division III and the Northwest Conference. Those duties include daily contact with media, producing publications and maintaining statistics for all sports, coordinating game management for all home events and daily maintenance of the athletic department's Web site, www.goboxers.com.
In addition to his assigned duties, Timm has been the public address announcer for Pacific Athletics since 1994. The "Voice of the Boxers" can be heard at volleyball, basketball, wrestling, baseball and softball games. A broadcaster since high school, Timm teamed with Rich Burk to air Pacific basketball radio broadcasts from 1996-1998 and 1999-2004.
In addition, Timm is a frequent contributor to the University's alumni magazine, Pacific, and penned a bi-weekly column for the Forest Grove News-Times newspaper from June 2006 to November 2007.
Timm has been honored numerous times for his work in publicizing Pacific's student-athletes. In 2008, Timm was named a Grant Burger Media Award winner by the American Volleyball Coaches Association as the NCAA Division III West Region women's volleyball SID of the year.
In 2007, Timm was voted by his peers at the Northwest Conference Sports Information Director of the Year, becoming just the second person so honored. In 2006, he was recognized by Pacific with it's "Outstanding Contribution of an Individual for University Service" award, which honors staff members who have given great service to the institution.
Timm has received a total of 27 awards in the College Sports Information Directors of America's (CoSIDA) Publications Contest. His eight "Best In The Nation" citations included awards for Pacific's 2008-09 wrestling, softball and women's lacrosse guides.
The 2007 volleyball guide was one of four nationally honored (and the only from a non-Division I school) by USA Volleyball with its prestigious Viggo O. Nelson Collegiate Media Guide Award. Additionally, the 2008-09 swimming guide received an "excellent" rating in Swimming World magazine's annual publication contest, becoming the first non-Division I guide to eb recognized by the publication. For the last two years, Pacific's Men's & Women's Wrestling Guide has been honored as the top Division III guide in the nation by the editors of Amateur Wrestling News, a leading national wrestling publication.
Timm has also received 10 citiations in CoSIDA's annual Fred Stabley, Sr., Writing Contest, including a "Best In The Nation" honor for his work on Pacific Magazine's Summer 2004 feature, "Pacific's Connection To The Olympics."
Outside of the Pacific arena, Timm has served as the official statistican for the Portland Timbers of the United Soccer Leagues' First Division since 2002. He has also served the team as a writer, public address announcer and broadcaster.
Timm was a member of the media relations staff for the 2009 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament rounds held in Portland, the 2008 U.S. Olympic Track & Field Trials at Hayward Field in Eugene and at the Portland venue for the 2003 FIFA Women's World Cup. He has also assisted with media relations for the 2000 NCAA Division III Cross-Country Championships, the 2003 NCAA Division II Softball Championships and the 2007 West Coast Conference Basketball Tournament. He has also served as the public address voice for the OSAA/U.S. Bank Class 1A/2A High School Volleyball Championships, held at the Pacific Athletic Center, since 2003 and is an active volunteer at other OSAA events.
Timm is an active member of CoSIDA. He served on the organization's board of directors as a College Division Representative from 2004-07 and began a term as an At-Large Representative on the board in 2007. He currently chairs the organization's Membership Services Committee and spent six years as a district coordinator for CoSIDA's Academic All-American program. He has presented at CoSIDA's annual convention three times, most recently presenting a panel on small college Web sites at the 2009 convention.
Timm is also a member of the Track & Field Writers Association, the United States Basketball Writers Association, the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association, the National Association of Sports Public Address Announcers and the National Association of Collegiate Marketing Administrators (NACMA).
Prior to returning to Forest Grove, Timm was employed as news and sports director at KCMB Radio in La Grande, Ore. In addition to news, he broadcast Baker High School football and basketball and provided the play-by-play voice for the OSAA/U.S. Bank State 1A High School Basketball Tournament. Timm has also worked as a general assignment reporter for KOTI-TV in Klamath Falls, Ore., and spent three years as the sports editor for Pacific's student newspaper, the Index.
Athletically, Timm was a three-year member of the Pacific cross country and track & field squads and was a six-time letterwinner at Klamath Union High School in both sports, qualifying the state cross country meet three times. He continues to be an avid, though oft-injured, runner.
Timm and his wife, Melissa, are the proud parents of two daughters: Sydney, 4, and Hannah, 1. The Timms reside in Forest Grove.