{"id":286022,"date":"2024-08-23T11:04:08","date_gmt":"2024-08-23T16:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=286022"},"modified":"2024-08-23T11:04:11","modified_gmt":"2024-08-23T16:04:11","slug":"vcsu-announces-sports-information-staff-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=286022","title":{"rendered":"VCSU Announces Sports Information Staff Changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Bodine-Hoss.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Bodine-Hoss.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-286025\" width=\"522\" height=\"344\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Bodine-Hoss.jpg 455w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Bodine-Hoss-300x198.jpg 300w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Bodine-Hoss-265x175.jpg 265w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 522px) 100vw, 522px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n<p>Valley City State University athletics has announced staffing changes in its<br \/>sports information department for the upcoming year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:post-content --><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Athletic director Dennis McCulloch announced today that Kari Bodine<br \/>has been promoted to VCSU&#8217;s director for sports information, and Collin Hoss<br \/>has been hired as VCSU&#8217;s head golf coach and assistant sports information<br \/>director.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0&#8220;We&#8217;re excited to have both Kari and Collin on staff for the<br \/>coming year,&#8221; said McCulloch. &#8220;Kari has been a valued member of the<br \/>sports information department for several years and is ready to move into this<br \/>bigger role with our department. We&#8217;re pleased to welcome Collin back to VCSU<br \/>as well. I&#8217;m excited about the skills he is bringing in to the assistant SID<br \/>role and have him lead our golf program that he already knows well.&#8221;<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Bodine has worked at VCSU since 2013 and spent the last five seasons as the assistant<br \/>sports information director. She is just the second sports information director<br \/>in VCSU history, succeeding Mark Potts who recently accepted a position as<br \/>director for public relations for VCSU&#8217;s general campus.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Bodine holds a bachelor&#8217;s degree in sports management from the University of<br \/>Minnesota Crookston and master&#8217;s degree in higher education from North Dakota<br \/>State University.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Valley City native and VCSU graduate Collin Hoss will return to VCSU as head<br \/>golf coach and assistant sports information director. Hoss has spent the last<br \/>four years as a digital marketing specialist at FEI, Inc. in Valley City. He<br \/>has also served two summers as a golf instructor with Valley City Parks and<br \/>Recreation.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Hoss was a member of the Viking men&#8217;s golf team from 2016-2020 and earned 1<sup>st<\/sup>\u00a0Team<br \/>All-Conference after placing 5<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0at the NSAA Championship<br \/>tournament in 2019. He was also an NSAA Champion of Character and NAIA<br \/>Scholar-Athlete during his time as a student. Hoss graduated from VCSU in 2020<br \/>with a bachelor&#8217;s degree in communications and a minor in marketing.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valley City State University athletics has announced staffing changes in itssports information department for the upcoming year.\u00a0 \u00a0Athletic director Dennis McCulloch announced today that Kari Bodinehas been promoted to VCSU&#8217;s director for sports information, and Collin Hosshas been hired as VCSU&#8217;s head golf coach and assistant sports informationdirector.\u00a0 \u00a0&#8220;We&#8217;re excited [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":286025,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-286022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=286022"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":286026,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286022\/revisions\/286026"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/286025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=286022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=286022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=286022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}