Matthew Janik is in his second year as Assistant Director of Athletic Communication at Franklin Pierce University. He assists with all media relations and statistical operations for the department's 17 athletics programs. Janik serves as the primary contact for Franklin Pierce's nationally prominent baseball program, as well as the Ravens volleyball, field hockey, ice hockey, softball, cross country and men's and women's tennis programs.
In addition to his sport-specific duties, Janik spearheads most of the department's graphic design initiatives and serves as a liason between the department and the sports department of the student-run Pierce Media Group. Janik contributed to the redesign of athletics.franklinpierce.edu and continues to be involved with the ongoing overhaul of the department's historical archives.
No stranger to the Northeast-10 before coming to Rindge, Janik joined the staff at Franklin Pierce in August 2008 after spending the 2007-08 year as an Assistant Sports Information Director at Southern Connecticut State, where he worked with the then-defending national champion women's basketball program, in addition to the Owls' men's soccer and men's and women's swimming and diving teams which captured conference titles. Janik also served as the primary contact for baseball and volleyball at SCSU.
Prior to Southern Connecticut State, Janik spent his time as an undergrad working in the Sports Information office at Quinnipiac, where was a two-time recipient of the office's Katie Vashon MVP Award. He graduated from Quinnipiac in 2007 with a bachelor's degree in broadcast journalism.
Also holding experience outside the realm of college athletics, Janik spent two years as broadcaster in the New England Collegiate Baseball League. He spent the summer of 2007 with the Sanford Mainers as the Director of Broadcasting and Media Relations. While in Sanford, Janik was responsible for all of the franchise's media relations initiatives and oversaw all gameday press box operations, in addition to serving as the club's lead broadcaster. In 2006, he held a similar position with the Torrington (Conn.) Twisters.
Originally from Barkhamsted, Conn.,
Janik currently resides in Jaffrey, N.H.
