Steve Shutt Position: Assistant AD/Media Relations

Steve Shutt joined the Demon Deacon family in the summer of 2007 as the Assistant AD for Media Relations at Wake Forest.

Prior to his Winston-Salem relocation, Shutt spent the two seasons at Wofford where he coordinated all athletic media relations efforts for an 18-sport Division I institution.

Shutt spent six years with the Southern Conference as the associate commissioner for public affairs. He initiated media training for student-athletes, started a weekly satellite video feed for the distribution of highlight clips and developed SoConSIDA, a multi-day training workshop for the conference's sports information professionals. In addition, Shutt was the Southern Conference liaison to the league's baseball coaches and umpires and served as the director of the SoCon Baseball Championship.

A veteran of 21 years on college campuses, Shutt previously served as the sports information specialist at Indian River Community College in Fort Pierce, Fla. (1980-82), as the assistant sports information director at Bowling Green State University (1982-83) and as the SID at BGSU from 1983-87. In addition, he spent 11 years as an assistant athletic director at New Mexico State University before joining Jeff Dezen Public Relations in Greenville, S.C. in 1999 where he was an account executive on the Maxfli-Dunlop golf account.

At Bowling Green, he successfully promoted quarterback Brian McClure to a top 10 finish in the 1985 Heisman Trophy race. At New Mexico State, Shutt worked with 27 student-athletes who earned Academic All-America honors. Wofford has been nationally-ranked in the Football Championship Subdivision and is a preseason top 10 team in 2007.

Shutt has served as the media relations director for the 2002 NCAA Men's Basketball Championship First- and Second- Round site at Greenville, S.C. He also worked as the liaison between the NCAA and CBS at the 2002 and 2003 NCAA Men's Basketball East Regionals and was a media coordinator at the 2004 FedEx Orange Bowl.

Shutt is a 1980 graduate of Bowling Green with a degree in journalism. His wife, Dr. Doris Paez, is the executive director of the Metropolitan Studies Institute at the University of South Carolina-Upstate. They are the parents of a 10-year old daughter, Gabriela, and a six-year old son, Javier.