Joe Guistina Position: Assistant Media Relations Director Experience: 3rd Year at Upstate Alma Mater: Sesquehanna '04

Joe Guistina is entering his third year as Assistant Media Relations Director at USC Upstate.

At USC Upstate, Guistina is responsible for the public relations efforts of five of the school's programs, including baseball, women's basketball, men's and women's tennis and volleyball. He also has been heard on ASun.TV soccer and softball broadcasts.

In 2007-08, Guistina won two CoSIDA Fred Stabley, Sr. Writing Contest awards, including a Best In District honor for his feature on cross country runner Emily Tangwar, "Running on Fear."

Guistina came to USC Upstate from Michigan State, where he served as an intern during the 2006-07 school year. At MSU, he handled all public relations efforts for the perennial top 25 women's basketball program, the Big Ten champion women's golf program and the women's soccer team. He also served as a game-day media relations assistant for the national champion ice hockey program, as well as for the men's basketball and football programs.

Before Michigan State, Guistina spent two years as a graduate assistant at the University at Buffalo, where he worked with the women's soccer, wrestling and baseball programs for the Mid-American Conference school.

A 2004 graduate of Susquehanna University in Selinsgrove, Pa., Guistina was a three-year letterwinner as a pitcher on the Crusaders' baseball team. He also worked in the school's Sports Information Office for four years and was an editor on the school's newspaper staff for three years, serving as the sports editor as a junior.

A native of Rochester, N.Y., Guistina is a 2000 graduate of Spencerport High School. He earned his bachelor of arts in journalism from Susquehanna in 2004 and his master of arts in informatics from Buffalo in 2006. He resides in Spartanburg.