Brad Nadeau oversees all aspects of the College’s athletic communications office. As the director of athletic communications, (a.k.a. sports information director), he handles publicity for the school’s 30 varsity athletic teams. He also manages media requests, while maintaining day-to-day operations of the office as well as the athletic department’s Web site. Nadeau arrived at Middlebury in the fall of '94.
Since his arrival on campus in the fall of ’94, he has served as the host for close to 50 NESCAC, ECAC and NCAA tournament contests or regionals. Among those tournaments were the ’95, ’97, ’02 and ’05 NCAA men’s hockey championships, the ’04 NCAA women's hockey championship, and the 2001 NCAA skiing championship.
The school has also enjoyed some tremendous national media exposure with 13 “Faces in the Crowd” in Sports Illustrated as well as several articles in the Boston Globe and USA Today. Middlebury was also the feature of an article highlighting the school’s facilities in Sports Illustrated in November of ’98. The school’s No. 1 sports fan, Butch Varno, was the subject of a Rick Reilly column in March of 2003. That column sparked a visit to campus from ESPN in September of 2003 for a SportsCenter feature.
Nadeau is an active member of the ECAC Sports Information Directors Association (SIDA) and has served on numerous panels over the past several years. He is also a member of Co-SIDA.
A ’94 graduate of the University of Maine, Nadeau worked for three years as a student-assistant in the university’s sports information office. He also broadcast all home and away games for the University of Maine men’s basketball team during his junior and senior year. The games were carried on WZON Radio in Bangor, Maine, a commercial station owned by Stephen King.