Mark Robertson joined the staff at Lynchburg as sports information director in July 2017. He oversees the daily operations of the sports information department, directing maintenance of LynchburgSports.com, statistical recording, gameday operations efforts for the Hornets' 23 NCAA Division III teams and the Lynchburg equestrian and beach volleyball programs, and NCAA compliance efforts for the department.
The United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association honored him with the NCAA Division III Excellence in Communications award in 2020 for his department's track & field coverage, and he was the 2022 Winter NCAA Division III and D3SIDA Recognition Award winner for portraying the Division III indentity and student-athlete experience at Lynchburg.
Robertson is an active member of College Sports Communicators, and he currently serves on the organization's Diversity and Inclusion Committee. He also represents Lynchburg on the National Collegiate Equestrian Association's selection committee, the D3hoops.com women's basketball top 25 committee, and the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association's weekly awards committee.
A 2013 graduate of Emory & Henry College, Robertson majored in geography, history, and mass communications and was a four-year member of the Wasps' baseball team.
He spent the two years prior to his arrival covering Lynchburg and the rest of the Old Dominion Athletic Conference for The News & Advance, the daily newspaper in the Hill City. It was the latest stop in a newspaper career that allowed him to cover a variety of sports, outdoors, and breaking news for publications in Virginia and Montana. Outside of work and sports, Robertson is a fan of board and card games, boating, live music, photography, trailrunning, and zymurgy. He considers himself a connoisseur of hot dogs and Reuben sandwiches.
A Roanoke native and graduate of Patrick Henry High School and the Roanoke Valley Governor's School, he lives in Moneta.
