Michael MacEachern begins his second year as the assistant director of athletics at Georgia College & State University.
MacEachern makes a great addition to the GCSU staff after doing an 11-year stint at former Peach Belt Conference member Young Harris College. At YHC, he served as the Associate Director of Athletics for Sports Communications where he oversaw communications aspects of 15 intercollegiate sports.
Prior to Young Harris, MacEachern spent 10 years at NAIA institution SCAD as the sports information director. MacEachern earned the Clarence "Ike" Pearson Award during his time at SCAD. This is an award given by the NAIA Sports Information director Association to an extraordinary contributor to the profession. During his time in Savannah, he was the communications contact for 16 intercollegiate sports. MacEachern snagged SCAD the NAIA's top honor in 2007-08 as the country's best website. He also served as the second vice-president on the NAIA-SIDA Board for two years and was also the chairperson of the NAIA-SIDA Publications Contest Committee.
Prior to SCAD, he served as the sports information director for five years at Lenoir-Rhyne College. Before that MacEachern was the sports information director for eight years at the University of South Carolina at Spartanburg (now the University of South Carolina Upstate), and served one year as assistant sports information director at The Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina.
The College Sports Information Directors of America and the NAIA-SIDA have recognized MacEachern’s publications 22 times. MacEachern also worked as a press steward for the baseball venue at the 1996 Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta.
The Charleston, South Carolina, native is a 1987 graduate of the College of Charleston, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration. While there, he served as a student assistant in the sports information office for three seasons
A longtime member of the College Sports Communicators, MacEachern has served as member of the organization's Academic All-America® committee since 1988 where he has served as a district coordinator, a national coordinator and currently in year 12 as the co-coordinator of the publicity subcommittee. In 2015 he was awarded the CoSIDA Jordan Lester Award for his exemplary service on the committee and the promotion of the ideals of being a student-athlete. MacEachern, who participated in the CoSIDA mentorship program for two years, also serves on the inclusion committee. MacEachern was a participant in the 2022-23 CSC Diversity & Inclusion Fellowship Class in partnership with the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics.
MacEachern is currently the past president of the of the NCAA Division II Sports Information Directors Cabinet after serving two years as president, two years as first vice president and two years as second vice president. He served four years as the Southeast Region representative on the D2SIDA Board after serving as a member of CoSIDA's College Division Management Advisory Committee for three years. He also served four seasons as the national coordinator for NCAA Division II men's soccer statistics.
MacEachern is in his first year as a member of the NCAA Division II Women's Basketball Southeast Regional Advisory Committee, He finished his second year as the chair of the Peach Belt Conference's Sports Information Directors committee in 2018 and became a member of the PBC Hall of Fame selection committee. MacEachern's work led Young Harris to being named the PBC's SID Staff of the Year in 2017-18. YHC also shared the PBC's SID Staff of the Year with the league's 12 SIDs in 2020-21. In his first year with the Bobcats, GCSU was recognized as the PBC SID Staff of the Year in 2023-24.
MacEachern has over 35 years of athletics experience including jobs outside of the intercollegiate sports world, He was the official scorekeeper for the Savannah Sand Gnats, the Class A minor-league affiliate of the New York Mets, for five seasons. He also was an official scorekeeper for the Hickory (N.C.) Crawdads, the Class A minor-league affiliate of the Pittsburgh Pirates, for three seasons. MacEachern has covered local sports as a newspaper stringer for both the Herald-Journal in Spartanburg, South Carolina, and the Hickory Daily Record.
MacEachern resides in Milledgeville along with his seven year-old Australian shepherd/fiest mix Pumpkin.
(updated April 2025)
