UC Irvine’s Olson to receive 25-year award

UC Irvine’s Bob Olson will receive a 25-year award from the College Sports Information Directors of America in San Diego on July 3. Olson is completing his 25th year of overseeing the publicity of the university’s 23 intercollegiate athletic teams.

Olson joined the UCI staff as sports information director in July 1982. He was named assistant athletic director and communications in 1991 and associate athletic director and communications in the fall of 2006.

He has served as press room and communications coordinator for several NCAA Division I men’s basketball West Regionals and First and Second Rounds in the past 15 years. Olson has been a member of the Big West Conference Basketball Tournament Committee and previously served on the Board of Directors of the Orange County Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association.

He has received six CoSIDA awards for media guides, including three that were selected as “Best in the Nation.”

A member of the United States Basketball Writers Association, he has worked 721 consecutive UC Irvine men’s basketball games.

— From staff reports