Clarion Athletics

Sean Fagan was hired as Clarion's Sports Information Director on November 23, 2015 and is entering his 11th year with the Golden Eagles in 2026-27. In April 2024 the department was renamed the Athletic Communications Department, and likewise his title changed to Director of Athletic Communications.

Under Fagan's leadership, the Athletic Communications office has developed and adopted a mission statement that details its dedication to enhancing the student-athlete experience and support of Clarion athletic programs in their pursuits of growth and success through the ideals of celebration, education and professionalism. This is done in part by providing equitable coverage across the spectrum of Clarion's 16 intercollegiate sports; by providing hands-on learning opportunities for the next generation of communications professionals; and by working with all parties in the athletic department, on campus and in the public in a manner that displays integrity.

Since Fall 2015, Fagan has helped promote 21 College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-America honorees, including Tyler Falk, who in 2017 was named the Academic All-America of the Year honoree for Division II baseball, and Golden Eagles have earned Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) Top 10 awards. In 2024, Fagan helped promote the candidacy of NCAA Woman of the Year nominee London Fuller, who reached the final 30 of the award out of hundreds of nominees.

Over the last decade Fagan has worked closely with SportsPittsburgh and the NCAA in handling media coordination duties for multiple NCAA championship events in the city of Pittsburgh and surrounding areas. In 2018 he served as one of two media coordinators for the NCAA Fall Festival, which welcomed 900 Division II student-athletes competing for six national championships on the campus of Duquesne University as well as at Schenley Park and Highmark Stadium. Fagan was the media coordinator for the 2023 Division II Volleyball Championship, the 2025 Division II Women's Basketball Championship, and the 2026 Division II Men's and Women's Basketball Championships.

Upon arriving at Clarion, Fagan worked to modernize the practices of the Athletic Communications Department by placing increased emphasis on social media promotion of Golden Eagle athletic programs as well as gameday video productions. Working closely with communications faculty as well as Eagle Media productions, Clarion has gone from producing no video broadcasts of events prior to 2016 to producing more than 100 events a year. Fagan has overseen two major redesigns of the main athletics website, one in 2016 and the other in 2022. In 2016 Clarion began a partnership with Presto Stretch to host video streams, with Fagan working with Presto Stretch on the creation of an OTT app to bring Golden Eagle athletic streams to Roku, Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV and Android TV. In 2022-23 the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) partnered with Hudl / Blueframe as the official streaming partner.

The Athletic Communications Department has grown since Fagan first arrived in 2015, expanding to add a part-time assistant director in 2016 and the creation of a Multimedia Coordinator position in 2019. Those additions were critical as Clarion Athletics was preparing to move back into Tippin Gymnasium after the completion of a $43 million renovation that included three large video displays in the main arena. The expanded capabilities have lent even greater importance to Fagan's relationships with faculty members on campus, as these have opened up valuable learning opportunities for students in a variety of academic disciplines, including Sport Management, Communications and Marketing.

Before coming to Clarion, Fagan served as Assistant Director of Marketing, Communications and Engagement at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan from 2011-15.  He served as the primary sports information contact for men’s basketball, women’s volleyball and men’s and women’s tennis, as well as secondary contact for football.  There he worked with programs that made a combined five NCAA tournament appearances in four years, including the 2011 & 2014 Bronco volleyball teams and the 2013-14 men's basketball team.  His social media campaign for the men's basketball team during the 2014 NCAA Tournament reached 3.11 million people and attracted nearly 40,000 page views to the team's social media accounts. 
 
Fagan worked with local and national media covering Bronco athletics, including the Mid-American Conference’s broadcast partners and members of the ESPN family of networks.  He also assisted in overseeing the Bronco Insider/Bronco Productions staff, which was comprised of students and interns who produced graphic and video content for in-game video board productions as well as web distribution.
 
Prior to joining the Western Michigan team, Fagan was Assistant Director of Athletic Communications at Saint Francis University in Loretto, Pa. from August 2009 to March 2011. At Saint Francis, he was the primary contact for the Saint Francis football, men’s and women’s volleyball, as well as men’s and women’s cross country and track and field teams.

Fagan attended John Carroll University as an undergraduate, where he served as a student assistant under sports informtation director Chris Wenzler, a 2021 inductee into the CSC Hall of Fame and a 2019 inductee into the JCU Athletics Hall of Fame. The Blue Streak sports information staff became one of the first Division III institutions in the country to produce live video broadcasts of athletic events, starting with a 40-event schedule during the 2006-07 academic year. Fagan also served as the sports director at WJCU-FM from 2007-09, broadcasting and producing football as well as men's and women's basketball games.
 
Fagan earned a Master’s in Education Leadership from Saint Francis in 2011 and a Bachelor of Arts in Communications from John Carroll in 2009.