Park University Selected Heart SID Staff of the Year, Jordan Brown Named 2024-25 Heart SID of the Year   

The Heart of America Athletic Conference is pleased to announce the 2024-25 Heart SID Staff of the Year and Dave Fillmore SID of the Year award winner. 

Park University has been selected the Heart SID Staff of the Year, while the Pirates' Jordan Brown has also been selected the 2024-25 Heart SID of the Year. 

Brown will now be nominated for the 2024-25 NAIA National SID of the Year award, which will be announced on September 15.   

Brown and graduate assistant Nathalia Harth have continued to elevate the Park Athletics creative content, live video stream platform and created a redesigned website all in the last academic year.  

Under his leadership, multi-camera setups were incorporated more at Park in 2024, starting with a dedicated outfield camera for baseball and softball. 

In 2024-25, this has grown to all sports, with the opportunity to incorporate a roaming camera into live broadcasts. Also in 2024, Park successfully streamed three broadcasts simultaneously for the first time.  

Brown is also a member of the Park Athletics Leadership Team and is the Pirates' Champion of Character Liaison. 

For the past three seasons, he has served as the official scorer for the Heart of America Athletic Conference Men's and Women's Golf Conference Championship. In 2022 he was the NAIA Women's Golf National Championship On-Site Media Coordinator. 

This marked the fifth year Brown has worked in the Park communications office and he just wrapped up his fourth full year as the University's Sports Information Director.  

ABOUT THE DAVE FILLMORE SPORTS INFORMATION DIRECTOR OF THE YEAR AWARD 

In order to honor its current sports information professionals, the conference introduced the Dave Fillmore Award after the 2013-14 academic year. The award is named after Fillmore, who served as the first SID at Evangel University in 1977 and as the league's sports information director from 1988-2003. Fillmore passed away on December 21, 2008, but not before being inducted into the Evangel Athletics Hall of Fame in 2007. He also won the Clarence "Ike" Pearson Award in 1999, the highest honor bestowed upon sports information directors in the NAIA. 

PREVIOUS WINNERS: 

2014 - John Schild (Culver-Stockton) 

2015 - Chad Jenkins (MidAmerica Nazarene) 

2016 - Josh Pound (Benedictine) 

2017 - Tyler Price (Baker) 

2018 - Phillip Dowden (Evangel) 

2019 - Wade Steinlage (William Penn) 

2020 - Shelby Scott (Central Methodist/Heart of America) 

2021 - Andy Pulverenti (Missouri Valley)  

2022 – Rachel Moore (Central Methodist) 

2023 - Brett Tudela (Clarke University) 

2024 – Baker University (Kyle Pattrick, Matt Hevel, Kristina Harris) 

2025 - Park University (Jordan Brown, Nathalia Harth)