Nancy Worley - Associate Director of Media Relations MEDIA CONTACT – Volleyball, Women's Tennis, Swim & Dive, Spirit - Staff Directory

Staff Directory

Nancy Worley

Title:
Associate Director of Media Relations
MEDIA CONTACT – Volleyball, Women's Tennis, Swim & Dive, Spirit
Email:
Phone:
852-0113

Nancy Worley is in her 35th year as associate sports information director at Louisville. Her duties include the coordination of sports information for volleyball, women's tennis, swimming, lacrosse, and the Spirit Groups as well as serving on the U of L Athletic Hall of Fame Committee.

Before arriving in Louisville, Worley served as assistant sports information director at Illinois State for a year and a half while working on a master’s. She also served as Sports Information Director at Valparaiso University for two years. Her publications and writing have won numerous CoSIDA awards, most recently, her swim guide was voted the best in the nation. The native of Elmhurst, Ill. was named as an Outstanding Young Woman in America. She served as chair for the CoSIDA Writing Contest. She worked at the 1996 Centennial Olympic Games where she covered beach volleyball, indoor volleyball and road cycling. She was the recipient of the CoSIDA 25 Year Award, one of the few women to be named to this award. She was awarded a Grant Burger Award for her work in social media.

She graduated from Valparaiso University in 1980 where she served as sports editor of the school newspaper and her column won the Indiana Collegiate Press Association Award for humor. Worley and her husband, Mike, have four children, Jayne, Jeremy, Alec and Holly and grandson, Jonathan.