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Greg Prouty is in his eighth year as Director of Athletic Communications at Hampden-Sydney College during 2025-26. A 33-year veteran of collegiate athletics communications and administration, he had most recently served as Director of Athletics Communications at Richard Bland College in South Prince George from 2016-18. Greg has oversight of all athletics communications for the Tigers, including the promotion of team, student-athlete and coaching achievements, maintenance of the department website, gameday operations, live video webstreaming, and social media platforms for H-SC Athletics. His specific sport responsibilities include football, basketball, baseball, golf and cross country/distance track.
Prior to his time at Richard Bland, Prouty served as Assistant Athletics Director for Media Services at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne (2015-16). He served as the primary media contact for men’s basketball and baseball, promoting The Summit League Men’s Basketball Player of the Year (Max Landis) and Coach of the Year (Jon Coffman), a Senior CLASS Award Finalist (Greg Kaiser) in baseball, as well as eight All-League honorees, 10 League Player of the Week recipients and two League Athletes of the Month among the two sports. Additionally, Prouty helped secure an invitation (one of eight) for Max Landis to participate in the 28th Annual State Farm College 3-Point Championship during the Final Four at the Berry Center in Cypress, Texas on March 31, 2016.
Prouty's career includes 22-plus years at nearby Longwood University (1991-95, 1997-2015), including 10 years in administration among 17-plus years overseeing athletics communications, most recently as the Associate Athletic Director for Media Relations (2009-14). During his tenure, he coordinated all publicity and promotion for Longwood’s 14 sports, and was a member of the school’s senior management team for 10 years (2004-14) with supervisory oversight of four sports: men’s soccer, women’s soccer, and men’s and women’s cross country, along with athletics video services during the most recent five years. Prouty had previously served as an Assistant Athletic Director (2004-09), and he had a substantial role in the school's reclassification to NCAA Division I from Division II (2002-07), an extensive process that initially began with discussions in 1998. He served Longwood as Director of Communications Operations during 2014-15, coordinating and managing campus-wide projects and initiatives for the University's Office of Strategic Operations.
Prouty promoted hundreds of student-athletes for All-Conference, All-District, All-Region and All-America honors while at Longwood, including the 2001 NABC Division II Men's Basketball National Player of the Year (Colin Ducharme) and a 2001 NCAA Woman of the Year Finalist (Claire Cunanan Reyes, field hockey), as well as for numerous other Academic honors. He had direct sport coverage for all 14 teams at one time or another, most recently handling men’s basketball, baseball, women’s soccer, men’s and women’s golf, and men’s and women’s cross country. Prouty served a three-year term on the Big South Conference Hall of Fame Committee (2012-15), and was on the MVP Sports Media Training Advisory Board (2010-13), as well.
While at Longwood, he's most proud to have played a small role in the professional development of several former assistants in his office, including Ashley Robbins Condon (UMass Lowell Associate Athletic Director for Communications & Creative Content), Melissa (Kristofak) Hazelwood (Ferguson Enterprises Director of Social Impact, formerly at VCU, the Sun Belt and Atlantic 10 conferences), Kimberly Wenger (former Northwest Conference Commissioner), Lindsey Williams (Project Coordinator at New Era Technology, former Great Lakes Valley Conference Assistant Commissioner for Strategic Communications), Paul Lyon (Belmont Abbey Senior Associate Athletics Director), Kristian Martin (New Haven Senior Assistant Director of Recruitment Operations, formerly at Lewis & Clark and Wheaton) and Elizabeth Smith (Reach Out and Read Wisconsin Marketing Communications Manager, formerly at Gonzaga, Oklahoma and UW Oshkosh). Since his arrival at H-SC, two former assistants have moved onward and forward, including Thomas Wehner (Norfolk State, Roanoke, Maryland Eastern Shore, Washington U-St. Louis) and Chris Sawyer (Greensboro, Regent).
Prouty began his career as an Assistant Sports Information Director at Longwood (1991-95) before serving two years as the Sports Information Director at fellow ODAC member Lynchburg College (1995-97). He is a member of the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) and the Virginia Sports Information Directors (VaSID), and has served previous stints with CoSIDA’s charity, ethics, publications contest, and publications awards publicity committees.
A native of Norwich, Ohio, Prouty is a 1988 graduate of Eastern Kentucky University in Richmond, Kentucky, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in public relations with an option in sports information. He completed a one-year internship with Kenny Rice (NBC Thoroughbred Horse Racing Reporter since 1999) at ABC affiliate WTVQ-TV in Lexington, Ky., and then worked with the Indianapolis Colts during the 1989 NFL season as a public relations intern.
Greg and his wife Paula, a 1985 Longwood graduate, have a daughter, Megan, who is a 2018 graduate of Virginia Tech.
