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Staff Directory

Matt Turk

Title:
Associate Athletic Communications Director
Women's Volleyball, Cross Country, Track & Field, Baseball
Email:
Phone:
985-1409

Matt Turk joined the Athletics Communications team at Long Beach State in October of 2023. Turk came to Long Beach State from CSUN where he served as the sports information contact for men’s soccer, women’s basketball, softball, men’s and women’s track and field, and men’s and women’s cross country. Turk promoted the 2018 Big West Conference Women’s Basketball Tournament champions in his stint at Northridge. In addition, he was the contact for CSUN men’s soccer players Danny Trejo and Giovanni Aguilar, selected in the MLS SuperDraft. Turk arrived in Northridge from CSU Bakersfield, where he served as the assistant sports information and sports information director for the Roadrunners from November 2010 to July 2017. While at CSUB, Turk was the primary contact for the Roadrunner men’s soccer, volleyball, women’s basketball, wrestling, baseball, beach volleyball, and water polo teams. In addition, Turk worked with 14 ‘Runner baseball players taken in the Major League Baseball Draft. He was the media liaison for CSUB’s Gyasi Zardes, who signed a homegrown contract in 2012 with the Los Angeles Galaxy of Major League Soccer. In addition, he served as the media liaison for Kory Kindle, who was taken in the 2013 MLS SuperDraft by the Colorado Rapids. Turk came to Bakersfield after serving as an associate sports information director at Marshall University in West Virginia. During his 16-month stint in Huntington, Turk was the men’s basketball and golf contact. In addition, he worked with the Thundering Herd’s Hassan Whiteside, a 2010 second-round NBA draft selection by the Sacramento Kings. A total of five players from the 2009-10 Marshall men’s basketball team would sign professional contracts upon graduating from the program. From 1997 to 2009, Turk was the sports information director at Simpson College in Indianola, Iowa. The only full-time person at a school that featured 18 varsity sports, Turk’s staff hosted over a dozen NCAA Division III regional tournaments. Turk led two PR campaigns that resulted in National Player of the Year Honors (1999 Honda Award for Kelly Schade in softball/2001 Hodge Trophy for Nick Ackerman in wrestling). Ackerman’s PR campaign resulted in an appearance on NBC’s Today Show in May of 2001. In addition, Turk’s efforts for the Simpson women’s basketball team garnered state-wide TV, radio, and print coverage for a team with the best winning percentage in Iowa from 1997 to 2009. Turk began his sports information career as a graduate assistant at North Dakota State from 1995 to 97, serving as tournament host for the 1997 NCAA Division II national wrestling tournament. In addition, Turk was the press officer for the 2015 USA Baseball 17U National Team Development Program. Matt and his wife Sara, a former All-American softball player at Simpson College and All-Conference selection at Arizona State, daughter, Ziva, and son Zachary, live in Long Beach, Calif.