Paul Novelli
Paul Novelli
Title: Sports Information Director
City: Pittsburgh, PA
Phone: 412-536-1041
Email: paul.novelli@laroche.edu
Previous College: University of Pittsburgh

Paul Novelli became the Sports Information Director for La Roche University in August 2019.

As Sports Information Director, Novelli is in charge of the athletics website, social media channels, statistics, press releases, rosters, live video, game programs, website articles, and other various duties within the athletic department. He also works with scheduling work study students for events and coordinating office hours with his students. 

Novelli graduated from Chartiers Valley High School in the South Hills of Pittsburgh, where he swam for four years on the varsity swim team (serving as captain of the men's team three of those years), played varsity tennis for two years and was a member of the Showband. In his swim career, Novelli received 6 WPIAL medals (including 1 gold in the 200 freestyle relay) and two fourth place PIAA medals in the 200 and 400 freestyle relays.

After high-school, he attended the University of Pittsburgh where he graduated in 3.5 years with bachelor degrees in Film/Media and Communications. Novelli also interned and worked for Pitt Athletics with Panthervision (television production) for two years. In that department, Novelli worked on live sports broadcasts for the ACC Network Extra (an associate of ESPN) as a graphics operator, assistant producer and producer for all of Pitt's Olympic sports. 

Novelli is a native of Pittsburgh and currently resides in the Southside of Pittsburgh.