Michael MacEachern begins his first season as Young Harris College's sports information director and 25th overall.

MacEachern comes to Young Harris after serving as the sports information at SCAD Savannah in Savannah, Ga., the past 10 seasons. 

MacEachern was the recipient of the 2011 Clarence “Ike” Pearson Award, which is given annually to an outstanding NAIA Sports Information Director. With his duties with the Bees, he oversaw all publicity and media relations matters concerning the athletics department. He maintained statistics, updated records and wrote press releases for 16 intercollegiate athletic programs. He was the department’s webmaster for www.scadathletics.com, which received the NAIA's top honor in 2007-08 as the country's best website. He also served as the second vice-president on the NAIA-Sports Information Director Association Board for two years and was also the chairperson of the NAIA-SIDA Publications Contest Committee.

Prior to SCAD, he served as sports information director for five years at Lenoir-Rhyne College in Hickory, N.C. He was the sports information director for eight years at the University of South Carolina at Spartanburg (now the University of South Carolina Upstate), and served one year as assistant sports information director at The Citadel in Charleston, S.C.

The College Sports Information Directors of America and the NAIA-SIDA have recognized MacEachern’s publications 22 times. MacEachern also worked as a press steward for the baseball venue at the 1996 Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta.

The Charleston, S.C., native is a 1987 graduate of the College of Charleston, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration. While there, he served as a student assistant in the sports information office for three seasons. 

A longtime member of CoSIDA, MacEachern has served as a district or national coordinator on CoSIDA’s Capital One Academic All-America® committee since 1988. He served four seasons as the national coordinator for NCAA Division II men’s soccer statistics. He is also in his first year as a member of CoSIDA's College Division Management Advisory Committee.

MacEachern was the official scorekeeper for the Savannah Sand Gnats, the Class A minor-league affiliate of the New York Mets, for five seasons. He also was an official scorekeeper for the Hickory (N.C.) Crawdads, the Class A minor-league affiliate of the Pittsburgh Pirates, for three seasons. MacEachern has covered local sports as a newspaper stringer for both the Herald-Journal in Spartanburg, S.C., and the Hickory Daily Record.

MacEachern resides in Hiawassee, Ga., along with his eight year-old labrador retriever Roddy.