University of Rhode Island

Mark Kwolek has worked in the Athletic Media Relations Office since graduating from the University of Rhode Island in 2002. He started as the Assistant Director of Sports Communications and was promoted to Sports Communications Director in March of 2004.

Kwolek is the editor of the athletic department's official website, www.GoRhody.com, works with the day-to-day publicity of the University's varsity sports, and serves as the computer statistician at URI home athletic events.

The North Kingstown, R.I. native was a journalism major who worked in the Athletic Media Relations Office while a student at URI, serving as the computer statistician beginning in his sophomore year. While attending URI, Kwolek interned and worked as freelance writer for the Boston Globe, along with working as a part-time sports writer at the Newport Daily News and Westerly Sun.

He has run the Andrew R. Hoban Memorial Golf Tournament the past two years, raising over $40,000 for a scholarship fund in honor of his friend who passed away in the Station Nightclub Fire in February of 2002.

Kwolek was an assistant varsity basketball coach at North Kingstown High School for two years, helping the team to the Division IA state finals in 2002-03 and the quarterfinals in 2001-02. He was head coach of the NKHS junior varsity baseball team that reached the state finals in 2003.

He was an assistant coach for the Slocum Baseball Club in the summer of the 2004, helping the team of 14-18 year olds win the the Rhode Island Connie Mack state title and take first-place in the Southeastern New England Regional, earning a berth to the Atlantic Regionals in Albany, N.Y. This summer he is the head coach of the SBC.

A resident of Newport, R.I., Kwolek served as the official computer statistician for First and Second Round games of the 2005 NCAA Men's Basketball Championship in Worcester, Mass.

Kwolek has also been the computer statistician for Providence College for the past five years, but has never changed allegiances from the team he grew up watching in Keaney Gymnasium as a child. He went to his first URI basketball game when he was less than a year old with his father Fred, also a URI grad, and has only missed a handful of Rhody men's basketball home games since the mid 1980's.