Adjunct Faculty
Joe Guistina, sports information director and associate director of athletics, joined Lycoming College in June 2010. He previously served for three years as an assistant media relations director at the University of South Carolina Upstate in Spartanburg.
At USC Upstate, Guistina was responsible for the public relations efforts for baseball, women's basketball, men's and women's tennis and volleyball. He also was heard on ASun.TV soccer and softball broadcasts and women's basketball audio streaming broadcasts. In 2007-08, Guistina won two CoSIDA Fred Stabley Sr. Writing Contest awards, including a Best In District honor for his feature on cross country runner Emily Tangwar, "Running on Fear."
Guistina came to USC Upstate from Michigan State University, where he served as an intern during the 2006-07 academic year. At MSU, he handled all public relations efforts for the perennial top 25 women's basketball program, the Big Ten champion women's golf program and the women's soccer team. He also served as a game-day media relations assistant for the national champion ice hockey program, as well as for the men's basketball and football programs.
Before MSU, Guistina spent two years as a graduate assistant at the University at Buffalo, where he earned a master of arts in informatics in 2006. He worked with the women's soccer, wrestling and baseball programs.
As a student at Susquehanna University in Selinsgrove, Pa., Guistina was a three-year letterwinner as a pitcher on the Crusaders' baseball team. He also worked in the school's Sports Information Office for four years and was an editor on the school's newspaper staff for three years, serving as the sports editor as a junior. He earned a bachelor's degree in journalism in 2004.