Nick Pietruszkiewicz ('00)
Director of Sports Communications, Quinnipiac University; Povich Advisory Board Chair
Nick Pietruszkiewicz '00 is an assistant professor of journalism and interim director of sports communications at Quinnipiac University.
Prior to his teaching role, Pietruszkiewicz spent 12 years in a variety of different roles at ESPN, guiding coverage of Major League Baseball, college basketball and golf for ESPN’s digital platforms. He served a stint in audience engagement and played a role in the early stages of the company’s social media strategy. One of his proudest accomplishments is teaching Maryland alum Tim Kurkjian how to use Twitter.
Before arriving at ESPN, he spent seven years as a reporter covering the Chicago Cubs and White Sox, college athletics and preps at the Northwest Herald in the Chicago suburbs. During his time there, he won three Associated Press Sports Editors awards for his reporting work.
He lives in West Hartford, Connecticut, with his wife, Dana, and their dog Birdie. In his wife’s one visit to the University of Maryland campus, she did not rub Testudo’s nose. The next day, a tree fell on their house. She now Fears the Turtle. He also holds a Master’s in Journalism from the University of Alabama.