Huston-Tillotson University’s athletic administration gave Alan Wiederhold a homecoming more than 14 years in the making when he was named the school’s sports information director in August 2023.
An athletic communications veteran with more than a decade of experience in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) and the NCAA’s Division I, Wiederhold’s return to Huston-Tillotson reunited him with the college that gave him his first professional (non-student) opportunity in the field in 2007.
Since returning to Huston-Tillotson, Wiederhold has enhanced numerous areas of the athletic communications office, particularly the game-day experience for student-athletes and fans. He serves as the public address announcer for most home games at Branch Gymnasium and the nearby Downs-Mabson Complex.
Wiederhold has also received two publication awards during his current stint at Huston-Tillotson. In 2025, he was honored by College Sports Communicators as the District 6 College Division Runner-Up in the organization’s Fred Stabley Sr. Writing Contest, in the category of Coach/Administrator profile.
In 2024, his HT baseball game notes package placed third in the NAIA’s publication contest in the game notes category.
A native of the Houston suburb of Deer Park, Texas, Wiederhold began his career in collegiate athletic communications by serving two years as the Director of Basketball Media Relations at Huston-Tillotson from 2007 to 2009. Since that time, he has also worked at fellow NAIA institutions Wiley College, Texas A&M–San Antonio, and Louisiana Christian.
In 2014 after two years at Wiley College, Wiederhold made the jump to the NCAA’s Division I when he was named the assistant director of athletic media relations at Prairie View A&M University. In 2016, he moved to Houston and joined the staff at Texas Southern University, serving parts of three seasons and being named the sports information director in 2019.
In June 2021, Wiederhold won his first CSC Publications award, winning the College Division’s Spring Sports Game Notes award for his A&M–San Antonio softball game notes.
Wiederhold has also served as the sports information director at NCAA Division III programs LeTourneau University (Longview, Texas) and the University of St. Thomas (Houston, Texas).
In addition to his full-time work in college athletics, Wiederhold has served as a statistics inputter and public address announcer at numerous collegiate sporting events throughout Texas and the southeastern U.S. Notable assignments include Texas A&M volleyball matches in College Station and serving as the PA announcer during College Baseball Hall-of-Famer Wayne Graham's last home series as Rice University's head coach in 2018.
During the 2017 and 2018 seasons, Wiederhold served as the official statistician for the Scrap Yard Fast Pitch professional softball team in Conroe, Texas. He was included in Scrap Yard's ring ceremony after the team won the National Pro Fastpitch Cowles Cup championship in 2017.
Before entering collegiate athletic media relations, Wiederhold was a sports editor at the Seguin Gazette and the now-defunct Llano County Journal, two community newspapers serving Texas’ Guadalupe and Llano counties, respectively.
A graduate of Texas Lutheran University, Wiederhold holds professional memberships in College Sports Communicatiors (formerly CoSIDA) and Black College Sports Information Directors (BCSIDA). In 2016, Wiederhold led a presentation on volleyball statistics at the CoSIDA convention in Dallas, Texas.
Wiederhold’s interests outside of athletics include music (playing the piano and guitar), mathematics, world history, geography and cultures, and his cat, Billye. Through involvement with Compassion International, he financially sponsors two children in Thailand and another in Togo.
