DAYTON - College Sports Communicators concludes its week-long announcements of the 2026 Special Award recipients by honoring 16 former and current members with Lifetime Achievement Award honors and 25 with 25-Year Awards for a quarter century of full-time service (or more) in the college sports communications profession. With this year's honorees, CSC will have honored 269 all-time Lifetime Achievement Award winners and 566 honorees who spent at least 25 years in the profession.
 
The CSC Lifetime Achievement Awards are presented to members for distinguished career service who have served at least 25 years in the profession and who are retiring, have retired, or are leaving the athletic communications profession.
 
Receiving their Lifetime Achievement Awards this year are:
J.D. Campbell - Indiana (retired)
Alan Cannon - Texas A&M (retired)
Jim Daves - Virginia (retired)
Jerry Emig - Ohio State (retired)
Scott Guise - York (posthumous honor)
Doug Hauschild - Dayton (retired)
Ken Johnson, Jr. - MIT (posthumous honor)
Ann King - Sage (posthumous honor)
Chad Moller - Missouri (retired)
Bob Molta - Eastern Connecticut State (retired)
Marc Ryan - Minnesota (retired)
Bob Shreve - Gannon (retired)
Ray Simmons - Southern Indiana (retired)
Mike Stamus - Georgia Tech (retired)
Chuck Sullivan - American Conference (posthumous honor)
Chris Wenzler - John Carroll (posthumous honor)
 
All of the 2026 CSC special award winners will be honored at CSC's 69th annual convention, #CSCUnite26, from June 7-10 at Mandalay Bay Resort in Las Vegas, Nevada. The convention is held in conjunction with NACDA and Affiliates Convention Week.
 
CSC Lifetime Achievement Award
Presented to individuals who have served at least 25 years in the athletics communications profession (as of July 2025) who are retiring or leaving the profession. Years of service vetted by the Special Awards Committee. Members may self-nominate for this award.
 
Doug Hauschild, Special Projects/Historian
University of Dayton
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Although he is retired, Doug Hauschild continues to serve the University of Dayton as athletics historian, and works with special projects.

The Lifetime Achievement Award is the fifth major award that Hauschild has received from CSC, picking up a 25-Year Award in 2008, the Bob Kenworthy Community Service Award in 2009, CSC Hall of Fame membership in 2020 and the Lester Jordan Award for his outstanding service to the Academic All-America® program in 2021.

Hauschild truly made his mark as a gameday host. He served as the Media Coordinator for 103 NCAA Men's and Women's Basketball Tournament games at UD Arena since taking over as SID in 1982. Hauschild was part of a tournament hosting team at Dayton that made NCAA men's basketball history in March 2001 by hosting 10 postseason games in eight days at UD Arena, a feat never-before done in college basketball. Other venues have hosted NCAA and NIT in the same year, but no venue or school had ever done so simultaneously. UD was host to nine NCAA teams between the Opening, First and Second Rounds as well as games of the National Invitational Tournament.

Hauschild was also the head coach for fast-pitch softball at the University of Dayton from 1981 to 1983 and still holds the school record for career winning percentage.

Prior to his time at Dayton, he worked as Publicity Assistant for the Cincinnati Reds (1980-81).