Blair Cash, the 2008-09 recipient of the Jack Sareault Award as
the Northwest Conference's Sports Information Director of the Year,
has also been elected as the 2013-14 Jack Sareault Award winner
after completion of his 15th year as the sports information
director at George Fox University.
Cash is responsible for the publicity for the Bruins' 15 varsity
sports (soon to be 17), with oversight of all aspects of coverage
for the teams, including game day preparations, statistics, press
releases, and records. He contributes to all Bruin publicity pieces
and game programs, and maintains the George Fox sports web site. He
also serves on the Sports Hall of Fame Selection Committee as a
permanent member of the Executive Committee.
An active member of the College Sports Information Directors of
America, Cash has organized the chapel service at the annual CoSIDA
Convention and served on the CoSIDA Ethics Committee since 2000. He
also is in his second year on the Program Committee for the CoSIDA
Convention, and served as a panelist for two programs at the 2013
Convention in Orlando, Fla. He holds professional memberships in
the United States Basketball Writers Association and the National
Collegiate Baseball Writers Association. For the last nine years,
he has coordinated voting for the NCAA Division III Baseball
National Hitter and Pitcher of the Week on behalf of the NCBWA.
Cash got his start in the sports information field in 1972 while
an undergraduate at Belhaven College (now Belhaven University) in
his home town of Jackson, Miss., handling the school's sports
publicity for four years as a student and one year (1976-77)
full-time upon graduation. He was inducted into the Belhaven Sports
Hall of Fame in 2008.
Cash also directed sports information offices at the University
of Montevallo (1977-82) and the University of South Alabama
(1982-83). He entered seminary and the Christian ministry in 1983,
but kept his hand in athletics as a sports information volunteer at
the University of Texas-Pan American (1989-94). He returned to
sports information full-time in 1998 with a short stint as an
assistant SID at Southwest Texas State University (now Texas State
University-San Marcos) and six months as SID at Samford University
in the spring of 1999.
In his career, Cash has worked as information director for the
NAIA's District 27, the Southern States Conference, and the
Mississippi Soccer Association, and as a part-time sportswriter for
daily newspapers in Jackson and Natchez, Miss. He has been an
official scorer for minor league baseball teams in Jackson, Miss.,
Birmingham, Ala., Portland and Salem-Keizer, Ore., and now scores
games for the Hillsboro (Ore.) Hops in the Northwest League. He has
also served as the official scorer for the Oregon state high school
softball championship games for the past four years.
Cash, 60, earned a Christian education degree from Belhaven in
1976, and master's degrees in divinity and Christian education from
Reformed Theological Seminary in Jackson, Miss., in 1987. An
ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), he has pastored
churches in Edinburg, Texas, and Natchez, Miss., and is now a
minister-at-large and pulpit supply for the Presbytery of the
Cascades. He is also in his third year as an adjunct professor in
the Religious Studies department at George Fox, teaching a Bible
Survey course for first-year students.
Cash and his wife Debbie, an accountant at George Fox, live in
Newberg and have two children: son Milton, 21, a student at
Portland Community College, and daughter Megan, 19, a student at
Belhaven. The Cashes attend Grace Baptist Church in Newberg.