Bio

Wade Steinlage is in his 21st year as Assistant Athletic Director for Communications.

Steinlage came to William Penn from Angelo State University in San Angelo, Texas, where he spent one year as an intern in the sports information office. At Angelo State, he was the primary contact for women's soccer, volleyball, men's basketball, and softball.

Steinlage serves as the primary media contact for all Statesmen athletic programs. His responsibilities include producing media guides and game programs, doing statistical work at all home contests, serving the media and working with other SID offices, managing content on the athletics web site (www.statesmenathletics.com), writing previews and recaps of events, and other duties as assigned.  He also manages the content on all of the social media channels, headlined by @WPUAthletics on Twitter.  He has headed four website redesigns.

Steinlage was responsible for implementing video webstreaming prior to the fall of 2011; he has also served as the play-by-play personality for several sports.  In the spring of 2014, he also began State of the Statesmen (now The Pick Six)--a video series featuring interviews of student-athletes and coaches.

He was selected as Conference SID of the Year for the Midwest Collegiate Conference in 2014-2015 and for the Heart of America Athletic Conference in 2018-2019.  The school's former NAIA Champions of Character Liaison, Steinlage also represented the Athletics Department on Staff Council for numerous years.

Outside of William Penn, Steinlage was the national chair of the CoSIDA Fred Stabley Sr. Writing Contest from 2011-2018.  He also worked as the MCC SID from August 2012 until the league's closure in June 2015.

Steinlage was introduced to the Sports Information world as a student worker at Central College in Pella from 2001-2003. Prior to that experience, he was a sports writer for the Oskaloosa Herald and Pella Chronicle newspapers in 2001. He also interned for the West Ealing Newspaper Group in London.

Steinlage received his bachelor's degree in Communication and Sociology from Central College in May of 2003.

He resides in Oskaloosa with his wife Jodi, a 2006 graduate of William Penn, and their two children Whitney and Wyatt.