Staff Directory

JP Nolan

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Associate Athletics Director for Marketing and Communications
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JP Nolan joins Cal Poly Athletics as Associate Athletics Director for Marketing and Communication after more than a decade in professional sports communications. Most recently serving as Assistant Director of Media Relations and Baseball Communications with the Boston Red Sox, Nolan spent eight seasons with the San Diego Padres and has worked five MLB Postseasons across three organizations.

Nolan earned his English degree at Cal Poly, where he served as a sports reporter and Sports Editor of the Mustang News and won a national College Media Association Pinnacle Award for Best Multimedia Feature Story for his profile of Cal Poly basketball player, David Nwaba, who went on to play in the NBA. He also contributed stories for the Cal Poly Athletics department and played shortstop on the Cal Poly club baseball team.

His parents were both born in San Luis Obispo, attended Cal Poly, and were married at the Old Mission. His paternal grandfather, Tom Nolan, was hired by Cal Poly President Julian McPhee in 1949 to teach English, history, and political science at the university, where he remained on the faculty for 25 years. His maternal grandfather, Jack Dear, graduated from Cal Poly with a degree in mechanical engineering in 1960. His father, Conan Nolan, is a broadcast journalist for NBC4 Los Angeles and was inducted into the Cal Poly Journalism Hall of Fame in 2023.