Tyler Woolbright (C '16) has been the Sports Information Director at North Park since November 2017 and he was promoted to Assistant Director of Athletics - Sports Information / Gameday Management in the summer of 2022. The 2025-26 school year is his ninth with NPU Athletics.
As the head of sports information and game day management, Woolbright oversees the coverage of all intercollegiate sports affiliated with North Park University. The sports information department is responsible for the production and dissemination of statistics, game day programs, rosters, player/coach bios, website design, sports photography, broadcast production, gameday crew, and pre/post-game press releases. Woolbright also acts at the primary designer for NPU Athletics, pioneering the design of Athletics branding projects and facility improvements.
In the spring of 2021, Woolbright added multi-camera broadcasting capabilities for any North Park Athletics live streams while establishing the new channel known as "The Viking Sports Network" (VSN). NPU broadcasts now have multiple camera angles, color commentary, and live, post-game interviews with student-athletes and coaches. These streaming improvements have increased the traffic of online viewership for NPU fans and beyond, as live streaming views have skyrocketed from, on average, 330 views per session to over 1,000 unique viewers per stream.
During the 2019-20 academic year, directed by a re-branding initiative from first-year Director of Athletics, John Born, Woolbright was in charge of updating and redesigning Athletics branding throughout campus. Most notably, Woolbright designed the Chicago-based floor newly installed in the NPU Gym in the summer of 2021.
Woolbright played baseball at North Park from 2013-2017 under current head baseball coach Luke Johnson. A mainstay in the middle of the Vikings' lineup for a majority of his career, Woolbright belted nine home runs and 93 RBI as a Viking. Woolbright’s fifth year was his most prolific, as he led the team with seven home runs and 40 RBI. His 40 RBI placed him fourth overall in the CCIW for the 2017 season.
The Rockford native ranks T-22nd all-time in career doubles (28), 23rd in RBI (93), 33rd in home runs (9) and T-12th in sacrifice flies (9). He is also in the Vikings' single-season record books: 40th in at-bats (155), 26th in home runs (7), and 26th in RBI (40).
