Bio

Garett Mansfield was named Director of Athletic Communications at Defiance College in October 2022.

Mansfield brings a wealth of media and communications experience to DC from working in Minor League Baseball and as a play-by-play broadcaster with local media outlets. He also serves in supplemental roles with Major League Baseball's data operations department and on the gameday communications crew for the Fort Wayne TinCaps (A-Adv., San Diego Padres).

The bulk of Garett’s sports media career prior to DC was spent in the front office of three Minor League Baseball teams with broadcasting and communications duties. He started out as the Media Relations and Broadcast Assistant for the El Paso Chihuahuas (Triple-A, San Diego Padres) and got to experience the franchise’s first Pacific Coast League championship in 2016. Mansfield moved on to the post of Media Relations and Marketing Manager with the Beloit Snappers (Single-A, Oakland Athletics) and landed in the Altoona Curve (Double-A, Pittsburgh Pirates) broadcast booth the following season. With the Curve, he was elevated to Director of Communications and Broadcasting after one season and worked with many current and former Pirates during three and half years in Central Pennsylvania. During the pandemic-shortened 2020 campaign, Mansfield assisted the Pirates' media relations staff by coordinating remote media availability for players and field staff while Altoona’s Peoples Natural Gas Field served as Pittsburgh’s alternate training site. Prior to reaching the minor leagues, Mansfield spent two seasons as a broadcaster and sports information director in the Alaska Baseball League with the Athletes in Action-sponsored Chugiak-Eagle River Chinooks.

Mansfield stepped away from full-time baseball after seven years and briefly entered the financial industry before moving from Pennsylvania back to Northwest Ohio. Between his return to the Buckeye State and starting at Defiance College, he served as a programming and promotions assistant for iHeartMedia in Defiance and was the voice of Green Meadows Conference and Defiance High School athletics on 105.7 The Bull. He has also worked as television play-by-play talent for the West Ohio Sports Network (WTLW TV-44, Lima, Ohio) since the fall of 2015 with commentary of football, basketball, soccer, baseball, softball, hockey and lacrosse.

He completed his bachelor’s degree in Telecommunications at Bowling Green State University in 2015. While at BGSU, Mansfield was heavily involved in the student-run Bowling Green Radio Sports Organization that broadcast Falcon athletics on 88.1 WBGU-FM and WFAL Falcon Radio. He served as BGRSO’s Executive Director as a senior and gained four years of experience in radio production, sports programming and board operation for the stations on campus.

Mansfield is a Defiance native and graduated from Ayersville High School in 2011. He won two varsity letters in baseball and also played basketball for the Pilots.

Garett is married to Carlina and the couple recently had their first child, a son named Walker. The Mansfields are members of Cable Road Alliance Church in Lima, and Garett is pursuing ordination with the Christian & Missionary Alliance.