Bio

Chris Ruiz has served as Sports Information Specialist at Long Beach City College since 2001. As the college's lone "SID," Ruiz serves as the direct liaison between the college's 17 varsity sports and the media as well as the local community.

Ruiz and the Sports Information Office compile and distribute news, rosters, game results, statistics, and photos for all athletic teams. He is also responsible for updating the college's athletic website (lbccvikings.com) on a daily basis as well as its social media efforts on Facebook and Twitter.

Other duties include managing the press box and scorer's tables at various LBCC home events, submitting statistics to the conference and California Community College Athletic Association (CCCAA), creating game-day programs and other promotional materials, and coordinating the online broadcasts of LBCC home events. You can also find Ruiz filling numerous game-day positions at home contests including public address announcer, scoreboard operator, and official scorekeeper.

Since joining LBCC, Ruiz has established and greatly advanced the online presence of the athletic department. In 2003, he helped launch the Vikings' first online website. And recently in 2011, Ruiz helped partner LBCC with PrestoSports to become the first CCCAA-level college to develop its online home. This partnership led to many other California community colleges as well as the CCCAA to sign on with PrestoSports. Ruiz also launched the Vikings' Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest accounts in 2011.

Ruiz is also a member of the LBCC Foundation Athletic Associates and the Hall of Champions Executive Committee. In those organizations, Ruiz is in charge of promoting the athletic department's annual fundraising golf tournament and athletic hall of fame banquet.

Outside of LBCC, Ruiz currently serves as the Sports Information Director for the Southern California Football Association (2008-present) and California Community College Men's Volleyball Coaches Association (2010-present). With the SCFA and CCCMVCA, his duties include managing both organizations' websites, overseeing the reporting of statistics and results, and promoting its student-athletes and member colleges. Previously, Ruiz served as the SID and statistician for the Mission Football Conference (2005-08) and Big 8 Conference (2006-08).

He is a an active member of the California Community College Sports Information Association and has served as the sports information director for numerous CCCAA state championship events, including men's and women's water polo, men's volleyball, and men's and women's soccer. Ruiz has also assisted at the basketball, baseball, and softball state championships.

Ruiz has helped guide the adoption of compiling statistics in sports throughout the state to the use of Statcrew's The Automated Scorebook. In 2005 with Ruiz as a first-year SID, the Mission Football Conference became the first conference in California to require the use of Statcrew for its reporting. The CCCAA now requires the use of Statcrew for many of its sports. Ruiz also conducts state-wide Statcrew instructional clinics for the sports of football, basketball, and baseball/softball.

Ruiz is a 2000 graduate of California State University, Fresno and earned his bachelor's degree in mass communications and journalism with an emphasis in public relations. At Fresno State, Ruiz worked as a student assistant for the Bulldogs' sports information office for five years and was the lead SID for the wrestling, track and field, golf, and cross country teams.  For two years, Ruiz was fortunate to work as a student-assistant for Hall of Fame coach Jerry Tarkanian and the Fresno State men's basketball team. Also at Fresno State, Ruiz was sports editor for the Collegian newspaper and did sports broadcasts on college radio station KFSR.