Peter Dindinger enters his third season as Sports Information Director at his alma mater since being hired on Aug. 1, 2022.
Dindinger is a 2013 graduate of Sul Ross State where he majored in kinesiology.
He has handled every aspect of sports media at SRSU from writing recaps and feature stories, stats inputting, photography, videography, graphic design, website management, social media management, livestream management, occasional solo play-by-play for baseball and softball, and occasional public address announcing for soccer.
Dindinger helped the SRSU men's basketball program garner national attention when head coach Xavier Webb was coined "the new king of college basketball" by Barstool Sports after an innocent tweet went viral.
For two years and seven months, he was the sports information assistant at New Mexico Military Institute in Roswell, where he helped cover 23 teams at the high school and junior college levels.
While at NMMI, he helped cover the first-ever NJCAA Division I football national title captured by the Broncos. It marked the first time that a New Mexico college won a national title, regardless of level.
He also covered the Bronco volleyball program's run at the NJCAA Division I national tournament in Hutchinson, Kan., where NMMI finished as the national runner-up after losing to Iowa Western in the national title match.
Dindinger assisted with writing feature stories and game recaps, photography, graphic design, video production, website maintenance while also managing various social media platforms and keeping stats during football season.
Prior to NMMI, he spent five years in the newspaper industry as a sportswriter.
Dindinger worked for the Alamogordo Daily News in Alamogordo, New Mexico for four years, covering four high schools in Otero County and a former independent baseball team, the White Sands Pupfish of the Pecos League.
He obtained four New Mexico Press Association awards for his work in sportswriting and sports photography.
He later moved up to the Odessa American in Odessa, Texas, where he spent one year covering 19 schools as the area beat writer during football season along with the Double-A affiliate to the Oakland Athletics — the Midland RockHounds, the former National Premier Soccer League club — Midland-Odessa Sockers FC, golf, rodeo, Odessa College, UT Permian Basin and a variety of prep sports.
He also was a freelance sportswriter for the Midland (Texas) Reporter-Telegram, Las Cruces (N.M.) Sun-News and Hobbs (N.M.) News-Sun.
As a student at Sul Ross State, he was a member of the Skyline Newspaper for three years, working as a photographer, sports columnist and sportswriter where he won 21 Texas Intercollegiate Press Association awards for his work in photojournalism making him one of the most decorated student journalist in the Skyline's history.
Dindinger also helped assist the Skyline staff with the production of the "Skyline Video News Report," which was a full news and sports segment highlighting weekly campus news at SRSU.
He had previously served as the equipment manager for the Lobo baseball team under former head coach Bobby Mesker in spring 2009.
Dindinger is a native of El Paso, Texas where he graduated from Coronado High School in 2008 after lettering in baseball. He is a member of CoSIDA.
He also assisted the Alpine Cowboys in the summer of 2024, an independent baseball team competing in the Pecos League, by keeping stats early in the season through Pointstreak.
