Angela Baumann
 MASCAC Commissioner

Angela Baumann was appointed as the first full-time MASCAC Commissioner in August 2006.

Baumann led the conference to create the first, second and third comprehensive strategic plan.  The strategic plan identified goals and annually tracks progress to achieving those goals in championships, integration, officiating, sport sponsorship, policies, SWA, risk management, health and well-being, SAAC, NCAA grant, awards, compliance, staffing and FAR. This has helped define the membership’s goals and lead the NCAA’s oldest men’s and women’s playing conference to new heights while ensuring a stable future. She also worked tirelessly on policies and created a championship manual to organize and standardize MASCAC Championship protocols.

Commissioner Baumann expanded sport sponsorship with the addition of six intercollegiate sports.  These sports include football, men’s ice hockey, field hockey, women’s lacrosse, women’s ice hockey and a men's golf championship.  The MASCAC, a NCAA Division III Conference, currently sponsors 18 championship sports programs and is the nation’s oldest Division III men’s and women’s playing conference. 

Commissioner Baumann has worked to grow the conference membership.  She has negotiated conference membership growth by adding affiliates in football, men’s and women’s ice hockey and men’s golf.  In addition, she has been successful in adding a core member to continue to stabilize and grow the conference for the future in a fluid national conference membership environment.

Following her appointment, Baumann developed a conference-wide licensing program to protect, profit, and promote the conference and member institutional brands. During her tenure, the program has generated over $1.6 million dollars and counting. She envisioned championship stores, as well as a one of a kind promotional programs called MASCAC Merch Mania and #MASSketball to grow membership licensing. Calling upon her previous fundraising experiences, she has brought in tens of thousands of dollars of sponsorship to the MASCAC over the years.

Seeing the vision and value of webcasting in 2006, Baumann worked with the membership’s leadership to get all members webcasting athletic events within months of her hiring.  She procured grant funds to invest and grow the quality of the broadcasts. Over the years, she created a best practice for broadcasting and spearheaded the creation of a broadcaster training video to continue to improve the broadcast quality.

Commissioner Baumann was most proud when the MASCAC took a leadership role in student-athlete welfare by adopting a conference wide healthcare app that will provide support to both the student-athletes and staff of the membership. 

Baumann has been an active and consistent participant on numerous national committees during her career.  Some of her committee service includes the NCAA Strategic Planning and Finance Committee,  NCAA Nominating Committee as Chair, NCAA Student-Athlete Reinstatement Committee, NCAA Convention Planning Committee, Division III Commissioners Association Strategic Initiative Grant Committee, Division III Commissioner Association Diversity, Equity and inclusion Committee, NACMA Membership Committee, NACWAA Marketing Committee Member and as Chair, ECAC Convention Committee, NCAA Men’s and Women’s Skiing Committee, ECAC Championships Committee and the ECAC Softball Selection Committee and NCAA Men’s Golf Committee.

Prior to her current position, Baumann was at Montana State University serving in varying capacities and consistently promoted for outperforming.  Initially, she was hired as the Director of Marketing and Special Events at Montana State University in December of 1996.  In March of 1999, she was promoted to Assistant Athletic Director then to Associate Athletic Director.  She oversaw many different aspects of the Bobcat Athletic Department during her tenure in Bozeman including corporate relations, special events, marketing, promotions and ticket operations.  While at Montana State University, she was the recipient of three gold, three silver and one bronze National Association of Collegiate Marketing Association (NACMA) awards. 

Prior to Montana State University, Baumann spent over two years at East Carolina University where she served as the Marketing Coordinator and then was promoted to the Interim Director of Marketing for the Recreational Services Department.  She also received the East Carolina University Collaboration Award for her work on campus.

Earlier in her career, Baumann coached men’s and women’s volleyball.  She led a team to the Ohio Valley Region Junior Olympic Volleyball Championship and was named instructor of the quarter numerous times at The Ohio State University. She also coached boys high school volleyball and men’s club volleyball at the collegiate level. She currently coaches her boys’ soccer teams.

Baumann returns to her Division III roots where she was a standout volleyball player at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. She was a captain, four-year starter at setter and was named to the WIAC Scholastic Honor Roll. She received her bachelor of science degree in Physical Education-Sport Management with a minor in business administration and a concentration in coaching competitive athletics before earning her master's degree in Sport Management from The Ohio State University.  Baumann is also a graduate of NACWAA Higher Education Resources Services, Mid-American and the NCAA/NACWAA Leadership Enhancement Institute.

  Emily Loux

  MASCAC Assistant Commissioner

Emily Loux was appointed the first ever full-time MASCAC Director of Media Relations in 2013 and elevated to Assistant Commissioner in 2022. As the Assistant Commissioner, Loux serves as the main media relations contact for the MASCAC with the main purpose of enhancing the conference brand through social media, website maintenance and media relationships. Handle the social media presence for the conference, including Facebook, X/Twitter, Instagram and YouTube. Corresponds with the sports information directors of schools in the conference to keep up-to-date with the institutions as well as members from the NCAA who need information related to the conference. Manages the awards program for the conference which includes weekly and postseason accolades while coordinating the budget for the program. She also serves as the conference representative to the MASCAC Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC). Alongside Commissioner Baumann, Loux creates schedules, manages meetings, leads several committee calls, including the awards committee, sports information directors, DEI committee and SAAC. 

She served as a member of the NCAA Technology Users Group as chair, the NCAA Division III Strategic Alliance Matching Grant as chair, D3SIDA Conference Liaison and a College Sport Communicators (CSC) Academic All-America District Coordinator.

Prior to her current position, Loux was the Sports Information Director for Spelman College out of Atlanta where she was in charge of the athletic communications department, including managing the website, statistics for all sports, taking photos and video, managing student workers and directly with the Spelman Athletic Director. She also worked as the Director of Sports Information for the Great South Athletic Conference and as a graduate assistant at Kennesaw State University. 

Loux graduated with her Master of Science degree in Sports Administration from Georgia State University in 2012. She obtained her Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism from Indiana University-Purdue Univ. Indianapolis in 2009. While at IUPUI, Loux was a member of the Indiana University student news bureau that covered the 2010 Final Four in Indianapolis. She also interned with the WNBA's Indiana Fever and the Pittsburgh Pirates Triple-A affiliate Indianapolis Indians. Prior to that internship, she was an intern editor for Bleacherreport.com.

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