Paul Capobianco is in his 20th year with the Wisconsin Athletic Communications office and 13th as assistant athletic communications director.
Now in his 16th season as the athletic communications contact for men’s ice hockey, Capobianco is also in his 17th year serving as the contact for men’s rowing and women’s openweight and lightweight rowing.
The teams handled by Capobianco have enjoyed great success with the men’s hockey program winning the 2006 NCAA championship and the 2010 squad reaching the NCAA title game. Wisconsin has produced seven Hobey Baker Award finalists during that time, including the 2010 winner, the first in Wisconsin history. The women’s lightweight rowing team captured five national titles, while the men’s rowing program boasts one national title during that time, as well.
Capobianco worked with the Salt Lake Organizing Committee, serving as mixed zone supervisor at Peaks Ice Arena for the 2002 Olympic Winter Games ice hockey.
Before Wisconsin, Capobianco served as a graduate assistant sports information director at Minnesota State from 1997–99. While in Mankato, he spent a season as the primary contact for football, men’s and women’s basketball, women’s soccer and two years as the men’s and women’s golf, men’s and women’s track and field and men’s and women’s cross country contact. He began his athletic communications career at Stony Brook (N.Y.) University during football and basketball game days.
In addition, Capobianco served as the host media coordinator for the 2016 NCAA Frozen Four in Tampa, Florida, and boasts media relations experience at the 2002 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, the 2002 NCAA Men’s Frozen Four, the 2001 NCAA Women’s Frozen Four and the 1999 NFC Championship Game.
The Selden, New York, native graduated from the University of Notre Dame with a bachelor’s degree in biology in 1996. While at Notre Dame, he was a member of the Fighting Irish’s 1994 NCAA champion fencing team, earning three letters with the squad.
Capobianco, his wife, Laurie, and their children, Rose, Colin and Lily, reside in Madison.
