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University Archives Digital Collections

Guide to using digitized University Archives Resources. Guide is co-created by Graduate Student Assistants, Casey Hughes and Sara Ludewig.

Media Guides are published by sports teams at the beginning of their season. They typically contain the season outlook and roster, as well as information about players. The Media Guides vary in the amount of information they contain but are a great place to start when looking for information on a team or athlete. All the Media Guides in the archive are digitized and can be accessed here.

Dissecting a Media Guide

Media Guides contain a lot of information and are a good resource for athletic reference of all kinds. They contain information on players, photos, stats, etc.  Below we have detailed some of the information a typical Media Guide contains, using the 1995 Field Hockey Media Guide as an example.