Clayton Messerle was named the Director of Athletic Communications for Corban University in July of 2022 and was promoted to Assistant Athletic Director in the summer of 2023. He currently serves as an at-large representative on the NAIA-SIDA Executive Board, a member of the College Sports Communicators (CSC) organization where he has moderator and served on several continuing education panels, and leads the History, Records, and Statistics Committee for NAIA-SIDA as the ranking board member. At the end of the 2023-24 school year, Messerle was named the
Cascade Collegiate Conference SID of the Year (CSC of the Year), recognizing his commitment to bettering the Corban Athletics department and achievements he's added to his resume. In the winter of 2023, he was honored by the CSC as a
30 Under 30 award recipient in the second-ever class to be announced, and in the fall of 2022 he was featured as a spotlight SID for the NAIA in the
College Sports Communicators’ “The Life” monthly publication. Messerle has been a named a finalist for the CCC CSC of the Year award in three of his four years serving the athletic department at Corban University.
Alongside the assistance of former Director of Athletics Marty Ziesemer and Assistant AD for Internal Operations Kaylee Buhrkuhl, Messerle and his team oversaw the implementation of a new online ticketing system for the C.E. Jeffers Sports Center that has primarily covered the women's volleyball, men’s and women’s basketball, and men’s wrestling programs, and is now the primary system used for the Corban University Spring Commencement ceremonies at the end of each school year. In addition to the statistical, media, and external relations work that he provides for the Warriors’ sixteen varsity sports, Messerle serves as public address announcer, play-by-play voice, and historian for the Corban University Athletic Department.
Messerle joined the Warner Pacific athletic department in the summer of 2021 as the new Sports Information Director after holding multiple athletic department positions as a student at Oregon State University and Southwestern Oregon Community College. Before transitioning to Warner Pacific, he had spent the previous three years in different marketing & team management roles with two other organizations involving dentistry and personal insurance.
As a freshman at Southwestern Oregon Community College, the Coos Bay native served as the lead statistician for the athletic department, recording and distributing home & away stats for the volleyball, basketball, soccer, baseball, and softball teams, thus beginning his love for game management and athletic administration.
Before moving to Salem in 2019, Messerle spent his previous four years just 45 minutes south in Corvallis, where he earned his Bachelor of Science in Kinesiology from Oregon State University, as well as a Minor in Business Administration. During his time there, Clayton held multiple student internships and responsibilities within the Oregon State Athletics Department, ranging from marketing, social media, graphic design, team management, and even embodying OSU's very own Benny the Beaver.
Messerle and his wife, Taylor Messerle (formerly Taylor Eilders, an alumna of Corban and was an NAIA All-American outfielder for the Warriors) reside in south Salem with their son Riley and enjoy spending time with their families, traveling the Pacific Northwest, and engaging in recreational athletics during their leisure time.
