Charlie Taylor will serve as the women’s basketball primary media contact in his role as Assistant Athletics Director for Communications.

Taylor serves in his 11th year at Georgia State and works with all 18 teams to provide publicity services.

A former NFL P.R. director, he worked with the Washington Redskins and Atlanta Falcons. He currently is employed by the NFL as an administrator on game days and works as a communicator and instant replay representative. Taylor has worked more than a dozen Super Bowls and Pro Bowls on the staffs in the NFL.

He has been working with the Atlanta sports media for 23 years in his roles with the Falcons and Panthers. Taylor has worked a pair of NCAA men’s Final Fours and a pair of NCAA men’s regional basketball tournaments on the staffs at the Georgia Dome.

Taylor was a Dean’s List student, editor of the school newspaper, Sigma Pi fraternity president and junior class president at his alma mater, Fairmont (W.Va.) State University. He worked two years as Sports Information Director there in a program that won the NAIA national football championship and advanced to the title game of the national basketball championship.

He is a second generation Navy veteran. Taylor and his wife of 29 years, Lynn, have a daughter, Lauren. Charlie and Lynn reside in Johns Creek, Ga.