Steve Ditolla
Senior Associate Athletics Director-California State University, Fullerton
"Sports Information Director Duties"
Hosted by Professor Henry Puente
5:30PM-6:15PM
LH 303
Steve DiTolla returned for his second tenure in the Cal State Fullerton Athletics Department on July 16, 2001. DiTolla currently serves as the senior associate athletics director and is second in charge within the department.
He is a member of the Senior Management Team and provides administrative and strategic leadership for the department. DiTolla directs and oversees marketing and brand management. He provides oversight of the marketing department including event marketing, promotions, and fan experience. He also oversees sports media, digital media, tickets, sports medicine, facilities and event operations. His duties include the administration and supervision of three Titan sport programs – baseball and men's and women's basketball.
The 1979 graduate of the University of Arizona and former Wildcats’ baseball player began his professional career as assistant ticket manager with the Denver Nuggets of the NBA. He then spent almost six years as athletics accountant and director of promotions and marketing at the University of Colorado.
DiTolla first served the CSF campus from 1985 to 1992 as associate athletics director/business affairs. He also had a short term as interim athletics director in 1991, hiring back Head Coach Augie Garrido and then Associate Head Coach George Horton to the Titan baseball program.
In 1993, he left intercollegiate athletics to become vice president of Jammin sports apparel in Anaheim for eight years.
DiTolla has been coaching high school football since 2003. He was a coach for the 2006 and 2007 CIF Champion El Dorado High School Football teams, and he currently assists at Yorba Linda High School, working with the defensive backs at the varsity level.
The Denver native and his wife, Gail, live in Placentia. He has two sons, Justin and Brandon, and three stepsons, Kyle, Brandon, and Chad. They are also the proud grandparents of Scotlyn, Piper, Zakary, and Hannah.