Blunck joined the PacWest on August 1, 2022 as the seventh Sports Communications Director in the conference's 30-year history. He oversees all media relations for the conference's 15 sports, while managing the PacWest website and social media channels.
In the summer of 2022, Blunck was honored by CoSIDA with the Lifetime Achievement Award after over 25 years of athletic administrative service, most of which was spent at schools that are current members of the PacWest. Most recently, Blunck spent five years as the Sports Information Director at Hawai`i Hilo, where he put to use his skills as a writer, public address announcer and play-by-play commentator, while managing the school's website and social media efforts until November of 2021.
In the intervening year, Blunck worked as a free-lance writer for a handful of universities and was the play-by-play commentator for the 2022 PacWest Basketball Championships.
Blunck's initial introduction to the PacWest came in 1998 when Western Oregon joined the PacWest for a three-year period. He was the Sports Information Director overseeing broadcasting and community engagement among other things.
When Point Loma and Western Oregon were both members of the NAIA, Blunck served as the President of NAIA-SIDA for two years and was also on the NAIA Council of Presidents. He was honored in 2001 with the Ike Pearson Award as the NAIA Sports Information Director of the Year.
In 2009, he went from Western Oregon back to Point Loma, where he had previously been the Sports Information Director in the 1990's. Blunck spent four years as the Associate Athletic Director at Point Loma during its transition from a member of the Golden State Athletic Conference to the PacWest. He also spent one year at Pacific University, an NCAA Division III school in Oregon, before rejoining the PacWest at Hawai`i Hilo in 2016.
Blunck's time as a Sports Information Director goes back to the 1980s when he was a student worker and student-athlete (football, baseball) at Pacific. In 2018, he was given the 25-year award from CoSIDA. He and his wife Shelly reside in Cottonwood, Arizona, where they are the proud parents of six grown adults and seven grandchildren.