Max Rottenecker joined the La Salle Athletic Department in 2024.
Previously, Rottenecker served as Wagner College’s Associate Athletic Director for Media Relations.
Rottenecker covered Wagner’s run to the 2024 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament. After the shorthanded Seahawks became the first team ever to win three straight road games en route to a Northeast Conference (NEC) Championship and won their first-ever NCAA Tournament game, Rottenecker oversaw media efforts that included numerous national and regional media appearances. Wagner was featured on NBC4, ABC7, Pix 11, CBS2, the New York Post, Sirius XM Radio, ESPN Radio, the New York Post, NJ.com, while gaining national attention on social media.
During his time on Staten Island, Rottenecker covered four NFL players, two NFL draft picks, two Super Bowl Champions, including NEC All-Time sack leader Cam Gill, as well as back-to-back NEC Player of the Year and NBA G-League player Alex Morales.
Under Rottenecker’s leadership, Wagner’s creative work was featured multiple times by SkullSparks, a national leader in creative strategy and America’s largest network of college sports design, digital, social, video and photo staff.
A 2016 graduate of Ithaca College with a degree in Sport Media, Rottenecker served as an intern in the college’s sports information office in 2016. Rottenecker also holds an MBA with a concentration in Media Management from Wagner and teaches in Wagner’s Sports Administration department.
No stranger to the Atlantic 10, Rottenecker previously volunteered at the 2016 Atlantic 10 Men’s Basketball Tournament.
Originally from Bochum, Germany, Rottenecker’s additional working experiences include internships with FC Schalke 04 in Germany, Cornell University as well as the US Bobsled and Skeleton Federation.
As a member of Ithaca College’s football team, Rottenecker won two Empire 8 titles in 2013 and 2014 and appeared in three NCAA playoff games.
Rottenecker was named to the CoSIDA Academic All-District Team in 2015 and earned Empire 8 Second Team All-Conference honors in 2014 and 2015. His 50-yard field goal against St. John Fisher in 2014 is still tied for the longest field goal in school history.
