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Bill Gorman, Associate Director of Athletics at Wentworth Institute of Technology, has been named the ECAC-SIDA's 2014 College Division Irving T. Marsh Award recipient. The award is presented annually to one who has exhibited excellence in the field of sports information. It was first presented in 1966 and is named after Irving Marsh, the ECAC Service Bureau founder and director until his retirement in 1973.

"I am both humbled and honored to be receiving the Irving T. Marsh Award and would like to thank the members of the ECAC-SIDA Executive Board for selecting me," Gorman said. "As I review the list of previous recipients it is clear there are many legends in the sports information field who have received this award and I am lucky to call many of them friends. To have my name listed with theirs is truly one of the highlights of my professional career."

A 22-year veteran of the sports information profession, Gorman was named Wentworth's first full-time SID in October, 1995, and was promoted to his current position of Associate Director of Athletics for Athletic Communications in July, 2002. He is responsible for publicizing and promoting Wentworth's 16 varsity sports and the student-athletes who compete on them. As an Associate AD, he is a valued member of the department's senior management team and handles such administrative duties as scheduling of intercollegiate events and athletic facilities, NCAA Compliance and overseeing the department's financial operations.
 
Since his arrival at Wentworth, Gorman has promoted numerous Academic All-District candidates, including the school's first two two-time Academic All-America honorees. He has also promoted a plethora of all-conference and All-New England performers as well as the school's first three All-America honorees. From 1998-2007 he served as a publicist for The Commonwealth Coast Conference, compiling weekly reports in baseball and softball, and since 2009 he has served as the chair of the CCC Sports Information Directors and a liaison to the conference office.
 
In 2010 he helped advance the department technologically when wentworthathletics.com was launched after Gorman was instrumental in the design and creation of pages, having carried them over from the department's original website. Three years later he again worked with PrestoSports to undergo a more modern re-design. He has also worked to bring the streaming of all home events under one company.
 
He came to Wentworth after serving as the Assistant Sports Information Director at the University of Massachusetts Lowell from 1994-95. While working under former UML (and current Southern Maine) SID B.L. Elfring, who was the 2002 College Marsh Award recipient, Gorman was the primary contact for the River Hawks' women's volleyball, men's and women's basketball and softball teams. He served as the media coordinator for the 1995 New England Collegiate Conference Women's Basketball Tournament, as well a 1995 NCAA Division II first round women's basketball game and was the assistant media coordinator for the 1995 NCAA Division II Northeast Baseball Regional. While at UML, the 1994-95 men's basketball guide took second in the district in the annual CoSIDA Publications Contest.
 
A 1994 graduate of Stonehill College with a Bachelor of Arts in Communication, Gorman served as the Associate Director of Sports Information during his final three and a half years as an undergraduate, under the late Bob Richards. He was the primary contact for the Chieftains' football, men's and women's basketball, baseball and softball teams and was the media liaison for the women's basketball team that advanced to the Division II Elite Eight in 1994.
 
During the past 20 years, Gorman has been on the media relations staff at numerous NCAA tournaments, including four NCAA Division I Frozen Fours. He also served as the media coordinator for the 2001 and 2002 NCAA Division III New England Baseball Regional. In 1995, he was on the media relations staff at the Special Olympics World Games and was an assistant boys' basketball coach during the 1994 and 1995 Bay State Games.
 
Gorman has been active in ECAC-SIDA since joining the organization in 1992. In addition to serving as both a panelist and a table topic moderator, he served a two-year stint on the membership committee (1997-99) and was a member of the local organizing committee during the 2000 and 2005 workshops, which were both held on Cape Cod. In 2001 he was named to the organization's executive board and served as its president during the 2008-09 school year, presiding over the 2009 Workshop in Avalon, N.J.
 
Over the last dozen years he has served on four different ECAC Tournament selection committees and was a member of the NCAA Men's and Women's Ice Hockey Rules Committee from 2009-12. In September, he will begin a four-year appointment to the NCAA Division III Men's Golf Committee. Gorman also has a vote in both the D3hockey.com Men's Top 15 and the D3baseball.com Top 25 weekly polls.
 
A native of Winthrop, Mass., Gorman graduated from Winthrop High School in 1990. In addition to his work in intercollegiate athletics, he has served on the sports staff for the Brockton Enterprise and the Winthrop Transcript, as well as serving as Associate Sports Editor for Stonehill's student newspaper, The Summit, from 1992-94. During that time, the paper received an award citing excellence in its sports section. In 2004 he helped to establish the William P. Gorman, Jr., Memorial Scholarship Fund, which was formed to honor his late father, who served the Town of Winthrop as an educator, leader, and mentor for nearly 35 years before succumbing to cancer in early 2004. Each year at Winthrop High School's graduation, two awards from this fund are given to graduates who have chosen to enter the field of education.
 
Gorman resides in Winthrop, Mass., with his wife, Jennifer, and daughters Hannah Katharine and Ella Grace.

After honoring one person from 1966 through 1990, the Irving T. Marsh Service Bureau Award was expanded to its present format in 1991, in which one recipient from the University Division (Division I or II) and one recipient from the College Division (Division III, NAIA or Junior College) are recognized annually. The awards are presented at the ECAC-SIDA Awards Banquet, which will be held this year on June 26 at the Hilton Garden Inn (http://troy.HGI.com) in Troy, N.Y. 

Among the past College Division Marsh Award winners are Joseph Kamin of Bowdoin College (1970), Johnny Nelson of Alfred University (1984), Bob Kenworthy of Gettysburg College (1991), Sheila Stevenson of Rowan University (1999) and Ernie Larossa of Johns Hopkins University (2012). A complete list of Irving T. Marsh Award winners is available at www.ecacsida.org/marsh.

Established in 1955, the Eastern College Athletic Conference-Sports Information Directors Association provides support for the sports information directors of the many schools affiliated with the ECAC. Membership is open to all sports information directors, conference information directors, public relations directors, athletic communicators and corporations that have a vested interest in the welfare of the organization. ECAC-SIDA is one of the nation's largest sports information director associations, with member colleges and universities ranging from Maine to North Carolina in Divisions I, II and III as well as NAIA schools and junior colleges.