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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.