Buzzards Bay, Mass. -- Massachusetts Maritime Academy Sports Information Director Jim Seavey has been named as the recipient of the 2009 Lester Jordan Award from the College Sports Information Directors of America that is presented annually for exemplary service to the organization's Academic All-America program and the promotion of the ideals of being a student-athlete. Seavey will receive the honor at an awards luncheon on Wednesday, June 24th during CoSIDA's annual workshop in San Antonio, Tex.
A resident of Bridgewater, Mass., Seavey is completing his 21st year in the college sports information profession and his first at Massachusetts Maritime, where he also serves as the Director of Media Relations for the Massachusetts State College Athletic Conference. Seavey served in various athletic media relations and administrative roles for a combined 17 years at Division II institutions Merrimack College, the University of Massachusetts Lowell and Stonehill College from 1990 through 2007 while serving additional one year stints at Division III Loras College and Nichols College in the late 1980's. He arrived at Massachusetts Maritime last July after serving as the Sports Information Director at Division III Suffolk University in Boston during the 2007-08 academic year.
A 1986 graduate of Marquette University, Seavey is completing his 18th year as a member of CoSIDA's Academic All-America Committee, as he served as a district coordinator from 1991 through 1995 before becoming a national coordinator until last summer when he was named as the program's Vice Chair for Marketing. Seavey has successfully promoted 17 student-athletes for national Academic All-America honors during his career, and he becomes the fourth Division III sports information director to be honored with the Lester Jordan Award, named for the longtime Southern Methodist University SID who founded the Academic All-America program in 1952.
Seavey is completing a three-year stint on CoSIDA's Board of Directors this summer, and he served as 50th President of the Eastern College Athletic Conference Sports Information Directors Association (ECAC-SIDA) during the 2004-05 academic year. He received the Scoop Hudgins Outstanding Sports Information Director Award from the All-America Football Foundation last December and was appointed to the Board of Directors of the Jack Grinold Eastern Massachusetts Chapter of the National Football Foundation last summer.
A former chair of the Northeast-10 Conference Sports Information Directors' Council, Seavey received a Citation for Excellence in Publications from CoSIDA in 1991 for his work on Merrimack's women's basketball game program. He served as the publicist for the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference during the 2006-07 academic year and has additional experience as the Media Relations Director for both the Pilgrim Lacrosse League and the New England Intercollegiate Golf Association as well as the Interim Media Relations Director of the Hockey East Association in 1994. Seavey has had 10 student-athletes featured in Sports Illustrated's prestigious "Faces In The Crowd" column since 1992, including four Stonehill student-athletes in a nine month span in 2006.
Jim and his wife, Cheryl (a former basketball standout at Stonehill), are the parents of two daughters, Mikayla (10) and Lindsey (8).