2011-12 ECAC-SIDA Executive Board

A 1986 graduate of Marquette University, Seavey most recently oversaw all athletic public relations efforts for Suffolk University's 13-sport NCAA Division III program in Boston prior to his arrival in Buzzards Bay. He spent 17 years working at three NCAA Division II affiliated schools, including a nine-year stint (1998-2007) as the Associate Director of Athletics for External Affairs and Communications at Stonehill College (Easton, Mass.) as well as a combined eight years as both the Sports Information Director and Director of Athletic Media Relations at Merrimack College (North Andover, Mass.) and the University of Massachusetts Lowell from 1990 through 1998.   

Seavey served one-year stints as the SID at both Loras College (Dubuque, Iowa) and Nichols College (Dudley, Mass.) in the late 1980's in addition to his year of service at Suffolk.  In addition, he served as Publicist for the New England Women's & Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) during the 2006-07 academic year and also has experience as the Media Relations Director for the Pilgrim Lacrosse League and the New England Intercollegiate Golf Association.  Seavey also served as the Interim Director of Media Relations for Hockey East in 1994.

In June 2009, Seavey received the 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".  He served a three-year term on CoSIDA's Board of Directors and is in his 21st year as a member of the Academic All-America Committee, as in 2008 he was named as the program's Vice Chair for Marketing & Hall of Fame Event Operations after serving for 13 years as a national coordinator.  Seavey has successfully promoted 17 student-athletes for national Academic All-America honors during his career and received a Citation for Excellence in Publications from CoSIDA in 1991 for his work on Merrimack's women's basketball game program.  He also completed a two-year term as a member of CoSIDA's College Division Management Advisory Committee and served for three years as National Program Coordinator for the Daktronics Division II All-America Program.

Additionally, Seavey received the Scoop Hudgins Outstanding Sports Information Director Award from the All-America Football Foundation in December 2008 and was appointed to the Board of Directors of the Jack Grinold Eastern Massachusetts Chapter of the National Football Foundation in March 2008.  He has been an active member of the New England Football Writers Association since 1989.

Seavey served as President of the Eastern College Athletic Conference Sports Information Directors Association (ECAC-SIDA) during its 50^th anniversary year of 2004-05 and additionally served as chair and host for a pair of ECAC-SIDA workshops in 2000 (Hyannis, Mass.) and 2005 (North Falmouth, Mass.).  He has served on four NCAA Division II Championship regional advisory committees, including a stint as chair of the Men's Basketball Northeast Regional Advisory Committee from 2000-2002, and is in his third year as a member of the NCAA Division III Women's Volleyball New England Regional Advisory Committee as the MASCAC's representative.

This past July, Seavey was elected to a two-year term as a regional representative on the Division III Sports Information Directors Association Board of Directors, and late in the summer he was appointed as ECAC-SIDA's Director of Marketing, a position he previously held with the organization from 2000 through 2002.  Seavey has now held elected board positions with four different regional and national sports information directors' organizations:  CoSIDA, ECAC-SIDA, D2SIDA and D3SIDA.  In September, Seavey was honored as part of Stonehill's national championship teams in women's lacrosse (2003 & 2005) and equestrian (2003) that were inducted into the College's Athletic Hall of Fame.

A former chair of the Northeast-10 Conference Sports Information Directors Council for three years, Seavey has had 12 student-athletes featured in Sports Illustrated's prestigious "Faces In The Crowd" column since 1992.  He also successfully nominated and promoted two major NCAA honors that Massachusetts Maritime received in an 18-month span, as Captain Richard Phillips received the NCAA Award of Valor in January 2010 and Meredith Hall was one of four recipients of the NCAA Sportsmanship Award this past August.

Jim and his wife, Cheryl, (a former basketball standout at Stonehill), reside in Bridgewater, Mass. with daughters Mikayla (13) and Lindsey (10).