ECAC-SIDA Announces Esposito Award Winner

Dear Colleagues,

It is my pleasure to announce that Wesleyan's Ben Cohen has been named the recipient of the 2010 Bill Esposito Award.

Ben has been the lifeblood of the Wesleyan University sports information student staff for three years.  A staff sports writer for the student newspaper in the fall of 2007, Ben asked for feedback from SID Brian Katten on a volleyball article, establishing the connection.  He has since gone on to serve as sports editor of the paper for two years and become the primary in-office, game-day stats, post-game release and website student worker.  His self-directed contributions to the office are immeasurable and recently rewarded as he has been chosen the student supervisor for Wesleyan’s smooth transition to a new athletic web site content manager this summer.

With a 3.60 GPA as an economics major, Ben has served as a teaching assistant in an intro economics class for three semesters while also serving as a one-on-one tutor in the subject.  He was Wesleyan’s football team manager from 2006-08 and during the summers of 2008 and 2009, worked independently to upgrade and improve the data available on the University’s athletic web site.

Coming to Wesleyan from St. Paul’s School for Boys in Brooklandville, Md., near his hometown of Reisterstown, Ben was sports editor of the student paper there for three years, was a three-season team manager (football, basketball and baseball) and received the C. Markland Kelly Athletic Service Award his senior year, given to the student who has best demonstrated outstanding characteristics and rendering service to the school’s athletic and/or physical education program.

The Bill Esposito Award is presented to a graduating college senior who wishes to pursue a career in athletic communications. The award is named to honor the memory of one of the true patriarchs of the sports information profession. Bill Esposito served as the Sports Information Director at St. John's University in New York for 25 years. He served as a past-President of ECAC-SIDA in 1972-73 and was the organization's Irving Marsh Award recipient in 1973. He was inducted into the CoSIDA Hall of Fame in 1984. Bill Esposito passed away in 1995.

Ben will be honored at the ESPN Awards Dinner, which will be held on Thursday, June 10, as a part of our annual workshop on Cape Cod.
 
Please join me in congratulating hi,!

Best regards,

Mike Tuberosa