Buzzards Bay, Mass. --  Jim Seavey, who is completing his fifth year as Director of Sports Information & Compliance at the Massachusetts Maritime Academy, will receive the highest honors awarded from both the College Sports Information Directors of America and the Eastern College Athletic Conference Sports Information Directors Association during their respective conventions this June.

Seavey will be inducted into CoSIDA’s Hall of Fame during ceremonies that will take place on Thursday, June 13^th at the Marriott World Center in Orlando, Fla., and a week earlier, he will be the College Division recipient of the ECAC-SIDA Irving T. Marsh Award on Thursday, June 6^th at the Radisson Downtown Hotel in Manchester, N.H.  Additionally, he will receive the 25-Year Award at the CoSIDA Convention on Friday, June 14^th in recognition of his 25 years of service in collegiate sports information.

The CoSIDA Hall of Fame annually honors members of the organization who have made outstanding contributions to the field of college sports information.  The ECAC-SIDA Irving T. Marsh Award is presented annually to a member of the organization who, in the opinion of the ECAC-SIDA membership and Executive Board, has exhibited excellence in the field of sports information, and it is named for the founder of the ECAC Service Bureau.

A 1986 graduate of Marquette University where he earned a bachelor’s degree in Journalism, Seavey came to Massachusetts Maritime in July 2008.  He served for 17 years in various athletic communications roles at three NCAA Division II member institutions, including for nine years at the Associate Director of Athletics for External Affairs & Communications at Stonehill College (Easton, Mass.) from 1998 through 2007.  He additionally served for five years as the Sports Information Director at Merrimack College (North Andover, Mass.) from 1990-95 and as the Director of Athletic Media Relations at the University of Massachusetts Lowell from 1995-98.

Seavey began his career at the NCAA Division III level with back-to-back one-year stints as the Sports Information Director at both Loras College (Dubuque, Iowa) and Nichols College (Dudley, Mass.) in the late 1980’s prior to going to Merrimack.  He also served as Suffolk University’s (Boston) Sports Information Director for one year before coming to Massachusetts Maritime, where he oversees athletic public relations efforts for all 15 Buccaneer varsity programs and performs other administrative duties, including NCAA Compliance and athletic scheduling while also serving as advisor to the department’s Student-Athlete Advisory Committee.

During his tenure at Massachusetts Maritime, Seavey has also served as the Director of Media Relations for the eight-member Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference.  He has also worked in various capacities in conference information offices, serving as publicist for the New England Women’s & Men’s Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) during the 2006-07 academic year while also serving as the Media Relations Director for both the Pilgrim Lacrosse League and the New England Intercollegiate Golf Association.  He also served as the Interim Director of Media Relations for Hockey East in 1994.

In June 2009, Seavey received CoSIDA’s Lester Jordan Award 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 22nd year as a member of the Academic All-America Committee, as he was named the Committee's Associate Chair for Marketing & Hall of Fame Event Operations last summer.  Seavey has successfully promoted 18 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.

Seavey served as ECAC-SIDA President during the organization’s 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 is completing a two-year term as a regional representative on the D3 SIDA Board of Directors, and in August 2011 he was appointed as ECAC-SIDA's Director of Marketing, a position he previously held with the organization from 2000 through 2002.  He is also serving a three-year term on the newly formed Division III Conference Sports Information Directors Committee.  Seavey has now held elected board positions with four different regional and national sports information directors' organizations:  CoSIDA, ECAC-SIDA, D2SIDA and D3SIDA.

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, as he serves as Chair for the Chapter's annual Scholar-Athlete Banquet.  A former chair of the Northeast-10 Conference Sports Information Directors Council for three years, 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 in September 2011.  In May 2012, he received the Kevin Honkala Memorial Award that is voted upon by members of the Massachusetts Maritime baseball team and is presented annually to recognize contributions to Buccaneer Baseball. 

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:  the NCAA Award of Valor in January 2010 and one of four NCAA Sportsmanship Awards in August 2011.  In addition, Seavey received national honorable mention recognition from the NCAA and D3SIDA this past November as part of the Division III Quarterly Identity Initiative Recognition Program for his feature entitled "Teddy's Ballgame", which chronicled the Buccaneer men's lacrosse team's involvement with Team IMPACT.

Seavey will be joined in the 2013 CoSIDA Hall of Fame induction class by Notre Dame’s Bernie Cafarelli, St. Lawrence’s Wally Johnson, Wisconsin’s Justin Doherty, Butler’s Jim McGrath and retired Central Michigan SID Fred Stabley Jr.  The ECAC-SIDA 2013 awards class includes University Division Marsh Award recipient Lisa Champagne of the University of Vermont as well as ECAC Director of Media Relations Roger Crosley, who will receive the organization’s Pete Nevins Award for Distinguished Achievement.  ECAC-SIDA will also posthumously present its annual Media Award named for the late Bob Monahan of The Boston Globe and the late Bill Wallace of The New York Times to the family of John Vellante, longtime Boston Globe staff writer and contributor, who lost a lengthy battle with leukemia earlier this year.

Jim and his wife, Cheryl, (a former basketball standout at Stonehill), reside in Bridgewater, Mass. with daughters Mikayla (14) and Lindsey (11).