Jim Seavey is in his 21st year in the college sports information profession and first at the Massachusetts Maritime Academy in serving in the dual role of Director of Sports Information and Compliance, replacing Skip Thompson, who retired after 35 years of service to the Academy. Seavey is also in his first year as the Director of Media Relations for the Massachusetts State College Athletic Conference (MASCAC).
A 1986 graduate of Marquette University, Seavey has over two decades of experience in college sports information, as he most recently oversaw all athletic public relations efforts for Suffolk University's 13-sport NCAA Division III program in Boston. 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.
Seavey is currently serving a three-year term on the Board of Directors of the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) as a College Division Representative, and he served as President of the Eastern College Athletic Conference Sports Information Directors Association (ECAC-SIDA) during its 50th anniversary year of 2004-05. 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.
Seavey is entering his 18th year as a member of CoSIDA's prestigious Academic All-America Committee, as he was named last summer as the program's Vice Chair for Marketing after serving for the past 13 years as a national coordinator. Additionally, he 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. A former chair of the Northeast-10 Conference Sports Information Directors Council for three years, 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.
Most recently, Seavey joined his predecessor Thompson in receiving the Scoop Hudgins Outstanding Sports Information Director Award from the All-America Football Foundation in December 2008. He was appointed to the Board of Directors of the Jack Grinold Eastern Massachusetts Chapter of the National Football Foundation last spring and is an active member of the New England Football Writers Assocation.
Jim and his wife, Cheryl, (a former basketball standout at
Stonehill), reside in Bridgewater, Mass. with daughters Mikayla
(10) and Lindsey (7).
