College Sports Information Directors of America

Yakik Rumley has been promoted to associate athletics director/director of sports information at the College of Mount Saint Vincent. Rumley graduated from Hampton University with a bachelor's in mass media arts (broadcast journalism) with a minor in sports management in 1997. He received his master's in sports management from Adelphi University in 1999. Rumley spent two years as the assistant athletics director/sports information director at Brooklyn College. While at Brooklyn College, he was responsible for the promotion and publicity of 16 Athletics Programs. He updated records and roster information, maintained accurate statistics, wrote game stories, press releases and notes. Rumley gained experience supervising sports information assistants and reporting stats to the National Collegiate Athletic Association and the City University of NY Athletic Conference and other media outlets. Prior to his time spent at Brooklyn, Rumley was a game reporter sports statistician for ESPN/SportsTicker. Prior to working at Mount Saint Vincent, Yakik was an adjunct professor at Fashion Institute of Technology where he taught an introductory basketball course. Yakik enters his second year at the College of Mount Saint Vincent. He will be responsible for scheduling all spring sports, reporting stats to the NCAA and the Skyline and Hudson Valley Athletic Conferences and preparing game stories and game day programs for all home contests. Additional responsibilities include overseeing all home game setups, evening supervision, assistant coaching for men's volleyball, while assisting the Athletics Department in all aspects of athletics and recreation.