Max Corbet of Boise State University, Bill Cousins of Rice University, Lawrence Fan of San Jose State University, Weber State University’s Brad Larsen, University of North Carolina’s Dave Lohse, Dan O’Connell of Towson University and Nancy Allison Worley of the University of Louisville will each receive a 25-Year Award from the College Sports Information Directors of America.
The award is given to CoSIDA members who have completed at least 25 years in the profession, and this year’s recipients will receive their awards Wednesday, July 6 at the organization’s special awards luncheon to its 2005 Workshop to be held in Philadelphia, Pa.
Corbet was CoSIDA President in 1999-2000. He was on the CoSIDA Board for nine years and has attended all but one workshop since 1979. He has also been the Sports Information Director at East Texas State (1979-81) and Stephen F. Austin (1981-86). He has been at Boise State since 1986 having been promoted to his current title of Assistant AD for Media Relations in 1998. He is past chairman of the CoSIDA Nominating, Site Selection, Special Awards, Workshop Social and Workshop Program Committees and is a current member of the Nominating and Site Selection Committee.
Cousins has been at Rice since 1983, starting as assistant SID and becoming Assistant AD for Media Relations in 1984. He was SID at West Texas State from 1974-77. In 1991, the Rice press box receiving an outstanding services award by the Football Writers Association of America. He has attended 12 CoSIDA Workshops and has served on various panels at four workshops.
Fan has been at San Jose State since 1980 as its SID. He has also served at LaSalle College (1978-80), Western Illinois (1978) and Frostburg State (1977). Since 1994, he has been chair of the CoSIDA Job Seekers Committee, where he has kept the membership abreast of job openings around the nation. Fan has won several national awards for his publications including “Best in Nation” for gymnastics in 1977.
Larsen was named the SID at Weber State in 1979 and was promoted to Assistant AD for Media Relations in 2004. Larsen was also the SID at Northern Iowa and worked as a student assistant in the SID office at Utah State, where he graduated in 1978. He was an Assistant Venue Press Chief for Gymnastics and Tennis at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. He has served on the CoSIDA Committee on Committees, Site Selection and Publications Contest.
Lohse has been active in the North Carolina sports information office since being a student assistant from 1977-79. He then became assistant SID in 1979 and was named associate SID in 1990, the position he currently serves. He has received 70 citations for publications from CoSIDA and has worked several Olympic Games, including 1988 Summer Games in Seoul, Korea and 1996 Summer Games in Atlanta. He is a past member of the CoSIDA Site Selection Committee.
O’Connell has been the Associate Director of Media Relations at Towson University since 1979. He has also been the SID at Maryland-Baltimore County and the Assistant SID at Loyola College. Since 1987, he has been a member of the CoSIDA Academic All-America Committee and has served as a district and national coordinator. He is currently serving as first vice-president of ECAC-SIDA. He has won 11 CoSIDA national publication citations, including three “Best in the Nation” awards.
Nancy Allison Worley began her career in college sports information as the SID at Valparaiso in 1980 and moved to Illinois State as assistant SID in 1982. She joined the staff at Louisville as associate SID in 1983, where she has since been. She worked the 1996 Centennial Olympic Games in Atlanta, covering beach volleyball, indoor volleyball and road cycling. She has won 20 CoSIDA writing awards and three national publication citations.