Georgetown University Athletics Department announced that Mike Carey has been named sports information director, while Ben Shove has been named assistant sports information director and Jim Donatelli has been named assistant sports information director / publications coordinator.
Carey will work with Hoya football and men’s lacrosse, serve as the secondary contact for men’s basketball, oversee the day-to-day operations in the office and handle media relations for the 2006 NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship at the MCI Center.
He joins the staff after a six-year stint as the Associate Director for Athletic Communications at St. John’s University in New York City.
While with the Red Storm, Carey worked with men’s soccer, men’s basketball, baseball, fencing and golf. During his tenure, he was part of two NCAA Tournament teams with men’s basketball and baseball and handled the publicity for two Final Four appearances in men’s soccer and the 2001 NCAA fencing champions.
A 1994 graduate of St. Bonaventure University with a bachelor of arts in journalism and mass communication, Carey has also worked in the sports information offices at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Florida and Siena College.
Carey, a native of Troy, New York, also serves as second vice-president for the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association and is a district coordinator for the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) Academic All-America Committee. Shove comes to GU after spending 2003-05 as the Sports Information Director at Wagner College in Staten Island, N.Y.
At Wagner, Shove oversaw all media inquiries and athletic publications for Wagner’s 22 Division I varsity sports, serving as the primary contact for football, men’s basketball, swimming and women’s lacrosse teams, while handling publicity for the 2000 baseball team that made the school’s first-ever NCAA Division I Tournament.
He played a vital role as a committee member of the Seahawk Golf Classic and the Wagner College Athletics Hall of Fame and was instrumental in developing a new department website. Shove is a 1998 graduate or Marist College (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.), where the communications major was a four-year letterwinner on the Red Fox baseball team that made the school’s first-ever NCAA Tournament appearance in 1997.
A Connecticut native, he is a member of the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) and earned his MBA in 2002 from Wagner.
Shove will serve as the primary contact for men’s soccer, track and field and baseball, and as the secondary contact for women’s basketball. Donatelli is a 2003 graduate of St. John’s University where he earned a sports management degree.
The Rhode Island native then earned his MBA in executive management from St. John’s in 2005.
Donatelli worked in the Red Storm Sports information Office during all four of his undergraduate years in addition to his two years as a graduate assistant.
He will handle all department publications and serve as the contact for crew, tennis and sailing.