Rowan University's Sheila Stevenson, Princeton University's Craig Sachson and University of Pittsburgh's E.J. Borghetti were recently honored with the Scoop Hudgins Outstanding SID Award at the All-America Football Foundations 83rd Banquet of Champions at the Hyatt Regency in Princeton.
Stevenson is currently in her 32nd year as a sports information professional, including the last 22 years as SID at Rowan University. Prior to coming to the Glassboro campus in June of 1985, she served as assistant SID at the University of Pennsylvania for a year and is a former graduate SID at New Hampshire College and Delta State University, SID at Clarkson University, and started her career as a student assistant Sports Information Director at her alma mater, Rochester Institute of Technology.
As SID, Stevenson handles all publicity for the Universitys 18 Division III varsity sports and writes and edits all media guides and event programs, while also maintaining Universitys athletic web site. She is a member of the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) and the Eastern College Athletic Conference-Sports Information Directors Association (ECAC-SIDA).
Named the 1996 recipient of the CoSIDA Kodak Good Person Award, she was also named the recipient of the ECAC-SIDAs Irving T. Marsh Award in 1999 and served as the organizations president in 1989-90 after also serving as the organizations workshop chair in 1987. She became just the second female to serve as president of ECAC-SIDA, and the first from a Division III institution during her tenure.
She currently serves on CoSIDAs Special Awards Committee, and is a former member of the organizations scholarship committee. Since 1992, she has served as a member of the Hewlett Packard Division III All-America Selection Committee, as well as the Pizza Hut Football All-America Committee in 1998 and 1990. She has served as the chair of Rowan Universitys Sports Hall of Fame Committee since 1985 and named the 1987 recipient of Rowan Universitys Merit Award. A guest speaker at the NCAA Professional Development Seminar in 1987, she is a member of Whos Who in Society and is also a member of the Philadelphia Sports Writers Association. The publicist for the NJAC from 1986-1988, she has been a guest lecturer as well at ECAC-SIDA workshops and has organized countless special events on the Rowan University campus and in the Rowan University community during her career.
Borghetti enters his eighth year with the University of Pittsburgh, where he serves as associate athletic director for media relations.
Borghetti joined Pittsburgh in 1997 as assistant media relations director and was promoted to director a year later. He was promoted to assistant athletic director in 2001. His responsibilities include overseeing the daily operations of the media relations department and the promotion of Pittsburgh's 19 intercollegiate sports. In addition, he handles the publicity efforts for the Panthers football team.
Borghetti had the privilege of handling the publicity efforts for Larry Fitzgerald, who last season became one of the most decorated players in school history. A unanimous All-American, Fitzgerald became the first-ever sophomore to win the Walter Camp Player of the Year Award. He additionally won the school's second Biletnikoff Award as the nation's top receiver and was the Heisman Trophy runner-up. Fitzgerald was the highest-finishing sophomore in Heisman history.
In 2000, Borghetti handled the publicity for Biletnikoff winner and consensus All-American Antonio Bryant. Pittsburgh is the only school to have multiple winners of the Biletnikoff Award.
Aside from his media relations duties, Borghetti helps spread the word on the Panthers in other capacities as well. He regularly serves as an emcee for numerous athletic department and TEAM PITTSBURGH chapter functions.
Borghetti has extensive ties to the University of Pittsburgh. He was a 1992 magna cum laude graduate from the school with a bachelor's degree in communications and was as an undergraduate sports information intern. His father, Ernie, was an All-America tackle for the Panthers in 1963 and helped them to a 9-1 record and No. 3 national ranking that year.
Borghetti previously served as sports information director at neighboring Carnegie Mellon University for 2 years. From 1992-94 Borghetti was a sports information assistant at Columbia University in New York City.
A member of the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA), he has received numerous citations for excellence in publications and writing. In 2003, he was honored as one of Pittsburgh's "50 Finest," which recognizes the city's outstanding single professionals. As an honoree, he contributed efforts to raise money for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. In the past he has helped partner the Pitt football family with such outstanding organizations as the Make-A-Wish Foundation and the American Diabetes Association.
Sachson is in his fifth year as assistant director of Athletic Communications at Princeton University and serves as the contact for football, men's and women's squash, men's and women's volleyball, men's and women's swimming and diving, men's and women's rowing andwrestling. He is in his ninth year overall in athletic communications and his seventh year at Princeton.
A 1998 graduate of The College of New Jersey, Sachson began his career as an intern at Princeton and worked closely with several teams, including men's hockey, softball, field hockey and volleyball. He worked at NCAA tournaments for both field hockey and volleyball, including the 1998 NCAA field hockey championship game, and he worked at the ECAC Hockey final five in Lake Placid, N.Y.
Sachson moved to Ithaca, N.Y. in 2000 to become assistant director at Cornell, where he worked with several programs, including women's basketball, men's lacrosse, wrestling, soccer, field hockey. He served as the main editor of the gameday football program, and his 2002 men's lacrosse guide placed fourth nationally among single-sport guides.
In 2002, Sachson moved back to Princeton to serve as assistant director and take over all SID responsibilities for the historic Tiger football program. His 2005 media guide finished second nationally among Division I-AA football publications, and he also received a campus-wide Special Performance Award from Princeton University in 2005. Besides his normal responsibilities with his 12 programs, he has handled the majority of the hiring process for three full-time employees in the athletic communications department and overseen the development of a 2007 intern.
Sachson, who has coached fall and spring youth soccer travel teams for the last four years, is married to the former Jessica Israel, a guidance counselor and coach at Upper Dublin High School. The couple lives in Bensalem, Pa.