Steve Scheer of CBS Sports has been selected to receive CoSIDA's 2007 Jake Wade Award. The honor annually goes to an individual who has made an outstanding contribution in the media to the field of intercollegiate athletics.
Scheer will receive his award at CoSIDA's 50th Anniversary workshop this summer in San Diego.
Sports information directors who have accompanied their teams to the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament or to any of a variety of bowl games are familiar with Scheer's professionalism. He has worked all but one Final Four since he was hired at CBS in August of 1982. In addition, he has worked at the Orange, Cotton, Sun and Fiesta Bowls. He has been CBS's on-site representative for the NCAA Basketball Selection Show since 1996.
A 10-time Emmy Award winner, Scheer began working at CBS when he was just 23 years old. Since that time, he has worked on the NBA Finals, four Super Bowls, the Daytona 500, NASCAR, the Winter Olympic Games in Albertville and Lillehammer, Major League Baseball's Divisional Playoffs and World Series (three times) and the U.S. Open tennis tournament.
A 1980 graduate of Fordham (where he ran the hockey program and worked for student station WFUV), Scheer, 48, lives in Morristown, N.J., with his wife, Sandi, and their three children: Sydney (9), William and Elizabeth (3 * year old twins).