College Sports Information Directors of America

Jim Seavey, who has served for the past nine years as the Associate Director of Athletics and Director of Athletic Communications at Stonehill College, has been named as Sports Information Director at Suffolk University. Seavey’s appointment, effective immediately, was confirmed today by James E. Nelson, Suffolk’s Director of Athletics.

Seavey, who left Stonehill in June to take a position in private business with the American Family Life Assurance Company of Columbus (Aflac) as a district associate, will oversee all facets of public relations for all 13 Ram varsity athletic programs in his new position at Suffolk. He brings nearly two decades of experience in the college sports information profession to his new position, as he replaces Brenda Laymance, who now works in the University’s Office of Public Affairs.

“I am pleased to welcome Jim to the Suffolk University athletic family,” Nelson says of Seavey’s appointment. “He brings a wealth of experience to his new position here that will benefit our student-athletes and coaches in a very positive manner.”

A 1986 graduate of Marquette University, Seavey has been affiliated with four other New England institutions over the past 18 years, as he served for five years as the Sports Information Director at Merrimack College (1990-95) and as the Director of Athletic Media Relations at the University of Massachusetts Lowell for three years (1995-98) before heading to Stonehill in July 1998. Seavey additionally served one-year stints as the SID at both Nichols College (Dudley, Mass.) and Loras College (Dubuque, Iowa) in the late 1980’s.

Seavey is beginning his second year as an at-large College Division representative on the College Sports Information Directors of America Board of Directors, and he also enters his 17th year as a member of CoSIDA’s prestigious Academic All-America Committtee, having served as a national coordinator for the last 11 years while successfully promoting 17 student-athletes for national Academic All-America honors during his career. Jim received a Citation for Excellence in Publications from CoSIDA in 1991 for his work on Merrimack’s women’s basketball game program and was a member of the local organizing committee for CoSIDA’s Boston workshop in 1996, and over the course of the last 15 years Seavey has successfully promoted 10 student-athletes for inclusion in Sports Illustrated’s popular “Faces In The Crowd” column, including seven Stonehill student-athletes in the last four years alone.

An active member of the Eastern College Athletic Conference Sports Information Directors Association (ECAC-SIDA) since 1989, Seavey served as that organization’s president during its 50th anniversary celebration year of 2004-2005 and additionally served as the workshop chair and host of both the 2000 and 2005 ECAC-SIDA annual workshops on Cape Cod. He previously served roles on the ECAC-SIDA Executive Board as secretary, membership chair and marketing chair before going into the presidential rotation.

During the past academic year, Seavey served as publicist for the New England Women’s & Men’s Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) and additionally served as the media relations director for the Pilgrim Lacrosse League and the New England Intercollegiate Golf Association in the early 1990’s. Currently the National Program Coordinator for the Daktronics Division II All-America Program and a sports information consultant at Philadelphia University, Jim also served as the Interim Director of Media Relations for the Hockey East Association in the spring of 1994.

Seavey has been a member of several working committees, including a six-year term on the NCAA Division II Men’s Basketball Northeast Regional Advisory Committee, which he chaired for two years. He also also been a member of NCAA regional advisory committees in the sports of women’s basketball, men’s soccer and baseball and also chaired ECAC Division II championship committees in the sports of field hockey, women’s basketball and women’s lacrosse while serving a three-year term on the ECAC Northeast Ice Hockey Executive Committee.

Jim and his wife, Cheryl, a former basketball standout at Stonehill, reside in Bridgewater, Mass. with daughters Mikayla (9) and Lindsey (6).