Four CoSIDA veterans – Gary Anderson of the University of Nebraska-Omaha, Bob Cornell of Colgate University, Ron Hines of Southeast Missouri State University and Larry Scott of Minnesota State University Moorhead – will receive the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) Lifetime Achievement Award on Tuesday, June 23, 2009, at the organization’s annual workshop to be held in San Antonio, Texas. The Lifetime Achievement Award is presented to CoSIDA members who have served at least 25 years in the profession and have, or are, retiring or leaving the field.
A gifted writer who has shown a tireless passion for his alma mater,
Gary Anderson of the University of Nebraska at Omaha is leaving his post after 30 years of service to the school he loves. Hired as Sports Information Director in 1979 after several years as a journalist with the Omaha World-Herald and as a freelance writer, Anderson also worked in public relations for Omaha's Methodist Hospital and as a graphics coordinator for an architectural engineering firm prior to being hired at UNO. It was the start of an outstanding career that eventually earned Anderson a spot in the CoSIDA Hall of Fame in 2005. The next year, he was named an Omaha North High School Viking of Distinction. Anderson is the co-founder and president of the Omaha Hockey Hall of Fame and the co-founder of the Elkhorn Historical Society. In 2001, Anderson authored a book, "
Those Were the Knights: The History of Professional Hockey in Omaha".
Colgate University Director of Athletic Communications Bob Cornell recently announced his retirement after serving 33 years on the Raiders staff. A 2008 inductee in the Colgate Athletics Hall of Honor in 2008 who received the inaugural Peter Nevins Award for Distinguished Achievement – an honor given to a media relations professional in recognition of their advancement of the field of athletic communications and advocacy for intercollegiate athletics – Cornell is a member of the CoSIDA Hall of Fame as he was inducted in 2001. A graduate of the University of New Haven who also holds an AAS degree from the State University of New York-Cobleskill, Cornell is a member of the SUNY-Cobleskill Athletic Hall of Honor, where he was an all-region player in baseball.
In 1992, he was the recipient of the Irving T. Marsh ECAC Service Bureau Award, presented annually to the sports information director who has contributed the most to the work of the Bureau during the year and throughout his or her career. In 2003, he received the Scoop Hudgins Outstanding Sports Information Director Award from the All-American Football Foundation, and in 2006, he was the recipient of a Maroon Citation given to him by the Colgate Alumni Corporation for his record of service to the university.
Southeast Missouri State University’s Ron Hines is retiring next week after serving 29 years as Sports Information Director. He previously served for two years as Assistant SID at Southern Illinois University under Fred Huff and four years as a student assistant SID at the University of Missouri under Bill Callahan. A 1965 journalism graduate of the University of Missouri, Hines is a veteran print and broadcast journalist with experience in daily and weekly newspaper operations as well and radio and television.
Hines has written and edited 21 CoSIDA award-winning publications including four judged “Best in the Nation.” Hines worked 851 consecutive men’s basketball games. He had not missed a game since 1980 until he ended the streak by missing the final game of the 2009 season. Several of Hines’ assistants or graduate assistants at Southeast have gone on to careers in sports information including Brad Kirtley (Austin Peay), John Kean (Missouri University of Science and Technology), Rick Kindhart (Missouri State), Justin Maskus (Missouri Southern), Kyle Schwartz (Ohio Valley Conference), Corey Miggins (Chicago State), Patrick Clark (Southeast Missouri) and Brian Kunderman (Saint Louis). Hines and his wife, Mary, who worked on the statistical crew at all home events and designed media guides, have three children and seven grandchildren.
Larry Scott of Minnesota State University Moorhead will retire at the end of June after 40 years on the job. A 1991 CoSIDA Hall of Fame inductee, Scott never missed a day of work at MSU Moorhead, attending the last 427 Dragons football games. Scott was hired as the first full-time SID for the Dragons in 1969. Link to Article in the Forum of Fargo-Moorhead