Temple’s Al Shrier To Receive CoSIDA’s 2010 Arch Ward Award
PHILADELPHIA – Longtime Temple sports information director Al Shrier has been named the recipient of the 2010 Arch Ward Award winner presented by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA). The award is presented annually to a CoSIDA member who has made an outstanding contribution to the field of college sports information, and who by his or her activities, has brought dignity and prestige to the profession.
“There is no person I have been associated with in intercollegiate athletics who is more revered, or has touched more lives than Al Shrier,” CoSIDA 1st Vice President Larry Dougherty said. “I have had the privilege to work side-by-side with this Philadelphia and CoSIDA icon for the past seven years, and to see the firsthand the former Temple students and administrators stop by to visit with him is remarkable. If one’s riches are counted by the friends one has made in a lifetime, Al Shrier is a millionaire countless times over.”
The longest active CoSIDA member at 56 years and counting, Shrier has served at Temple since 1953. His service to the media is second only to his dedication to the student-athlete. The Arch Ward Award is one of many honors in his legendary career. He is a member of the CoSIDA Hall of Fame, the Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame, the Philadelphia Big 5 Hall of Fame, the Temple Athletics Hall of Fame and the Philadelphia Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.
The Philadelphia native was named the recipient of the 2009 Pete Nevins Award for Distinguished Achievement given annually by The Eastern College Athletics Conference-Sports Information Directors Association (ECAC-SIDA). He has also earned ECAC-SIDA’s Irving T. Marsh and Katha Quinn Awards.
He has also been honored by the Atlantic 10 Conference with its Bob Vetrone Media Award in 2009.
In 2004, in commemoration of 50 years of service, Temple gave away Al Shrier Bobblehead Dolls at a men’s basketball game, a rare tribute to an athletic administrator.
Shrier is past president of the Philadelphia Sports Writers Association and the Media Room at The Liacouras Center is named in his honor. He received the Lew Klein Alumni in the Media Award from the Temple School of Communications.
Past Arch Ward Award Recipients
2009 William “Bill” Hamilton (South Carolina State)
2008 Debby Jennings (Tennessee)
2007 John Paquette (Big East Conference)
2006 Bud Ford (Tennessee)
2005 Ed Carpenter (Boston University)
2004 Claude Felton (Georgia)
2003 Jim Wright (NCAA)
2002 Hal Cowan (Oregon State)
2001 Langston Rogers (Mississippi)
2000 Mary Jo Haverbeck (Penn State)
1999 Rick Brewer (North Carolina)
1998 Bill Little (Texas)
1997 Dave Cawood (NCAA)
1996 Fred Nuesch (Texas A&M-Kingsville)
1995 Howie Davis (Massachusetts)
1994 John Humenik (Florida)
1993 Tom Price (South Carolina)
1992 Dave Wohlhueter (Cornell)
1991 Haywood Harris (Tennessee)
1990 Steve Boda (NCAA)
1989 Dave Schulthess (Brigham Young)
1988 Marv Homan (Ohio State)
1987 Roger Valdiserri (Notre Dame)
1986 Jim Mott (Wisconsin)
1985 Nick Vista (Michigan State)
1984 Bill Esposito (St. John’s)
1983 Elmore Hudgins (Southeastern Conference)
1982 Jones Ramsey (Texas)
1981 Don Bryant (Nebraska)
1980 Bill Whitmore (Rice)
1979 Marvin Francis (Atlantic Coast Conference/Wake Forest)
1978 Frank Soltys Arizona)
1977 Bob Bradley Clemson)
1976 Bob Hartley Mississippi State)
1975 Bill Callahan Missouri)
1974 Charley Thornton Alabama)
1973 Wilbur Synpp (Ohio State)
1972 Bill Young (Wyoming)
1971 Tom Miller (Indiana)
1970 Baaron Pittenger (Harvard)
1969 Wilbur Evans (Southwest Conference)
1968 Eric Wilson (Iowa)
1967 Bob Culp (Western Michigan)
1966 Ernest Goodman (Howard)
1965 Don Pierce (Kansas)
1964 Ned West (Georgia Tech)
1963 Wiles Hallock (Wyoming)
1962 Fred Stabley Sr. (Michigan State)
1961 Harold Keith (Oklahoma)
1960 Bob Paul (Pennsylvania)
1959 John Cox (Navy)
1958 Lester Jordan (Southern Methodist)