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Illinois Wesleyan sports information director
Stew Salowitz has been selected into the Media category of the Illinois Basketball Coaches Association Hall of Fame and will be inducted at a banquet on April 28, 2012.
A 1976 IWU graduate, Salowitz has been the sports information director at his alma mater since November 1988, currently handling publicity, statistics and the web presence for the school's 18 varsity sports.
He is the 26th Illinois Wesleyan graduate to be honored by the IBCA as a player, coach, media or official. Also in the IBCA Hall of Fame as a Media member is Ed Alsene, Wesleyan's sports information director from 1965 to 1988. Go here to see the entire IWU listing.
In 23 years at IWU (prior to 2011-12 seasons) Salowitz has handled media arrangements and statistics for 570 home basketball games (291 men's and 279 women's) in addition to a number of College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin tournaments.
Included in the home games are 22 NCAA Division III women's basketball tournament games; 17 NCAA Division III men's basketball tournament games; and the 2011 and 2010 NCAA Division III women's basketball championships.
From 1989 to 2005 his office served as statistical coordinators for the McLean County Basketball Tournaments and, since 1997, has coordinated media for Illinois High School Association girls' basketball supersectionals at the Shirk Center.
From 1977 to 1988, Salowitz was an announcer for WJBC Radio in Bloomington. His afternoon show was consistently one of the highest-rated in the nation and, as a sportscaster, he broadcast hundreds of high school and college basketball games as a backup for sports directors Art Kimball and Dick Luedke, both of whom are also members of the Media section of the IBCA Hall of Fame.
For 11 consecutive years (1978-88) Salowitz was the only WJBC sportscaster to provide play-by-play for both Class A and AA boys' tournaments at Champaign's Assembly Hall and, in 1981, he was the first WJBC broadcaster to do play-by-play for a girls' high school state tournament game (Central Catholic vs. Chicago Christian).
In 1976-77, he was the morning disc jockey and play-by-play basketball announcer on WAKC Radio in Normal for Illinois Wesleyan team that featured Jack Sikma.
A native of Normal, Ill., and a 1972 graduate of Bloomington Central Catholic High School, Salowitz is the co-author of two books on McLean County sports history, served on the selection committee for the Central Catholic Athletic Hall of Fame and is a member of the College Sports Information Directors of America.