This is the second in a series of profiles and features on CoSIDA's 2011 Special Awards recipients. See link to original release and the March schedule of the profiles/features, below.
Kent Cherrington, Director of Sports Information at Plymouth State University in Plymouth, NH, will receive a 25-Year Award during CoSIDA's June Convention (June 26-29) at the Marco Island Mariott Beach Resort in Marco Island, Florida.
THE CoSIDA SPECIAL AWARDS FEATURES SERIES
March
Tue. 1
Special Awards general announcement
Thr. 3
Capital One Academic All-America Hall of Fame release
Thr. 3
Ann King (The Sage Colleges): 25-Year Award
Tue. 8 Kent Cherrington (Plymouth State University): 25-year Award
Thr. 10 Justin Doherty (University of Wisconsin): Arch Ward Award
Tue. 15 Rob Knox (Kutztown University): Rising Star Award (College Division)
Thr. 17 Jim Daves (University of Virginia): 25-Year Award
KENT CHERRINGTON
Plymouth State University
A 25-year veteran of the sports information profession, Kent Cherrington is completing his 17th year as Director of Sports Information at Plymouth State, overseeing the publicity of PSU’s 19 varsity
teams. Prior to working at Plymouth State, Cherrington served as the primary contact for 15 Division I teams at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio from 1984-92. He has worked NCAA and conference championships in more than two dozen sports, spanning Divisions I and III.
In addition to his sports information duties, Cherrington spent eight seasons doing radio color commentary and play-by-play for Miami Redskin men’s ice hockey, while also being heard as a pre- and postgame contributor for Miami football and basketball. He was also a part-time sportscaster at WGIR Radio in Manchester, N.H.
As Miami’s Assistant SID, Cherrington was among the first in the nation to use in-game computerized statistics programs, beginning with basketball in the late 1980’s and football in the early 1990’s. He served as a beta-tester for the first versions of Stat Crew, helping the company roll out early versions of the product.
Cherrington brought his knack for pioneering technology to New Hampshire as Plymouth State’s SID. In the late 1990’s, he led PSU’s charge to develop one of the first comprehensive athletic department websites in the country.
An active member of CoSIDA and the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference SID organization, ECAC-SIDA, Cherrington has served on the Board of Directors for both organizations. He served eight years on the ECAC-SIDA Board (2000-08), including a term as President in 2006-07.
In 2010, Cherrington received the ECAC-SIDA's prestigious Irving T. Marsh College Division Award for Dedication and Contributions to and Excellence in the Field of Collegiate Sports Information.
Cherrington was on the CoSIDA Board for a three-year term (2006-09), and has served on CoSIDA's Program Committee since 1995. He also has been a member of CoSIDA’s College Division Management Advisory Committee, serving from 2008 to the present.
Cherrington got his start as a student assistant in the sports information office at the University of New Hampshire, followed by internships at both the University of Connecticut and his alma mater. A four-year member of the swimming and diving team, he graduated from UNH in 1983 with a degree in sports communication.