ECSU SID appointed to CoSIDA Board
August 30, 2005
Elizabeth City State Sports Information Director April Emory
has been appointed to the Board of Directors of the College
Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA). She will
serve as College Division Representative for the South Atlantic
Region.
Emory was appointed by CoSIDA president Joe Hernandez
to fill the unexpired term of John Arenberg of Emory University,
who has left the profession and therefore vacated his spot
on the Board. She becomes the first African-American female
to ever serve in that capacity.
Emory has been sports information director at ECSU since 2001.
Prior to that, she was SID at St. Paul's College, her alma
mater.
She has been a member of CoSIDA since 1999 and has served
on the CoSIDA Scholarship Committee since 2003. In July, she
was elected president of the CIAA SID Association after serving
as vice president since 1999. She is also secretary of the
Black College Sports Information Directors Association.
CoSIDA was founded in 1957 and has grown to over 1,800 members
in the United States and Canada. The purpose of this organization
is to empower its members in their roles as sports information
professionals. It is the desire of the members to have the
profession take its rightful place on the decision-making levels
of college athletics.
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