2010-11 ECAC-SIDA Executive Board

David Alexander First Vice-President The College of Saint Rose alexandd@strose.edu

David Alexander is in his 19th year as the Sports Information Director at The College of Saint Rose, which honored him with a 2007 Service Excellence Award. He had Assistant Athletics Director added to his title following the 2001-02 academic year.

Alexander directs all aspects of the Saint Rose sports information office including media relations, website maintenance, publications and game-day management. He orchestrates the information flow of Saint Rose athletics to media and various other constituencies on a local, regional and national level; and develops the content for the Golden Knights website – www.gogoldenknights.com. He furthermore directs the production of media guides, game-day programs, and athletics marketing material. Alexander also coordinates all coaches and student-athlete media interviews, compiles statistics, maintains team records, manages the department’s photography requirements and oversees all media relations operations at Saint Rose home events.

Alexander, the only full-time SID Saint Rose has known, assumes several other roles aside from his regular duties within the Saint Rose sports information office as well. He produces the Saint Rose men’s and women’s basketball game-day webcasts, chairs the College’s Athletics Hall of Fame committee, and has acted as the East Region Coordinator for the Daktronics, Inc. Men’s Basketball All-America Team for the previous 11 years. In the past, he managed a department wide work-study staff of nearly 200 students and assisted with several summer camps at Saint Rose.

Alexander also served as the men's basketball and baseball publicist for the East Coast Conference, formerly the New York Collegiate Athletic Conference, from 1993-00. He has worked as the Media Relations Director for six NCAA Division II regional basketball championships and two regional women’s soccer championships;  along with the 1997  Northeast Regional Baseball Championship and the 1995 East Regional Men’s and Women’s Cross Country Championships that were hosted by Saint Rose.

Additionally, Alexander acted as the Media Relations Director for the annual Capital Key Classic men’s and women’s basketball tournament from 1995-01. The tournament was the nation’s largest NCAA Division II in-season basketball festival during its run.

Alexander is an active member of the United States Basketball Writers Association, the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) and the Public Relations Society of America. Alexander serves on the Executive Board of the ECAC Sports Information Directors Association (ECAC-SIDA) and does volunteer work locally with the New York State Special Olympics. He furthermore served on the NCAA Division II Baseball East Region Advisory Committee from 2007-09.

Alexander worked as a media liaison at the 2001 NCAA Frozen Four in Albany and the last five men’s basketball “Elite Eight” national championships in Springfield, MA. Furthermore, CoSIDA cited him with a regional award for publication excellence in recognition of his 2001-02 men’s basketball media guide.

A 1986 graduate of the University of Rhode Island where he earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism, Alexander has worked as a sportswriter for The Westerly Sun in his native Rhode Island and for The Capital in Annapolis, MD. He has also served as an assistant in the sports information offices at Rhode Island and the University of Maryland-Baltimore County.