2010-11 ECAC-SIDA Executive Board

Bill Gorman Past President Wentworth gormanb@wit.edu

A 17-year veteran of the sports information field and ECAC-SIDA Executive Board member since 2001, Bill Gorman shifts into the role of past president after serving as the organization's 54th president during the 2008-2009 year.  Prior to joining the presidential rotation in September, 2006, Gorman spent two-plus years as the Division III Representative after serving as the Membership Services Chair for three years.

Gorman joined the staff at Wentworth Institute of Technology as the Institute's first full-time Sports Information Director on October 12, 1995, and was promoted to his current position of Associate Director of Athletics on July 1, 2002.  At Wentworth he is responsible for the athletic media relations duties for all 14 of the Leopards' sports, and on the administrative side he coordinates scheduling of all intercollegiate events and athletic facilities.  In addition to serving as Wentworth's NCAA Compliance Officer, he is also the administrator who oversees both the men's basketball and men's ice hockey programs.

Since his arrival at Wentworth, Gorman has promoted numerous Academic All-District candidates; including the school's first two, two-time Academic All-America honorees.  He has also promoted a plethora of all-conference and All-New England performers as well as the school's first-ever All-American.  From 1998-2007 he also served as a publicist for The Commonwealth Coast Conference, where he compiled weekly reports in baseball and softball.

Gorman came to Wentworth after serving as the Assistant Sports Information Director at the University of Massachusetts Lowell from 1994-1995. While working under former UML (and current Southern Maine) SID B.L. Elfring, he was the primary contact for the River Hawks' women's volleyball, men's and women's basketball, and softball teams. He served as the media coordinator for the 1995 New England Collegiate Conference Women's Basketball tournament, as well a 1995 NCAA Division II first round women's basketball game and was the assistant media coordinator for the 1995 NCAA Division II Northeast Baseball Regional.  While at UML, the 1994-95 men's basketball guide won second in the district in the annual CoSIDA Publications Contest.

A 1994 graduate of Stonehill College (Easton, Mass.) with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communication, he served as the Associate Director of Sports Information during his final three and a half years as an undergraduate, under former long-time SID Bob Richards. He was the primary contact for the Chieftains' football, men's and women's basketball, baseball, and softball teams and was the media liaison for the women's basketball team at the 1994 NCAA Division II Elite Eight in Fargo, N.D.

During the past 13 years, Gorman has been on the media relations staff at numerous NCAA tournaments, including four (1995, 1998, 2000, 2004) NCAA Division I Frozen Fours. He also served as the media coordinator for the 2001 and 2002 NCAA Division III New England Baseball Regional, held in Harwich, Mass. In 1995, Gorman was on the media relations staff at the Special Olympics World Games in New Haven, Conn., and was an assistant boys' basketball coach during the 1994 and 1995 Bay State Games.

Gorman has been active in ECAC-SIDA since joining the organization in 1992. In addition to participating in many panels, he served a two-year stint on the membership committee (1997-99) and was a member of the local organizing committee during the 2000 and 2005 workshops, which were both held on Cape Cod.  He served a five-year stint on the ECAC Division III New England Men's Soccer Committee (2002-2006) and is presently a member of the ECAC Division III New England Women's Basketball Committee.  Gorman is a voter in both the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association/D3Baseball.com Top 25 Poll and the North Eastern Collegiate Volleyball Association's weekly Top 10 Poll and for the past seven years he has been on the selection committee for the NCBWA Division III New England Player of the Year.  In September, 2008, Gorman began a four-year term on the NCAA Men's and Women's Ice Hockey Rules Committee.

A native of Winthrop, Mass., Gorman graduated from Winthrop High School in 1990. In addition to his work in intercollegiate athletics, he has served on the sports staff for the Brockton Enterprise and the Winthrop Transcript, as well as serving as Associate Sports Editor for Stonehill's student newspaper, The Summit, from 1992-1994. During that time, the paper received an award citing excellence in its sports section.  In 2004 he helped to establish the William P. Gorman, Jr., Memorial Scholarship Fund, which was formed to honor his late father, who served the Town of Winthrop as an educator, leader, and mentor for nearly 35 years before succumbing to cancer in early 2004.  Each year at Winthrop High School's graduation, two awards from this fund are given to graduates who have chosen to enter the field of education.

An diehard Red Sox fan, Gorman resides in Winthrop, Mass., with his wife, Jennifer, and their daughter, Hannah.