(Portions of this story taken from the CoSIDA website)
GREENWOOD, Ind. -- The College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) organization continues its week-long announcement of its 2021 Special Awards Tuesday by recognizing four more outstanding members for top university division and college division honors. These honors are presented for distinguished contributions to the profession. Complete CoSIDA Release
The 2021 recipients of the CoSIDA Warren Berg, Arch Ward and Rising Star honors are below. On February 22, the six-member 2021 CoSIDA Hall of Fame Class was announced.
Dave Reed, Associate Director of Athletic Communications at Colorado College, will receive the Warren Berg Award, while Pete Moore, the Director of Athletic Communications at Syracuse University and the a member of the CoSIDA Past Presidents’ Advisory Council, will be recognized with the 2021 Arch Ward Award, while
Both honors are presented annually to a CoSIDA member who has made outstanding contributions to the field of athletic communications, and who by his or her activities, has brought dignity and prestige to the profession. The Berg Award is exclusively a college division honor.
Additionally, Katie Mucci, former Assistant Commissioner of the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conferene and current Assistant Commissioner for Technology and New Media at the Missouri Valley Conference, was honored as one of two winners of the CoSIDA's Rising Start Award. Mucci won for the university division while Anthony (A.J.) O’Hagan, the Sports Information Director at Yeshiva University, was the college division recipient.
The Rising Star Award honors a CoSIDA member with 10 years of service or less whose work, service, dedication, energy and enthusiasm to the profession make that individual a "rising star" in athletic communications.
WARREN BERG AWARD
Dave Reed – Colorado College (Associate Director of Athletic Communications)
Dave Reed is in his 22nd year of service at Colorado College. He has served there since 1999, often as the sole person overseeing the Tigers’ 14 NCAA Division III Programs. The head communications director oversees the department’s Division I ice hockey and women’s soccer teams.
Since the inaugural Warren Berg Award in 1985, Reed becomes the first assistant or associate SID (a non-department head) to earn this prestigious honor.
Reed received the CoSIDA College Division Achievement Award in 2017, given to an associate or assistant SID for outstanding service and dedication. He also was the 2010 American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) Grant Burger Media Award recipient.
He has a varied background, starting as a sport program associate with The Ohio State University (1992-93) and was assistant SID at the University of Notre Dame (1993-1996). Reed then stepped away from college athletic communications, serving as a USAToday.com content developer and stringer manager and then was Director of Communications for the American Volleyball Coaches Association before coming to Colorado College.
Reed has long-time service to CoSIDA and affiliated organizations. A college division representative on the CoSIDA Board of Directors from 2007-2010, he also served two terms with the (former) College Division Management Advisory Committee in 2008-2010 and 2017-18.
He currently serves on the CoSIDA Special Awards Committee. Among his numerous committee service, Reed was a member of CoSIDA’s former Membership Services Committee (2012-14) and Convention Programming Committee (2014-17) and was on the NCAA Statistics and Records Advisory Board from 2009-12.
A leader on his Colorado College campus, he has served as the co-chair for Colorado College’s Staff Council and graduated from the Colorado College Leadership Academy in 2013.
Warren Berg Award
Presented annually to a CoSIDA college division (NCAA DII, DIII, NAIA, Two-year Colleges, and Canadian/U Sports) member who has made outstanding contributions to the field of college sports information, and who by his or her activities, has brought dignity and prestige to the profession. Voted on by the Special Awards Committee. (Note: Nominees can be an active or retired member.)
RISING STAR AWARD, UNIVERSITY DIVISION
Katie Mucci – Missouri Valley Conference (Assistant Commissioner for New Media and Technology)
Katie Mucci’s work in the digital/new media areas has earned rave reviews from her colleagues since she started her athletic communications career. At the MVC since the summer of 2018, Mucci handles all aspects of the league’s creative and digital content, oversees Conference social media strategies, manages internal design projects, Conference marketing and promotional projects, and oversees all league video content for both the website and MVC-produced television broadcasts.
She chaired CoSIDA’s New Media Committee from 2016-2020 and introduced and coordinated that committee’s numerous professional development and education videos, graphics and content stories for the CoSIDA membership. With other young CoSIDA members, she also coordinated and hosted a series of podcasts on numerous topics and issues facing athletic communicators.
Currently, Mucci is a member of CoSIDA’s Young Professionals Committee and part of the WoSIDA (Women of CoSIDA) steering committee. She served on panels at CoSIDA conventions in 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018.
In the CoSIDA Publications and Digital Design contests, she has earned two “Best In the Nation” citations for media guide covers. She was named a “Rising 25 Award Winner” by Front Office Sports/Teamwork Online.
Mucci is a 2014 graduate of Northern Colorado, where she served as a sports information intern her senior year in 2013-14. She moved to the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference in 2014-15 as Assistant Director of New Media and Technology, where under her leadership, the SCAC became a model for Division III conferences in the areas of social and digital media. She served at the SCAC until starting with the MVC in July of 2018.
Rising Star Award
Presented annually to two CoSIDA members – one in the University Division (NCAA DI) and one in the College Division (NCAA DII, DIII, NAIA, Two-year Colleges, U Sports) – with 10 years of service or less whose work at their institution, conference office or intercollegiate athletics-affiliated association and service, dedication, energy and enthusiasm to the profession make that individual a "rising star" in sports information. Voted on by the Special Awards Committee.
