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2008 CANISIUS COLLEGE BASEBALL
Athletic Administration
Traci Murphy
Senior Women’s
Administrator/
Associate Athletic
Director
Traci Murphy
enters her third season
as Associate Athletic
Director and Senior
Women’s Administrator
for the Golden Griffins.
Murphy joins the
Canisius staff after spending
seven seasons at the
University of Louisiana
at Monroe.
Murphy is responsible
for all NCAA rules
enforcement of Canisius’
16 Division I athletic programs
in addition to all
areas of student-athlete
welfare. She supervises compliance, academic
counseling, strength and conditioning and athletic
training. She also oversees the CHAMPS/
Life Skills program, and the Student-Athlete
Advisory Committee (SAAC).
Murphy is the sport supervisor for women’s
soccer, men’s soccer, women’s cross country,
men’s cross country, softball and golf.
She serves on MAAC committees for Athletic
Administration, Finance, Gender and Minority
Issues, and chairs the MAAC Swimming and
Diving Committe. She also organizes the annual
National Girls and Women in Sports Day
(NGWSD) at Canisius and helped found the
WNY Girls in Sports Program. The program,
in collaboration with the City of Buffalo Public
Schools, area colleges and universities, the Bills
and Girl Scout Council, focuses specifically on
young girls (ages 9-12) and their involvement in
sports.
Murphy began her career in 1992 as associate
head athletic trainer at St Mary’s and moved
to ULM in 1998. She added the responsibility
of senior woman administrator in 2001 which
involved the monitoring of women’s sports and
mentoring the SAAC.
In July 2003, she was promoted to the
position of director of academics, compliance
and student-athlete services. Murphy worked
to develop and implement an enhanced academic
development and compliance program
for ULM’s student-athletes and the athletics
department. Prior to ULM, Murphy served five
years as the head athletic trainer at St. Mary’s
College of Maryland.
She is a 1989 graduate of West Chester
University with a bachelor’s degree in health
and physical education. In 1992, she earned a
master’s degree in health education from the
University of Arkansas.
The Maryland native and her husband,
Pat, have two children, Sean (6) and Sarah (2).
John Maddock
Associate Athletic
Director
External Affairs
John Maddock is in
his 27th year with Canisius
College athletics and his
11th as associate athletic
director for external affairs.
Originally hired as the
Golden Griffins’ sports
information director, the
native of Washington, Ill.,
was named an assistant athletic
director prior to the
1987-88 season and moved
into his current position in
1997. Maddock is responsible
for corporate partnerships,
marketing and
promotions, licensing, the
Blue & Gold Club and ticket sales.
The 52-year-old Maddock oversaw the operation
of the department of athletics during Spring
2005 before Bill Maher was named the director of
athletics. Maddock also assisted the MAAC with
plans for its 25th Anniversary celebration during
the 2005-06 athletic season.
He chaired the search committee for the
Griffs’ head football coach in 2000 and men’s soccer
coach in 1998. He serves on the Hall of Fame
and the MLK Awards Selection Committees and
oversaw the development of the athletic department’s
current logo. He was also instrumental
in planning the season-long 100-year anniversary
celebration for men’s basketball in 2003-04.
Maddock arrived at Canisius in July 1981
after spending two-and-a-half years as the administrative
assistant to the athletic director at
Brockport State College. Prior to his job at
Brockport, he was the ticket manager for the
Atlanta Braves Triple-A farm club in Richmond,
Va.
A graduate of Western Illinois University,
Maddock received his bachelor’s degree in recreation
and park administration in 1976 and his
master’s degree in athletic administration in 1978.
In addition to his duties at Canisius, Maddock is
an active member of the National Association of
Collegiate Marketing Administrators (NACMA)
and the former chair of the College Sports
Information Directors of America (CoSIDA)
Committee on Committees. He also served on
the CoSIDA Academic All-America Committee.
Maddock spent two seasons as the public
relations director for the North Atlantic
Conference and served as the host for the 1990
ECAC-SIDA conference at the Buffalo Hilton.
He chaired the Baseball Committee for the 1993
World University Games and was the assistant
media coordinator for the 2000 NCAA Division
I men’s basketball opening round games played at
Buffalo’s HSBC Arena.
Maddock was honored in 1998 by ECAC-
SIDA with the Irving T. Marsh Award for contributions,
dedication and excellence in the field of
collegiate sports information.
John and his wife, Priscilla, reside in Snyder
with their daughters Mackenzie and Mikaela.
Mike Carletta
Director of
Complance
Judi Caserta
Athletic
Business Manager
Father
Paul Dugan
Athletics Moderator
Matt Reitnour
Director of
Athletic
Communications
Andy Smith
Head Athletic Trainer
Barb
Zimmerman
Athletics
Administrative
Assistant
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