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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 32
CHRONOLOGY Buffalo was settled in 1800 and incorporated as a city in 1832. NICKNAMES “City of Good Neighbors” “Queen City of the Lakes” “City of No Illusions” POPULATION Buffalo has a population of 292,648. The Buffalo-Niagara Falls Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) is the 43rd largest United States metro area with a population of 1,170,111. LOCATION Buffalo is the commercial, political and entertainment hub of an eight county region (Erie, Niagara, Allegany, Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Genesee, Orleans and Wyoming counties) with a population of nearly 1.6 million. Located at the easternmost end of Lake Erie, overlooking the Niagara River, Buffalo is just across the Peace Bridge from the Canadian province of Ontario, and a 20-minute drive from Niagara Falls. Approximately 55 percent of the U.S. population and 62 percent of Canada’s population is within a 500-mile radius of the Buffalo Niagara region. Fascinating Facts • All Cheerios are made here. • Chicken wings were first served at the Anchor Bar on Main Street in 1964. • Kleinhans Music Hall, a National Historic Landmark, is considered one of the five acoustically perfect buildings in the world. • In 1905, the NAACP was founded in the region, with its first national conference in Buffalo. • Two hundred miles of fresh water shore border the area. • Buffalo was the first city in the United States to light streets with electricity. • Buffalo is the only city in the United States to boast five Frank Lloyd Wright designed homes. • The Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site, formerly the Wilcox residence, was the scene of the inauguration of Theodore Roosevelt as President of the United States on September 14, 1901, following the assassination of William McKinley. • More bagels are made in Buffalo than any other U.S. city. • Forest Lawn Cemetery, located across the street from Canisius College, is the resting place of President Millard Fillmore, General Albert J. Meyer (founder of National Weather Service), Chief Red Jacket of the Seneca Indians and William G. Fargo, co-organizer of the first transcontinental Express Service. • Home of Samuel Clemens, who worked as the managing editor of them Buffalo Express Newspapers, Grover Cleveland, the 22nd and 24th President of the United States, and Warren Spahn, the Hall of Fame pitcher, who is the winningest left-hander of all time with 363 victories.
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