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2008 CANISIUS COLLEGE SOFTBALL
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).
Athletic Administration
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.
Judi Caserta
Athletic
Business Manager
Father
Paul Dugan
Athletics Moderator
Rachelle Held
Director of
Complance
Danielle LaMarre
Academic Advisor
for Athletics
Matt Reitnour
Director of
Athletic
Communications
Andy Smith
Head Athletic Trainer
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