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ECAC ANNOUCES THE ADDITION OF THREE NEW ECAC BOARD MEMBERS

Cape Cod, Mass. - Commissioner of the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Rudy Keeling and President of the ECAC Board of Directors Dan Mara announced the appointment of Joseph Clinton of Dominican College, Mark Griffin of Rutgers-Newark, and Andrea Savage of the New England Small College Athletic Conference to the ECAC Board of Directors.  Each will serve a four-year term, expiring in the fall of 2013 at the annual ECAC Convention and Trade Show.

Clinton is now entering his 19^th year as the director of athletics and head men's basketball coach at Dominican College.  In 1989, Clinton took the position as director of athletics and has helped guide significant changes to the Chargers athletic program. Dominican's athletic department has grown from five intercollegiate sports to 12 and made the transition from an NAIA school to an NCAA Division II member since the beginning of Clinton's period in office.  During his tenure Dominican College sports have won 34 CACC Championships, made ten NAIA Championship appearances, won two ECAC Championships, earned seven NCAA Regional Tournament appearances and one NCAA Championship appearance.  As a coach, Clinton has led the program to three Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference (CACC) Championships and four twenty-win seasons.  He is a three-time recipient of the CACC Coach of the Year Award and is a past recipient of the All-Metropolitan Coach of the Year Award.  Clinton graduated from Union College (NY) in 1983 with a bachelor of arts degree in English.  At Union, he was a standout basketball player, scoring over 1,000 points. Prior to Union, he played high school basketball at Albertus Magnus High School (NY) and is in his alma mater's Hall of Fame.

Griffin was named the director of intercollegiate athletics and recreation at Rutgers-Newark in August 2004. Since the start of his tenure, he has added men's and women's varsity programs for cross country and indoor and outdoor track and field, bringing the number of intercollegiate teams to 16. Griffin has aided the reopening of Alumni field, which now features a FieldTurf artificial surface for soccer and a new softball field. He has served on the NCAA Post-Graduate Scholarship Regional Committee since 2005 and served as chairman in 2007-2008. Since 2000, Griffin has been the president of the Collegiate Track Conference and has chaired the ECAC Division III Track & Field/Cross Country Committee since 2004. He has served on the selection committee for the ECAC Division III Metro men's soccer since 2002 and on the men's basketball selection committee since 2005. He also has served on the ECAC Division III women basketball committee.  He is an active member of the Collegiate Athletic Administrators of New Jersey (CAANJ), the Black Coaches Association (BCA), the United States Track Coaches Association (USTCA), the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA), and the National Association of Collegiate Marketing Administrators (NACMA). Prior to Rutgers-Newark, Griffin spent 13 years at the New Jersey City University, where he was both an assistant athletic director and later an associate director of athletics. He also was NJCU's compliance and eligibility officer, and coordinated scheduling of all games and events for NJCU's 15-team athletic program. Griffin has also held athletic administrative positions at Teikyo Post University in Waterbury, Connecticut and Springfield College in Massachusetts.

Andrea Savage assumed the duties of Executive Director of the NESCAC in August of 1999. The appointment was of major significance for the league, as she became the first full-time executive for the group of 11 institutions since the conference's founding in 1971. As Executive Director she serves as the chief operating officer of the eleven member conference and works with the presidents, deans, athletics administrators, and coaches in the administration of the conference.   She is responsible for promoting the mission of the conference, upholding the policies and enforcing the rules of the conference, coordinating conference scheduling, conference tournaments, championships and special events.  She was instrumental in leading the conference through the transition to becoming a full playing conference, implementing conference scheduling and establishing an additional 15 conference championships.  She has served on numerous regional and national committees, including the NCAA Division III Interpretations and Legislation Committee (2005-2009) and the Division III Commissioners Association Executive Committee (2001-2003). Savage came to the NESCAC after eight years as a senior athletics administrator at Yale University.  At Yale she was responsible for 19 programs and involved in budgeting, scheduling, eligibility and compliance, event management, and served as an admissions and financial aid liaison for a number of teams including football.  She was involved in the coordination of a number of large amateur and professional sporting events - including US and World Cup Exhibition Soccer Games as well as the Opening and Closing Ceremonies for the International Special Olympics.  A 1986 graduate of Amherst College, Savage was a three-sport athlete for the Lord Jeffs in field hockey, squash, and lacrosse who later returned to her alma mater in 1989 as an assistant coach for all three teams. The following year, Savage served as an assistant coach for the field hockey and lacrosse programs at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She went on to receive a master of science in sport management from UMass in 1991.

About the ECAC®

The ECAC is the nation's largest athletic and the only multi-divisional conference in the country with approximately 300 Division I, II, and III colleges and universities. The ECAC membership covers 16 states and stretches from Maine to North Carolina and westerly to Illinois. Established in 1938, the ECAC, a non-profit service organization, sponsors nearly 100 championships in 37 men's and women's sports and assigns more than 4,400 officials in 12 sports. The ECAC also administers nine affiliate sports organizations and six playing leagues. Through the public relations arm of the conference, more than 2,000 student-athletes are recognized. Finally, the ECAC serves as the primary conference for select members in the sports of men's ice hockey, women's ice hockey, and men's lacrosse.