Frank Supovitz, National Football League Top Executive, to Speak at Iona College Dinner Dec. 2

Frank Supovitz, Senior Vice President,  Events for the National Football League, will be the featured speaker at Iona College’s Careers in Sports and Entertainment Dinner Series event at 5 PM, Thursday, December 2 at Iona’s  Hynes Athletic Center, 715 North Avenue, New Rochelle.

The audience will have an opportunity to hear from Supovitz who oversees the production of the Super Bowl, the most successful single-day sporting event in the world and to learn about the jobs that support it as well as other NFL events and career opportunities at the NFL.

Supovitz joined the NFL in January, 2005 after serving as Group Vice President, Events and Entertainment for the National Hockey League for 13 years where he was responsible for the planning and execution of the NHL All-Star Weekend, NHL Draft, NHL Awards Show, Stanley Cup Finals and international competitions in Canada, Europe and Japan.

The formal program will begin promptly at 5:30 PM and last until 6:45 PM, followed by a Q&A with Supovitz. It is open to graduate and undergraduate students who have expressed an interest in this field, as well as Iona College faculty, alumni, and administrators.

Founded in 1940 by the Congregation of Edmund Rice Christian Brothers, Iona College is a private, coeducational institution of learning in the tradition of American Catholic higher education. Iona— currently listed in the top tier of US News and World Report’s annual “America’s Best Colleges 2010; The Princeton Review’s Best Northeastern Colleges 2010 edition and Business Week’s Top 25 Undergraduate Business Schools in the Northeast—offers undergraduate degrees in liberal arts, science, and business administration, as well as Master of Arts, Master of Science and master of business administration degrees and numerous post-graduate certificate programs. For more information, visit http://www.iona.edu.

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Saint Katherine College Athletic Director Receives National Award

Each January, the American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA) hosts the largest baseball convention in the world. Approximately 4,000 coaches attend the convention, which is held at various locations around the country. The ABCA convention held in Chicago January 3-6, 2013, was a huge success.  Mike Scolinos, head baseball coach and athletic director at the College, received the 2012 ABCA 25-Year Coaches Award at the event.  

The ABCA is the primary professional organization for baseball coaches at the amateur level. Its over 6,600 members represent all 50 states and 23 countries. Since 1945, Association membership has broadened to include eight divisions - NCAA Division I, II and III, NAIA, Junior College, Pacific Association Division, High School and Youth. Go Firebirds!

Saint Katherine College (www.stkath.org) is an undergraduate college of liberal arts and sciences that focuses its integrative teaching in the core subjects of Composition, English Language and Literature, Foreign Language, American Government and History, Economics, Mathematics, and the Sciences in addition to instruction in concentration-specific degree requirements. Outstanding teaching and research—with relevance to the practical world and Christian witness as guiding principles—is the institution’s primary purpose- inquiry seeking wisdom. Saint Katherine College is independent, coeducational, not-for-profit and privately endowed. The College admits students of all religious and faith backgrounds. BA/BS degrees are offered in: Art, Biological Sciences, Biotechnology, Chemistry and Biochemistry, Economics, English Language and Literature, History, Interdisciplinary Studies, Management Science, Music, Philosophy, Public Health and Policy Studies, and Theology. The College has a 9:1 student to faculty ratio, and of the full-time members of the faculty, all hold either a doctoral degree or the highest degree in their field.

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