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The Hall of Fame class, which will be honored at the 2023 College Sports Communicators CSCUNITE23 annual convention in June at the Orlando World Center Marriott, is comprised of a former CSC (CoSIDA) president (Judy Willson, Geneva College); former Board of Directors member (Gregory Goings, Bowie State); former D2SIDA leader (Bill Powers, Hawai’i Pacific); and three others from NCAA Division I (Marc Dellins, UCLA; Phil Haddy, Iowa; and Oliver Pierce, Gonzaga). All six inductees are retired from the athletic communications profession.

by Barb Kowal, CSC Director of Professional Development and External Affairs

The College Sports Communicators (CSC) will honor nearly 60 members, distinguished external colleagues, media members and collegiate administrators with its 2023 Special Awards, the association’s annual awards of distinction.

CSC is composed of intercollegiate athletic communications and creative professionals from colleges, universities and athletic conferences at all divisions of competition in the United States and Canada.

The Special Awards, to be announced throughout the week of Feb. 16-22, are presented for outstanding contributions to the organization and to CSC’s mission. Honors will be presented at CSC’s 66th annual convention, CSCUNITE23, from June 11-14 at the Orlando World Center Marriott. The CSC's CSCUNITE23 convention is held in conjunction with NACDA and Affiliates Convention Week.

The 2023 Hall of Fame class highlights the Special Awards. In addition to the Hall of Fame, other Special Awards recognize emerging leaders, community service, lifetime achievement, organization trailblazer, outstanding media contribution, and 25-Year service honors.

Highlighting the 2023 CSC honorees are the six new Hall of Fame inductees:

• Marc Dellins – UCLA, Director of Executive Relations and Senior Associate Athletics Director - Sports Information (retired)
• Gregory Goings – Bowie State University, Assistant Athletic Director for Media Relations (retired)
• Phil Haddy – University of Iowa, Sports Information Director (retired)
• Oliver Pierce – Gonzaga University, Assistant Athletics Director/Sports Information Director (retired)
• Bill Powers – Hawai'i Pacific University, Assistant Athletics Director of Strategic Communication (retired)
• Judy Willson – Geneva College, Director of Graduate and Online Admissions
  2015-16 CSC President // Previously held athletic communications positions at numerous colleges and universities

A past president of CoSIDA, [Judy Willson] served at a variety of schools and conferences as an athletic communications professional during her award-winning career. After concluding her career in college athletics in 2020, Willson is now in her second year at her alma mater, Geneva College, as Director of Graduate and Online Admissions and also volunteers in the athletics department and sports information office at the college.

She registered more than 30 years of experience in NCAA Division I and Division II collegiate athletics communications, working at both the conference level - Mountain West, Sun Belt, Lone Star and Mid-America Collegiate Athletics Association – and at the institution level: at LSU, University of New Mexico, University of Louisiana-Monroe, University of Denver, Eastern New Mexico University, Pittsburg State University and Northwest Missouri State University. She came to Geneva from LSU where she served as an associate athletics communication director for four years.

Willson served as president of CoSIDA during the 2015-16 academic year as the fourth female to hold that role. As a past president, she is on the CSC Nominating Committee and is in her second year serving on the CSC Diversity and Inclusion Committee. She also served a five-year term on the CSC (CoSIDA) Board of Directors as an at-large representative. In total, she logged 11 years of Board service to the organization.

In 2020, she earned the 2020 Arch Ward Award from CSC for outstanding contributions to the profession and earned the 2006 Kenworthy Community Service Award.

Willson served as the local host media coordinator for the 2012 NCAA Women's Final Four and previously worked on the NCAA Women's Final Four Media Coordination Committee for a decade.

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