Centennial Conference Executive Director Steve Ulrich was honored by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) with the CoSIDA Lifetime Achievement Award. The award recognizes distinguished contributions to the profession or for a quarter century of service to the athletic communications profession.
Ulrich has served as Executive Director of the Centennial Conference since its inception in January 1993. He came to the conference after serving as sports information director at Yale University from 1989-92.
He will be retiring at the end of the 2018-2019 academic year.
Prior to Yale, Ulrich served as the assistant SID at Cornell University from 1986-89 and was the sports information director at McDaniel College from 1983-86. During that time, he also was the publicity director of the Centennial Football Conference, the forerunner to the all-sports Centennial Conference, in 1984 and 1985.
Ulrich has served on many national and regional committees, including a two-year stint as President of the Division III Commissioners Association in 2000-01 and was chair of the NCAA Division III Men's Basketball Committee in 2014. One of the founders of the Middle Atlantic Regional Commissioners Association (MARCA), Ulrich has also served on the NCAA Men's Golf Committee.
Earlier this year, Ulrich was honored by the Division III Commissoner's Association with another Lifetime Achievement Award.