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Phil
Buttafuoco, Commissioner of the Eastern College Athletic
Conference, has announced that NJCU athletic director Larry Schiner has been named the 2003 ECAC Jostens Male Administrator of the Year.
Schiner was presented with his award at the ECAC Fall
Convention Honors Dinner presented by Jostens on Tuesday, September 30 at
the Sheraton Hyannis Resort.
The ECAC Jostens Male
Administrator of the Year award is presented annually to an administrator
from an ECAC member school in recognition of outstanding or meritorious
service to the ECAC. The award is
given in conjunction with Jostens, the presenting sponsor of the ECAC
Honors Dinner, and Jim Dougher, Jostens National Sports Manager and
long-time friend and supporter of the ECAC.
Schiner has been a part
of the New Jersey City University's athletic department for 36 years. He
also recently completed his 26th year as Director of Athletics. During his
tenure, Schiner has been the chief architect of unprecedented growth and
improvement of the Gothic Knights' intercollegiate athletics. Schiner
spearheaded the development of the new Athletic and Fitness Center;
supervised the development of the Thomas M. Gerrity Athletic Complex; and
served with distinction on New Jersey Athletic Conference (NJAC), ECAC and
National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) committees.
After serving as men's basketball coach and assistant athletic director,
Schiner assumed the duties of director of athletics in 1977. During his
nine seasons as head coach, he became the winningest coach in the
program's history with 133 wins while guiding two of his teams to the NCAA
Basketball Tournament. He led the Gothic Knights to five post season
appearances and his teams won back-to-back New Jersey State College
Athletic Conference (NJSCAC) titles. He was named NJSCAC Coach of the Year
twice (1968 and 1973) and was inducted into the University's Athletic Hall
of Fame in 1980.
Active both regionally and nationally, Schiner served on the NCAA
Council/Division III Steering Committee and was a member of the Division
III Task Force that reviewed the NCAA membership structure. He also served
on various NCAA Committees including the Division III Men's Basketball
Committee, the Division III Championships Committee, and the Nominating
and Interpretations Committee. Currently, Schiner is a member of the
Eastern Regional Football and Men's Basketball Advisory Committees. He
served on the ECAC Eligibility Committee from 1987 through 1992, chairing
the committee in 1991-92. He recently completed a three-year term on the
ECAC Board of Directors and continues to serve on numerous ECAC
committees. Schiner is an active member of the National Association of
Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA) and was a member of the National
Association of Collegiate Director of Athletics (NACDA) Kickoff Classic
Host Committee for the Kickoff Classic College Football game at the
Meadowlands.
In 1995, Schiner was inducted into the University of Maine Sports Hall of
Fame as a basketball player and honored by College Athletic Administrators
of New Jersey (CAANJ) with the Garden State Award for his contributions to
intercollegiate athletics in the state. Schiner was awarded the
All-American Football Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award in 2000.
Co-founder and past president of both the CAANJ and the New Jersey
Collegiate Basketball Coaches Association (NJCBCA), Schiner was
instrumental in the formation of the New Jersey Athletic Conference and
served as its first president from 1985 through 1987. He served as
president of the NJSCAC from 1982 until the inception of the NJAC in 1985.
Schiner holds a master's degree in education and a bachelor's degree in
physical education from the University of Maine. An All-Yankee Conference
basketball player in 1960 and 1961, he established six Black Bear career
records following a playing career that spanned 1958-1961.
A native of Scituate, Massachusetts, Schiner resides in Central New Jersey
with his wife, Barbara, another NJCU Hall-of-Famer.
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