CORNELL NAMED TO SUNY COBLESKILLL ATHLETIC HALL-OF-FAME 
February 13, 2003

The SUNY Cobleskill Athletic Department announced today that Colgate University Director of Athletic Communications Robert Cornell has been named to the Cobleskill Athletic Hall-of-Fame. Cornell will be enshrined as part of Cobleskill’s tenth Hall-of-Fame class.

 “The two years I spent at Cobleskill have always been very special to me,” said Cornell. “This is a wonderful honor and I am deeply humbled by it.”

 A 1965 graduate of Cobleskill, Cornell was named the SUNY Cobleskill Athlete-of-the-Year as senior, earning NJCAA All-Regional honors on the baseball diamond as a hard hitting first/third baseman. On the soccer field he anchored the Fighting Tiger defense from the goalkeeper position.  

 Cornell is currently in his 27th year as Colgate University’s Director of Athletic Communications.  He is responsible for all publicity and public relation matters concerning the Red Raider athletic department and its twenty-five intercollegiate sports.

Prior to being named Sports Information Director at Colgate in May of 1976, Cornell held positions as Assistant Sports Information Director at Princeton University and Sports Information Director at the University of New Haven.

In July of 2001, Cornell was inducted into the College Sports Information Directors Association Hall of Fame.

During his career in the sports information field, he has served as a press liaison for numerous NCAA and ECAC championships and regional events, including Media Coordinator of the NCAA Division I Golf Championships in 1977.

He served on the press liaison staff for the U.S. Olympic Committee at the 1984 Olympic Summer Games in Los Angeles and the 1988 Olympic Winter Games in Calgary.  In addition, he was on the press liaison staff at four Olympic Festivals (1981, '82, '83, and’87).

He has served on the Site Selection, Post-Graduate Scholarship, and Ethics Committees of the College Sports Information Directors of America. Cornell is a past president of the Eastern College Athletic Conference Sports Information Directors Association, and the 1992 recipient of the Irving T. Marsh Service Bureau Award, presented annually to the sports information director who has contributed the most to the work of the Bureau during the year and throughout his or her career.

A native of Rochester, NY, Cornell received his B.A. in Business Administration from the University of New Haven. He lives in Hamilton, NY with his wife Shirley and their two children, Rob and Ashley.

 The official induction ceremony will be held on the Cobleskill campus at the Prentice Hall dinning facility on Friday May 9^th, 2003 beginning at 6:00 PM. interested parties should contact should contact the SUNY Cobleskill Athletic Department at (518) 255-6244 or the college’s Alumni Office at (518) 255-5628 for further information.