PHILADELPHIA, Pa. – Tom Di Camillo, who serves as the Assistant Commissioner of the Pacific West Conference and the media relations coordinator for Central Arizona College, has been named the recipient of the 2008 Warren Berg Award by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA).

The award is presented annually to a college division member of CoSIDA who has made an outstanding contribution to the field of college sports information, and who by his or her activities, has brought dignity and prestige to the profession.

Di Camillo is in his second year at the Pacific West Conference, where he has helped promote the rebirth of the seven-team conference. In his role there he coordinates the promotion of the PacWest's 11 sports, including baseball, which began as an award and statistics conference in 2008 at his encouragement. He has been at Central Arizona College since January 2007. There, he is currently responsible for publicizing the institution's nine campuses and centers that are located throughout a county.

For more than 16 years Di Camillo coordinated all of the publicity for West Chester University’s varsity athletic programs as the Pennsylvania institution’s Sports Information Director.

For nearly two decades, Di Camillo has been a sports information director at the NCAA Division II level. His dedication to the profession, passion for Division II, and commitment to CoSIDA began in September of 1990 when he was named the director of sports information at his alma mater, at the age of 25.

As the SID at West Chester, Di Camillo was a one-person shop coordinating publicity for the second-largest NCAA Division II program in the nation. He was a founding organizer of the West Chester University Athletic Hall of Fame, taking a lead role in guiding its growth from its inception.

Di Camillo also developed, managed and actually broadcast an extensive schedule of athletic events over the Internet and on local radio of a variety of Golden Ram athletic events, including football, basketball, baseball, soccer and lacrosse. He also oversaw the redesign of the athletic logos and developed extensive e-mail distribution lists for the media and alumni to promote Golden Ram athletics.

While at West Chester, Di Camillo had the opportunity to host numerous NCAA II post-season events, including the NCAA Division II Lacrosse National Championship.

He is most proud of his students who created careers in the sports industry - Meaghann Schulte, formerly the assistant director of the Big 5; Dan Drutz, the assistant athletic director for media relations at Saint Peters (NJ); Tom Machamer, the assistant athletic director at Immaculata; Sean Kane, a senior producer at Comcast Sports in Philadelphia; Leigh Matejkovic, the SID at Neumann College; Alison Luberski, formerly the assistant SID at American University; and Michele Greth, former publicists with NASCAR drivers Sterling Marlin and Ryan Newman.

Di Camillo's commitment and belief in Division II athletics led to his developing the first e-mail distribution list for Division II sports information directors. He also created the first Division II Football Press Box List as a way to promote Division II football.

For more than a decade Di Camillo coordinated the annual Division II Sports Information Directors meeting at CoSIDA. The CoSIDA Board recognized his leadership skills and appointment him to a one-year term on the board as a College Division Representative in 2002-03. He then was chosen for a full three-year term from 2004-06.

Di Camillo has won several CoSIDA Writing Awards and served on the Workshop Committee Program for nearly a decade. From August of 2000 until June of 2006, Di Camillo was a sports writer for Engle Publishing & Printing in Lancaster, PA, producing five weekly columns on high school athletic events in the region.

From September of 1989 until arriving at West Chester University in September of 1990, Di Camillo was the sports editor for the Coatesville Record, a 7,000-circulation daily newspaper in Coatesville, PA.

Past Warren Berg Award Recipients
2007 Paul Allan (Minnesota St.-Mankato)
2006 Larry Happel (Central College)
2005 Wayne Block (Christopher Newport)
2004 Kevin Ruple (Baldwin-Wallace)
2003 Ann Bready King (The College of New Jersey)
2002 Dick Lipe (Bentley)
2001 Wally Johnson (St. Lawrence)
2000 Dave Wrath (Augustana)
1999 Pete Moore (Ithaca College)
1998 Roy Pickerill (Kentucky Wesleyan)
1997 Jeff Hodges (North Alabama)
1996 J. Roger Dykes (Rochester Institute & Tech)
1995 Ron Lenz (South Dakota State)
1994 Bill Cable (Northeast Missouri)
1993 Duane Schroeder (Wartburg)
1992 Ken Cerino (Springfield)
1991 John Carpenter (Slippery Rock)
1990 George Ellis (North Dakota State)
1989 Bob Kenworthy (Gettysburg)
1988 Lee Bohnet (North Dakota)
1987 Garner Roberts (Abilene Christian)
1986 Pete Nevins (East Stroudsburg)
1985 Fred Nuesch (Texas A&I)