EAST STROUDSBURG, Pa. – Pete Moore, the Director of Athletic Communications at Syracuse University, received the Pete Nevins Award for Distinguished Achievement at the 2021 EAST-COMM Virtual Award Ceremony on Wednesday night.
The award honors the memory of Pete Nevins, East Stroudsburg University's sports information director for 33 years (1969-2002), who passed away in January 2007, and is presented to an individual in recognition of their advancement of the field of athletic communications and advocacy for intercollegiate athletics.
"This honor means a great deal to me, primarily because of the man whose name is on it, said Moore. I was fortunate enough to be a colleague of Pete Nevins' while I was at Ithaca College. I always looked forward to our phone calls and the times we were able to get together in person. He was a one-of-a-kind professional and person."
Moore is the 14th recipient of the award, following Ann King of The Sage Colleges, who was honored in 2020.
Moore is in his 24th year at Syracuse, working as a university's sports information contact since 1998 and serving as the Director of Athletic Communications since 2007.
A past-president of the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) and an 11-year board member, Moore was inducted into the CoSIDA Hall of Fame in 1998 and earned the association's Warren Berg Award one year later. He is a past-president of the ECAC-SIDA and served on its board for six years. In June 2001 he received the ECAC-SIDA Irving Marsh Award. At the 2008 CoSIDA Convention, Moore was recognized with a 25-year plaque.
Nevins, who was inducted into the ESU Athletic Hall of Fame in October 2007, was decorated with every major award from CoSIDA and ECAC-SIDA during his illustrious career.
The other award recipients at Wednesday's virtual workshop were Connor Martin, Mary Washington (Bill Esposito Memorial Award), Chris and Steve Zerdelian, D2EastHoops.org (Monahan and Wallace Media Award), Greg Pellegrino, Holy Family (Bob Kenworthy Award), John Hartrick, Binghamton (Irving T. Marsh University Award), and Scott Guise, York (Irving T. Marsh College Award).
He was the second-ever recipient of the Warren Berg Award as the nation's outstanding college division SID, earned the Irving T. Marsh Award in 1986, and was inducted to the CoSIDA Hall of Fame the following year. He also received the Bob Kenworthy Good Person Award from ECAC-SIDA in 2006, which honors a person who shows an exceptional amount of respect for the profession, their fellow SID's, the media and the community.
Nevins was the SID at the University of Bridgeport from 1963-69 and was a sportswriter at the Bridgeport Post-Telegram in Connecticut before coming to East Stroudsburg. He was the beloved husband of Gail Nevins.
