Tom Di Camillo
Tom Di Camillo
Title: Commissioner
Phone: 607-753-2279
Email: sunyacsports@gmail.com

Tom Di Camillo is the third commissioner of the State University of New York Athletic Conference, an association of ten NCAA Division III institutions. Di Camillo began his service as commissioner on January 27, 2014

Di Camillo follows Brian Williams, Associate Director of Athletics at New Paltz, who took a leave of absence to serve as Interim Commissioner since July 2013. Tom becomes the third permanent Commissioner succeeding Azure Davey who served as commissioner for one year and Patrick Damore who was the SUNYAC's founding commissioner and served for 33 years.

As commissioner, Di Camillo is responsible for all aspects of running the office and representing the Conference in all matters from administration of sponsored sport programs, rules compliance, officiating, scheduling and championships. In his role Di Camillo provides a link among the presidents, academic leaders, athletic administrators, and coaches of the SUNYAC Conference, and he coordinate contacts with prospective sponsors and affiliated organizations.

Di Camillo came to the SUNYAC after serving in the dual role of assistant commissioner of the NCAA Division II Pacific West Conference and the executive director of public relations and the CAC Foundation for Central Arizona College. He worked for both organizations since 2006.

A 2012 inductee into the College Sports Information Directors of America Hall of Fame, Di Camillo assumed the role of president of CoSIDA in July of 2011, becoming the first non-Division I president to serve in the organization's leadership position in more than 30 years, and just the third in the nearly 60-year history of CoSIDA.

Di Camillo also was honored at the 2008 CoSIDA convention workshop with the Warren Berg Award – one of the highest honors College Division (II/III/NAIA/JUCO/Canadian) sports information directors can receive.

During his tenure with the PacWest, Di Camillo helped rebuild the conference from seven institutions to its current format that features 13 colleges and universities located from Utah to Hawai'i. The conference also expanded from 10 to 15 sports during his nearly eight years with the league.

Di Camillo also served on the president's cabinet at Central Arizona College – a community college located in Pinal County between the metropolitan areas of Tucson and Phoenix. He joined CAC in December of 2006 as the media and marketing specialist before being promoted to the role or public relations director in 2008 and then executive director.

He oversaw a full-time staff of five employees along with several part-time positions and was responsible for CAC's publicity, marketing, community events, alumni and fund-raising for the entire Pinal County Community College District. Central Arizona College serves all of Pinal County, an area roughly the size of the state of Connecticut, and features five full-service campuses and four regional centers.

During his tenure at CAC, Di Camillo was instrumental in leading the passage of a nearly-$99 million general obligation bond designed to expand four of CAC's locations and build two new campuses from the desert floor. The campuses in San Tan Valley and in the city of Maricopa both opened in 2013.

For more than 16 years Di Camillo coordinated all of the publicity for West Chester University's 24-sport varsity athletic programs as the Pennsylvania institution's director of sports information.

For 24 years, Di Camillo served as a sports information director at the NCAA Division II level. His dedication to the profession, passion for collegiate athletics, and commitment to student-athletes 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 for Golden Ram Athletics during his career, including football, basketball, baseball, soccer and lacrosse.

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.

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 and then eventually for the seven-year officer's rotation that began in June of 2009.

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.

A two-time graduate of West Chester University of Pennsylvania, Di Camillo earned his undergraduate degree in liberal studies in 1989 and his M.S.A in sports administration in 2004.

His wife, Lynette, is a native of Fairport, N.Y. They have one daughter, McKenna.