BOSTON, Mass. – Michael
Ghika has been named as the first-ever full-time
Assistant Commissioner for Media Relations at the Great Northeast
Athletic Conference, as announced by Commissioner Joe
Walsh on Thursday. His duties will officially begin
July 1 with the beginning of the 2014-15 academic year.
Ghika has worked at the NCAA Division II Northeast-10 Conference
the past three years, serving in a full-time capacity each of the
last two as the league’s Assistant Director for Strategic
Communications.
“I am grateful and excited for this newly created
opportunity at the GNAC,” said Ghika. “Commissioner
Walsh has helped raise the profile of the conference throughout his
tenure the past decade, and our league office can now focus on
enhancing the student-athlete experience at championships and
furthering our multimedia and communications efforts over the next
year and beyond.”
“We are thrilled to add Michael to our conference structure
in a full-time capacity,” said Walsh. “As a conference,
we are excited about the new position and to gain someone with
league office experience in our collective efforts moving forward,
which will also include new office space in Winthrop, Mass. this
summer.”
Ghika (pronounced JEE-ka) will be responsible for the
maintaining and updating of the GNAC website and will oversee the
site’s redesign process with PrestoSports over the course of
the summer and fall. He will oversee one member of the GNAC
Specialist Program for the 2014-15 academic year, and work directly
with Doug Chin, the GNAC’s
Assistant to the Commissioner.
“Both Joe and Doug’s talents and commitment to the
GNAC are immeasurable and I find myself very fortunate to join such
a dedicated and hard-working team,” added Ghika. “I
would also like to thank the league’s search committee for
its time, energy and diligence this spring throughout the hiring
process.”
At the Northeast-10, Ghika handled all website maintenance and
launched the conference’s Student-Athlete Blog Initiative,
while traveling across the region to help successfully execute 23
championships for 15 full-time member institutions.
A Saugus, Mass. native, Ghika, 25, graduated from Southern New
Hampshire University in 2011 with a B.S. in Sport Management and a
minor in Communications. In his time as a student, he worked four
years as an Athletics Communications assistant in the
school’s athletic department.
Previously, he served as Director of Media Operations for the
North Shore Navigators, a summer collegiate baseball team located
in Lynn, Mass., where he oversaw operations for separate television
and radio broadcast crews as well as game day press box
operations.
A member of the College Sports Information Directors of America
(CoSIDA), Ghika will represent the GNAC next week at the 2014
CoSIDA Convention in Orlando, Fla.