NEWTON, Mass. – The Mount Ida Athletic Department is pleased to announce the hiring of Craig Kaufman as Director of Sports Information. Craig will be the primary contact for all 16 of Mount Ida’s varsity sports.

A native of Peabody, Mass., Craig spent the last two years as a graduate assistant at Endicott College, where he served as the primary contact for nine sports and also received his Master’s of Education in Athletic Administration. He recently covered an Endicott baseball team that reached the championship game of the NCAA Division III New England Regional in Harwich, Mass., where he also served as an official scorer.

“I am honored to have been chosen as the next Sports Information Director at Mount Ida, and I am excited to have this opportunity to take the next step in my professional life,” said Kaufman. “This is an important time in the growth of Mustang athletics and I am looking forward to helping promote a program with such a passionate group of people.”

Before returning to the North Shore, Craig served a year at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was responsible for 10 of the Engineer’s varsity sports, and also sat on the steering committee for the 2010 NEWMAC Men's Swimming and Diving Championships and MIT's 150th Anniversary convocation and served as tournament director for the NEWMAC men's tennis tournament.

After graduating from Tufts University in 2009 with a degree in English, Craig stayed with the Jumbos as a Sports Information intern, providing coverage of the men's and women's soccer and women's volleyball teams. He was the on-site reporter to both the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) and the NCAA as Tufts hosted both the conference and regional volleyball tournaments.

In January of 2010, Craig left Massachusetts to take the job as Assistant Sports Information Director at Louisiana College in Pineville, La. He served as the primary contact for a nationally ranked women's basketball team and the top-ranked softball team in the country for eight weeks straight, while also working with the men's basketball and baseball teams.

Craig’s other work includes serving as Communications Coordinator of the Bay State Games in 2012, spending three seasons as the Boston Bruins correspondent for hockey legend Stan Fischler's weekly magazine, The Fischler Report, and working two summers as the official scorer for the North Shore Navigators in Lynn, Mass., 2010 champions of the New England Collegiate Baseball League (NECBL).

Kaufman currently resides in Malden, Massachusetts.

*Release courtesy of Mount Ida College Sports Information Dept.