BRIDGEPORT, Pa. — Gannon University’s Bob Shreve earns recognition from the Collegiate Water Polo Association (CWPA) office.as the 2021-22 Mid-Atlantic Water Polo Conference (MAWPC)-West Region Sports Information Director of the Year.
Selected by the CWPA Director of Communications, the SID of the Year award is presented to individuals who “have achieved notable excellence in the field of water polo communications during the past academic year.”
The award marks the sixth honor bestowed exclusively to MAWPC-West institutions following the division of the CWPA men’s teams into the MAWPC and Northeast Water Polo Conference (NWPC) during the Summer of 2016.
Further, it marks the seventh time a Gannon SID has been recognized by the league office following prior nods in 2014 (CWPA Women’s Division I/II SID of the Year – Will Nowadly), 2016 (MAWPC-West SID of the Year – Levi Rex & Dan Teliski), 2017 (MAWPC-West SID of the Year – Levi Rex), 2018 (MAWPC-West SID of the Year – Josh Hill), 2019 (MAWPC-West SID of the Year – Kayla Peterson) and Winter 2021 (MAWPC-West SID of the Year – David Rung).
Named an Assistant Director of Athletics Media Relations at Gannon on August 26, 2021, Shreve returned to the institution after previously serving as the University’s Director of Sports Information and Promotions from 1990-98 before assuming the same role at Edinboro University for the next 22 years.
Shreve’s career has spanned a variety of athletics endeavors. In addition to his time as the sports information director at Gannon and Edinboro, he also served as the Mercyhurst University sports information director from 1984-88.
Awards and accolades have followed Shreve during his highly successful career. In 2018, he was inducted into the Metropolitan Erie Chapter of the Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame. Shreve was also awarded the Irving T. Marsh Service Bureau Award in 2016, which is given annually by the Eastern Athletic Communications Association (EAST-COMM) to a sports information director who exhibits excellence in the field of sports information.
A 1980 graduate of the University of Notre Dame, Shreve began his career in sports information in 1982 at Frostburg State College. After two years at Frostburg State, he spent four years as the sports information director at Mercyhurst before moving into professional baseball.
He spent two years as the general manager of the Erie Orioles, a Class A affiliate of the Baltimore Orioles in the New York-Penn League, before returning to the sports information profession as the sports information director at West Chester University of Pennsylvania.
After a year at West Chester, Shreve returned to his hometown in 1990, taking over as the sports information director at Gannon. He worked with the Golden Knights until 1998, when he left to assume the same role at Edinboro.
Shreve has been an active participant in other area sporting events. He was the long-time public address announcer for the Erie SeaWolves – the Class AA affiliate of the Detroit Tigers – until assuming duties of the official scorer this year. In addition, he was a statistician for the Erie BayHawks, Erie’s professional basketball team in the National Basketball Association (NBA) G-League. Other duties include serving as a statistics coordinator at the McDonald’s Classic and Burger King Classic since 1990.
He has been an active supporter of the Academic All-America program, serving as a district coordinator since 1993, before moving up to a national coordinator role. Shreve also currently serves on the publicity staff. He was the national coordinator for the D2CCA (formerly Daktronics) Men’s Basketball All-America Team since 1996 until stepping down after the 2017 season.
Shreve received a bachelor’s degree in business administration with a concentration in marketing from Notre Dame in 1980. He proceeded to earn a master’s degree in sports administration from Ohio University in 1981.
