Duquesne University President Dr Charles Dougherty these days that Director of Athletics Greg Amodio has signed a five-year treaty addition.
The porch will keep Amodio at Duquesne through the 2013-14 school year.

The University is pleased to make bigger Greg Amodios indenture as Director of Athletics, said Dougherty. Greg has a new equal of effectiveness to our lithe programs, out effectively to our , and placed weight on studious aid for our pupil-athletes. The modern rich review of our whole cycle by the NCAA is liberated verification of the effectiveness of Gregs direction.

Amodio, 46, was hired to lead Duquesnes 20-team area on August 4, 2005. He came to DU after a 10-year stay at Xavier University in Cincinnati.

The middle-of-the-road of what we have been able to accomplish as an sporty field is due in fat part to the care and commitment of Dr. Dougherty and the Board of Directors, said Amodio who will start off his twenty-five percent year at Duquesne in August. I have been auspicious to work with a good pole and group of who are committed to fit and university success. I look brazen to helping Duquesne meet the challenges that lie ahead.

Under Amodios self-motivated leadership, Duquesnes games division has skilled unprecedented growth including the completion of a $2 million face-lift of the Palumbo Center and an large promotion of Rooney Field which is on schedule to be glossed late this seasonal.

On the personnel front, Amodios occupation has been by the contracting of mens trainer Ron Everhart and womens basketball tutor Suzie McConnell-Serio. Everhart guided the Dukes to first winning season in 14 centuries in 2007-08 and McConnell-Serio saw the womanhoods team increase from seven to 15 wins in her first season. In adding up, Amodio has extra full-time secondary coaches for six further sports.

The Long Island, N.Y. inherent aggressively pursued the establishment of an races marketing and constituent part and reached a comprehensive sphere-wide apparel agreement with adidas last fall. The subdivision of sports events has also customary magazines with both Fox Sports Net Pittsburgh and Clear Channel-Pittsburgh under Amodios lookout. Amodio has also reshaped the look of the realm with the foreword of a current track-and-field events logo in the summer stock of 2006.

In January 2007, Amodio spearheaded Duquesnes move to the Northeast Conference as an associate member in football. The move to the NEC coincided with the of 18 scholarships with that quantity climbing by two over each of the next three an age. In tallying, both the womenfolks soccer and lacrosse teams have seen their available scholarship increase.

This leap, Amodio oversaw the of the physical responsibility by the NCAA.

In the classroom, Duquesnes exercises have posted a aggregate gradient viewpoint average of well than 3.0 over the past eons, with over one- of all learner-athletes achieving a GPA of 3.5 or upper.

Amodio is currently Duquesne on Atlantic 10 Conference committees: the conference canon committee, the goggle-box committee and basketball committee.

Posted on July 2nd, 2008 by admin
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