FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

April 27, 2007

Rhode Island College Assistant Names Tim McCabe
Assistant Athletic Director of Development and Marketing

Providence, RI—Rhode Island College has named Tim McCabe to serve as the Assistant Athletic Director for Development and Marketing. McCabe replaces Mike Morrison, who left the department in July of 2006 to take a similar position at the University of Connecticut.

           
     McCabe is responsible for handling the day-to-day management of Rhode Island College’s athletic department’s fundraising and marketing programs. He will also be the liaison for the Anchor Club, the official fundraising association for the Department of Athletics, Intramurals, and Recreation.

     Prior to joining the Anchormen, McCabe was an Athletic Development Intern at Boston College. During his tenure at The Heights, he administered and managed the donor privileged parking for football, basketball, and hockey. McCabe also supported the design and implementation of a new donor based seating process for men’s basketball and football.

He began his professional career in athletics in 2003, serving as the Assistant to the Athletic Director at Deerfield Academy. McCabe assisted with the scheduling of athletic events, as well as, maintaining the athletic web site. During the summer of 2004, he served as a marketing intern for the New England Patriots, where McCabe helped promote the “Red Zone Tailgate” and increase ticket sales for the New England Revolution.    

He is a 2000 graduate of Brown University with a bachelor’s degree in both economics and organizational behavior and management. McCabe was a four-year letterman in football for the Bears where he was a center on the 1999 Ivy League Championship Team. The Dedham, Massachusetts native earned a master’s degree in sports management from the Isenberg School of Management at The University of Massachusetts at Amherst in May of 2006.

McCabe resides in Norwood, Massachusetts with his wife Meredith.

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