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JOE ONDERKO,
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 Joe Onderko
was named the first full-time executive in the history
of the Presidents’ Athletic Conference (PAC) on July 1, 2006 and
begins his seventh year as the league's chief administrator in the
2012-13 academic year. Onderko had his title changed from
executive director to commissioner in the summer of 2012.
Onderko reports directly to the PAC Presidents' Council,
comprised of the presidents of the conference member
institutions. He served on the NCAA Division III Financial
Aid Committee from 2007-11 and began a four-year term on the
NCAA Division III Championships Committee at the January 2012
NCAA Convention, where he serves as national liaison for the
NCAA Division III football, wrestling and baseball sport
committees. Also at the 2012 Convention, Onderko was voted
to serve a two-year term on the executive board of the
Division III Commissioners
Association (DIIICA). He also served as the co-chair of
the local organizing committee planning the 2012 ECAC-SIDA
Workshop in Pittsburgh.
Onderko, 42,
previously worked full-time for 11 years (1995-2006) as sports
information director at PAC member Westminster College in New
Wilmington, Pa., while serving as PAC Information Director on a
part-time basis for five years (2001-06). During that span with
the PAC, he was responsible for all public relations and
information duties in the conference, including press releases,
conference statistics, and website management.
During his
tenure at Westminster, Onderko was responsible for all public
relations and sports information efforts at a 20-sport NCAA
Division III athletic program, which previously was a member of
both the NAIA and NCAA Division II. He earned 12 national
publication awards, including three "Best in the Nation" honors
from the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA).
Onderko also served as a member of CoSIDA's Academic
All-America committee from 1995-2006, concluding his tenure as
national coordinator of the Academic All-American of the Year
and Hall of Fame programs.
Prior to coming
to Westminster, Onderko served as assistant sports information
director at NCAA Division I Virginia Commonwealth University
(1992-95) in Richmond and was a public relations intern for the
NBA's Cleveland Cavaliers (1992). While at VCU, he served as
Assistant Media Coordinator of the 1994 Women's Final Four in
Richmond.
A native of
Jamestown, Pa., Onderko is a 1992 graduate of Robert Morris
University with a bachelor's degree in communication management,
while earning his master's degree in education from Westminster
in 2000. He and his wife, Pam, have three daughters: Erin (11), Lauren (8)
and Alison (4).
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KEVIN FENSTERMACHER,
Assistant Commissioner/Director of Communications |
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The Presidents' Athletic Conference (PAC)
hired
Kevin Fenstermacher
to the newly created full-time position of Assistant
Commissioner/ Director of Communications, effective July 1,
2012.
Fenstermacher reports to PAC Commissioner
Joe Onderko and will be responsible for all conference
communications efforts, including sports information and
public/media relations, press releases, statistics and
website management and social media development. He also
serves as advisor for the PAC Student-Athlete Advisory
Committee (SAAC) and has additional duties in the areas of
championships, rules compliance and conference governance.
Fentermacher comes to the PAC office from
conference member Thiel College, where he has served as
associate director of athletics since 2010. His duties
included serving as NCAA compliance coordinator and
overseeing the day-to-day operations of the athletics media
office and its two assistant directors, while also taking a
lead role in promoting and managing the College’s new
air-supported dome structure. He also assisted in the
planning and promotion of athletic-related summer camps, and
collaborated with departmental personnel and other campus
constituencies to help in the areas of academic monitoring
and student-athlete support.
He began his Thiel career as
sports information director from 2001-2005 and added the
title of assistant athletic director in 2005, before
spending two years (2008-10) as a member of the information
technology department at the College.
The Erie, Pa. native is a 2000 graduate of
PAC member Bethany College, where he was a member of the
varsity football and track & field teams. Fenstermacher also
earned a master’s of science degree in leadership with a
concentration in sports leadership from Duquesne University
in the spring of 2011.
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Presidents’ Athletic Conference
P.O. Box 183
New Wilmington,
PA 16142
Phone – (724) 901-0090 (Onderko) - (724) 456-7897 (Fenstermacher)
Fax – (800) 708-0191
PAC Officiating
Supervisors/Assignors
Football - Tri-State Intercollegiate Athletic Corporation
Supervisor - Gene Steratore Jr. -
ejsref@yahoo.com
Assistant Supervisor - Charlie Watts
Men's & Women's Soccer
Supervisor - Don Brown -
donalddbrown@yahoo.com
Men's Basketball
Supervisor - Bill Ek -
ekbballref@yahoo.com
Women's Basketball
Supervisor - Diane Plas -
jplas@prodigy.net
Baseball
Assignor - Chuck Adya -
adjref@gmail.com
Softball
Assignor - Kathie Graf -
umpiregraf@roadrunner.com
Volleyball
Assignor - Gerry Durishan |
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