Metropolitan Basketball
Writers Association
St. Thomas Aquinas College Director of Athletics Gerry Oswald to Receive Distinguished Service Award
NEW YORK (April 1, 2016) – St. Thomas Aquinas Director of Athletics, Gerry Oswald and veteran basketball official Ed Corbett will be presented with Distinguished Service Awards by the Met Basketball Writers Assn. at the 83rd All-Met Haggerty Awards Dinner on Tuesday, April 12, at the Westchester Marriott in Tarrytown, NY.
The Haggerty Dinner is the longest running media-managed college basketball awards program in the United States.
Oswald is in his 42nd year working in collegiate athletics, which includes stops at SUNY Maritime, Manhattan and Fairleigh Dickinson along with service for both the NCAA and NIT.
When he arrived at STAC, located in Sparkill, NY, in July 2000, the athletic program consisted of eight sports competing within the NAIA framework. With his guidance, the Spartans lineup has grown to 18 programs competing at the NCAA Division II level, along with numerous club sports. St. Thomas Aquinas has achieved considerable success in multiple sports at the national level, including this past season when the men’s basketball team captured the East Coast Conference regular season and tournament titles, and then advanced into the second round of the NCAA Tournament.
During his tenure at STAC, Oswald has served on various regional and national committees. He was chair of the Division II national men’s basketball committee in 2007-08 and, in 2007, received the Joseph DeBonis Award from the College Basketball Officials of America.
While in college, Oswald was a captain and four-year player on the Manhattan basketball team (1971-74). Following graduation, he was head basketball and tennis coach, and physical education instructor, at SUNY Maritime. Working next at Manhattan, in addition to coaching golf and tennis, he was administrative assistant to the director of athletics and supervisor of Draddy Gymnasium, and traveled to Europe with the NIT All-Stars (1984-86). At FDU he was an assistant athletic director and golf coach before being named athletic director in 1995.
A native of Carle Place, NY, and former high school basketball star, Oswald lives in New City, NY, with his wife Catherine. They have three adult children, Tom, Ellen and Edward.
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