MEDIA INFORMATION To the Media and Fans of Iona College Sports Information the Gaels: Contact Us At: Within these pages you should Brian Beyrer be able to find everything you Associate AD/Athletic Communications need to know about the 2009- Primary Men’s Basketball Contact: 2010 Iona College Gaels. Should Office – (914) 633-2334 you need additional copies of Cell – (914) 497-3136 this publication, photographs or E-mail - [email protected] statistics, please call us at (914) 633-2334. Jessica Rosenberg We encourage media members Asst. Sports Information Director to peruse the guidelines set forth by Secondary Contact: the Iona College Sports Information Office – (914) 633-2310 Brian Beyrer Jessica Rosenberg John Higgins Department when covering a E-mail - [email protected] Asst. AD/Athletic Assistant SID Assistant SID Communications Gael home game. There will be Overnight Address: game notes, itineraries and game Iona College Sports Information programs available in the media Hynes Athletics Center area. Per MAAC Policy all media 715 North Avenue guides are not available for print. New Rochelle, NY 10801-1890 Postgame procedures will be determined on game day. Fax Us At: We welcome your interest in the (914) 633-2072 Gaels and look forward to working with you this season. Internet Address: Brian Beyrer www.ICGaels.com Assoc. AD/Athletic Communications Media Policies Press Policies be presented to enter the press needed, contact Brian Beyrer no later Press row seats are reserved room. A limited number of phone than one week prior to the scheduled Credential Requests for working press only. Should lines are available, but we will contest. All requests for working press, any special needs arise, please accommodate all of the working radio, photographer or scouting contact Brian Beyrer. media and opponent personnel. Photographers credentials should notify Brian Only accredited photographers Beyrer no later than 72 hours prior Media Room Radio and TV or freelance photographers to the game. Requests for season Only working members of the Space is available for radio and shooting for the Iona College credentials should be made two media, Sports Information Staff television broadcast personnel at press Sports Information Department will weeks prior to the first game. and Iona College Administrators row. Telephone lines will be provided be issued working credentials. Credentials will be left at Will Call will be allowed into the Press to the opponent’s designated radio Iona College reserves the right in the Hynes Athletics Center. Room. Official credentials must station. Should another phone line be to admit only those photographers deemed to be on the premises for legitimate media purposes. Any requests for photo credentials must be made to Brian Beyrer on company letterhead. Credentials can be picked up at Will Call prior to game time. I t i s i m p e r a t i v e t h a t photographers f o l l o w t h e guidelines set forth by the NCAA. If you are unaware of those policies, please confer with the Iona Sports Information Office. Press Parking Free parking is available for all Hynes Athletics Center events in the parking garage located adjacent to the Center. Statistical Services Computerized play-by-play, a complete halftime box and final statistics package will be provided in the most expedient way possible. 2 2009-10 IONA COLLEGE MEN’S BASKETBALL MEDIA INFORMATION Iona College Broadcast Network Radio For the first time, all Iona College basketball games will be heard exclusively on ICGaels.com. Gary Stanley returns for his 24th year as the voice of the Gaels. He will be joined by veteran metropolitan radio personality Ed Ingles and and former assistant coach and Iona alum Vin Parise for all games. Television The Gaels will be televised on local, regional, and national outlets throughout the 2009-10 season, Iona will appear in a minimum of three regular season television games, and all Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference championship match ups. Monday’s MAAC Tournament final will be aired nationally on ESPN2, as part of its “Championship Week.” Internet All Iona games can be heard worldwide via the internet. Log onto www.ICGaels.com to hear the webcast of the game. All of Iona’s home games will also be video webcast via Iona Insider on its official athletics web site. Refreshments Post-Game Interviews Refreshments will be available Following the ten-minute cooling in the press room (entrance by off period, coaches and players credential). Refreshments will be from each team will be brought served one hour prior to tip-off. to the designated interview area. Winning teams will be first, followed Fax Services by the loser. This schedule is subject A fax machine is available for to change on game day. It is the media use in the Sports Information desire of the Iona College Sports Department. Media in need of a Information Staff to make the post modular phone hook-up for use game procedures as efficient as with their modem will find a limited possible, remembering that both number of phones available in groups have important tasks and the Sports Information Office. are under extreme pressure. We can accommodate you, but please inform us of your needs and Wireless Internet Access intentions. A wireless internet connection is available throughout Iona’s campus. Interviews It is necessary to contact Brian Beyrer All interview requests for a week prior to the contest so that players or coaches should be he can secure a login and password directed to Brian Beyrer. All players from the College’s Information and coaches are available for Technology department. interviews on non-game days in the Sports Information Office. Internet Please call to schedule a time for Get up-to-the-minute stats, the interview. Players and coaches news and highlights 24 hours have extremely limited access on a day, seven days a week on game days and are not available Iona’s men’s basketball website. prior to the contest. If you intend Log onto www.ICGaels.com and Credits: The 2009-2010 Iona College Men’s Basketball Guide was on covering a practice, please follow the Gaels in cyberspace. written, edited, and designed by Brian Beyrer - Associate AD/Athletic check with Brian as he will need Communications. Assistance provided by Jessica Rosenberg and John to clear this request with the Higgins. A very special thanks to all former Iona Sports Information coaching staff. personnel for their contributions throughout the years. Photography by Stockton Photo, Inc., Noren Trotman, Walt Middleton/Columbus, Bruce Schwartzman/Providence, Warren Rosenberg and Ron Mohr. 2009-10 IONA COLLEGE MEN’S BASKETBALL SOCIAL MEDIA AND DIRECTIONS TO IONA Social Media - Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, etc. Follow the Gaels in Cyberspace, Coach Willard will give an inside not only on the official webpage look on the team on the Twitter of Iona Athletics, ICGAels.com, microblogging application. but also on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube. Facebook: Iona’s official home on the Twitter: Internet’s hotest social media The Iona College Athletic experience, Facebook, can Department’s official twitter be found at www.facebook. home can be found at www. com/ICGaels. Additional twitter.com/ICGaels or in twitter video features and news items shorthand: @ICGaels. The page are posted to Facebook as features an up-to-the-minute well as special event invitations RSS feed of ICGaels.com news and the ability for fans to post updates website along with live their own photos on their Gael in-game updates and photos experiences. that can be found no where else on the ‘net. In addition, head Youtube: men’s basketball coach Kevin Currently in development, Iona’s Willard will be tweeting his own Youtube page will be chock full of updates at www.twitter.com/ video content that can be shared KevinWillard (@KevinWillard). with Gael fans across the globe. Directions to Iona College From Upstate NY and Upper Westchester: Road to end, then right on North North Railroad -New New York State Thruway to Cross Avenue. At second traffic light make left Haven Line to New Westchester Expressway (Interstate onto campus. Alternate Route: F.D.R. to Rochelle Station. 287). East to Hutchinson River Parkway. Bruckner Expressway to Hutchinson River Exit North Avenue South to Exit 18E, Mill Road. Right on Parkway. North to Exit 14, Pelhamdale and take a taxi or Mill Road to light, then right on North Road, New Rochelle. Turn right at #45 bus to College Avenue. Follow North Avenue 2 miles light on New Rochelle Road, left on (bus runs Monday to of College on your left. Eastchester Road to North Avenue, right t h r o u g h F r i d a y ) . on North Avenue to second traffic light, West Side IRT subway From New England and Upper then left onto campus. (uptown): Change Westchester: Interstate 95 Connecticut at 180th Street for Turnpike (New England Thruway) From the Bronx: Interstate 87 (Major 241st Street- White to Cross Westchester Expressway Deegan Expressway) north to the Cross Plains Road train. At (Interstate 287). West to Hutchinson County Parkway East, Hutchinson River White Plains Road River Parkway. Hutchinson River Parkway North to Exit 14, Pelhamdale and 241st Street take River Parkway. Proceed north to Exit Parkway South to Exit 18E, Mill Road. Road, New Rochelle. Turn right at #42 bus to North Avenue and Main 14, Pelhamdale Road, New Rochelle. Right on Mill Road to light, then right on light on New Rochelle Road, left on Street, New Rochelle. Transfer to #45 Turn right at light on New Rochelle North Avenue. Follow North Avenue 2 Eastchester Road to North Avenue, bus to College (bus runs Monday Road, left on Eastchester Road to miles to entrance of College on your right on North Avenue to second traffic through Friday).