| Casey Rafferty | ||
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Title | Associate Commissioner for Operations & Championships |
| crafferty@eccsports.org | ||
| Phone | 631-372-0886 | |
Casey Rafferty was promoted to Associate Commissioner for Strategic Communications in July of 2021, after previously serving the conference as Assistant Commissioner and the Director of Media Relations since his hiring in October of 2010.
Since joining the East Coast Conference, Rafferty has managed the conference's promotional and publicity efforts including maintaining the ECC website and social media accounts. He also spearheaded the league's effort to create the ECC Hall of Fame and the ECC Network, the conference-wide streaming platform.
Rafferty is also the league's schedule coordinator and oversees the conference's awards program. He assists in managing all aspects of the ECC's 19 Championships, including serving as producer of conference championship broadcasts on the ECC Network, as well.
Additionally, Rafferty is currently the East Region representative on the NCAA Division II National Baseball Committee. In his role, he serves as the chair of the region's Regional Advisory Committee and assists in administering the NCAA Division II Baseball National Championship. He previously served as the ECC's administrative representative on the NCAA Regional Advisory Committee in the sport of women's tennis.
No stranger to the ECC, Rafferty spent time as both a baseball student-athlete and as a graduate assistant in the Athletic Communications office at former conference member, Dowling College. During his time at Dowling, Rafferty assisted in the promotion and publicity of their 15 NCAA varsity athletic programs. He served as the primary media contact for the women's soccer, men's basketball, women's lacrosse, and baseball programs, which entailed staffing all home contests, providing statistical support, and maintaining the athletic website along with securing feature stories in local media outlets. In addition, Rafferty was responsible for designing promotional materials for the athletic department and headed the technical aspects of the Dowling Athletics Awards Banquet.
Prior to Dowling, Rafferty spent a year as the Sports Information Director at Suffolk County Community College and oversaw the media relations of the college's 12 athletic programs. Additionally, he served as the Assistant Tournament Director for the NJCAA Cross Country National Championship, Region XV Men and Women's Basketball Tournament and Region XV Baseball Tournament.
Rafferty graduated from Dowling with a Bachelor's degree in Sport Management. He went on to receive a Master of Business Administration degree, also at Dowling, in General Management and Leadership.
A native of Averill Park, N.Y., Rafferty currently resides in Lynbrook, N.Y. with his wife Beth, daughters Natalie and Audrey, and son Calvin.
