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Delaware’s Pohlig earns WCU’s Addy Kelly Award
7:41 a.m., Feb. 16, 2007--Kate Pohlig, University of Delaware associate director of athletics and recreation services, was presented the Addy Kelly Award by the West Chester University athletics department during a ceremony Feb. 3. The award is presented to a West Chester alumnus who “exhibits outstanding support which has directly contributed to the enhancement of WCU women's athletics, displayed loyalty, commitment, and dedication, and reflected the impeccable integrity and strong and moral ethical character that was always the essence of Addy Kelly.” Kelly, who died in 2005, was the first recipient of the award. She and her husband, Al, started Kelly's Sports Ltd. in West Chester in the 1970s and showed strong devotion and commitment to WCU. Pohlig, now in her 17th year at UD, received a bachelor's degree and a master's degree in athletic administration from West Chester. She worked closely with Kelly when she served as president of the Alumni and Friends of WCU Women's Athletics in 1987-92 and assisted in the establishment of a hall of fame for women's athletics. She also helped establish the Carol Eckman Scholarship and Carol Eckman Memorial Women's Basketball Tournament in 1985. Eckman served as West Chester's women's basketball coach and was director of the first National Women's Basketball Invitational Tournament in 1969. At UD, Pohlig serves as associate director of athletics and recreation services and is responsible for facilities, construction and renovation, risk management, contest scheduling coordination, and contracts for all athletic squads except football and event management for women's basketball, and serves as lead administrator at the Carpenter Sports Building, the University's recreational facility. She played four years for the nationally ranked West Chester basketball team, including two seasons under Eckman, and earned an Olympic tryout in 1975. Pohlig has been director for numerous America East Conference and NCAA tournament events, including the America East men's basketball tournaments hosted by UD from 1995-2001, NCAA Division I-AA football playoff games and the NCAA YES Girls Lacrosse Clinic. Pohlig has served on the NCAA women's basketball rules committee and is a voting member of the Margaret Wade Trophy Committee, which honors the National Association of Girls and Women in Sport women's college basketball player of the year. She is in her fifth year as chair of the Colonial Athletic Association women's basketball committee and has served as site director for the first and second rounds of the NCAA women's basketball championships, most recently in 2004 at Iowa State University. |
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