Blessed (and surprised!) to be a President's Award recipient this afternoon at the final #CSCUnite25 luncheon, and proud to share the honor with so many colleagues and friends. Great way to cap a tremendous week! pic.twitter.com/DHndmZsb3r
— Mike Mahoney (@MMPennAC) June 11, 2025
Find a CSC release about the well-deserved recognition HERE, and his Penn bio HERE.
Mike traces his professional path back to his work-study days at Dartmouth. From a 2015 Q&A in the CoSIDA Digest (LINK):
My first work-study job at Dartmouth was in the dining hall. I hated it. One of our good family friends was the women's ice hockey coach at the time, and my sophomore year he asked me to join the program as a student manager. I traveled with the team, covered home games, etc. and really enjoyed it. At the end of that term, he introduced me to Kathy Slattery, the longtime SID, and I changed my work study to join her office. I've never looked back. Influences? I worked with Chuck Yrigoyen at the Ivy League office immediately out of college, he was great and I still keep in touch with him. After my Ivy internship, I went back and spent six years at Dartmouth under Kathy, which was the best training you could get—| still use her words of wisdom with my staff today. She passed away in tragic fashion several years ago, and I think if you talked to anyone in our field who knew her you would know she is missed.
Green Alert Take: College sports information has changed dramatically since Mike wandered into Kathy Slattery’s Alumni Gym office. The days of writing “hometown” releases, sending photos to magazines via FedEx, recording results on the Dart-line answering machine so people could call up to find out if the squash team beat Williams, and of producing printed media guides, are long gone. But in today's hectic, "have-to-have-it-now” digital world, Mike brings the thoughtful sensibilities of a bygone era to his role. Penn is lucky to have him – and I’m lucky to call him a friend, though that hardly makes me unique. He has the wonderful gift of making everyone he meets feel like an old friend. Congrats, Mike!
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EXTRA POINT
I stumbled across a story in Vermont’s Addison County Independent this morning headlined Bill Lee saves Karl from Pete Rose. The story centered around former Red Sox pitcher Bill “Spaceman” Lee, and showed up because of the algorithm I tap that searches for online references around a few keywords I input. I was about to toss the story about the former big leaguer who lives in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom when I noticed the player decked out in catcher’s gear looked familiar. The caption confirmed that it was Miro Weinberger, the former longtime mayor of Burlington, Vt., and someone I fully expect to one day be elected a U.S. senator.
Seeing Weinberger in a baseball uniform made me smile. I met Miro one summer when I was at the newspaper and he was a Yalie, and I have a really funny story about him. Unfortunately, that’s a tease, because I’ll never put the story down in writing, particularly in this political climate. Not without his consent, at least. But if you see me sometime and are curious, I’ll share it with you. It’s pretty funny.
