After Nearly 5 Decades, Lipe To Step Down as Bentley Sports Information Director and Transition into New Role
WALTHAM, Mass. – Following 50 years on campus, including 46 as the only full-time sports information director in university history, Dick Lipe will step down from that role on July 1 and transition into a new part-time role with Bentley University Athletics.
In his new role as Specialist, Sports Information, Lipe will handle athletic communications for men's basketball, women's basketball and men's golf, as well as serving as the historian for the Athletics department.
Lipe, a 1977 graduate of what was then Bentley College, has been inducted into the Bentley Athletic, Northeast-10 and College Sports Communicators (formerly CoSIDA) halls of fame. He is the longest tenured full-time employee in Bentley Athletics history.
During his time at Bentley, Lipe has witnessed the Falcons capture NCAA Division II national championships in women's basketball (2014) and field hockey (2001), covered 18 basketball teams that reached the Elite Eight, and publicized many teams and student-athletes that earned Northeast-10 championships and/or competed in NCAA championships. During his tenure, Bentley student-athletes whom he has nominated have been selected for Academic All-America honors 88 times.
He has received a number of CoSIDA publication award citations, and his list of honors also includes the 2002 Warren Berg Award from CoSIDA, the 1996 Lester Jordan Award for his work with the Academic All-America program, the 2002 Irving Marsh Award from the Eastern Athletic Communications Association (formerly ECAC-SIDA) and the 2000 Elmore (Scoop) Hudgens Sports information Director Award from the All-America Football Foundation.
Lipe, in addition to his Bentley duties, has been involved with the Academic All-America program since 1979, serving as chair of the CoSIDA Academic All-America Committee from 1994 to 2011 and Chair of the Academic All-America Hall of Fame Selection Committee since 1994. He also served as the first information director for the Northeast-10 Conference and has also worked as talent statistician and researcher for NBC Sports Boston and its predecessors on Boston Celtics broadcasts since 1980.