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Joe DelBalso came to Loyola as a marketing and media consultant in 2006 and was named an Assistant Director of Athletics in July 2007.
DelBalso serves as the primary media contact for men's basketball in addition to managing the operation of the Athletic Communications Office. He also is charged with overseeing new media for all of the Greyhounds sports programs, including television, radio and the athletics website.
Prior to joining the staff at Loyola, DelBalso served as an Assistant Commissioner at the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference with sport-supervision responsibilities for football, men's basketball and baseball. Working in that capacity for three years, he served as Tournament Manager for three MAAC Men's and Women's Basketball Championships and Tournament Director for three MAAC Baseball Championships. He also served as the Tournament Manager for the 2004 NCAA Men's Basketball Championship First and Second Rounds held at HSBC Arena in Buffalo, N.Y.
DelBalso spent time as the Director of Programming at a pair of regional sports networks - Empire Sports Network (1992-2003) based in Buffalo, N.Y., and Mid-Atlantic Sports Network (2006-07) in Baltimore. His first jobs out of college were as the Assistant Director of Sports Information at the United States Military Academy (1989-90) and the Assistant Director of Media Relations at Fordham University (1990-92).
A 1989 graduate of St. Bonaventure University, DelBalso spent time as an undergraduate working with the Buffalo Bills Public Relations Team. Three times he has been appointed by the NCAA Division I Baseball Committee to serve as an NCAA Game Representative, overseeing the competition at the Charlottesville, Oxford, Stillwater, Chapel Hill Regionals and the Fullerton Super Regional.