SummEr/FAll 2011 - Nazareth College

Hotaling Picked for U.S. National Team
Former Nazareth lacrosse
standout Ryan
Hotaling ’07 was on
the official roster for
the United States National
Indoor Lacrosse Team that
competed in the 2011 World Indoor
Championships in Prague,
Czech Republic, in May.
Hotaling was one of five players
added to the 23-player roster
after making the Reserve List
following tryouts last November.
He is currently playing for the
Boston Blazers of the National
Lacrosse League.
“There are some serious names on that team,” says Hotaling,
who scored 139 goals in four seasons at Nazareth. “It’s pretty
cool just to be included on the same list as them.”
A three-time All-American as an attackman for the Golden
Flyers, Hotaling has successfully transitioned to the indoor game
and has become a fixture in the Blazers lineup thanks in part to
his face-off skills. He credits a stint in the U.S. Developmental
Program in helping him improve his indoor proficiency. In a
January game against the Knighthawks in Rochester, Hotaling
won 20 of 28 face-offs as the Blazers won 16-7.
“I’m doing some things that I
never had to do in college, but it’s a
fun challenge,” says Hotaling, now
in his second season.
“Ryan Hotaling can definitely
hold his own and more,” says
U.S. team coach Tom Ryan. “He’s
such a versatile player. He can play
defense, he can play transition, he
can really fill in anywhere on the
floor that you need him to. We just
felt that overall he was somebody
we needed to have on our team.”
In his real job, Hotaling works
as an energy territory manager for
Gyrus ACMI of Olympus. He lives in
Albany and commutes to Boston for practices and games. He
credits great support from parents, Jay and Sondra, who never
miss a game, for helping him stay focused. “My dad is retired
and my mom works part time so they have nothing better to
do,” he jokes.
The World Indoor Lacrosse Championships took place at
Telsa Arena in Prague May 21-28. Australia, Canada, Czech
Republic, England, Finland, Ireland, and the Iroquois Nationals
joined the U.S. in the one-week tournament.
Seil Receives Award
Joe Seil, longtime athletic department administrator
at Nazareth College, has been recognized as the
2011 recipient of the Irving T. Marsh Service Bureau
Award, presented by the Eastern College Athletic
Conference-Sports Information Directors of America
(ECAC-SIDA). The award is presented annually to professionals
who have made exceptional contributions
to the field of collegiate sports information.
Seil is in his 25th year as sports information director
of Nazareth College, where he also serves as assistant
athletic director. A native of Rochester, he was
a sports writer for four years before taking over as
SID at Nazareth in 1986. As a daily promoter of the
college’s 23-team athletic program, Seil has won more
than a dozen best-in-the-nation citations for publication
excellence from the College Sports Information
Directors of America (CoSIDA). He has also served on
local organizing committees for two ECAC-SIDA conventions
(1999 and 2011) and one CoSIDA national
workshop (2002) and has been invited to serve as a
panelist at several national conventions.
“Joe gives us his best everyday,” says Nazareth
College Athletic Director Pete Bothner. “He has
the respect of not only our entire staff, but of the
athletic personnel of all the colleges that we
compete against.”
Joe Seil, Nazareth sports information director
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