The University of Bridgeport has named Jay Moran as the University’s director of athletics, effective July 1, 2004. Moran comes to UB from Albertus Magnus College, where he served in the AD for two years. Moran succeeds Joe DiPuma, who stepped down as UB’s director of athletics on June 1, 2004 after five years on the job.”We are pleased to have Jay at UB,” University President Neil Albert Salonen said. “He has a vision and the enthusiasm to take UB to the next level in sports.
“We are proud of our program and the athletes and coaches,” Salonen said. “Joe DiPuma, our former athletic director, and our coaches have fielded teams with a solid core of student-athletes, who score as strongly with their books and studies as they do on the playing fields and in the gymnasium. The soccer and gymnastics teams have brought UB championships, and the basketball and softball teams are 20-game winners. We are grateful to Joe for his efforts these past five years, and we are confident that Jay and his coaches will continue this momentum.”
Moran brings 13 years of experience in intercollegiate athletics and recreation to UB. At Albertus Magnus, Moran managed all aspects of a Division III program including supervising all athletic staff, coordinating compliance on a conference and national level, managing the budget and fundraising for various projects and instructing physical education classes.
Prior to his work at Albertus Magnus College in nearby New Haven, Conn., Moran was the assistant athletic director for facilities, recreation and intramurals at St. Joseph College in Hartford, Conn., from 1993-2002. He also served as the college’s head cross country coach for nine seasons.
Moran began his career in collegiate athletics as an undergraduate at the University of Connecticut. At UConn, he worked as a student assistant of recreation before moving into a role as the director of recreation and intramurals during the 1987-88 school year. Moran also worked as the department’s administrative assistant in
1988-89.