Tammy Boclair to Be Inducted into CoSIDA Hall of Fame
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. ? Tammy Boclair, senior vice-president of Alday Communications and a former sports information professional at Vanderbilt University, the Southland Conference, Louisiana State University and Stephen F. Austin State University, will be inducted into the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) Hall of Fame on Thursday at the organization’s annual workshop to be held in San Antonio, Texas.
Boclair was CoSIDA’s second female president, serving her term in 2004-05, and presided over the organization’s only international workshop in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Since joining CoSIDA in 1986, she has served on numerous CoSIDA committees in addition to her time on the board and in the presidential rotation. She has maintained a vital and active presence as an associate member of CoSIDA since leaving Vanderbilt University in 2005 to become a senior vice president of Alday Communications, Inc.
Boclair has served as a sports information professional for three different universities and one conference. She began her career at her alma mater, Stephen F. Austin State University, 1985; was an Assistant SID at LSU from 1988-92 and was the director of media relations for the Southland Conference from 1992-95.
In 1996, she was hired at Vanderbilt as the first SID devoted solely to women’s basketball, a role she held until moving to Alday Communications in 2005. The 1999-2000 Vanderbilt women’s basketball media guide, produced by Boclair and former assistant media relations director Kristi Strang, was named “Best in the Nation.”
Prior to working at Vanderbilt, Boclair served as associate commissioner of the Southland Conference. Boclair served as a member of the NCAA Media Coordination Committee for the Women’s Basketball Final Four for many years and was the media relations coordinator of the 1998 NCAA Mideast Regional.
Boclair, a graduate of Stephen F. Austin State University, will be one of five sports information professionals to be inducted into the CoSIDA Hall of Fame at the San Antonio Workshop. She joins Minnesota State Mankato’s Paul Allan, McNeese State’s Louis Bonnette, South Carolina State University’s Bill Hamilton, and Union College’s Eric McDowell in the Class of 2009.