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CESAM Panel on Sports Parenting
CENTER FOR ETHICS IN SPORT AT MANHATTANVILLE (CESAM) TO HOST PANEL ON SPORTS PARENTING
3.3.08
PURCHASE, NY (Feb. 15)-- The Center for Ethics in Sports at Manhattanville (CESAM) will hold an in-depth panel discussion, “ABCs of Better Sports Parenting”, followed by a question and answer session. CESAM is part of the Sport Business Management program at Manhattanville College.
Details:
What: Panel Discussion: “ABCs of Better Sports Parenting”. Admission is free.
When: Monday, March 3, 2008. 7:00 pm.
Where: Manhattanville College, Reid Castle. 2900 Purchase Street. Purchase, NY 10577.
Panelists include WFAN’s Rick Wolff, host of The Sports Edge and author of Harvard Boys: A Father and Son's Adventures Playing Minor League Baseball; Rod Mergardt, Manhattanville Professor; and Fred Cambria, 1970 Pittsburgh Pirate and youth baseball coach.
“Youth sports play an important role in our children’s lives,” says CESAM director John Vorperian. “Parents, coaches, school administrators, and anybody else involved in youth sports will enjoy this free event.”
Please contact Dave Torromeo at 914-323-5301 or torromeod@mville.edu to RSVP.
About the Panelists
Rick Wolff: Rick Wolff was drafted after his junior year at Harvard and played in the Detroit Tigers minor league system. He also was the head baseball coach for eight years at Mercy College (Dobbs Ferry, NY) where several of his teams were nationally-ranked and several of his players went onto professional careers. From 1990 to 1995, he worked as a roving coach for the Cleveland Indians, where he specialized in performance enhancement skills and the mental approach to the game of baseball.
Wolff's degrees are in psychology, both from Harvard and Long Island University. A popular speaker to community and school groups on sports parenting, he and his wife, Trish, have three children, all of whom play sports in school. Wolff's latest book, Harvard Boys: A Father and Son’s Adventures Playing Minor League Baseball, is written with his son John and was released in October of 2007.
The Sports Edge is heard every Sunday morning from 8am to 9am on 66 AM, WFAN. This lively show focuses on contemporary issues that confront the parents of athletes of all ages, from kids who are just starting out in sports, to experienced athletes on the high school varsity and beyond. Recent shows have focused on high school hazing; the enforcement of "Athletic Codes of Conduct;" mandatory sportsmanship training for parents; holding athletes accountable for their deliberately violent acts during a game; and whether Creatine is healthy or hazardous for youngsters
Fred Cambria: With 30 years of baseball-related experience behind him, Fred Cambria was appointed Commissioner of the Atlantic Collegiate Baseball League, becoming the 6th Commissioner in the League’s history. Cambria has the distinct honor of having been the first college player of ACBL to make it to Major League Baseball when in 1970 he joined the pennant winning Pittsburg Pirates as a pitcher. The ACBL honored Fred by electing him into their Hall of Fame in 1991.
Born and raised in the New York metropolitan area, Commissioner Cambria’s accomplishments include: pitching coach for the San Diego Padres organization with stints at the Arizona Fall Instructional League and the Australian Professional League. Cambria served as Head Baseball Coach for St. Leo’s College in Florida and was elected into their Hall of Fame. Currently Fred Cambria is a Board Member of the New York Board of Trade, where he is dedicated to fund raising for Future and Options for kids.
Rod Mergardt: Rod Mergardt is Territory Manager, (New York/New Jersey/Maine) for MaxPreps.
The former New York and Connecticut scholastic administrator Rod Mergardt has spent over 40 years working in the field of high school and recreational athletics. Best known for his 26-year stint as athletic director at Fox Lane High in Bedford, N.Y., Mergardt uses his background in both education and business to represent Maxpreps' interests in New York, New Jersey and Maine.
In addition to his athletic and management resume, he is qualified to testify in New York District Court in litigation related to physical education and athletics. Mergardt and his wife, Barbara, live in Bedford, N.Y.
JOHN VORPERIAN, CESAM Director: John Vorperian, an American University (Washington, DC) and Pace University Law School graduate, is a Westchester County Government Attorney and a Concordia College (NY) instructor in Sports Law. Since March 2002 he has hosted and produced a sports history television show, Beyond the Game, which aired its 100th episode in May 2004. Vorperian also belongs to Westchester Baseball Group and Professional Football Researchers Association (PFRA).
Vorperian has served for over 20 years as a Westchester county prosecutor and is an adjunct professor at Concordia and Manhattanville College.