Xavier’s Cassiere named SID of the Year

Xavier University of Louisiana’s Ed Cassiere has been voted by his peers as Gulf Coast Athletic Conference Sports Information Director (SID) of the Year for 2018-19.

Cassiere, Xavier’s assistant athletics director for communications, will begin in July his 14th year at the longtime NAIA member. He is responsible for publicity about all of the university’s intercollegiate teams; that list will grow to 11 teams in 2019-20 with the return of women’s indoor track and field and the addition of coed competitive cheer.

Cassiere writes stories, compiles statistics and records and does video interviews with XULA coaches and athletes. He also is webmaster of the department’s official website, xulagold.com, and produces the majority of the content for the department’s social media platforms on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.

Cassiere will be considered for the NAIA’s national SID of the Year award; that winner will be announced in September.

Cassiere is chair of the GCAC SIDs and serves the NAIA on its Statistics, History, Record and Honors Committee and as a voter for volleyball and tennis national players of the week. He is a member of the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) Scholarship Committee.

He is a former Louisiana Sports Writers Association president and serves the LSWA as coordinator of the All-Louisiana collegiate softball team. He is a member of the Allstate Sugar Bowl’s Greater New Orleans Sports Awards Committee.