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Derek Crudele

  • Title
    Sports Information Director
  • Email
    crudele@gbc.edu
  • Phone
    302-225-6330
Derek Crudele is in his 11th full year as the Sports Information Director for Goldey-Beacom College after arriving in December 2014.
 
Crudele is responsible for all public relations aspects with the athletics department, has a major hand in game management and plays a big role in the overall day-to-day operation of the department.  He also was instrumental in the creation of a new athletics logo, the overhaul of GBCAthletics.com in September 2015, a redesign since, a greater use of the website and the addition of a graduate assistant in 2016.  Crudele also is the chair of the College’s Athletics Hall of Fame.

Prior to the 2022-23 academic year, Crudele was elected Vice President of the Sports Information Directors in the Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference.  Prior to the 2025-26 academic year, he was selected to be a member of the league's Hall of Fame Committee.
 
Before his time at GBC, Crudele was the Sports Information Director at Widener University from August 2005-December 2014.  He handled public relations for all 20 sports, content on the athletics website and all Pride media coverage that included features on KYW NewsRadio, the Delaware County Daily Times, NCAA.com and several newspapers.  He also broke ground on a new-outsourced website in 2008, two redesigns since, streaming video for Pride basketball games starting in the 2012-13 season and was instrumental in a sports information graduate assistant being added to the department in 2009.
 
Crudele also was the primary media relations contact for five of Widener’s home NCAA Tournament football games (2012 and 2014 that both resulted in the team advancing to the national quarterfinals) and when the men’s basketball squad hosted a sub-regional in 2009.  He also played a big role in the men’s basketball team’s media coverage during its memorable 2006 run to the “Sweet 16.”
 
From 2000-05, Crudele was the Assistant Media Relations Director for Long Island University. He was responsible for major changes in the Blackbirds’ athletics website, writing media guides, helping with media relations at numerous Northeast Conference championships and serving as a liaison at several NCAA Tournaments.  Those NCAA Tournaments and working with television broadcasts included the women's basketball team's 2001 NEC title and subsequent first-round NCAA Tournament game at Connecticut.
 
Crudele also served as an Associate Editor and Bureau Reporter for SportsTicker (1997-2000), a supplier of real-time sports information and news.  He was elevated to associate editor in December 1998 and the women’s basketball contact in 1999, covering such events as the 1999 and 2000 WNBA Finals in New York and Houston, the 2000 WNBA All-Star Game in Phoenix and the 2000 Women’s Final Four in Philadelphia.
 
During the summer of 1998, he was a communications runner for the Goodwill Games in New York City. He helped coordinate the television production of the triathlon by plotting camera positions and researching the course from Battery Park to Central Park.
 
Crudele was involved with many internships at different organizations including the George Mason University athletic department, News 12 New Jersey and WUSA-TV (CBS).  He also was a volunteer assistant in the Sports Information Department at Fairleigh Dickinson University from 1998-2000.
 
Crudele graduated from George Mason University in 1997 with a B.A. in Communications.