NEW YORK (April 13, 2022) ---
Fairfield University's veteran communications director Jack Jones will be honored with the Mike Cohen "Good Guy" Award from the Met Basketball Writers Association at the 89th All-Met Haggerty Awards dinner scheduled Monday, April 25, at the Westchester Marriott in Tarrytown, NY.
The Haggerty dinner is the longest running, media-managed college basketball awards program in the United States.
The Associate Director of Athletics for Athletic Media Relations, Jones is in his 25th year with the athletic communications office at the university in Fairfield, CT. He served as Director of Sports Information before being promoted.
At Fairfield he has helped coordinate media relations operations for 16 NCAA Championship events covering men’s ice hockey, women’s basketball and men’s lacrosse. He also assisted with the media relations efforts for the 2007 and 2011 MAAC Basketball Championships in Bridgeport, CT.
Before coming to Fairfield, Jones spent nearly nine years as the Sports Information Director at the University of New Haven. He also spent a year as a graduate assistant at Glassboro State in New Jersey before working two years as an assistant at Princeton University.
Jones worked with the media relations teams at the 1994 World Cup in East Rutherford, NJ, and the 1995 Special Olympics World Games volleyball competition. He also was a member of the softball information team for the 1996 Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta.
Outside of college athletics, Jones currently serves as the Director of Challenger Baseball for Middletown (CT) Youth Baseball and Softball, which is Little League’s adaptive program for children with intellectual and physical challenges.
Jones earned a dual degree in Journalism and Public Relations from Purdue University in 1985. He received a Master’s degree in Computers in Education in 2001 and a Master’s degree in Special Education in 2018 from Fairfield University.
A native of Hamilton Square, NJ, Jones resides in Middletown, CT, with his wife, Donna, and their sons Benjamin and Jacob.
The MBWA’s “Good Guy” Award is named in memory of Mike Cohen, former head of sports information at NBC Sports and Manhattan College, and former publicity director at Yonkers Raceway. Cohen also was a consultant to Fordham University and operated his own public relations firm prior to his untimely passing in 1988 at the age of 44. Anyone involved in college basketball is eligible for this award; the only criteria is that they --- male or female --- be a “Good Guy.”
For a list of the MBWA’s previous honorees:
Mike Cohen "Good Guy" Awards (year-by-year).