Saint Michael's College

A professor at the College for more than three decades, Dave made a significant impact on the Saint Michael’s Department of Athletics and its student-athletes as the NCAA faculty athletics representative for 13 years (2005-18), acting as a liaison between student-athletes and faculty members while redefining the role in the Northeast-10 Conference. Dave’s significance was recognized on the national stage when he received the second annual Dr. Dave Pariser Faculty Mentor Award from the NCAA Division II SAAC in 2015. By the time he retired in 2018, the Saint Michael’s and NE10 SAACs had renamed their faculty mentor awards in Dave’s honor. As the College’s FAR, Dave played an integral role in a number of initiatives that helped improve academic performance by student-athletes, including strengthening the Faculty Team Affiliate Program by recruiting a faculty member to join each varsity program and aid in the solution of academic hurdles. He also established the Academic Mentor Program, which was founded to focus on giving additional attention to teams that were underachieving academically. Dave was a supportive force in Danny Divis ’17 and Justin McKenzie ’17 establishing mental health organization Hope Happens Here, for which they earned the prestigious Hockey Humanitarian Award in 2017.