Benjamin Shove was elevated to Associate Commissionre for Sport Services in July, 2017.
The 2020-21 academic year marks Shove’s 12th at the Conference. He was named NEC Director of Sports Services in November, 2008 and was promoted to Assistant Commissioner for Sports Services in June, 2014. He was again promoted to Associate Commissioner for Sports Services in June, 2017.
In his role, Shove oversees Conference championships and regular season sport administration including the facilitation of coach recommendations through the Conference’s governance process. He plays a vital role in the development of sport schedules while also coordinating the NEC’s officiating programs, which includes the football instant replay package. He also manages many of the league’s branding and signage initiatives.
Shove served as Tournament Director for the 2016 NCAA Women’s Bowling Championship, which was hosted by the NEC. Most recently, Shove served a four-year term on the prestigious NCAA Division I Baseball Committee during the 2017-2020 seasons.
Prior to his appointment, Shove spent three years as Associate Sports Information Director at Georgetown University where he handled all media relations activities for the Hoyas men's soccer, women's basketball and women's lacrosse teams. Shove was also the athletic department's liaison with website provider CBS College Sports. In addition to his sports information duties, Shove was the Assistant Media Coordinator for the 2008 NCAA Men's Basketball First and Second Rounds held at Verizon Center.
Before his three years in the nation's capital, Shove spent five years in the Sports Information Office at NEC member Wagner College. From 2003-05, he served as Assistant Athletic Director for Media Relations overseeing all media inquiries and athletic publications for Wagner's 22 Division I varsity sports. He served as the primary contact for football, men's basketball, women's swimming and women's lacrosse teams, while handling publicity for the 2000 baseball team that made the school's first-ever NCAA Division I Tournament.
He played a vital role as a committee member of the Seahawk Golf Classic and the Wagner College Athletics Hall of Fame and was instrumental in developing a new department website.
Shove is a 1998 graduate of Marist College, where the Communications major was a three-plus year starting second baseman on the Red Fox baseball team that made the school's first-ever NCAA Tournament appearance in 1997. A Connecticut native, he is a member of the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) and earned his MBA in Management 2002 from Wagner.