SCAC Contact
Information
Mailing Address:
2940 Horizon Park Drive
Suite D
Suwanee, Georgia 30024-7229
Office Phone:
678-546-3470
Office Fax:
678-546-3471
Dwayne Hanberry
Commissioner
dhanberry@scacsports.com
Dwayne Hanberry, 46, enters his 17th year with the Southern
Collegiate Athletic Conference and his fourth full year as the
league's commissioner. Since the conference reorganzied in
1991, he is the league's second full-time commissioner.
Hanberry was hired by the SCAC in 1995 as the league's sports
information director. He was promoted to assistant commissioner in
2000, associate commissioner in 2005 and served as interim
commissioner for six months before being named commissioner in June
of 2008.
Hanberry is a member of the Division III Commissioner Association
(DIIICA), the National Association of Division III Athletic
Administrators (NADIIIAA) and the College Sports Information
Directors of America (CoSIDA) where he has served on the Membership
Services Committee.
Hanberry holds a B.B.A. degree from Oglethorpe University where he
was a two-year starter on the Petrel basketball team for Coach Jack
Berkshire. Hanberry was named team MVP his junior season and is
still one of the school's all-time leaders for
single-season field goal percentage, career field goal percentage
and rebounds per game - both for a season and
a career.
Prior to transfering to Oglethorpe, Hanberry was a two-year starter
for Coach Lawrence Smithmier at Pearl River Community College in
Poplarville, Mississippi. An All-State performer his sophomore
season, Hanberry was inducted into the school's Athletics Hall
of Fame in the fall of 2009.
He and his wife, Charis, reside in Suwanee, Ga., with their two
sons, David (16) and Daniel (12).
Jeff DeBaldo
Director of Sports Information
jdebaldo@scacsports.com
Jeff DeBaldo, 27, enters his fourth year as the conference's
director of sports information in 2011-12. He also serves as the
league's Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) adviser.
DeBaldo was most recently the Assistant Director of the Presidents'
Athletic Conference (2007-08), an NCAA Division III conference
office located in Wexford, Pa., where he assisted league
commissioner Joe Onderko in all aspects of conference
operation.
Prior to his work at the PAC, DeBaldo served as a media relations
intern at the University of Pittsburgh and was also a student
assistant in the sports information office at his alma mater,
Waynesburg (Pa.) University. He was also a
freelance writer for The (Uniontown, Pa.)
Herald-Standard for two years while attending Waynesburg.
DeBaldo earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communication
(Sports Information option) from Waynesburg in 2007.
He is a member of the College Sports Information Directors of
America (CoSIDA) and replaced Hanberry on the Membership Services
Committee in the fall of 2010. DeBaldo also earned "Best in the
Nation" honors from CoSIDA for his work on the Waynesburg football
gameday program in 2005.
DeBaldo is a native of Gibsonia, Pa., and currently resides in
Duluth, Ga. with his wife Ashley.
Russell Kramer
Director of Communications/New Media
rkramer@scacsports.com
Russell Kramer, 25, enters his fourth full year with the conference
and his third as the league's director of communications and new
media in 2011-12.
Kramer comes to the SCAC from Oglethorpe University where he was
president of his fraternity, a member of the student government, a
four-year member of the soccer team, a student peer mentor and a
member of the '08 for OU senior campaign.
Kramer interned at the Southeastern Conference office in the
summer of 2007 and has worked numerous championship events for
the Division I conference.
He is a member of the College Sports Information Directors of
America (CoSIDA).
Kramer is a native of Knoxville, Tenn., and resides in Atlanta,
Ga.
