OLEAN, N.Y. — Bob Beretta is returning to his alma mater in being named St. Bonaventure’s athletic director on Tuesday, a 12 months after overseeing Le Moyne School’s transition to the Division I ranks.
Beretta was captain of the Bonnies baseball staff and graduated in 1987 with a mass communications diploma. He replaces Joe Manhertz, who resigned abruptly in March over questions concerning the lads’s basketball program opting out of competing within the NIT with out initially informing its gamers and followers.
“To have the possibility to return and serve my alma mater, the establishment that remodeled me academically, socially and professionally, the place that inculcated all of the values I used to be capable of take into my profession, is an incredible alternative,” Beretta mentioned in an announcement launched by the college. “All the things I’ve completed in my life factors again to my time within the Enchanted Mountains.”
Beretta spent 34 years at West Level, working his means up the athletic division hierarchy to grow to be Military’s senior govt affiliate AD. He then left in 2021 to grow to be athletic director at Le Moyne, the place the central New York faculty made the leap to the Northeast Convention.
“Bob has each attribute we have been searching for in an AD,” St. Bonaventure president Jeff Gingerich mentioned. “The truth that he is an alum is solely a bonus, however having a deep appreciation of our mission and values is an asset that can show invaluable.”