Bryn Mawr, PA-On September 20, 2021 Joe Pavlow will depart Rosemont College as the head of the athletic department to take the athletic director position at a junior college in New Jersey. Bob Hughes, Rosemont’s Head Men’s Basketball coach will take over as the interim athletic director while a search is underway. Also announced today is that Alicia LaPorta has joined the Rosemont athletic department as an Assistant Athletic Director.
Pavlow had been the Director of Athletics at Rosemont since March of 2018, when he arrived from his previous roles as the Associate Athletic Director and Head Baseball coach at Penn State Abington. During his tenure at Rosemont, the Ravens claimed their first ever CSAC Championships, totaling five titles in three sports. Pavlow served in multiple governance roles throughout the conference, the region and on the national level. This past year the athletic department under Pavlow’s watch brought in a record setting number of incoming student-athletes.
Hughes, will serve in the Interim AD role in addition to his role as the Head Men’s Basketball coach a title he has held since the Fall of 2012. Hughes holds virtually all the Raven’s coaching records including season wins, career wins, and playoff wins. He was named CSAC coach of the Year in 2015 and led the Ravens to the CSAC title in 2018-19. Prior to his time on the mainline, Hughes was an assistant coach at Washington College, in Chestertown, MD, from 2010-12. Between 2008 and 2010, Hughes was an Assistant Coach at Drew University in Madison, NJ. Hughes served in various capacities under Phil Martelli’s at Saint Joe’s.
Alicia LaPorta, comes to Rosemont College from the Philadelphia Union where she was most recently the manager of Game Operations and Special Events. LaPorta had worked with the Union since 2017. Prior to that, she worked at her Alma Mater, Lynchburg College in various athletic department offices. LaPorta also spent time as an Assistant Women’s Soccer Coach at the University of Mary Washington. LaPorta will work as the Sports Information Director, Compliance Coordinator and Senior Women’s Administrator at Rosemont.
