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UNC Asheville to Hold Mike Gore Appreciation Day on May 12
05.05.2018 | Athletics News
ASHEVILLE, N.C. – In honor of UNC Asheville legend Mike Gore being inducted into the Big South Hall of Fame, the athletics department will hold Mike Gore Appreciation Day as part of the baseball game against High Point on May 12.
First pitch on Saturday, May 12, at Greenwood Field between UNC Asheville and High Point is scheduled for 3 p.m.
All UNC Asheville alumni, fans and friends of Mike Gore are encouraged to attend to honor Gore's enshrinement into the Big South Hall of Fame Thursday, May 31, 2018, during a special ceremony as part of the Big South's annual spring meetings at the Marriott Resort on Hilton Head Island, S.C.
As part of the special day, Gore will throw out the first pitch and be honored in different ways throughout the course of the game.
Gore is honored in the Significant Contributor category by the Big South for his 29 years of service as the longest tenured Sports Information Director in Big South Conference history.
A College Sports Information Directors Association (CoSIDA) Lifetime Achievement Award & 25-Year Award recipient, he received the 2016 WNC Mountain Athletic Club Ochsenreiter Award for Lifetime Achievement. The first Sports Information Director to be inducted into the Big South Hall of Fame, Gore served Asheville as Associate Athletics Director of External Affairs, Sports Information Director and Interim Athletics Director (2003-04), among other roles during his time with the university.
For three decades, he exhibited unwavering commitment to his duties and the student-athletes he encountered, and helped guide the athletics department through the transition to Division I and the numerous changes that ensued. Gore oversaw media coverage of the Bulldogs' athletics programs with exemplary dedication as the department's media liaison, and handled all media-related activities.
He meticulously compiled statistics for women's sports by longhand before required by the NCAA. His long-standing media efforts around Asheville athletics propelled him as a longtime contributor to the Asheville Citizen-Times, Hendersonville Times-News and Blue Ribbon Basketball Magazine. He has served as the voice of the Bulldogs on radio, handling play-by-play and analysis for most of his career for Asheville men's basketball, and recently for women's basketball, and never missed a home basketball game during his time at Asheville.
Gore served as the Host Media Coordinator for several Big South Conference Championships, including a total of six Men's and Women's Basketball tournaments -- two of which were combined events for the first time. He attended and covered the first 29 Big South Men's Basketball Championships, and assisted in an array of game day media operations roles -- notably as postgame interview moderator.
He has served as Chair of the Big South Hall of Fame Committee since the inception of the conference's Hall of Fame in 2003.
Gore joined Asheville's staff on July 1, 1986, as the Sports Information and Promotions Director. He was named Assistant AD in the summer of 1993, advancing to Associate AD in 1996, and elevated to his final title of Associate AD of External Affairs in 2007. In 2005, UNC Asheville's athletics department created the Mike Gore Bulldog Service Award, and named him the first recipient.
Gore also was appointed Head Softball Coach for the program's final season in 1992, and was voted Big South Co-Coach of the Year as the team led the nation in stolen bases.
He was inducted into UNC Asheville's Athletics Hall of Fame in October of 2015.
**Big South Contributed to this Report**
First pitch on Saturday, May 12, at Greenwood Field between UNC Asheville and High Point is scheduled for 3 p.m.
All UNC Asheville alumni, fans and friends of Mike Gore are encouraged to attend to honor Gore's enshrinement into the Big South Hall of Fame Thursday, May 31, 2018, during a special ceremony as part of the Big South's annual spring meetings at the Marriott Resort on Hilton Head Island, S.C.
As part of the special day, Gore will throw out the first pitch and be honored in different ways throughout the course of the game.
Gore is honored in the Significant Contributor category by the Big South for his 29 years of service as the longest tenured Sports Information Director in Big South Conference history.
A College Sports Information Directors Association (CoSIDA) Lifetime Achievement Award & 25-Year Award recipient, he received the 2016 WNC Mountain Athletic Club Ochsenreiter Award for Lifetime Achievement. The first Sports Information Director to be inducted into the Big South Hall of Fame, Gore served Asheville as Associate Athletics Director of External Affairs, Sports Information Director and Interim Athletics Director (2003-04), among other roles during his time with the university.
For three decades, he exhibited unwavering commitment to his duties and the student-athletes he encountered, and helped guide the athletics department through the transition to Division I and the numerous changes that ensued. Gore oversaw media coverage of the Bulldogs' athletics programs with exemplary dedication as the department's media liaison, and handled all media-related activities.
He meticulously compiled statistics for women's sports by longhand before required by the NCAA. His long-standing media efforts around Asheville athletics propelled him as a longtime contributor to the Asheville Citizen-Times, Hendersonville Times-News and Blue Ribbon Basketball Magazine. He has served as the voice of the Bulldogs on radio, handling play-by-play and analysis for most of his career for Asheville men's basketball, and recently for women's basketball, and never missed a home basketball game during his time at Asheville.
Gore served as the Host Media Coordinator for several Big South Conference Championships, including a total of six Men's and Women's Basketball tournaments -- two of which were combined events for the first time. He attended and covered the first 29 Big South Men's Basketball Championships, and assisted in an array of game day media operations roles -- notably as postgame interview moderator.
He has served as Chair of the Big South Hall of Fame Committee since the inception of the conference's Hall of Fame in 2003.
Gore joined Asheville's staff on July 1, 1986, as the Sports Information and Promotions Director. He was named Assistant AD in the summer of 1993, advancing to Associate AD in 1996, and elevated to his final title of Associate AD of External Affairs in 2007. In 2005, UNC Asheville's athletics department created the Mike Gore Bulldog Service Award, and named him the first recipient.
Gore also was appointed Head Softball Coach for the program's final season in 1992, and was voted Big South Co-Coach of the Year as the team led the nation in stolen bases.
He was inducted into UNC Asheville's Athletics Hall of Fame in October of 2015.
**Big South Contributed to this Report**
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