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Tom Nevala is in his second year as an associate athletics director at Notre Dame, having been promoted in the summer of 2005. He spent the previous five years as the assistant athletics director for business operations. In his new capacity, he continues to oversee all financial matters for the Notre Dame athletics department while serving as the athletics contact for the department's relationship with adidas. In addition, he oversees the department's equipment operations. Nevala also continues as day-to-day administrative contact for the Irish hockey program. He represents Notre Dame on the Central Collegiate Hockey Association Council, and provided color commentary for Notre Dame hockey games during radio broadcasts for the 2002-03 through 2004-05 seasons. A member of the university's business managers group, Nevala previously spent five years as the business manager of athletics, following one year as business manager of the Joyce Center and two years as the director of the Varsity Shop and ice rink manager for that facility. During the 1999-2000 academic year, Nevala coordinated the effort to form the Notre Dame alumni football team that traveled to Germany in July of 2000 and defeated the Hamburg Blue Devils in the Charity Bowl. He also served as tournament director of the 1997 BIG EAST Men's Golf Championship. A 1990 Notre Dame graduate with a degree in aerospace engineering, Nevala returned to the University in the fall of that year to attend graduate school and work in the athletics business office. He earned his MBA in interdisciplinary studies in May of 1992. An associate football manager for the 1989 season as an undergraduate, Nevala is a native of Maynard, Mass. Born Jan. 25, 1968, he is married to the former Jen Turgeon, a 1993 Saint Mary's graduate and a native of Brunswick, Maine. The couple welcomed the birth of their first child, Sofia Marie, in October 2005. |
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