GLIAC Associate Commissioner - Jeff Ligney

Jeff Ligney
E-mail:  jligney@gliac.org

 

      Jeff Ligney  enters his 17th year with the GLIAC after taking over as the  league’s Director of Media Relations on July 1, 2000, becoming the Conference's first full-time employee.  Ligney was promoted to Associate Commissioner on July 1, 2013.  He was named Interim Commissioner on July 1, 2016.
      A native of Bay City, Michigan, Ligney has over 20 years of
college athletic experience in a variety of capacities.  Before coming on board with the GLIAC, he served as student assistant sports information director at Saginaw Valley State University in separate stints since September of 1996.
      While at SVSU he served as webmaster for the athletic web site, while assisting in virtually every facet of the department’s operation.  He assisted in the production of media guides, wrote press releases and hosted a weekly half-time segment on Cardinal football radio broadcasts.
     Ligney was interim sports information director for the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) for a year and a half.  In addition to composing the league’s weekly newsletter, he developed and maintained the PSAC web site.
     Assistant men’s basketball coach at SVSU for five seasons, Ligney assisted with recruitment and other administrative duties, as well as on-floor coaching and was co-director of the Cardinal basketball camps. SVSU advanced to three GLIAC tournament  appearances during his tenure.
    A product of Bay City All Saints High School, he played varsity tennis all four years and was a regional runnerup in 1989.  He led the basketball team to back-to-back district titles his last two seasons.
    Ligney recently concluded terms on the NCAA Division II Men’s Basketball Committee and the NCAA Statistics & Records Advirsory Board. In 2012 he was elected to serve as President of the Division II Conference Information Directors Association.