Send Stabley Retirement Messages
5/16/2005 12:00:00 AM | General
May 16, 2005
MOUNT PLEASANT -- Longtime Central Michigan University sports information director Fred Stabley Jr., is retiring in July after 23 years of service to the Chippewas.
The CMU Athletics Department encourages former student-athletes, coaches, administrators, fans, parents, media members and fellow SIDs to submit retirement messages to Fred.
Messages should be e-mailed to Stabley Retirement Messages at jenki1dm@cmich.edu.
All of the notes will be compiled, printed and presented to Fred as part of a scrapbook momento in June.
Stabley has coordinated the media relations efforts for all 16 of CMU's varsity sports while directly working with the baseball, basketball and football teams over the years. In fact, he has handled football and baseball all 23 seasons.
A 1970 graduate of Michigan State University, Stabley is a part of a three-generation SID family. His father, Fred Sr., was the SID at Michigan State for 32 years and was one of the pioneers in the profession. His daughter, Amy, served as an assistant SID at Texas for five years and the SID at Oakland University for five years. She is currently an assistant to the athletics director at OU.
Fred served as the president of the College Sports Information Directors of America for the 2000-01 school year and he coordinated the press box operations for the first seven Motor City Bowls. He also worked the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta as a member of the baseball information team.
Prior to coming to CMU, Stabley was a sportswriter at the Lansing State Journal for 12 years. There he gave a young high school sophomore Earvin Johnson the nickname of "Magic."