Syracuse University Athletics

Sue Cornelius Edson began her career at Syracuse University in 1990 as an assistant sports information director and became the director of athletic communications in 1997. She was promoted to assistant director of athletics for communications in August 2006.

Edson is responsible for the athletic communications operation, which disseminates information for all varsity sports to appropriate organizations, manages the department website, SUAthletics.com, and acts as a liaison between the media and the SU coaching staffs and student-athletes, in addition to participating in department initiatives and administrative responsibilities.

Prior to her appointment as the director, Edson was an assistant director for seven years and had additional duties as publications coordinator for four years. As publications coordinator she was responsible for the production of 16 media guides. In addition, she handled the day-to-day public relations duties for women’s basketball. Prior to 1993, she handled the public relations for SU’s 17 Olympic sports.

In June 2006 Edson received the Eastern College Athletic Conference-Sports Information Directors Association (ECAC-SIDA) Irving T. Marsh Award for excellence in the field of sports information and in 2007 she was recognized with the ‘40 Under 40’ honor for her significant contributions in the workplace and in the community. Edson has won multiple CoSIDA (College Sports Information Directors of America) publications awards, including “Best in the Nation” awards for her 1994 men’s lacrosse media and 1993-94 crew and rowing guides. In addition, the 1994-95 men’s basketball guide was voted fifth in the nation and the 1997-98 guide finished seventh nationally.

Edson has served as the media coordinator for the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament events held in Syracuse, including the 2000, 2002, 2005 and 2010 East Regional Championships.

She served on the ECAC-SIDA Board of Directors for eight years, including as president in 2002-03. Edson also was a member of The BIG EAST Conference Swimming & Diving Championship Committee for two years.

Edson teaches a sports public relations class as an adjunct professor in the Newhouse School, a post she has held since 1994. In 1995, she served as a trainer for the University’s improving quality course, SUIQ. In 1996-97, Edson was a leader for a Junior Girl Scout troop in Syracuse.

She graduated from Syracuse in 1990 with a dual degree in broadcast journalism from the Newhouse School and policy studies from the Maxwell School. Edson served stints as editor-in-chief, assistant sports editor and chair of the board of directors of SU’s award-winning student newspaper, The Daily Orange.

Edson and her husband, Rob, a senior associate director of athletics at SU, reside in Jamesville with their son, Thomas, and their daughter, Tracey. She is an active member of the Jamesville Elementary School Parent Teacher Group, is a board member for the Dimples Awareness Foundation, which aims to help bring awareness to dimpling as a sign of breast cancer, and serves as a division coordinator and coach for the Jamesville-DeWitt youth basketball and softball organizations.