Hall of Fame
A 1974 graduate of Morgan State College, Joe McIver started his professional career as Morgan State’s first full-time Sports Information Director. McIver served 25 years in the Sports Information profession. He was a founding member of the Black College Sports Information Directors Association (BCSIDA) and the Mid Eastern Athletic Conference Sports information Directors Association. (MEACSIDA)
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During his tenure, McIver served as the Media Director and head statistician for the Annual Morgan-Grambling Football Classic played in New York’s Yankee Stadium and Media Director for the first NCAA football game played in the outside of the Western Hemisphere, when Morgan State University played Gambling State University in Tokyo, Japan in 1976. He also served as Media Director of the MEAC’s Summer International Basketball tour in Dakar, Senegal in 1977. He spent the 1978 Christmas holiday in South America (Brazil and Columbia) on an international trip with the Morgan State basketball team.
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McIver was promoted as the school’s Assistant Athletic Director in 1989, but continued to serve his first love of Sports Information area. He was the first Sports Information Director to serve on the MEAC Basketball Tournament committee from 1994 to 1999 and gave the SID’s a voice in the MEAC General Assembly when he organized the MEACSIDA in 1995. He served as President of the MEACSIDA from 1995 and instituted a Regional SID Developmental Workshop, in Alexandria, Virginia during the MEAC Fall Football Press Conference weekend. The workshop was cited by the NCAA as one of the finest SID workshops in the nation.
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From 1995—1999, McIver was elected President of the BCSIDA. During his tenure as President the BCSIDA sponsored the Black College All-American Banquet held in conjunction with the HBCU College Basketball All-Star Tournament. The organization averaged over 70% paid members during his tenure, the highest average in the organizations history. In ‘99, McIver was elected to the CoSIDA Board of Directors and served on the organizations Site Selection and Membership committees.
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In 2000, McIver was promoted to his present position of Assistant Athletic Director and resigned from both the CoSIDA Board and the MEACSIDA Presidency, but it didn’t stop him from continuing his connection with the profession of Sports Information.
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McIver spent six years as an NCAA Committee Representative for the Women’s Basketball Tournament from 1999 - 2005 and was honored twice by the All-American Football Foundation. He received the Scoop Hudgins Lifetime Achievement Award in Princeton, New Jersey in 2002 and in Baltimore, Maryland he was honored as the Assistant Athletics Director of the Year in 2006. He is also a graduated of the 2003 class of NCAA’s Minority Leadership Institute for Ethnic Minority.
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A true athletic pioneer for Morgan State University and the Mid Eastern Athletic Conference, McIver played in the first MEAC basketball tournament as a sophomore guard for the Bears at Duke University’s Cameron Indoor Stadium in 1971 and was a member of the MEAC and Morgan State University’s first and only National Championship team, when the Bears won the NCAA College Division Basketball Championship in 1974.Â
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He was inducted into his alma maters Athletics Hall of Fame in October of 2002 and the MEAC Hall of Fame in Winston Salem, NC in 2008.Â
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Joe and his wife, Deborah live in Forest Hill, Maryland. They have three adult children, Jennifer McIver-Ross, Joseph III and Jarrett and two grandsons, Andrew Joseph Ross (six years old) and Joshua Joseph (two years old).
