WILLIMANTIC, Conn. – Eastern Connecticut State Athletics has announced the hiring of Michael Vesci as the department's Assistant Director for Sports Communications.
Vesci will help oversee the communications efforts for the program's 19 NCAA varsity sports, returning to his alma mater after spending the past three years at Post University.
After spending three years with Division II Post University in Waterbury, Connecticut, Vesci's team hired eight total play-by-play broadcasters to call the action for over 100-plus yearly Post Athletic events and brought in a total of 20 student interns from various schools with nearly 75% of them breaking into the sports field in numerous capacities within six months of completing their time with the Athletic Communications team or their graduation.
He and his team were also tasked with marketing and execution of the first official collegiate Women's Flag Football team in the State of Connecticut for Post University, which got underway in the spring of 2026.
As part of the College Sports Communicators organization, Vesci was one of 12 CSC members named to the 2024-25 Inclusion Fellowship class, a year-long cohort that studies issues around championing an inclusive culture in athletics communications and within college athletics. In November 2024, Vesci was honored as part of the 2024 CSC 30 Under 30 Class, which honors up-and-coming strategic, creative, and digital athletics communications professionals throughout the CSC membership. He became the third Athletic Communicator in Connecticut to receive the honor while becoming the first Director of Athletic Communications and the first individual from a Division II school in the state to be named to the award since it began in 2022. In February 2025, Vesci was announced as one of the 22 Attendance Grant Winners for the 2025 CSC Unite Convention in Orlando, Florida, in June of that same year.
Vesci returned home to Connecticut, joining Division II Post University as the Director of Athletic Communications after spending a year as the Sports Information Assistant at UMass Boston. During his year as a Beacon, the Manchester, Connecticut native bolstered the Beacon Broadcast Network, executing over 100 webcasts for 10 different Division III sports offered at the university, hiring four new broadcasting talents to perform play-by-play duties, revamping the BBN logo and game graphics packages, and helping execute the first-ever three-camera softball stream in program history.
Before his stint at UMass Boston, Vesci spent three years with Bob Molta, a 40-plus-year Sports Information veteran at Eastern Connecticut, both as a University Assistant (one year) and Student Worker (two years).
During his one year as a University Assistant, Vesci oversaw the ETV Sports Internship Program, trained student workers to execute sports information-related duties at home athletic events, wrote press releases, created new website graphics, and served as the primary contact for the 2022 Division III National Champion Eastern Baseball team during their spring trip to Fort Myers, Florida.
A 2022 graduate from Southern Connecticut State University with his masters in Sports Management and 2020 graduate of Eastern Connecticut State University with his bachelors in Sports Management as well as a double minor in Business Administration and Communications, Vesci also spent six seasons as an official scorer for the New Britain Bees from 2017-2022 and the better part of three years in the Colorado Rockies Double-A Affiliate Hartford Yard Goats organization in a variety of roles. Since 2024, he has served as the official scorer for the Norwich Sea Unicorns of the Futures Collegiate Baseball League. He is currently pursuing his PhD in Sports Leadership from the University of Concordia Chicago.
