Bio

Pam Roecker has served as Emmanuel's Director of Athletics and Recreation since 2003, directly overseeing the Saints' athletic department and 35 staff members. The Emmanuel Athletic Department has experienced tremendous growth during Roecker's tenure, growing by three varsity sports, including the additions of men's golf (2009), women's lacrosse (2011) and men's lacrosse (2012).

In addition to directing the expansion of the Saints' athletic department, Roecker was also actively involved in the Roberto Clemente Field project, completed in August of 2009. Emmanuel College established a partnership with the City of Boston to upgrade Roberto Clemente Field, a city-owned field located across the street from the Emmanuel College campus. The renovation included an upgraded 120,000 sq. ft. NCAA-regulation synthetic turf field, a three-lane rubberized all-weather track, practice facilities for expanded track and field events, new MUSCO lighting, scoreboard, spectator stands and benches for handicapped seating. Clemente Field is home to the Emmanuel Men's and Women's Soccer programs, Softball, Track & Field and soon to be Lacrosse programs, for both practice and competition.

As of Fall 2010, Roecker was added to the Emmanuel College Management Faculty where she is an instructor in the recently added Sport Management Concentration. Roecker began serving on the NACWAA Membership Committee in 2013 and on the NCAA Regional Men's Golf Advisory Committee and ECAC Women's Lacrosse Selection Committee in 2010-11. She was also a member of the NACWAA Legislation and Governance Committee in 2012.

Prior to Emmanuel, Roecker served as Associate Athletic Director, Senior Woman Administrator and NCAA Compliance Coordinator at Wagner College in Staten Island, New York. While at Wagner, she chaired the Wagner College Gender-Equity Committee for NCAA Certification and the Northeast Conference Senior Woman Administrators Committee, and was a member of the NEC Budgetary Committee. During her tenure, the Seahawks saw tremendous growth in the women's varsity sports program, expanding from a six-sport program to sponsoring 12 NCAA Division I teams in 2003.

Roecker also has extensive experience coaching Division I women's basketball, holding head coaching positions at Loyola University Chicago (1998-99) and at Wagner College, and assistant coaching positions at Seton Hall University, University of Massachusetts-Amherst and University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. During her eight years coaching at Wagner (1990-98), Roecker became the second all-time winningest coach in women's basketball history, with a 100% graduation rate for all four-year players, including one class valedictorian. She was awarded the New York State Division I Women's Basketball "Coach of the Year" during the 1997 season and has been inducted into both the Hall of Fame at University of Wisconsin-Green Bay and the Omicron Delta Kappa Leadership Society at Wagner College. Roecker is still the all-time leader in every assist category at UWGB, is a 1000 point scorer, and was named the University's first female Academic All-American in 1982-83.

In addition to her role at Emmanuel College, Roecker can also be seen on Regional and National Television in her as a basketball color analyst. On the air since 2003, she has called men's and women's basketball games for a variety of conferences, including the Atlantic 10, Big East, Colonial, Horizon, Northeast Conference, and Patriot League on ESPNU, ESPN3.com, CBSC, FOX Sports Net, Fox College Sports , NESN, MSG and Comcast SportsNet. Roecker is also an active motivational speaker at basketball camps throughout the Northeast.

Within the Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC), Roecker has chaired the Women's Basketball Committee since 2004.  She is also a member of the GNAC Championship Handbook Committee.

Roecker earned a bachelor's degree in Communications and Business Administration from the University of Wisconsin - Green Bay in 1983 and a master's degree in Business Administration and Management from Wagner College in 2003.