Streeter Named to CWPA Board of Directors
Brian Streeter, director of athletics for Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, has been named to the Board of Directors of the Collegiate Water Polo Association (CWPA). Board members are appointed to two-year terms; this is Streeter’s first term.
The Board of Directors oversees the association’s varsity and club components and is charged with enforcing the bylaws and policies established by its members through a legislative process in which every member institution has one vote.
Streeter has served as director of athletics since 1997, helping to lead the Penn State Behrend Lions to eight Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference (AMCC) President’s Cups. The President’s Cup has been presented annually since the 2000-01 season to the conference member with the most successful overall program in AMCC competition.
Currently, Streeter is a member of the Board of Directors of the multi-divisional Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) and chair of the ECAC Championships Committee. He recently completed his tenure on the Water Polo Committee of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), serving as chairman of the committee in 2009. He is a past commissioner of the AMCC.
Locally, Streeter serves the Erie community as a board member of the American Red Cross and Visit Erie.
Streeter was honored with the General Robert R. Neyland Outstanding Athletic Director Award from the All-American Football Foundation for 2004-05 and was one of two ECAC Jostens Administrators of the Year in 2001. He is a five-time winner of the Schoenfeld Regional Sportsmanship Award, presented by the College Basketball Officials Association. In 1995, he earned top honors for the same award at the national level.
Prior to joining Penn State Behrend, Streeter spent 14 years at Hobart College in Geneva, N.Y., as assistant athletic director and head coach of men’s basketball.
Streeter earned a bachelor’s degree in health and physical education from Texas A&M University and a master’s degree in education from Ithaca College in New York.
Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, is a comprehensive residential college offering 34 bachelor’s, six associate, four pre-professional and two graduate degree programs with 22 minors to more than 4,600 students. Focused on providing a student-centered environment, Penn State Behrend connects its students to a major research and land-grant institution on a campus enriched by more than 110 clubs and organizations, 21 NCAA varsity teams and 19 intramural sports. Penn State Behrend is named in recognition of a donation by Mary Behrend, widow of Ernst Behrend, who founded the Hammermill Paper Co. in Erie in 1898. The Behrend family lived on the 400-acre Glenhill Farm, which is the core of the Penn State Behrend campus today. For more information, visit behrend.psu.edu.