Muhlenberg College Athletics

Muhlenberg College named Megan Patruno assistant director of athletics, filling the vacancy created when Corey Goff was promoted to director of athletics.

Since last August, Patruno has been serving as assistant to the director of athletics, a new position created through the NCAA Division III Ethnic Minority and Women’s Internship Grant Program. Muhlenberg was one of 19 Division III recipients of the grant, which seeks to create professional administrative opportunities for minorities and women and to enhance diversity and inclusion within athletics administrative staffs.

Patruno’s contributions include coordinating the effort for the 2012 Muhlenberg Golf Classic, spearheading grant research and application efforts and developing student-athlete programming.

As a result of her efforts, Muhlenberg was recently awarded 2012-13 NCAA Student-Athlete Affairs Grant monies to support the cost of guest speaker Janet P. Judge, an attorney who concentrates her practice on collegiate sports law and employment law at Sports Law Associates, LLC.

In her new role, Patruno will serve as the athletic department liaison to admissions, compliance officer, supervisor of game and event management, golf outing director and student-athlete programming coordinator.

Patruno is a 1992 graduate of Ursinus College, where she was a four-year letterwinner, team captain and most valuable player in basketball. She received a master’s degree in education from East Stroudsburg University in 1994 while serving as a women’s basketball graduate assistant.

After a year as media relations intern for the Big East Conference, Patruno spent four years as assistant executive director of the Centennial Conference, of which Muhlenberg is a charter member. She was responsible for media relations for the league’s 23 championship sports, which included the production of media guides, game programs, newsletters, press releases, and daily maintenance of the conference’s sports schedules and website, as well as the coordination and site management for Centennial championship events.

Patruno left the CC in 1999 to raise a family but has remained active in athletics. She was public relations specialist and hotel coordinator for Blue Chip Sports Camps in Havertown, Pa., from 2002 to 2004 and served as a media and marketing assistant for four NCAA Division I regional basketball tournaments between 2005 and 2011. Patruno also was a media volunteer at the 2009 US Women’s Open Golf Championship at nearby Saucon Valley Country Club and team manager for the U12 soccer club at St. Thomas More School in Allentown.

Originally from Palmerton, Pa., Patruno worked in Muhlenberg’s Office of Admission as an assistant counselor beginning in 2008.