Sandy Montag
Sandy Montag 鈥�85, chief executive officer of , will receive the seventh annual Marty Glickman Award for Leadership in Sports Media at an on-campus ceremony on Wednesday, Nov. 6. The award is given by the .
Ian Eagle 鈥�90, play-by-play announcer with CBS Sports, YES Network and Westwood One Radio, will present the award. Eagle was last year鈥檚 recipient.
The event, hosted by the , is open to the campus community. A reception will begin at 4 p.m., followed by the program at 4:45 p.m. in the Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium, Newhouse 3. Follow on Twitter at .
Montag founded The Montag Group鈥攁 sports and entertainment agency聽offering premier talent representation, strategic consulting, media communications and content creation鈥攊n 2014. As head of the company, Montag represents a wide variety of clients in fields including broadcasting, coaching, culinary and team sports. Among his clients are Marv Albert 鈥�63, Jay Bilas, James Brown, Mary Carillo, Bob Costas 鈥�74, Tom Coughlin 鈥�68, G鈥�69, Julie Foudy, John Madden, Sean McDonough 鈥�84, Beth Mowins G鈥�90, Jeremy Schaap, Mike Tirico 鈥�88, Ming Tsai and Scott Van Pelt.
Montag spent 30 years at , joining the company in 1985 as an assistant to John Madden. He went on to run IMG鈥檚 client operations for 10 years.聽Montag also developed and launched Ari Fleischer Communications with Ari Fleischer, former press secretary to president George W. Bush, after Fleischer left the White House in 2003.
Montag has been an executive producer on three documentaries: Amazon Prime鈥檚 鈥�,鈥� Showtime鈥檚 鈥溾€� and ESPN鈥檚 鈥�,鈥� which aired in August with the launch of the ACC Network.
Montag is active in several charities, serving on the advisory boards for Madden Charities, Tom聽Coughlin鈥檚 Jay Fund Foundation, Team LeGrand, the Alan T Brown Foundation and March of Dimes.聽He also sits on the sports management advisory boards at 黑料不打烊, the University of聽Michigan and New York University, as well as the advisory board for Barclays Center in Brooklyn.
The Glickman Award is named for , a 1939 alumnus of 黑料不打烊.
Communication Access Real-time Translation (CART) will be available at the event. For more information, or if you require additional accommodations, contact Mylinda Smith at 315.443.9252 or msmith@syr.edu.
