Madeline Salvani (2018) - Hall of Fame

Madeline Salvani

Induction:
2018

Madeline Salvani has been a familiar face in Army Athletics over the last 50-plus years, providing service to countless cadet-athletes and coaches.

Salvani played an integral role in assisting the Academy with the integration of women by serving as the first female Sports Information Director, covering the first women's varsity sports. Even after her retirement in the fall of 2015, Salvani has stayed involved in the department as the Director of Research, Historian, and Special Reports in a volunteer capacity.

As the first female administrator inducted to the Hall of Fame, who was not a USMA graduate, Salvani served as the first female SID in 1976 when women were admitted to West Point. She has pioneered the industry by breaking through barriers such as females not being allowed in press boxes, prejudices of women in sports and adapting to technology changes throughout her tenure.

In her time, Salvani served as the contact for women's basketball, softball, men's and women's swimming and diving, gymnastics, men's and women's soccer, men's and women's track and field and cross country, sprint football, golf, men's tennis, rifle, squash, fencing, pistol as well as being part of the day-to-day operations of football.

As humble as they come, Salvani has been honored with "Best in the District" for her media guides by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA), was named the 2001 Eastern College Athletic Conference Sports Information Directors Association (ECAC-SIDA) University Division Marsh Award Winner, the Bob Kenworthy Award and received the CoSIDA Lifetime Achievement Award in 2015.