Indiana University of Pennsylvania Athletics

IUP teams and athletes achieved several milestones over a nearly 40-year period and Larry Judge was there to document them.

His service to the university as sports information director, a position he held for 23 years, as well as the many other hats he wore at IUP earned Judge the Bellringer Award.

Judge became the sports information director while still a student. After graduating from IUP in 1964, he taught English for two years before returning to his alma mater in 1966 as assistant director of public relations and sports information director
Judge left IUP for the second and final time in 1969 and headed to Westminster College where he was the director of public relations and sports information director.
After two years at Westminster and another at Mercer County (N.J.) Community College, Judge was lured back to IUP once and for all in 1972.

Before he embarked on his 18-year run as the university's first fulltime sports information, Judge spent seven years as the director of alumni affairs. He returned to athletics as sports information director in 1979 and stayed in that position through the 1995-96 academic year.

What Judge witnessed and wrote about during his tenure as sports information director would be the envy of any IUP fan. He was in Atlantic City when the football team nearly defeated Delaware in the 1968 Boardwalk Bowl, a game that is still revered more than 40 years later.

The same year, he covered the IUP golf team's run to the national championship. Judge also served as the media liaison when the Indians reached the 1990 and 1993 Division II football title games and saw IUP make consecutive trips to the men's basketball Elite Eight in 1994 and 1995.

Judge stepped down as sports information director in 1996 but remained a vital part of the IUP athletic department as the director of special projects. A large part of that role was the development of the Hall of Fame, and he worked tirelessly to research candidates and organized the many aspects of the induction ceremony.

Judge announced his retirement in 2002 and has spent the past seven years as a leading contributor to many organizations in the Indiana community as well as continuing on as a member of the Hall of Fame board of directors.

Judge and his wife, Elaine, are the parents of Lisa Marie, who is the manager of school and community partnerships for the Cleveland Orchestra.