Farmingdale State Athletics

Deana Ward was promoted to Senior Associate Athletic Director in November 2021. She was named Associate Athletic Director in October 2018 after serving as the Sports Information Director since September of 2003 and Assistant AD since 2008. Deana handles all aspects of compliance for the Rams and is also the Senior Women's Administrator in the athletic department.

She is directly responsible for scheduling and game contracts of all 18 intercollegiate sports as well as supervising athletic department interns. Deana also assists with compliance, event management and chairs the campus assessment committee.

From 2005-2008, she also served as the assistant women's lacrosse coach at the College.

A native of Wilmington, Mass., she attended Endicott College, where she received her bachelor's degree in Sport Management in 2001. She was a member of the field hockey and lacrosse teams for four years. After Endicott, she pursued her master's at Springfield College and received her M.P.E. in Athletic Administration in 2003. While attending Springfield, she was the assistant coach of the field hockey and lacrosse teams for two years at Elms College in Chicopee, Mass.