OLEAN, N.Y.– Bob Beretta is going back to his university in being named St. Bonaventure’s athletic director on Tuesday, a year after supervising Le Moyne College’s shift to the Department I ranks.Beretta was captain
of the Bonnies baseball team and graduated in 1987 with a mass interactions degree. He replaces Joe Manhertz, who resigned quickly in March over questions relating to the males’s basketball program opting out of completing in the NIT without initially notifying its players and fans.![]()
St. Bonaventure athletics will have a familiar face managing all sports next year. Former baseball player Bob Beretta is going back to the Bonnies as athletic director. Rich Graessle/Icon Sportswire “To have the opportunity to return and serve my alma mater, the organization that changed me academically, socially and expertly, the location that instilled all the values I had the ability to take into my profession, is an amazing chance, “Beretta said in a statement launched by the university.”Whatever I have actually performed in my life points back to my time in the Enchanted Mountains.” Beretta spent 34 years at West Point, working his way up the athletic department hierarchy to become Army’s senior executive associate AD. He then left in 2021 to end up being athletic director at Le Moyne, where the central New York school made the dive to the Northeast Conference.” Bob has every characteristic we were looking for in an AD,” St. Bonaventure president Jeff Gingerich said.
“The truth that he’s an alum is just a bonus, but having a deep gratitude of our objective and values is a possession that will show important.”
