Athletic Club Staff and Contact Information

Craig Fink
Athletic Development Director
Phone: 734.487.8236
E-mail: cfink@emich.edu

Craig Fink is in his second year as the athletic development director for the Eastern Michigan University athletics department.

The 35-year-old Fink (2-6-72) joins the EMU athletic department staff from the Brown University Sports Foundation where he managed the annual fund-raising programs from 2001-2006. Under his guidance, the annual programs raised nearly half of the Foundation’s average yearly fund-raising total of $6 million from 5,600 donors. As senior associate director, Fink was part of the senior management team that helped develop the strategy and early fund-raising efforts for achieving a goal of $80+ million for athletics as part of Boldly Brown, the $1.4 billion Campaign for Academic Enrichment, which launched publicly in the fall of 2005. From July-November 2005, Fink also served as interim executive director.

Fink earned his bachelor’s degree in Sports Management at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst in 1994 and later completed his MBA at the Eugene M. Isenberg School of Management at UMass in 2000.

After completing his undergraduate degree, Fink served as the assistant sports information director and assistant baseball coach, and then the sports information director at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy from 1994-1996. He then worked at the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Mass. from 1996-2000 where he held a variety of roles, including directing the annual induction ceremonies as the manager of events and group programs. From there, he became the Northeast Area Sales Manager for zUniversity.com from 2000-2001 before joining Brown University.

A native of Brooklyn, NY, Fink graduated from Midwood High School. He and his wife, Kimberly, reside in Ypsilanti Township with their two sons, Jack (6-5-00) and Alex (6-18-02).

Jessica Nietrzeba
Athletic Development Assistant
Phone: 734.487.1866
E-mail: jnietrze@emich.edu

Jessica Nietrzeba is in her second year as the Athletic Development Assistant for the Eastern Michigan University athletics department.

Nietrzeba earned her Bachelor’s degree in Sport Management from Siena Heights University in the spring of 2006, and is now working towards her master’s degree in Sport Management from Eastern Michigan University.
 
As an undergraduate at Siena Heights, Nietrzeba completed internships at the Monroe, Michigan YMCA, and here at Eastern Michigan University in the athletic department.  She has also been a member of the St. Michael’s We Care organization raising money for children with life threatening illnesses in which insurance does not pay for the medical treatments. 

A native of Erie, Michigan, Nietrzeba graduated from Erie Mason Senior High School in 2002.