Weston’s worthy stay
Associate Athletic Director Marcy Weston’s original plan was to stay at CMU for five years and move on.
Now, 28 years later, she is beginning her 34th year at Central.
“My first job was two (years), then my next job was three, then I said ‘I’ll be here five years, then I’ll go someplace else,’” Weston said.
Instead of following her five-year plan, she is now an established figure at CMU.
Weston said the integrity of her co-workers and the always-changing student-athletes have kept her going on the job.
“I love the people I work with,” Weston said. “You combine that, and you like the job and the people you work with and it’s a pretty good deal.”
Working with student-athletes is the most rewarding part of the job, she said.
“I always tell people I would hate working with all adults in an office somewhere because I think it would be boring,” she said. “There is nothing boring about my job.”
Athletics Director Herb Deromedi called Weston a leader in women’s athletics.
“Marcy is extremely efficient and is someone that for me is a pleasure to have the opportunity to work with,” Deromedi said.
Weston coached three sports during her tenure at CMU. She started as a field hockey coach from 1972-74, then the women’s basketball coach from 1974-76. Finally, she was a volleyball coach from 1974-89.
Schedules were less strenuous and a single person could coach two sports at one time, she said.
Volleyball was not her strongest sport, she said. Yet she enjoyed most of her success while coaching volleyball.
She coached her way to four consecutive Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women titles. The conference had all the major colleges from Michigan including Western Michigan, Michigan and Michigan State.
“After two or three years we won quite a bit so people think you’re the volleyball expert,” she said.
Weston went to various different volleyball clinics during the offseason to help perfect her coaching abilities.
“I had some pretty good athletes and I thought I was a pretty good motivator,” she said.
She was a 2004 inductee to the CMU Hall of Fame for her efforts as the volleyball coach.
In 1989, she was promoted to her current position of associate AD.
Women’s basketball coach Eileen Kleinfelter said Weston has great integrity.
“As a coach, an administrator and an official, she has excelled in all those areas,” Kleinfelter said. “Certainly, many coaches try to follow her lead in doing things the right way.”
Weston went to the University of Dayton where he ended up trying out for basketball, volleyball, field hockey and softball. She learned the ins and outs of the sports that helped her coach the sports later in life.
She also officiated women’s basketball games earlier in her career and is now a spokesperson for NCAA women’s basketball officials. She assigns all the officials for the NCAA Division I women’s tournament games.
Weston said her relationship with people throughout the NCAA is good public relations for CMU.
“I think it helps us with scheduling, it helps us with relations with other universities,” she said.
