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Michael Weinstock is in his sixth year as the Athletic Director
at Gallaudet University. Weinstock oversees GU's 15 varsity
athletic programs and one club program in addition to the Bison
Intramural Programs. Weinstock had been the coordinator of
Athletics, P.E., Recreation, and Intramural Programs for 11 years
at the Model Secondary School for the Deaf (MSSD). Prior to that
position he was the assistant athletics director/intramurals
coordinator at MSSD for 12 years. Weinstock is a 1976 graduate of
MSSD and a 1981 alumnus of Gallaudet, where he lettered in
basketball for four years. He went on to earn his master's degree
from Gallaudet in 1994.
During his time at MSSD, Weinstock was very active in the "M"
Booster Club and helped increase donations, sponsorships, and
support for the organization. In 2000, he founded the Clerc Classic
boys and girls basketball and cheerleading tournament, which had
top teams from the nation's deaf schools competing for the national
title. He has coached a number of middle school, high school, and
college-level sports teams for the past 26 years. Under his tenure
as coach, the girls' and boys' basketball teams won numerous
National Deaf Prep championships --16 of them while he was athletic
director. He coached the girls' softball team, which also earned
special national recognition. Silent News honored Weinstock as
Coach of the Year in boys basketball, girls basketball, football,
and girls softball. In 1997 he coached the U.S.A. women's
basketball team, which won a gold medal at the Deaf World Games in
Denmark. He was also the director of the U.S.A. Team Development at
the 2001 Summer Deaflympics in Italy. Weinstock has stated that one
of his proudest moments was being selected as Coach of the Month by
ESPN.com in 2000. Coaching has been a big part of Weinstock's
professional career and he is also pleased that a number of staff
who worked for him throughout the years have become athletic
directors at deaf schools across the nation.
Weinstock looks forward to working with the Gallaudet community
and will be committed to ensuring the integrity of all athletic
programming and in bringing them to a higher level of standards,
competitiveness, and recognition. One of his main priorities will
be to focus on academic issues for student-athletes and to foster
increased collaborative efforts between all athletic programs and
faculty.
