Casey Mae Filiaci joined UAlbany Athletics in August of 2021 as Assistant Director of Communications. She serves as the primary contact for the Great Danes’ field hockey, volleyball, women’s basketball, softball, and women’s golf teams.
Prior to arriving at UAlbany, Filiaci spent the 2020-21 season working as an Athletic Communications Assistant at Oregon State University. During her time with the Beavers, she covered the women’s gymnastics, softball, women’s soccer, and men’s rowing teams. Throughout her six months in Corvallis, she published content on OSU’s signee, Jade Carey, in the months leading up to her gold medal finish on the floor at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. During her single season with the Beavers, the women’s gymnastics team competed in the NCAA Regional with one gymnast qualifying for individual competition on the vault at the NCAA National Championship. She also worked closely with the head softball coach, Laura Berg, a four-time Olympian and the most decorated softball Olympian in history.
Before moving across the country, Filiaci spent one year at Cornell University. During the 2019-20 academic year, she was the primary contact for the Big Red’s women’s ice hockey, field hockey, sprint football, women’s gymnastics, and men’s & women’s cross country/track & field teams. Throughout her tenure, the women’s ice hockey team garnered recognition for its success and made its way to a No. 1 ranking in both major polls for the latter half of the season after holding a ranking in the top-five of the nation for the entirety of the 2019-20 season. She covered the team’s two All-Americans with three All-USCHO honorees, including the Big Red’s goalie, Lindsay Browning, who held one of the top-two positions in three goalie stats (save percentage, goals against, and goals against average) throughout the entire season. While at Cornell, Filiaci also covered track and field’s multi (pentathlon and heptathlon) athlete and record-holder, sophomore Beatrice Juskeviciute, in her journey to the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championship.
Filiaci was also heavily involved in SUNY Geneseo’s athletics department during her undergraduate years. A four-year member of the Knights’ event management staff, she served as a building manager for the two athletic buildings and volunteered her time with the athletic communications office and field hockey team for three years. As the student manager of the Geneseo field hockey team, she built up the following of the Facebook and Instagram accounts while providing fans with a more in-depth experience of their ‘favorite’ Knights team. As a member of the event management staff and as an athletic communications intern, Filiaci gained valuable experience working many different sporting events. For two seasons she ran the stats for field hockey and softball games, and by her senior year, she oversaw all 450+ student-athlete biographies. Filiaci was awarded the Nick Hayes Memorial Award in 2019 for her dedication to the athletic department during her time as a Knight.
While in college, she also assisted the SUNY Athletic Conference at both the 2019 Indoor Track & Field Championships and the 2019 Swimming & Diving Championships, while also volunteering at the 2019 Division I Men’s Ice Hockey Championship in Buffalo, N.Y.
Filiaci graduated from SUNY Geneseo in the spring of 2019 with a Bachelor of Arts in communication with concentrations in both ‘Journalism and Media’ and ‘Personal and Professional Communication’.
A native of Pittsford, N.Y., Filiaci currently resides in Menands, N.Y. with her husband, Sean Kidder.
