Anthony Perry ’08 was named Fisher’s Assistant Athletic Director/Sports Information in January of 2021 and promoted to Assoicate Director of Athletics in January of 2023. Perry, a former student-athlete for the Falcons, reunites with current Athletic Director – Scott Dulin to spearhead the Department of Athletics.

Perry will help oversee Fisher’s 10-sport, National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) Athletic Department, which competes in the highly-competitive Continental Athletic Conference (CAC). In addition, Perry serves as the Sports Information Director (SID), a position which serves as the primary media relation contact for the department’s 10 teams along with controlling all aspects of the department’s website and social media channels.

OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE ON PERRY’S RETURN

Since Perry’s arrival to full-time status, the improvements to the appearance of the department began immediately. The official Fisher Athletics logo was updated to reflect the actual colors the Falcons wear on the field or court of competition (Navy Blue, White, & Grey) and a wordmark was added to proudly show FISHER associated with the logo. Next was the revamping of the color scheme to the FisherFalcons.com website and reorganizing the layout to allow the faithful followers of Falcon Nation to find information quickly. Soon thereafter each team received their own social media accounts and live video was instituted for home games via the respective team’s Facebook pages.

Prior to his return to Beacon Street, Perry served as the SID and Head Baseball Coach at Rivier University, a NCAA Division III member in Nashua, New Hampshire. He spent nine years in the Granite State, leading two redesigns of the University’s athletic website and the creation of individual team social media accounts. Perry was also fortunate to have learned from one of the longest tenured and respected Athletic Directors in the country, Raider AD Joanne Merrill. Under her tutelage, Perry gained a wealth of knowledge to the administrative side in college athletics and has taken some of the lessons learned with him back to Fisher. As the Head Coach of the Baseball program, Perry helped turn around a program in his first five years in guiding the Raiders to a pair of Great Northeast Athletic Conference tournament appearances and departing as the program’s all-time winningest skipper. Perry finished runner-up for the 2015 GNAC Baseball Coach of the Year award and saw numerous student-athletes earned All-Conference accolades.

A true Champion of Character, Perry served as the Tournament Director for the 2014 Association of Independent Institutions (now the CAC) Baseball Tournament in Lynn, Massachusetts along with the 2011 NAIA East-Coast Unaffiliated Baseball Series at the USA Baseball National Development Complex in Cary, North Carolina. He was also presented with the Dennis Bistany Character Award at the 2015 Fisher College Athletics Hall of Fame Banquet for his outstanding character in sport.

Perry began his career in college athletics during his time as a student-athlete at Fisher. He served in a variety of work-study positions within the athletic department, including the coverage of statistics for the four varsity programs (Men’s/Women’s Basketball, Baseball, and Softball) that the college offered. During the spring of 2007, Perry earned an internship in the Fisher Athletic Department where he acquired a vast array of information about the inner workings of the department from Dulin along with the rules and regulations of the NAIA and Sunrise Conference. Upon graduation, Perry was named the college’s first Sports Information Director in June of 2008 and held that position until August of 2011 when he departed for Nashua. Since then he has always helped train incoming SIDs at Fisher and was also tabbed as the interim SID in February 2020, just prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.

As a student-athlete, Perry helped the Falcons Baseball program to their first-ever Sunrise Conference championship as a freshman and finished as a four-time conference and NAIA Region X champion. He was named to the Sunrise Conference All-Conference team three times, the NAIA Region X All-Region team three times, and finished as a runner-up in both Sunrise Conference Rookie of the Year (2005) and Player of the Year (2008). After finishing his 176-game career in the Falcon pinstripes, Perry became the first-ever Fisher student-athlete to sign a professional contract when he agreed to terms with the Southern Maryland Blue Crabs of the independent Atlantic League. He spent two seasons in as a player in professional baseball before returning home to Boston and starting his career in college athletics. He was enshrined into the Fisher College Atheltics Hall of Fame in 2010. 

A native of Andover, Massachusetts, Perry played two years of varsity baseball at Andover High – capturing the Merrimack Valley Conference championship in 2004. During his sophomore (2002), junior (2003) and senior (2004) summers, Perry was the bullpen catcher for the Nashua Pride – an independent league team managed by former Boston Red Sox manager and player, Butch Hobson. Perry remained in this role as bullpen catcher while home during the summer as a Fisher student-athlete and earned a Canadian-American League championship in the summer of 2007.

Outside of the Fisher community, Perry is still active in the game of baseball. He is the manager for the Andre Chiefs of the Intercity Baseball League, one of the longest standing amateur franchises in Boston, and helped guide them to an ICL Championship in 2023. He is also a part of the coaching staff for the New Balance Future Stars Series and Program 15. He served as the bullpen coach for the NBFFS Main Event at Citi Field (home of Major League Baseball’s New York Mets) in 2021 and has been with Program 15 since 2011.

Perry earned his Bachelors of Science Degree in Management from Fisher College in 2008. He then went on to earn his Masters of Science Degree – Masters of Business Administration (MBA) in Sport Administration from Fisher in 2022. He is the son of the late Jo-Anne Perry and Joseph Perry, along with being the older brother of Christopher Perry.