SHU Names Sports Lawyer as Associate AD of Compliance

A former member of the Sacred Heart University compliance staff, Charlie Tortorici, has returned to the Pioneers as its new associate athletic director for compliance.

Tortorici spent the last two years as the assistant athletic director for compliance at Quinnipiac University. Prior to that, he was SHU’s director of compliance from August 2018 to January 2020.

Tortorici got his start in college athletics at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside as a compliance and game day operations intern. He went on to be the compliance coordinator at Oakland University before joining the Pioneers.

He earned his bachelor’s degree in sports management from the University of Florida in 2013. Tortorici added a juris doctor from Marquette University in 2017.