Don DiJulia spent 35 years as the athletic director at Saint Joseph’s University in two separate stints. The first was 1976 to 1981 and the second from 1988 to 2018. He is truly one of the most respected administrators in the history of Philadelphia collegiate athletics. He was also a two-sport student athlete at SJU (baseball and basketball). In time away from Hawk Hill, he served as an assistant basketball coach at multiple Division I institutions and as Commissioner of both the East Coast Conference and the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference.

In Episode #205 of “1-on-1 with Matt Leon,” Matt welcomes DiJulia in studio to reflect on his career. They talk about his decades working at SJU and how he almost took a much different career path than athletics. They also look back at some of his favorite memories as AD, including that magical 2003-04 men’s basketball season.

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