Darryl Konicki has served as Little East Conference (LEC) since September 2017 (release). After spending his first two academic years on staff as the Assistant Commissioner, he was promoted to Associate Commissioner in June 2019 (release).
Konicki is directly responsible for administration of the LEC's 24 conference championships, award programs and sport administration, and internal and external communications that include oversight of the LEC's digital and social media assets, which include LittleEast.com, LittleEastStore.com, LittleEast.tv and @LittleEastConf on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. He also serves as the LEC's primary liaison with FloSports, the league's media rights partner as of 2025-26.
In 2018, Konicki assisted in the in the expansion of the LEC's branding, which included the addition of sport-specific championship logos and the rebranding of the LEC's online video streaming services as the LEC Network, and a full redesign of LittleEast.com with PrestoSports.
Konicki arrived at the Little East with 15 years of professional experience in athletic communications/media relations, most recently serving as Athletic Communications Director at Arcadia University from 2013-17. He was responsible for all media relations activities, website and social media content, and live video streaming for the Knights’ 19 varsity sports. He oversaw several social media and website additions and enhancements, including the addition player bios for all varsity student-athletes and staff, the creation of record books for all sports, the addition of an online store, an expansion of live video coverage to cover all home events and launched a redesigned website with SIDEARM Sports in August 2016. Konicki also oversaw event management, special events such as the Athletic Hall of Fame Induction and annual Athletics Banquet, while managing an office that included a full-time assistant, interns and a staff 15-20 student employees per year.
Konicki spent the previous six years as the Athletic Communications Director at American International College in his hometown of Springfield, Massachusetts, which at the time sponsored 21 NCAA Division II varsity programs and a NCAA Division I men's ice hockey program. While at AIC, he served as the host athletic commutations coordinator for the NCAA Division II Men's Basketball Elite Eight for four years, overseeing a staff of nearly 20 communications professionals from around the Northeast. He began his career in collegiate athletics following a stint as interim media relations manager for the Springfield Falcons of the American Hockey League, first as a post-graduate intern at Division I Sacred Heart University before taking on the role of assistant director at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy and Ithaca College.
A lifelong sports fan, Konicki graduated from Western New England College (now University) in 2003, earning a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration in Sport Management. He is an active member of the College Sports Information Directors Association of America (CoSIDA) and Eastern College Athletic Conference Sports Information Directors Association (ECAC-SIDA), in addition to previous service as a member of the Philadelphia Sports Information Directors Association (Philly-SIDA) while at Arcadia.
Konicki served as co-host of the 2017 ECAC-SIDA Workshop in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, and has served on a variety of committees within CoSIDA, ECAC-SIDA and Philly-SIDA. He was named recipient of the American Volleyball Coaches Association's Grant Burger Media Award for NCAA Division III Independents for his coverage of Arcadia's inaugural varsity men's volleyball season in 2017.