Garden City, N.Y. – Known by many for his work with the MSG Network and coverage of the Olympics, Emmy Award winner and Adelphi Athletics Hall of Famer Al Trautwig has passed away.

A 1978 business school graduate, Trautwig was inducted as a non-athlete recipient into the Adelphi Athletics Hall of Fame in 1991.

Trautwig joined MSG Network in September 1989 after working with ABC Sports since 1984, participating in nine Emmy Award-winning programs. From 1980 through 1985, Trautwig was the leading sports personality on the USA Network. During that period, he handled more than 500 cablecasts, including NCAA basketball (play-by-play), NHL hockey (host), and a variety of tennis events highlighted by the U.S. and French Opens.

He credited the experiences he had working at WBAU, Adelphi's student-run radio station, with helping him land his first job out of college. In the summer of 1978, he convinced the New York Apollo soccer team to let him broadcast the play-by-play of every game on WBAU. After graduating, Trautwig began his broadcasting career calling New York Apollo soccer for WMCA radio.

Trautwig returned to his alma mater in November 2013 to speak with Adelphi students studying sport management and again in 2014 to address Adelphi's first-year students at their Matriculation Ceremony.

As an adjunct professor, he was welcomed back in 2017 to Adelphi's 121st Commencement Ceremony, where he was honored with a Doctor of Humane Letters degree. In his speech, he spoke about Adelphi, saying, "It has changed my life by forcing me to rethink things that I have done and still want to do. My students helped me to do that."

Trautwig grew up in Garden City South, graduated from Carey High School then Adelphi and resided in Glen Cove, part of a lifelong tie to Long Island that included stints as an Islanders stick boy and Nets ball boy in the 1970s.