A graduate of Lakeview (Mich.) High School, Gorby is a member of FSU's Bulldog Athletics Hall of Fame Selection Committee and the FSU Bulldog Athletics Hall of Fame Display Committee.
Gorby's responsibilities include publicizing the school's 15 intercollegiate sports, maintaining the athletics department's web site (www.ferris.edu/sports) and overseeing most of the athletics department's publications. Besides his involvement with the FSU Athletics Hall of Fame, Gorby assists in several other departmental special events.
Prior to Ferris State, Gorby served five years (1989-94) as the assistant SID at Michigan Tech University after completing a two-year stint (1987-89) as a graduate assistant at Western Kentucky University. Before WKU, he worked as a student assistant at Central Michigan University (1986-87) and was a sports writer for the college newspaper (CMU Life) for two years.
The Sand Lake, Mich. native holds a bachelor's degree in Journalism from CMU (1988) with an emphasis in Public Relations. A member of the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA), Gorby has been recognized numerous times by CoSIDA for excellence in both publications and writing. He also served on CoSIDA's Workshop Program Committee for two years and presented a table topic at the 2000 national workshop. Gorby has also served on the statistical staff at several NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Regional Championship Tournaments. He also served two years as a East Region Committee member for Don Hansen's Football Gazette NCAA Division II All-America Team.
Gorby was recently selected for inclusion in the 2006-07 Who's Who Among America's Teachers.