Bob Deming served as Director of Athletics at Ithaca College from 1980-1997, overseeing the athletic program’s most successful period in the College’s history.
During that time, the Bombers were put on the map as a perennial power, winning nine of the school's total 15 team national championships: baseball (1988), field hockey (1982), football (1988, 1991), women’s soccer (1990, 1991), and wrestling (1989, 1990, 1994). A total of 19 individual national titles were also claimed by 15 student-athletes. During Deming’s 17-year tenure, the College also produced 505 All-Americans.
Deming served on several NCAA committees, including the chair of the Division III Football Committee for three years. He is a past president of both the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) and the Independent College Athletic Conference.
In June 2000, Bob Deming received the James J. Whalen Meritorious Service Award, which recognizes distinguished achievements and contributions to the College by non-graduates.
A 1957 graduate of Colgate University, he was a college football player and went on to coach at the University of Houston and the State University of New York at Buffalo.
Deming was inducted into the Ithaca College Athletic Hall of Fame in 1992.