Robert Edward Healy III

Robert Edward Healy, III, a Pittsburgh native and a member of Pittsburgh Magazine's "40 Under 40" Class of 2022, is the founder and director of Duquesne University's Sports Information and Media program. Healy has been a media professor at Duquesne, his alma mater in Pittsburgh, since 2014. Before returning to the Pittsburgh region and becoming, from December 2010 to October 2013, a local editor for AOL News/The Huffington Post Media Group, Healy worked out of the area for the previous three years in the public relations industry, including time as the director of athletics communications at Susquehanna University in Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania, from July 2008 to July 2010. He graduated from Duquesne in 2006 (master's) and 2005 (bachelor's). Healy has worked for a variety of companies on a part-time basis, as well, including iHeartMedia, the Atlantic 10 Conference, the Pittsburgh Steelers, the Pittsburgh Penguins, the Duquesne athletics department, the Pittsburgh Sports Report and The Daily Item of Sunbury, Pennsylvania. He was also a marketing specialist for the Court Time Sports Center of Elizabeth, Pennsylvania, in 2007. Following employment at Court Time, he became the assistant sports information director at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York. A lifelong athlete, Healy is the all-time record holder among organ donors in the shot put and discus throw events at the Transplant Games of America. His four Duquesne football teams (two as an all-conference honoree) did not lose a conference game while winning four straight championships, including a national title in 2003. He was a standout track & field athlete at Duquesne, setting, in 2005-06, Duquesne's indoor and outdoor shot records and winning the Atlantic 10's discus title. He finished grad school with a 4.00 GPA, an Atlantic 10 Student-Athlete of the Year award and an Academic All-America honor. He is the only Duquesne athlete to ever medal in three throwing events (shot, discus, hammer throw) at a conference championship meet, and he is 1 of only 2 Duquesne athletes all-time to be first-team all-conference in multiple sports (excluding cross-country-and-track-&-field combinations). He played semi-pro baseball in Pittsburgh until 2020 and is formerly the captain of the Pittsburgh Team Handball Club. He competed for a Philadelphia squad at the 2019 USA Team Handball national championships. Robert has performed as an actor and voice performer for a number of companies. He has also been a sports radio commentator (play-by-play and color) for Duquesne, Hamilton and Susquehanna, earning three Associated Press awards in the process. He has also done college football sideline reporting for WOLF-TV in the Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, area, and has written chapters for sports history books. Robert and his two daughters live in Pittsburgh's South Hills area.