That kind of environment brought Tori to the SUNY Fredonia campus as a student. “I took one step on campus and said, ‘I’m coming here,” she recalled. “It has such a feeling of home. I love walking around the village.”

Born and raised in Buffalo, Schiro earned a bachelor’s degree in Communication with a minor in Sport Management at SUNY Fredonia, and later earned her master’s degree at Canisius College.

“I was really engaged in all areas of campus (at Fredonia),” Schiro said. “I was part of the Dance Team, I was in the PRSSA [Public Relations Student Society of America], I worked in the admissions office.”

Schiro said her professors in the Department of Communication taught her to expand her horizons in all facets of life. “They helped me shape this path and opened my eyes for a career in sports,” she said. “Also, having extra classes for my minor opened a whole new door.”

The doors swung wide open when she interned for the WNY PGA as an Event and Operations Coordinator. “I attended a junior golf event bright and early in the morning,” Schiro recalled. “I was out on a golf cart watching the most beautiful sunrise and thought, ‘This could be my office.’ That’s when I knew a career in golf was in my future.” After spending a couple of years as an officer for a local bank, the person who oversaw her internship asked her to return to the office as Assistant Executive Director. She was promoted to her current position in January 2023.

Four months later, Schiro and the WNY section of the PGA were the epicenter of the golfing world when they hosted the PGA Championship at Oak Hill Country Club in Rochester, one of four annual “major” championships in professional golf.

“It was amazing,” Schiro said. “It was a great collaboration between the PGA and the people at Oak Hill,” Schiro said. “It was a truly successful championship with some incredible golf played.”

By the way, not only is Tori a newly-appointed director, she has another new title: Mom. Tori and her husband, Anthony (ʼ15), have two daughters under 2, and the whole family came with her to Rochester for championship weekend.

“It was hectic, but it was great,” Schiro said. “I’m a busybody. It is welcomed chaos.”

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