Dominick “Nick” Infante, 74, of Chester, NJ passed away on December 5, 2025 in Delray Beach, Florida. Nick is survived by his wife, Mary-Beth Infante and their four children: Mark (daughter-in-law Laura), of Las Vegas, Nevada, David (daughter-in-law Katie), of Richmond Virginia, Lisa Infante of Downingtown, Pennsylvania and Matthew Infante of Brooklyn, New York.
Nick was born in Torrington, Connecticut on October 25, 1951. He grew up in a close-knit neighborhood, with many childhood friends that he would hold close for the rest of his life. He graduated from Torrington High School in 1969 and went on to earn his undergraduate and masters degrees from the University of Connecticut. No mention of Nick’s beloved Huskies would be complete without noting that its men’s basketball program’s path to 21st-century glory began some three decades earlier at the university’s Torrington branch, where he proudly ran the offense at point guard. As he loved to point out, that technically counted as playing time for a UConn men’s basketball team.
Nick and Mary-Beth met in Menlo Park, California in 1982 and were married in October 1983. They lived in Connecticut for the first few years of their marriage and then moved to Chester, New Jersey. From shift work at the Torrington Company’s bearing factory, to marketing and sales on storied beer brands like St Pauli Girl, Guinness and Rolling Rock, to launching an email newsletter about the business of college sports, eons before the media industry understood the power of such a product. It was during these 15 years of publishing at the mothership (home office) of College Athletics Clips that his editorial talent, voracious curiosity, and inimitable creativity shone forth. Clients and colleagues from the National Collegiate Athletic Association became friends and appreciated Nick’s astute, offbeat takes on the trade.
Nick was a proud cheerleader for his kids and an untiring enthusiast for basketball, motorcycles, maps, postcards, lettering, $2 Hawaiian shirts, and the beer industry. He was loved by his family and friends for his fierce loyalty, engaging and bright spirit, brilliant mind, quirky and wonderful sense of humor, encyclopedic knowledge of trivia factoids, and ability to start conversations about any topic with anyone at any time. He had a deeply loving, kind and caring heart, generous with his time and talent and always ready with a helping hand to whoever needed it most.
Nick will be forever missed.
Memorial donations can be sent to Cure Alzheimer’s Fund.