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II Management Council Transition Team complete

Members of the Division II Steering Committee (other than the chief executive officers on the steering committee) whose terms extend beyond 1997 and athletics administrators from the Division II Task Force to Study the NCAA Membership Structure already had been designated as members of the 24-person Management Council Transition Team. The remaining 10 positions were elected or appointed by member conferences and approved by the Division II subcommittee of the Presidents Commission.

The Division II Management Council Transition team is divided equally between men and women. Five are ethnic minorities, six are senior women administrators and five are faculty athletics representatives. Another 11 are directors of athletics, while two are conference commissioners.

Following are biographies of the 10 new representatives on the Division II Management Council Transition Team.

Christopher Bledsoe

Bledsoe began his career at Pace University in 1981 as an assistant athletics director and was promoted to athletics director in 1988. He has served as vice-president of the Eastern College Athletic Conference and as chair of the New York Collegiate Athletic Conference. He also was a member of the NCAA Division II Men's Basketball Committee in 1984-85.

Colin T. Cameron

Cameron has been director of athletics at Fairmont State College since 1977. He has been active in National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics activities, serving on that association's council from 1976-82. He is a member of the NAIA Hall of Fame and was inducted into the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics Hall of Fame in 1995.

C. Jean Cerra

Cerra has extensive experience in NCAA affairs. She was one of the first women to serve on the NCAA Council after the governance plan was implemented in 1981. She also has served on the Eligibility Committee, the Nominating Committee, the Division I Steering Committee, the Legislative Review Committee and the Special Committee on Women's Interests. She currently is dean of the School of Human Performance and Leisure Sciences and director of athletics at Barry University, where she has been since 1991.

Kaye P. Crook

Crook has been faculty athletics representative at Coker College since 1990.

She is secretary of the Carolinas-Virginia Athletic Conference (CVAC) and chair of the conference's faculty athletics representatives. She played an active role in developing the constitution and bylaws for the CVAC, along with a mission statement and purpose for the conference.

Charles A. "Tod" Eberle

Eberle has been commissioner of the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference since 1988. Previous to that, he was director of athletics at Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania, where he also was head baseball coach. He has served on the Nominating Committee (1992-95) and the Division II Men's Soccer Committee (1986), chaired the Memorial Resolutions Committee in 1984, and currently is a member of the Division II Men's Basketball Committee.

Alfreeda Goff

Goff has been athletics director at Virginia State University since 1994. She was a member of the Men's and Women's Track and Field Committee from 1983 to 1988 and the Division I Women's Basketball Committee from 1989 to 1994. She also was women's track and field coach at the University of Pittsburgh and associate athletics director, compliance coordinator and senior woman administrator at Virginia Commonwealth University.

Peggy Levy Green

Green is faculty athletics representative at Fayetteville State University, where she also is an assistant professor of physical education and acting chair of the department of health, physical education and human services. She also has coached women's volleyball and basketball at Fayetteville State and was women's basketball coach at Jackson State University in 1974-75. She currently is a member of the Division II Women's Basketball Committee.

Linda C. Hackett

Hackett has 17 years in athletics administration, most recently at Bryant College, where she has been athletics director since 1993. She also has been director of athletics at Smith College and associate director of athletics at the University of Iowa. While at Iowa, she was chair of the Big Ten Administrators; she also served as chair of the Iowa Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women. She currently is a member of the Division II Women's Soccer Committee.

Pamela L. Gill-Fisher

Gill-Fisher is associate athletics director and senior woman administrator at the University of California, Davis, where she has served both as a coach and administrator. She has coached women's basketball, tennis and volleyball at UC Davis and also has been associate athletics director and senior woman administrator. She chaired the Division II Women's Basketball Committee from 1984 to 1987 and currently is chair of the Division II subcommittee of the Men's and Women's Tennis Committee. She also has been a member of the Legislative Review Committee and the Academic Requirements Committee and currently is serving again on the Division II Women's Basketball Committee.

Patricia A. Merrier

Merrier is a professor in the School of Business and Economics at the University of Minnesota, Duluth, where she also is faculty athletics representative. In her athletics role, she has played a role in developing the Northern Sun Conference constitution and in merging the Northern Sun (women's) and Northern Intercollegiate Athletic (men's) Conferences.