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The NCAA News - The NCAA RecordJune 3, 1996Calendar
Kindall retires from Arizona baseballJerry Kindall, who coached Arizona baseball teams to 861 victories and three NCAA Division I titles in 24 seasons, has announced his retirement.Kindall's Arizona program has turned out 43 all-Americans and sent more than 200 players into professional baseball. He was Division I coach of the year three times and is a member of the American Baseball Coaches Hall of Fame. In a nine-year major league career, Kindall was a reserve infielder for the Chicago Cubs, Cleveland Indians and Minnesota Twins. His playing career ended in 1965. Kindall was hired at Arizona in 1973 after eight years as an assistant coach at Minnesota. Under Kindall, Arizona won the College World Series in 1976, 1980 and 1986. This season, the Wildcats were 24-32 overall and 7-23 in Pac-10 play.
GENERAL
DIRECTORS OF ATHLETICS Martin Scarano, senior associate director of athletics at Colgate, hired as AD at Colorado College, effective July 1. He succeeds Max Taylor, who is retiring after serving as AD for the last six years ... Southwest Texas State appointed Michael F. Alden ... Eastern New Mexico announced the resignation of Chris Gage, who became associate AD at Texas-San Antonio ... Hiram football coach Bobby Thomas given additional duties as AD ... Kentucky gave athletics director C. M. Newton a four-year contract extension.
ASSISTANT DIRECTORS Kara Baldwin selected as assistant AD for facilities at Iona, which also promoted Linda Sagnelli to assistant AD for women's sports. Sagnelli will continue to serve as head volleyball coach, a position she has held for 10 years. The school also promoted Shawn Brennan from sports information director to assistant AD. COACHES BASEBALL--Mark Rowland hired at Brockport State to replace the retiring Jim Debell ... David Jones of Catawba announced his retirement. He will be succeeded by Jim Gantt ... Culver-Stockton announced the retirement of Bill Browett. BASEBALL ASSISTANT--Lee Ellis named at Principia, where he also will be head women's soccer coach and teach classes in sports management. MEN'S BASKETBALL--Ralph Traynham hired at Virginia State. He has been assistant coach at North Carolina Central since 1991 ... Dallas hired William Raleigh as head coach, replacing Chad Baruch, who was interim coach during the 1995-96 season. Raleigh joins Dallas from Randolph-Macon, where he was assistant coach as well as drug-testing coordinator ... John Beilein given a two-year contract extension at Canisius. Beilein has compiled a 72-50 record in four seasons at the school ... Belmont-Abbey named Darren "Dip" Metress as head coach, replacing Tim Jaeger, who resigned. Metress had been assistant coach at Hampton since 1995 and also had coached at Augusta and Newberry.
Central Washington selected Greg Sparling to head its program ... North Carolina-Asheville appointed Eddie Biedenbach MEN'S BASKETBALL ASSISTANTS--Jay Crosier named assistant men's coach and assistant fitness center director at Plattsburgh State, effective July 1. He spent the past three years as an assistant coach at Champlain College ... Emporia State hired Bob Kickner as assistant coach. Kickner was an assistant coach at Pacific (Oregon). Doug Hofmeister replaced Kickner at Pacific ... Chad Bolser, head coach at St. Teresa High School in Decatur, Illinois, since 1994, named assistant coach for men's basketball and track at Milliken ... North Carolina State selected Sean Miller, a former Pittsburgh basketball standout and an assistant coach at his alma mater last season. He also was an assistant at Miami (Ohio) from 1993 to 1995 ... Missouri Western State hired Darrell Pattillo as an assistant. Pattillo was assistant coach at Texas A&M-Kingsville for the past two seasons ... Chad Dollar appointed at Gardner-Webb ... Manhattan selected Sean Cley as assistant coach. WOMEN'S BASKETBALL--Delaware hired Tina Martin to head its women's program. Martin helped lead Seton Hall to two NCAA tournament appearances in the last three years. She has been an assistant at Seton Hall since 1987 ... Providence hired Jim Jabir ... Sandy Botham hired at Wisconsin-Milwaukee. WOMEN'S BASKETBALL ASSISTANTS--Dale Hodges hired as an assistant at Massachusetts, replacing Chantel Tremitiere, who left to pursue professional playing opportunities. Hodges played on professional teams in Italy, Japan and France before beginning her coaching career last season as an assistant at Drexel ... Dayton named Tony Hemmelgarn as an assistant ... Joy Muller appointed assistant women's coach at Texas-San Antonio. Muller, assistant coach at South Plains College for the past three years, will be recruiting coordinator. MEN'S AND WOMEN'S CROSS COUNTRY--Duquesne announced the resignation of men's coach Tony Bruno ... Grover Jewett resigned as head women's coach at John Carroll. He also coached the women's track and field team. Kathy Lanese was named to replace him in both positions. FIELD HOCKEY--Sue Shafritz, head coach at Franklin & Marshall, resigned to pursue other interests. She also was women's lacrosse coach. Sharfritz's field hockey teams were 26-40-5. FOOTBALL--San Diego announced the promotion of assistant coach Kevin McGarry to head coach. McGarry was an assistant on the San Diego staff for 18 years, including the past 14 as defensive coordinator and defensive backs coach ... Mike Kemp hired at Plymouth State. Kemp has 20 years of coaching experience, most recently as offensive coordinator at Cortland State, where he spent five years ... Todd Small returned to his alma mater, Principia, for a second stint as head coach. He led the football program from 1982 to 1985. Small was an administrator, teacher, and football and basketball coach at John Burroughs School in St. Louis from 1986 through 1993 and again in 1994 and 1995. FOOTBALL ASSISTANTS--Hofstra appointed Bruce Gregory and Dan Quinn as assistants. Gregory, receivers coach at Bowling Green, will be offensive coordinator. Quinn, Virginia Military defensive line coach, will serve as defensive line coach at Hofstra ... John Raba, an outstanding player in football and lacrosse at New Haven, appointed assistant football coach and head men's lacrosse coach at Wesleyan (Connecticut). Raba was an assistant football coach at Brown during the 1995 season and at New Haven in 1993 and 1994 ... Coast Guard selected Mark Rhea as defensive line coach. MEN'S GOLF--Lenoir-Rhyne hired Terrence Stewart. MEN'S LACROSSE--John Raba, an outstanding football and lacrosse player at New Haven, appointed head men's lacrosse coach and assistant football coach at Wesleyan (Connecticut). Raba was an assistant football coach at Brown during the 1995 season and at New Haven in 1993 and 1994. WOMEN'S LACROSSE--Sue Sharfritz, resigned as head coach at Franklin & Marshall to pursue other interests. She also was head field hockey coach. In four seasons at Franklin & Marshall, she guided her lacrosse teams to a 44-15 overall record. MEN'S AND WOMEN'S ROWING--Daniel J. Roock hired as head men's heavyweight coach at Cornell, replacing interim coach Tony Johnson, effective August 1. Roock led the Princeton women's rowing team to three consecutive national titles beginning in 1993 ... Bucknell announced the resignation of Jim King as coach of the men's and women's programs. MEN'S AND WOMEN'S SKIING--Northern Michigan selected Allan Serrano as Nordic skiing coach, replacing Trond Nystad, who served in the position for two years. Serrano has been men's and women's skiing coach at St. Olaf for the past four years. WOMEN'S SOCCER--Kellie Leeman, a standout player at Maine, named head coach at John Carroll. She has coached at Husson College and at Southern Utah ... Cathy Moss hired at St. Lawrence. Moss has been an academic counselor and assistant women's soccer coach at Nazareth and an assistant coach at Plattsburgh State ... Lee Ellis named head coach at Principia, succeeding the retiring Steve Morgenthaler. Ellis also will be an assistant baseball coach and teach classes in sports management. He developed the intercollegiate athletics program at Utica/Rome from 1978 to 1982 and was head men's soccer coach at Utica in 1993-94 ... Salem State appointed Alvaro Ibanez as head women's coach. He is a three-time all-American player at the school ... Kelly Sack hired to head the women's program at Rider. MEN'S AND WOMEN'S SOCCER ASSISTANTS--Rhodes selected Darren Ambrose as full-time assistant men's and women's coach. He was a part-time coach at Rhodes from 1993 to 1995 and was an assistant for the men's team at Connecticut last season. He also will be head women's softball coach ... Erika Lutwin appointed as an assistant women's coach at Franklin & Marshall. She was head coach at Slippery Rock in 1993 and 1994 before becoming assistant health and fitness director of the Lancaster (Pennsylvania) YMCA. WOMEN'S SOFTBALL--Darren Ambrose hired as head softball coach at Rhodes. He also will be assistant men's and women's soccer coach. He was a part-time soccer coach at Rhodes from 1993 to 1995 and spent last season as an assistant for the men's soccer team at Connecticut ... Kent's Sue Lilley Nevar resigned to spend more time with her family, effective August 1. She coached the Golden Flashes for 11 seasons and is the most victorious coach in Kent softball history ... Curt Smyth hired at St. Joseph's (Maine). MEN'S AND WOMEN'S TENNIS--Texas Woman's University promoted Amy Ables to head women's coach. She was assistant coach for the 1996 spring season at the school. Ables was interim head coach at her alma mater, Charleston (West Virginia), for one season after her graduation in 1994 ... Jody Davis hired at Coastal Carolina to head the men's and women's programs. MEN'S AND WOMEN'S TRACK AND FIELD--Chad Bolser, a coach at St. Teresa High School in Decatur, Illinois, since 1994, hired as assistant coach for men's and women's track and field and for men's basketball ... Kathy Lanese hired at John Carroll to succeed the retiring Grover Jewett as head of the men's and women's programs. She also will coach the cross country teams ... Ball State did not renew the contract of Chris Buhler. MEN'S AND WOMEN'S VOLLEYBALL--Francis Marion appointed Jerry Pruitt as head women's coach. Pruitt was assistant women's volleyball coach and intramurals coordinator for the past two years at Lewis and Clark ... Vassar announced the resignation of Bob McCarthy as men's and women's coach. He will become head boys' volleyball coach at Central High School in Fresno, California ... Metropolitan State interim head women's coach Verna Julaton hired as an assistant women's coach at Air Force. Julaton was an assistant with the Metropolitan State volleyball program for five years before taking over the interim position in January. WRESTLING ASSISTANT--Bloomsburg appointed Tony Reed as assistant coach. STAFF ASSISTANT ATHELTIC TRAINER--Vassar hired Stacie Keinhen. She was assistant trainer at Colgate. FUND-RAISING DIRECTOR--Cristine McCarthy selected as director of the Goal Club at Iona. She was administrative assistant to the executive director of the student aid association at North Carolina State. MEDIA RELATIONS ASSISTANT--Vanderbilt named Tammy Boclair as assistant director of athletics media relations. SPORTS INFORMATION DIRECTOR--Iona promoted Shawn Brennan from sports information director to assistant athletics director. He had been SID for two years. STRENGTH AND CONDITIONING COORDINATOR--Jonathan Jost named at Southern Methodist. He joins the staff after serving as coordinator at Holy Cross since 1994. Before that, he was an assistant at Nebraska. VIDEO COORDINATOR--John McGuire hired as video coordinator at Navy. He had served in the same capacity at Rutgers since 1992. ASSOCIATIONS The National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame promoted Dave Torromeo to vice-president for operations. Torromeo joined the foundation in 1994 as director of public relations and awards. He will retain his public relations duties and be responsible for day-to-day operations of the foundation. The American Volleyball Coaches Association announced the re-election of Denis Van De Walle to the board of directors as Division I women's representative. His term will run through 1998. He has been Division I representative since 1995.
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CORRECTIONS
A story in the May 27 issue of The NCAA News about the status of the National A story in the May 27 issue of the News about the formation of a membership group to work with the NCAA 2000 headquarters project team incorrectly named the institution at which one of the appointees serves as president. David G. Carter is president of Eastern Connecticut State University. CONFERENCE MEMBERS A dozen Division II institutions from New England and New York have formed the Eastern Football Conference. The 12-team conference will be divided into two divisions and play will begin in the 1997 season. The two division winners will meet at the conclusion of the regular season in a championship game. Members are Albany (New York), American International, Assumption, Bentley, Long Island-C. W. Post, Massachusetts-Lowell, Merrimack, Pace, Sacred Heart, Southern Connecticut State, Stonehill and Stony Brook. After 75 years as a charter member of the Midwest Conference, Cornell College announced it will apply for membership in the Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference. Cornell College could begin competing in the Iowa Conference as early as the 1997-98 school year. The North Atlantic Conference has changed its name to the America East Conference, effective July 1. DIRECTORY CHANGES Active--Curry College: Ken Quigley (P); East Tennessee State University: New area code is 423; University of Florida: New area code is 352; James Madison University: New area code is 540; Nichols College: James J. Darazsdl (P); St. Francis College (Pennsylvania): New title (F) -- Associate Professor of Management; Wofford College: New area code is 864. Affiliated--NCAA Division I Track Coaches Association: New area code (Exec. Dir.) is 352; United States Track Coaches Association: New area code (Exec. Dir.) is 352. SEMINARS DePaul's eighth annual Sports Law Conference will be October 8 at the Sofitel Hotel in Rosemont, Illinois, and will focus on collegiate athletics. Robert M. Berdahl, president at Texas, will be the keynote speaker. Topics include athlete agents, NCAA restructuring and eligibility of student-athletes with learning disabilities. More information can be obtained from DePaul College of Law at 312/362-5292.
NOTABLES
Len DeLuca, a key programming executive at CBS Sports for 16 years, hired at ESPN for the newly created position of senior vice-president for programming development. He will be responsible for Wisconsin head women's basketball coach Jane Albright-Dieterle selected by the USA Basketball Women's Staff Selection Committee to head the 1996 USA R. William Jones Cup Team. Joining her as assistant coaches are Gary Blair of Arkansas and Tori Harrison of Coppin State. Team members will be selected this month at trials at the U.S. Olympic Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The tournament will be August 12-27 in Taiwan. The staff selection committee also announced that Geno Auriemma of Connecticut has been named head coach of the 1996 USA Women's Select Team. His assistants will be Cheryl Burnett of Southwest Missouri State and Ed Baldwin of North Carolina-Charlotte. The team is a developmental squad designed to help elite college players gain international experience while improving the United States' talent pool for the 1997 World University Games. The College Golf Foundation named Cherie Hansen of Rollins and Jennifer Cieslak of Methodist as winners of the Rolex College Player of the Year Awards (presented by Nicklaus Golf) in Divisions II and III women's golf. Hansen finished sixth at the 1996 Divisions II and III championships and Cieslak finished 10th at that event. Recipients are selected by members of the National Golf Coaches Association based on stroke average and finish at the NCAA tournament.
DEATHSKeane Poche, a freshman pitcher for the baseball team at New Orleans, was killed May 21 when his car struck a garbage truck head-on. He was 19. His team was a participant in the NCAA Division I South regional in Baton Rouge. Poche, a reliever, had a 4-0 record and 4.33 earned-run average, and tied for the Sun Belt Conference lead in saves with six. He last pitched May 16. Sim Iness, who won an Olympic gold medal in the discus throw in 1952 and became the first person to surpass 190 feet in the event a year later, died May 16 of a heart attack in Porterville, California. He was 65. Iness lettered in track at Southern California in the early 1950s and won the NCAA discus championship in 1952 and 1953. He set his record at the 1953 championships. He was a football coach in Porterville until retiring in 1994. -- Compiled by Sally Huggins
POLLS
Division II All-Around The Sears Directors' Cup top 25 NCAA Division II all-around athletics programs through May 19, administered by the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics and based on performance to date in NCAA men's and women's championships. Fall and winter championships are included in this ranking, as well as spring championships in women's golf and men's and women's tennis. Points are awarded on the basis of an institution's finish in each of 16 sports. 1. North Dakota State, 4701/2; 2. UC Davis, 470; 3. Cal State Bakersfield, 403; 4. Abilene Christian, 3741/2; 5. North Dakota, 3611/2; 6. Western State, 3591/2; 7. South Dakota State, 355; 8. Central Missouri State, 318; 9. Northern Colorado, 298; 10. Lewis, 297; 11. Denver, 2901/2; 12. Northeast Missouri State, 2841/2; 13. Hillsdale, 280; 14. Ashland, 2791/2; 15. North Florida, 274; 16. Mankato State, 265; 17. Bloomsburg, 2581/2; 18. Nebraska-Kearney, 2541/2; 19. South Dakota, 251; 20. Millersville, 2471/2; 21. Barry, 2461/2; 22. Northern Michigan, 2361/2; 23. Rollins, 2271/2; 24. Edinboro, 220; 25. Kutztown, 2181/2.
Division III All-Around The Sears Directors' Cup top 25 NCAA Division III all-around athletics programs through May 19, administered by the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics and based on performance to date in NCAA men's and women's championships. Fall and winter championships are included in this ranking, as well as spring championships in women's lacrosse and tennis. Points are awarded on the basis of an institution's finish in each of 20 sports.
1. Williams, 6851/2; 2. UC San Diego, 508; 3. Wisconsin-Oshkosh, 500; 4. Trenton State, 431; 5. Bowdoin, 430; 6. Middlebury, 365; 7. Wisconsin-La Crosse, 363; 8. Amherst, 359; 9. Rowan, 340; 10. Mount Union, 330; 11. Ithaca, 3151/2; 12. Emory, 314; 13. St. Thomas (Minnesota), 299; Division I Baseball The USA Today/Baseball Weekly top 25 NCAA Division I baseball teams through May 19 as selected by the American Baseball Coaches Association, with records in parentheses and points:
1. Southern Cal (41-14) 803 Division II Baseball The Collegiate Baseball top 25 NCAA Division II baseball teams through May 20, with records in parentheses and points:
1. Delta St. (51-6) 480 Division III Baseball
The Collegiate Baseball top 30 NCAA Division III baseball teams through May 19 as selected by the American Baseball Coaches Association, with records in parentheses and points: 1. Marietta (43-11) 286
Division III Men's The top 25 NCAA Division III men's outdoor track and field teams through May 16 as determined by the United States Track Coaches Association, with power ranking:
1. Augustana (Illinois), 210.7; 2. Williams, 208.6; 3. Rowan, 207.6; 4. Wisconsin-La Crosse, 199.7; 5. Nebraska Wesleyan, 196.9; 6. St. Thomas (Minnesota), 189.0; 7. Claremont-Mudd-Scripps, 183.6; 8. Monmouth (Illinois), 179.2; 9. St. John's (Minnesota), 177.5; 10. Simpson, 174.4; 11. Fredonia State, 173.7; 12. Loras, 170.3; 13. Thiel, 165.0; 14. Methodist, 163.9; 15. Lynchburg, 163.3; 16. Ithaca, 162.3; 17. Emory, 162.2; 18. Binghamton, 162.0; 19. Wartburg, 159.7; 20. Wisconsin-Platteville, 159.5; 21. Carthage, 158.7; 22. Trenton State, 158.4; 23. Gustavus Adolphus, 147.6; 24. St. Lawrence, 142.0; 25. Carleton, 138.4
Division III Women's The top 25 NCAA Division III women's outdoor track and field teams through May 16 as determined by the United States Track Coaches Association, with power ranking: 1. Wisconsin-Oshkosh, 199.3; 2. Wisconsin-La Crosse, 189.4; 3. Loras, 171.8; 4. Williams, 163.5; 5. Augustana (Illinois), 161.7; 6. Trenton State, 155.0; 7. Claremont-Mudd-Scripps, 149.5; 8. Wartburg, 146.5; 9. Monmouth (Illinois), 136.0; 10. Pomona-Pitzer, 134.5; 11. Allegheny, 132.2; 12. Carthage, 131.6; 13. Nebraska Wesleyan, 130.3; 14. Emory, 124.3; 15. Lynchburg, 123.7; 16. Ithaca, 122.2; 17. Binghamton, 121.3; 18. St. Lawrence, 117.5; 19. Wisconsin-Eau Claire, 116.4; 20. Dickinson, 111.9; 21. Concordia-Moorhead, 108.0; 22. Thiel, 104.5; 23. Simpson, 99.8; 24. Swarthmore, 93.8; 25. Christopher Newport, 91.2. |