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July 22, 1996

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• Furman names VP for intercollegiate athletics
• General
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• Notables
• Deaths

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Furman names VP for intercollegiate athletics

Block, who was appointed interim AD in March, currently serves as the William Montgomery Burnett professor of history and faculty athletics representative at the university.

The new position was created to recognize the financial and institutional importance of Furman's athletics program, as well to reflect Block's qualifications.

Block, a 1963 Furman graduate, has been on the faculty since 1968 and has been the school's faculty athletics representative since 1990. He has been a member of the Furman faculty athletics committee since coming to the university and has served as chair for the past 10 years. Block played basketball as a Furman undergraduate and served as a color commentator for the university's basketball radio broadcasts during the 1970s.

GENERAL

CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICERS

Robert M. Gavin Jr. named interim president at Haverford. He has been president at Macalester ... Eugene S. Mills appointed interim president at Earlham. He is a former president at Whittier ... G. David Pollick selected for the presidency at Lebanon Valley. He is a former president of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago ... John W. White Jr. announced his retirement as president at Nebraska Wesleyan, effective May 31, 1997 ... Paul J. Olscamp, president emeritus at Bowling Green, named interim president at South Dakota. Olscamp was a member of the NCAA Presidents Commission during his presidency at Bowling Green ... Thomas E. Everhart announced his resignation as president at Cal Tech, effective September 1, 1997 ... Roy S. Nicks announced his retirement as president at East Tennessee State, effective December 31 ... Richard M. Freeland selected for the presidency at Northeastern. He was vice-chancellor for academic affairs at the City University of New York, where he also was president of the CUNY Research Foundation ... Charles S. Kidd appointed president at York (New York). He previously was associate vice-president at Florida A&M ... John C. Guyon resigned as chancellor at Southern Illinois, effective August 16.

DIRECTORS OF ATHLETICS

Judith Davidson appointed at Cal State Sacramento. She has been interim senior associate AD for women's programs at Minnesota for the past six months and was AD at Central Connecticut State for seven years before that ... Radford promoted Greig Denny to AD. Denny has been athletics coordinator and associate athletics director since 1983 ... Doreen Powell selected at Christian Brothers. Powell has been on the Gettysburg athletics staff since 1984, first as head tennis and volleyball coach and later as associate AD and volleyball coach ... Longtime Northwestern State athletics staff member Donnie Cox, currently director of compliance and special services, named interim AD. He replaces Tynes Hildebrand, who retired after 14 years as AD and 44 years with the university ... Fort Lewis announced that Harlan Steinle will continue to serve as interim AD. Daryl Ann Leonard has decided not to accept the position.

Tom Hickman appointed interim AD at Winthrop. Hickman has been associate AD for the past seven years ... Senior associate AD Kathy Clark named interim athletics director at Idaho ... Todd Turner, AD at North Carolina State for the past six years, appointed at Vanderbilt, effective August 1 ... Howard Gauthier, head men's basketball coach at Wartburg for the past three years, hired as athletics director at Briar Cliff ... Chris Smith, head football and golf coach, given additional duties as athletics director at Grove City, succeeding Jack Behringer, who retired after 40 years ... Al Walker selected as athletics director at Chaminade, where he also will be head men's basketball coach.

ASSOCIATE DIRECTORS OF ATHLETICS

Fern Gardner, senior associate athletics director at Utah, announced her retirement after 20 years on the Utah athletics staff. Gardner joined the staff in 1975 as women's basketball coach and women's AD. In 1983, she became a full-time assistant athletics director and was named associate AD in 1991 ... Fordham promoted Marianne Reilly to senior associate AD. Reilly has been assistant athletics director for compliance and senior woman administrator at Fordham for the past three years ... Betsy Stephenson selected as associate athletics director and senior woman administrator at UCLA. Stephenson had held those positions at Kansas since 1992.

ASSISTANT DIRECTORS OF ATHLETICS

Daniel Simmons, director of intramurals and facilities at Philadelphia Textile since 1994, promoted to assistant athletics director ... Debbie Richardson appointed assistant AD at Appalachian State, where she will be senior woman administrator. Richardson has been assistant AD at Illinois for the past five years ... Linda Carroll, a member of the Indiana/Purdue-Indianapolis athletics staff since 1990, promoted to assistant AD. She becomes the first assistant AD at the school. Carroll had been assistant to the athletics director. She will continue to serve as senior woman administrator ... San Diego announced the resignation of Regina Sullivan, assistant AD and senior woman administrator. Sullivan had been at the school for six years ... Marc Amicone and Peter Hart promoted to assistant athletics directors at Utah. Amicone, who was marketing and promotions director, became assistant AD for marketing. Hart, executive director of the Crimson Club and development director, now serves as assistant AD for development ... Tracey Mays Stehlik named assistant AD for compliance and operations at Arkansas.

COACHES

BASEBALL--Charleston Southern hired Winthrop assistant Gary Murphy. Murphy has been an assistant collegiate coach for 16 years, including the past five at Winthrop ... Iam Gillule appointed at Ramapo. Gillule was an assistant baseball and assistant women's basketball coach at Mercy for three years ... Arizona selected 18-year assistant Jerry Stitt as head coach. Stitt has been associate head coach since 1992 ... Mike Conte appointed at California (Pennsylvania), succeeding Chuck Gismondi, who retired after 17 seasons. Conte played baseball at Virginia Tech and later played professionally before becoming a graduate assistant coach at California (Pennsylvania) in 1994 ... Nicholls State announced that athletics director Mike Knight will relinquish his duties as baseball coach to concentrate on athletics administration. Knight has been head coach since 1980 and AD since 1993 ... Lenoir-Rhyne announced the resignation of John Hamilton after nine years. Hamilton accepted a teaching/coaching position at a nearby high school ... Jim Ertel, a St. Joseph's (Pennsylvania) assistant coach for the past 10 years, promoted to head coach ... Mark Linden appointed at Centenary (Louisiana) ... Richard Watkins resigned at North Carolina A&T.

BASEBALL ASSISTANTS--David Esquer and David Rhodes hired at Pepperdine.

MEN'S BASKETBALL--Howard Gauthier, head men's basketball coach at Wartburg for the past three years, hired as athletics director at Briar Cliff ... California (Pennsylvania) appointed Bill Brown, head coach at Kenyon since 1988 ... Kevin Vande Streek hired at Calvin. Vande Streek was head coach at Sioux Falls for six years ... New England selected John Scheinman of St. Joseph's (Maine) as head coach and men's athletics recruiting coordinator ... Mike Krzyzewski, who has led Duke to two Division I championships, given a seven-year renewable contract at the school. Krzyzewski just completed his 16th season and has an overall record of 376-140 at Duke, making him the school's most victorious coach ... Jeff Goss hired at Johnson & Wales ... Phil Hopkins given a three-year contract extension at Western Carolina ... Al Walker named at Chaminade, where he also will be athletics director.

MEN'S BASKETBALL ASSISTANTS--Louisville hired Scott Davenport, head coach at Ballard High School in Louisville for the past 10 years, and Jerry Eaves, assistant coach and defensive coordinator for the NBA New Jersey Nets for the past two seasons. Davenport will be restricted-earnings coach. Jerry Jones, an assistant coach at Louisville for 24 years, was reassigned to duties as assistant to the president for university relations ... Richard Walsh, a 1980 Canisius graduate, named assistant coach for the Golden Griffins ... St. Joseph's (Pennsylvania) appointed Monte Ross, assistant at Drexel for the past two seasons ... Mark de Barros hired as assistant coach at Charleston Southern. De Barros has been an assistant at Massachusetts-Lowell for the past three seasons ... Bob Simmons named at Lebanon Valley. Simmons was athletics director at Bishop Hafey High School in Pennsylvania last year ... Joe Cravens selected at UC Irvine after three seasons as head coach at Idaho ... Bryan Garmroth resigned at Coastal Carolina ... Monte Towe hired at North Carolina-Asheville ... Valparaiso selected Jim Harrick as assistant coach ... Robert Lee hired at Southwestern Louisiana ... Citadel announced the resignation of Jeff Neubauer ... Alfonzo Duncan hired at Florida Atlantic ... New Hampshire appointed Bobby Castagna, Kevin Mouton and Bob Duffley as assistant coaches ... Steve Shurina named associate head coach at Davidson ... Bob Boyd joined the staff at LSU ... Jon Wheeler appointed at UC Santa Barbara ... Charles Davis resigned at Vanderbilt.

WOMEN'S BASKETBALL--Southern Utah announced the resignation of Larry Shurtliff, head coach since 1991 ... Kent extended the contract of head coach Bob Lindsay through 2000. Lindsay has been head coach of the Golden Flashes since 1989 and has a career record of 121-80 ... Tulane assistant head coach Jenny Yopp hired as head coach at Portland State. Yopp spent five seasons at Tulane ... Stephanie Brown hired at Johnson & Wales.

WOMEN'S BASKETBALL ASSISTANTS--Jon Cain hired at Marquette, where he served as administrative assistant in 1994-95. He also was an assistant at Wisconsin and Baylor. Marquette also announced that Michelle Nason will remain on the staff as restricted-earnings coach ... Fort Hays State named Rose McFarland as assistant coach, replacing Lee Dybdal, who resigned to go into private business. McFarland coached the women's tennis team last season ... Tracy Roller hired at Valparaiso ... Arizona appointed Traci Waites as associate coach ... Cathy McDonald selected as assistant coach at San Diego State ... Jody Anton appointed at Pepperdine ... Norinne Powers joined the staff at Marist ... Tara Gallagher and Samantha David appointed at Seton Hall.

MEN'S AND WOMEN'S CROSS COUNTRY--Harry Hall, longtime Dallas-area distance runner, hired as head coach at Dallas. Cross country recently was reinstated as an intercollegiate sport at the school. Hall was head coach at Dallas for four years during the 1980s ... Tom Raunig appointed at Montana, where he also will be head track and field coach.

FOOTBALL ASSISTANTS--Eric Wright, wide receivers coach at Missouri for the past two years, resigned to pursue other career interests ... Missouri Western State announced the resignation of defensive coordinator Jerry Partridge ... Bob Allman and Jon McLaughlin hired at Muhlenberg. Allman returns to his alma mater as wide receivers coach and assistant track and field coach. McLaughlin will be linebackers coach and head baseball coach ... Georgia Southern appointed former Eagle defensive end Giff Smith as wide receivers coach. Also, Harold Nichols, split ends coach for the past three seasons, was assigned to coach slotbacks, and A-backs coach Darryl Hopkins has left the staff ... Grove City promoted former Pittsburgh Steeler player and coach Jon Kolb to defensive coordinator and full-time faculty member. Kolb replaces Joe Walters, who was a football assistant for 24 years and also served as men's tennis coach. Walters was promoted to associate athletics director.

Bob Surace, John Burrell and Joseph Bouffard appointed at Western Connecticut State. Surace, who has been an assistant at Springfield, Maine Maritime and Rensselaer and for the Shreveport Pirates of the Canadian Football League, will be offensive coordinator and offensive line coach. Burrell will coach outside linebackers in his
first season as a collegiate coach. Bouffard comes to Western Connecticut State after two seasons as a student assistant at Ithaca ... Wittenberg hired Mike Leonard as offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach and Chris Woods as linebackers coach and special team coordinator. Also, Mark Ewald will serve as volunteer defensive line coach ... Terry Szucs selected as assistant head coach and offensive coordinator at Lock Haven, which also announced the appointments of Frank Leaks as defensive coordinator, John Allen as special-teams coordinator and Jude Boyle as part-time assistant coach.

MEN'S GYMNASTICS--Former Michigan gymnast Kurt Golder appointed at his alma mater. Golder was assistant men's coach at Iowa from 1991 to 1996.

MEN'S ICE HOCKEY--Johnson & Wales hired Lou Izzi as head coach.

MEN'S ICE HOCKEY ASSISTANTS--Former Lake Superior State associate head coach Ron Rolston hired as assistant coach at Clarkson. Rolston was an assistant at Lake Superior State for five years before taking a year off to help with a family business ... Brad Wilson hired at Johnson & Wales.

WOMEN'S LACROSSE--Barb Jordan, former lacrosse all-American at Penn State, named head coach at Bucknell. Jordan replaces Heather Lewis, who has coached Bucknell's field hockey and lacrosse teams since 1992 but relinquished her lacrosse duties. Jordan was assistant coach at Vanderbilt last year.

MEN'S SOCDERr--Ed Matz promoted to head men's coach at Northeastern after serving as an assistant for the past two years.

WOMEN'S SOCCERr--Julia Claudio hired to head the new varsity women's soccer program at Northeastern. Claudio has coached the school's club team since 1995. She also has coached at Tufts, Salem State and Wellesley ... Mary Gibson hired at St. Francis (Pennsylvania).

WOMEN'S SOCCER ASSISTANTS--Tracy Menning, a 1995 Connecticut graduate, hired at Elmira. Menning was Connecticut's leading scorer in 1991 and 1993. Elmira also appointed Janet Urban, a 1995 Cortland State graduate, as assistant soccer and softball coach.

WOMEN'S SOFTBALL--St. Rose hired Michael Dinova to replace interim coach John Bellizzi. Dinova was head softball coach and assistant athletics director at Russell Sage for the past 10 years ... Roger Williams promoted assistant coach Stephen Pappas to replace retiring head coach Lee Wilber. Pappas has been on the Roger Williams staff for three years ... Galen Struve appointed at Missouri-Kansas City to replace Roger Hunt, who resigned. Struve has been an assistant coach and pitching coach at the school for three seasons ... Charleston Southern hired Vanessa Glasscock, who was an assistant at San Diego State from 1991 to 1994 ... Yale named Andy Van Etten as head coach ... Scot Thomas appointed at Virginia Tech.

WOMEN'S SOFTBALL ASSISTANT--Elmira appointed Janet Urban, a 1995 Cortland State graduate, as assistant softball and soccer coach.

MEN'S AND WOMEN'S SWIMMING AND DIVING--South Carolina swimming standout Anne Marie Wozniak appointed director of swimming at Georgia Southern. Wozniak's responsibilities include coaching the women's team and overseeing administration of the men's team ... Cindy Fontana named women's swimming coach at Southern Connecticut State.

MEN'S AND WOMEN'S TENNIS--Jeff Northam, an assistant men's coach at Boise State, named interim men's and women's coach at Montana State. Northam replaces Jerry Peach, who is on a one-year unpaid leave of absence ... Ward Prostejovsky appointed men's and women's coach at St. Francis (Pennsylvania).

MEN'S AND WOMEN'S TRACK AND FIELD--Tom Raunig selected at Montana, where he also will coach cross country.

MEN'S AND WOMEN'S TRACK AND FIELD ASSISTANTS--Tonya McKelvey of South Carolina hired as an assistant for the men's and women's track and field programs at West Virginia. McKelvey has been an assistant coach at South Carolina for the past two years.

MEN'S AND WOMEN'S VOLLEYBALL--Jewel Giesy, head women's coach at Gardner-Webb last season, appointed men's and women's coach at Charleston (South Carolina) ... Allison Welch hired as women's coach at Charleston Southern, replacing Tammy Craig, who took a job in compliance at the school. Welch was an assistant at Furman for the past two seasons ... Laura Trevor-Wilson resigned as women's coach at Incarnate Word to teach special education at the elementary school level. Trevor-Wilson coached five years at Incarnate Word, compiling a 96-92 record ... Larry Blackwell, head coach at McMurry for the past four seasons, named to head the women's program at East Texas State. Blackwell coached at Tarleton State before moving to McMurry in 1992 ... Jamie Murray appointed women's coach at Johnson & Wales.

WOMEN'S VOLLEYBALL ASSISTANTS--Former San Diego State standout player Gracie Schutt returned to her alma mater as an assistant coach. After her career at San Diego State, Schutt competed on the U.S. national team in 1993-94 and has been playing professionally in Italy and Germany ... Megan Gamble hired at Drake. She previously was an assistant at Creighton.

STAFF

ATHLETIC TRAINER--Andy Smith, assistant trainer at Army since 1990, named to fill the newly created position of staff athletic trainer at Canisius ... Mark Perdue hired as the first full-time athletic trainer at South Carolina-Spartanburg. Perdue was coordinator of athletic training services and a faculty clinical instructor at Charleston (West Virginia) for the past four years.

ASSISTANT ATHLETIC TRAINER--Jody Siebold named assistant athletic trainer at St. Norbert. Siebold was a student trainer at St. Norbert for three years before earning a master's degree in athletic training at Illinois State last December ... Indiana/Purdue-Indianapolis hired Linda Carroll.

COMPLIANCE DIRECTOR--Brad Cox named compliance director at West Virginia, replacing Roger Jeffries, who retired. Cox has been assistant compliance coordinator at the school since 1992.

DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR--Kevin Kennedy, formerly development officer for the Indiana University School of Medicine, selected as director of athletics development at Indiana/Purdue-Indianapolis.

MARKETING AND PROMOTIONS DIRECTORS--Peter Isakson named director of athletics marketing and promotions at Ashland, replacing Al Hall, who was a member of the Ashland athletics staff for 14 years. Isakson was assistant director of marketing and promotions at Idaho ... San Diego State hired Steven Schnall as marketing director. Schnall was director of sales and marketing at Cornell from 1989 to 1995.

MARKETING AND PROMOTIONS ASSISTANTS--Ettore Rossetti, assistant director of athletics marketing and promotions at Army, resigned to become managing partner of NetMarketing, LLC, an Internet marketing consulting company based in Hamden, Connecticut. Rossetti was a marketing assistant at Connecticut before joining the Army staff ... Blake Sasaki named assistant director of marketing and promotions at Weber State.

MEDIA RELATIONS DIRECTOR--Randy Franz, a 13-year sportswriter for the Orange County Register, appointed director of media relations at Long Beach State.

SPORTS INFORMATION DIRECTORS--Robert McKinney named sports information director at Grand Valley State. McKinney has been SID at Barry for the past four years ... Amherst named Irene Cheung as SID, where she is an Ives Washburn Fellow ... Akron appointed Jeff Brewer, who has been assistant SID at Penn State for the past seven years.

SPORTS INFORMATION ASSISTANTS--Jeffy Darby, who was interim assistant sports information director at Southern Methodist for the past year, named assistant SID at the school. Darby joined the Southern Methodist staff after a one-year internship at Florida ... Northern Arizona announced the resignation of Jennifer Powers.

TELEMARKETING DIRECTOR--Scott Finder hired at San Diego State as director of telemarketing for the athletics program. Finders has been an account executive at Spectator Sports Communications and has been involved in skybox and ticket sales for the San Diego Chargers for four years.

CONFERENCES

Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference officers for 1996-97 are Ann H. Die, president of Hendrix, chair of the board of directors; George M. Harmon, president of Millsaps, and Michael F. Adams, president of Centre, executive committee members; Cliff Garrison, athletics director at Hendrix, chair of the athletics directors council; Steve Argo, commissioner; and Dwayne Hanberry, sports information director.

Catrina Gibson and Melody Yount selected as Missouri Valley Conference administrative interns for the 1996-97 academic year.

Missouri-Kansas City Chancellor Eleanor Brantley Schwartz elected chair of the Mid-Continent Conference Presidents Council for 1996-97. Other Missouri-Kansas City administrators elected to conference leadership positions are athletics director Lee Hunt, chair of the conference Directors Council, and faculty athletics representative Joe Doerr, chair of the Faculty Athletics Representatives Council.

Elected to one-year terms on the Sun Belt Conference executive committee were J. Les Wyatt, Arkansas State president, who will serve as conference president; Rex Cottle, Lamar president, vice-president; Frederick Whiddon, South Alabama president, past president; Rick Mello, Arkansas-Little Rock, chair of athletics directors; and Sybil Boudreaux of New Orleans, chair of faculty athletics representatives. Also, Sally Krauss was hired as media services intern.

Stephanie Linnen selected as media relations intern at the Big Sky Conference. Linnen was a member of the California cross country and track and field teams and was a sports administration intern at the U.S. Olympic Training Center for six months.

ASSOCIATIONS

The San Antonio Sports Foundation named Susan Blackwood as its new executive director. Blackwood was director of athletics relations for Oshman's Sporting Goods and also has served as associate athletics director at Texas and assistant commissioner of the Southwest Conference.

Meg Stephenson, assistant coach at Minnesota, reelected to a two-year term as president of the National Association of Collegiate Gymnastics Coaches/Women.

Kathi Ley selected as director of the National Association for Academic Advisors for Athletics. She replaces Susan Gibbs.

ETC.

CORRECTION

Jerry Gildorf's new position was listed incorrectly in the NCAA Record section of the July 8 issue of The NCAA News. Gildorf will be head men's basketball coach at Gordon.

In the state legislation report of the July 8 issue of the News, the object of a bill in the Michigan House was incorrectly reported. House Bill No. 5923 relates to intramural athletics.

NOTABLES

Kris Benson, who pitched for Clemson in the 1996 College World Series, won the Rotary Smith Award as college baseball player of the year. The award was presented by the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association of America in conjunction with the Rotary Club of Houston.

Gary K. Johnson, NCAA statistics coordinator, named recipient of the 1996 Wilbur Snypp Memorial Award for contributions to collegiate baseball by the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association of America. Johnson has worked at the College World Series for parts of three decades after beginning his association with college baseball as student manager for the Arizona team in 1977.

Bucknell men's lacrosse coach Sid Jamieson, who guided his Bison team to the only undefeated record (12-0) in Division I lacrosse this year, named Division I coach of the year by the United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association.

DEATHS

Caroline Baytop Sinclair, 91, a pioneer in women's sports, died May 22, less than three weeks after her induction into the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame. Sinclair was a teacher, coach and administrator in women's intercollegiate athletics and was a moving force in establishing varsity sports at Mary Washington, William and Mary, and James Madison. A gym is named in her honor at James Madison.

Bob Tompkins, head baseball coach at Central Missouri State from 1965 through 1980, died July 11 after a battle with cancer. He was 55. Tompkins led three of his teams to Missouri Intercollegiate Athletic Association titles, and his 1974 team finished fourth in the NCAA championship. His 248 victories and 15 seasons of coaching are the most for any Mules baseball coach.