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The NCAA News - The NCAA RecordSeptember 16, 1996
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Morrone retires after 39 years in soccerConnecticut head men's soccer coach Joe Morrone will retire as Husky head coach at the conclusion of the 1996 fall season.
He begins his final season as one of only four collegiate soccer coaches in the country (and one of only two in Division I) who have recorded 400 career victories. Morrone was head coach at Middlebury for 11 seasons before arriving at Connecticut. His overall 38-year coaching record stands at 407-196-61. Morrone will retain his rank as a tenured professor in the Connecticut school of education.
GENERALDIRECTORS OF ATHLETICS Grambling athletics director Fred Hobdy reassigned to duties as the university president's special assistant for athletics affairs. Head baseball coach Wilbert Ellis was named interim AD and will continue as baseball coach. Hobdy came out of retirement to serve as AD at the president's request while a direction for the athletics department was determined ... Bobby Beville named at Anderson (South Carolina), where he had been head baseball coach for the past 13 years ... Greg Burke named at Northwestern State ... Prairie View A&M announced the suspension of athletics director and head football coach Hensley Sapenter Jr. Sapenter was suspended with pay pending a school investigation into possible rules violations. ASSOCIATE DIRECTORS OF ATHLETICS Bradley appointed Dewey Kalmer associate AD for operations and facilities. Kalmer, an 18-year veteran of the university's athletics department, has been head baseball coach since 1980 and an assistant to the athletics director since 1989. Bradley also promoted John Butler from assistant AD for development to associate AD for external affairs ... Cathie Ann Schweitzer named at Springfield. Schweitzer was senior woman administrator, women's soccer coach and chair of the physical education department at Albion for the past six years. ASSISTANT DIRECTORS OF ATHLETICS Bradley promoted Craig Dahlquist from business manager and compliance officer to assistant athletics director for financial and compliance affairs. Dahlquist took over Bradley's track and cross country programs in 1985 then gave up coaching to move into administration in 1994 ... Dan Marcus named assistant AD at Chaminade. He also will be associate head men's basketball coach. Marcus, an assistant basketball coach since 1994, also was sports information director at the school ... Craig Poisson named interim assistant AD at Springfield. Poisson has served as a doctoral fellow in the athletics department for the past two years ... Bill Schwanke's title at Montana was changed to assistant AD for external affairs, with additional duties for overseeing the development efforts of the Grizzly Athletic Association. Montana also promoted Gary Hughes from manager of athletics services to assistant AD for internal affairs, and Chuck Maes was promoted from manager of business affairs to assistant AD for business affairs ... Jim Nimitz named assistant AD for marketing and promotions at Bowling Green ... David Miller hired as assistant AD for facilities and operations at Ohio. SENIOR WOMAN ADMINISTRATOR Cathie Ann Scweitzer, senior woman administrator at Albion, named associate athletics director at Springfield. Schweitzer also was Albion's women's soccer coach. COACHES BASEBALL--Scott Pritchard, assistant coach for the past three years at Wisconsin-Stevens Point, promoted to head coach. Pritchard replaces Guy Otte, who took a job in the Mosinee School District ... Peter Hughes, assistant coach at Northeastern for five seasons, named head coach at Trinity (Texas) ... Joe Miller, associate head coach at Anderson (South Carolina) for the past three years, promoted to head coach. Miller succeeds Bobby Beville, who became athletics director after 13 years as head coach ... Susquehanna appointed Rich Mease, assistant coach for the past two years and a former Boston Red Sox and California Angels minor leaguer ... Jim Pizzolatto named at Nicholls State after heading the St. Thomas (Florida) squad for four years. He led St. Thomas to three straight conference championships ... Former assistant coach Tom Walter returned to George Washington as head coach. Walter was an assistant coach from 1992 to 1994 before joining the New York Yankees' Class A affiliate in Greensboro, North Carolina ... Frank Sanchez hired at Pepperdine. Sanchez was an assistant coach at Southern California for the past 10 years ... Thomas Lo Ricco appointed at North Adams State. He was an assistant coach at Wofford. BASEBALL ASSISTANTS--Former all-Southland Conference outfielder Clay Gould named assistant coach at Texas-Arlington, his alma mater. Gould was a graduate assistant coach at Texas A&M last season ... Burt Hooton and Tommy Harmon selected as assistants at Texas, where both were standout players. Harmon remains on the staff he joined in 1990, while Hooton has been pitching coach for the Class AAA Albuquerque franchise in the Los Angeles Dodgers organization ... Former Georgia Southern third baseman Garth Spendiff named as a graduate assistant at his alma mater for the 1996-97 academic year. Spen.-diff replaces Buddy Holder, who resigned to teach and coach at the high-school level ... Artis Sposaro hired at Emory, where he was a two-time all-conference first baseman before his graduation in 1995 ... Tim Berenyl, an all-conference pitcher for Akron in 1991, promoted from part-time to full-time assistant coach for the Zips ... Erik Hagen selected at Cincinnati. He has coached at Georgia Tech, Rochester and Emory ... Greg Gunderson hired at Michigan State ... Brad Holcomb and Troy Dean Conkle appointed at Abilene Christian. MEN'S BASKETBALL--Brian Meehan, an assistant at Salem State for the past three seasons, promoted to head coach. Meehan succeeds Jim Todd, who resigned ... Todd Bozeman, head coach at California for the past 31/2 years, resigned. Bozeman also has coached at George Mason and Tulane ... Virginia Tech announced that Bill Foster will retire at the end of the 1996-97 season, his sixth season at Virginia Tech and 29th as a head coach ... Austin Peay State gave Dave Loos a new five-year contract, through the 2000-01 season. MEN'S BASKETBALL ASSISTANTS--Aaron Griess named assistant coach at Chaminade, where he also will be sports information director. For the past three years, Griess was an assistant coach at Loras ... Daniel Searl, a volunteer assistant last season at Emory, promoted to assistant coach ... Kirk Daulerio named at Swarthmore ... Clark (Massachusetts) appointed three assistants: Richard Bergin, who has been a high-school coach; Michael Burlas, an assistant at Anna Maria since 1990; and Tyrone Hicks, an assistant coach at Clark from 1988 to 1993 ... Stetson selected Andy McClouskey, an assistant at Oregon State from 1989 to 1995 ... Tom Sorboro named at Loyola (Maryland) after one year as an assistant at Wayne State (Michigan) ... Quinnipiac selected Jeff Maher, assistant at North Carolina-Wilmington for the past two seasons ... Rick Walrond named assistant men's coach at Stetson. Walrond has been a head coach on the junior college level during the past eight seasons ... Rod Balanis selected at Colgate ... Dwayne Olinger hired at Northwestern State ... Niall Archbold appointed at New York University. WOMEN'S BASKETBALL--Orie Gentile named head coach at La Roche. Gentile, who has been a high-school coach since 1988, also will be head women's softball coach ... Tammy Moorhead, assistant coach at Tarleton State for the 1993-94 season, hired as head coach there ... Trina Stutzman appointed interim coach at Eastern Mennonite while head coach Doug Hochstetler begins doctoral studies. Stutzman has been an assistant coach at the school for the past two seasons ... Texas Woman's University announced the resignation of Lynn Bria, head coach for the past three seasons. Bria has taken a position as a recruiter ... Stacy McWilliams hired at Elms. She has been an assistant at Smith for the past two seasons ... Joe French, top assistant at Navy, named head coach at Geneseo State. French also will coach women's tennis and assist with women's lacrosse ... Laura Rotz hired at Delaware Valley ... Nikita Lowry named at Detroit ... Bill Agronin appointed at Niagara. WOMEN'S BASKETBALL ASSISTANTS--Maggie Meagher promoted to full-time assistant at Mount St. Mary's (Maryland) after serving part time last season. Vanessa Blair, the Northeast Conference's women's basketball player of the decade for 1985 to 1995, named to the newly created position of second full-time assistant at Mount St. Mary's ... Tracy Anderson, a junior college assistant coach and recruiting coordinator, appointed at Bradley. Also, Dawn Cartwright was selected as student assistant coach for the 1996-97 season ... Cathleen Coakley and Karen Pinkos named assistant coaches at Northeastern. Coakley formerly coached at New Hampshire and Fordham. Pinkos coached at Providence during the past three seasons. Northeastern also named Lucienne Fontanella as graduate assistant coach ... Gaye Chapman hired at Long Island-Southampton. Chapman was a graduate assistant at East Stroudsburg ... Kerry Murphy, whose number was retired upon the completion of her playing career at St. Elizabeth, appointed assistant coach at her alma mater. Former Oklahoma State guard Shanice Bottoms named assistant coach at Rice. She has coached in Amateur Athletic Union and Basketball Congress International leagues ... Rob Vandenabeele hired at Incarnate Word as graduate assistant coach. He has coached at the high-school level ... Walter Paschal hired at Emerson-Massachusetts College of Art ... Brown appointed Bridgett Casey as an assistant coach. Casey has been an assistant at Bryant for the past three years ... St. John's (New York) selected Joe Westerfer, an assistant at St. Bonaventure in 1995 ... Andrew Mickle hired at North Adams State as an assistant coach ... Wendy Rogers, an assistant at Towson State last season, selected as an assistant at Goucher. She also has assisted at Eastern Connecticut State. Rogers replaces Gerard Garlic, who became an assistant coach at Morgan State ... Kathy Long hired as assistant coach at San Jose State. Long was an assistant last season at Cal State Fullerton ... Shannan Wilkey, an assistant at North Carolina-Asheville, named at West Florida. Wilkey was an all-conference player at Radford ... Michelle Woodard named assistant women's basketball coach and head women's volleyball coach at Coe ... Leah Wooldridge resigned at Ball State to join the staff at Detroit. MEN'S AND WOMEN'S CROSS COUNTRY--Graeme Badger hired as head men's and women's coach at Colorado-Colorado Springs. He was an assistant cross country and track coach at Air Force for the past five years ... Patricia Carrick appointed women's coach at Rose-Hulman. Carrick also will work part-time as a middle-school teacher. She takes over as coach for Bill Welch, a men's coach who also coached the Engineers' inaugural women's cross country season in 1995 ... Craig McVey named men's and women's cross country and track coach at St. Rose. McVey served as head coach of the same programs at Hartwick and was an assistant coach at Kansas State ... Roosevelt Lofton, head cross country and track coach at Grambling, named assistant cross country and track coach at Northern Arizona. Lofton was selected as Southwestern Athletic Conference coach of the year for men's and women's cross country and men's track in 1995 ... Sue Nickerson appointed men's and women's cross country coach at Niagara. MEN'S AND WOMEN'S CROSS COUNTRY ASSISTANTS--Akron appointed Scott Jones as distance coach for the men's and women's track and cross country teams. Jones was assistant women's track and field and cross country coach at Illinois for three years ... Erika Chiavetta named assistant men's and women's cross country and track coach at Swarthmore ... Mark Bluman, a standout cross country runner for the past four years at California (Pennsylvania), selected as the team's graduate assistant coach ... Nancy Kruszka selected as assistant coach at Buffalo State, where she also will be head women's track coach.
FIELD HOCKEY--Stacy Schilling appointed at Cortland State, where she also will be head women's lacrosse coach. Schilling has served as a student assistant coach at Lock Haven, where she also was captain of the 1992 national-championship field hockey team. She was a graduate assistant coach at East Stroudsburg during 1994-95 ... Andrea Whitcomb appointed field hockey and women's lacrosse coach at Montclair State ... Kimberly Allen hired at Long Island- FIELD HOCKEY ASSISTANTS--Julie Mazer appointed at Swarthmore ... Jen Pelleriti hired at Brown after serving as an assistant last season at Colby ... Nicole Shappell named as graduate assistant field hockey and women's lacrosse coach at Lynchburg ... Laura Biggs, an assistant field hockey and women's lacrosse coach at Washington (Maryland), hired for the same positions at Goucher. FOOTBALL--Prairie View A&M announced the suspension of head football coach and athletics director Hensley Sapenter Jr. Sapenter, whose Panthers have lost an NCAA-record 58 consecutive games, was suspended with pay pending a school investigation into possible rules violations ... Missouri head coach Larry Smith given a two-year contract extension that will keep him at the school until 2001. Smith was in the third year of a five-year contract ... South Dakota State announced that head coach Mike Daly will resign at the end of the season. FOOTBALL ASSISTANTS--Mike Gurski selected as linebackers coach at Susquehanna, succeeding Eric Hancock, who became an assistant coach at Wagner ... Swarthmore named Jon Troy as defensive backs coach, Terry Driscoll as running back and tight ends coach, and Paul Kofalt as defensive line intern ... Jake von Scherrer, John Nolan and Stu Holt appointed at Norwich. Von Scherrer, offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at Missouri Valley, assumes similar duties at Norwich. Holt will coach linebackers in his first coaching assignment and Nolan will coach the defensive line. Fitchburg State announced appointments of assistant coaches: George Creswell, defensive coordinator; Pat Haverty, defensive backs; Todd Driscoll, offensive line; Greg Pearl, linebackers; and Todd Kiley, running backs ... Thiel appointed Kelley Moore defensive coordinator and defensive backs coach; Wally Gagric, offensive line and strength and conditioning coach; Brian Yeager, running backs coach; Matt Nelson, receivers coach; Jason Ranone, linebackers coach; and John Reynolds, assistant defensive line coach. Fresno State hired John Kusleika as a graduate assistant coach working with tight ends. Kusleika was strength and conditioning coach last year at Connecticut ... Montana hired Brent Pease as offensive coordinator, and Phil Ryan, who previously served part time as assistant strength and conditioning coach, was promoted to full-time assistant football coach in charge of strength and conditioning and assisting with the offensive line ... Western Maryland named its football staff: Al Thomas, head coach for seven Maryland state high-school championship football teams, defensive coordinator; Steve Gill, a student assistant coach at Frostburg State in 1993 and 1994 and strength and conditioning coach, defensive line coach; John Schropp, assistant at Hilton Head (South Carolina) High School for the past two seasons, defensive backs coach; and Todd Wargo, returning to his alma mater for his first collegiate coaching experience, offensive line coach. Randy Mercer and Larry Miller named assistant coaches at Guilford. Miller, a defensive backfield coach, joins Guilford from Greensboro, where he graduated in May and participated in soccer and cross country. Mercer, who has been men's soccer coach at the school for the past three seasons, also has coached men's soccer and lacrosse at American International ... Long Island-C. W. Post appointed Orlando Mitjans as defensive backs coach and A. J. Livingston as running backs coach. MEN'S GOLF--Steve Herzberg selected as head men's coach at Colorado-Colorado Springs. He was interim coach last season ... Ted Ballmer hired at Pacific (California). He was assistant golf coach for the past two years at Kansas and was the teaching professional at Alvamar Golf Club in Lawrence, Kansas ... Tim Bishop, golf professional at Holden Hills Country Club, appointed golf coach at Worcester Polytechnic ... Art Williams hired at San Jose State. He has been head professional at various Bay Area golf courses for 14 years ... Northeast Louisiana announced the resignation of Henry Cole. MEN'S ICE HOCKEY--James Fowler hired at Buffalo State after five years as an assistant at Fredonia State. Fowler takes over for Brian Dickinson, who became head coach at Brockport State ... Paul Cannata, head coach at Massachusetts-Boston for the past three years, hired as assistant coach at Northeastern. MEN'S ICE HOCKEY ASSISTANTS--Ed Arrington and Paul Cannata selected as assistant coaches at Northeastern. Arrington is in charge of goaltenders. He held a similar position last season at New Hampshire and previously coached at Northeastern from 1980 to 1982. Cannata was head coach at Massachusetts-Boston for the last three seasons ... North Dakota named Mark Osiecki as assistant coach. Osiecki was captain of the 1990 Wisconsin Division I championship team and played professionally for five years ... David Berard hired at Lake Superior State after two seasons as an assistant at Providence ... Bob Ritzer appointed at Wisconsin-River Falls. Ritzer was assistant coach at St. Scholastica and has been coordinator for the Wisconsin Amateur Hockey Association Bantam Elite Camps ... Norwich selected Patrick Norton as assistant coach. Norton, a part of the New Hampshire ice hockey program for five years, graduated earlier this year ... Paul Haggerty appointed at Army after two years as an assistant at Trinity (Connecticut). Haggerty is a former Army hockey letter- winner who missed just four contests in his final three seasons ... Michael Doneghey hired at New Hampshire. MEN'S LACROSSE--Allentown appointed Fran Meagher Jr. as its first men's lacrosse coach. Meagher has coached lacrosse at Swarthmore and Union (New York) and most recently was head football coach at Muhlenberg from 1990 to 1993. MEN'S LACROSSE ASSISTANTS--T. W. Johnson and Brian McGurn appointed graduate assistant men's coaches at Lynchburg ... Lars Tiffany hired at Washington and Lee. He was cohead coach for the women's lacrosse team and an assistant coach for men's team at Le Moyne ... John Klepacki named at Oneonta State. WOMEN'S LACROSSE--Stacy Schilling appointed at Cortland State, where she also will be head field hockey coach. Schilling served as a student assistant field hockey coach at Lock Haven, where she was captain of the 1992 championship field hockey team, and was a graduate assistant coach at East Stroudsburg for the 1994-95 year ... Andrea Whitcomb appointed women's lacrosse and field hockey at Montclair State. WOMEN'S LACROSSE ASSISTANTS--Joe French hired at Geneseo State. French, an assistant women's basketball coach at Navy, also will be head women's basketball and women's tennis coach ... Nicole Shappell named as graduate assistant field hockey and women's lacrosse coach at Lynchburg ... Liz Graham hired as an assistant coach at Washington and Lee. The 1995 Cornell graduate was starting goalkeeper during her senior season with the Big Red. She was an assistant coach at Vassar last season. Graham also will coach women's soccer ... Karen Teufel hired at Penn State. Teufel was a high-school girls coach in Greenlawn, New York, during the past three years ... Laura Biggs, an assistant field hockey and women's lacrosse coach at Washington (Maryland), hired for the same positions at Goucher ... Kimberly Lannon appointed at Brown. MEN'S AND WOMEN'S ROWING--John Wojtkiewicz selected as head coach of the men's and women's crew programs at Clark (Massachusetts). Wojtkiewicz joins Clark from the Narragansett Boat Club in Providence, Rhode Island, the country's oldest elite-level rowing club ... Columbia-Barnard hired Mike Zimmer as women's crew coach ... Bucknell selected Steve Kish as men's and women's crew coach ... Pennsylvania announced the resignation of Carol Bower as women's crew coach ... Dale Hurley named lightweight crew coach at Navy. MEN'S AND WOMEN'S SKIING--Peggy Axtell appointed head men's and women's Alpine skiing coach at Alfred. Axtell also will serve as assistant women's volleyball coach. She has taught skiing for 13 years. MEN'S SOCCER--Guilford selected Michael Thorn as head men's soccer coach, replacing Randy Mercer, who coached the team during the past three seasons and remains on the staff as head men's lacrosse and assistant football coach. The position is Thorn's first at the collegiate level ... Anthony Massop appointed at Buffalo State. He was a player-coach in the semi-professional Canadian Soccer Association for three seasons. MEN'S SOCCER ASSISTANTS--Matt Gannon, who graduated in May after four years on the Mount St. Mary's (Maryland) team, named assistant coach at his alma mater ... Craig Appleby, who has played professionally in Germany and the United States, hired as an assistant at Washington and Lee ... Paul Cushion named at North Adams State, replacing long-time assistant coach Bassem Maher, who became head boys' soccer coach at Easthampton High School. Cushion previously assisted at North Adams State in 1988 ... Emerson-Massachusetts College of Art hired Henry Francillon as assistant coach with responsibility for goaltenders. Francillon, a native of Haiti, played for the Haitian national team and professionally in Germany.
Stephen Brickler and Joseph Giuliano named at Brockport State. Brickler was assistant coach at Aquinas Institute in Rochester from 1987 to 1995. Giuliano played for the German-Americans in 1994 and currently plays for the Italian-Americans in the Rochester club league. He also played for Greece Sting for six years ... Le Moyne hired Nick Dimitrievski ... Ian McIntyre selected at Fairfield. A native of England, McIntyre was one of the all-time statistical leaders at Hartwick, scoring 18 goals and 12 assists ... Norwich appointed Todd Maxfield and Scott Miller ... Terry Locklear, an assistant men's soccer coach at Maryland-Baltimore County for the past three years, appointed assistant women's soccer coach at Goucher ... Guilford hired Shawn Mahoney and Liam Behrens as assistant coaches. Mahoney was a standout player WOMEN'S SOCCER--Anderson (South Carolina) hired former player Jill Geltz as head coach ... Cathie Ann Schweitzer, head coach at Albion for the past six years, named associate AD at Springfield ... David Barnes appointed for the new women's soccer program at Allentown. Barnes was a high-school soccer coach for 17 years ... Alex Ely selected at Swarthmore ... Scott Sylvester promoted to head coach at St. Peter's after two years as assistant coach ... Rachelle Galipeau, assistant coach at Buffalo State last season, promoted to head coach. It is her first head coaching assignment ... Tom Piccirillo, head women's coach at Tiffin for the past five years, hired at Bowling Green. The new Bowling Green team will begin intercollegiate competition in fall 1997 ... Stephanie Gabbert hired at Iowa. WOMEN'S SOCCER ASSISTANTS--Pat Gress named assistant coach at Swarthmore ... Liz Graham hired as an assistant coach at Washington and Lee. She was an assistant at Vassar last season. Graham also will coach women's lacrosse ... Candace Casucci selected at North Adams State. She has been a coach at the high-school level ... Denise Saliola, a 1996 St. Peter's graduate, appointed assistant coach at her alma mater ... Forrest Collier, a sweeper for the Guilford team before his graduation in 1995, named as an assistant coach for the women's team at his alma mater ... Kelly Walbert joined the Texas staff after a standout playing career at Duke ... Hannah Amon named assistant coach at Norwich, where she will work with goalkeepers ... Emerson-Massachusetts College of Art named Julie Tienken assistant coach. Tienken played professionally for the Massachusetts Bay Crusaders in 1995 and was on the Babson coaching staff ... Terry Locklear, an assistant men's soccer coach at Maryland-Baltimore County for the past three years, appointed assistant women's soccer coach at Goucher. He replaces former Gopher most valuable player Sherri Malloy, who returned to school to work toward a postgraduate degree ... Cincinnati selected Michael Neveu. WOMEN'S SOFTBALL--Assistant coach Renee Williams promoted to head coach at Anderson (South Carolina) ... Ruth-Anne Wideman appointed head coach at Eastern Mennonite, where she also will be head women's volleyball coach. Wideman has coached at the high-school level ... Tricia Fiut, who became interim head coach at Mount St. Mary's (Maryland) midway through the 1996 season, named head coach ... Joseph Martin hired at St. Elizabeth. Martin has been an assistant at Lafayette and Centenary (New Jersey) and a sports information intern for the Philadelphia 76ers ... Jose Garcia named at Colorado-Colorado Springs after serving on an interim basis ... North Adams State appointed George "Bud" Pellerin, who got his start in coaching as a player-coach at the school in 1960 before graduating in 1961. He has been a baseball, football and softball coach at the high-school level. WOMEN'S SOFTBALL ASSISTANTS--Denise Armstrong, a 1995 Mount St. Mary's (Maryland) graduate, appointed assistant coach at her alma mater ... Cindy Stone hired at Roger Williams. Stone coached at various levels in the Portsmouth Little League during the past few seasons ... Ohio selected former Bobcat player Julie Wright as assistant coach. Wright was a student assistant at Ohio during the 1995 season ... Patricia Sheedy named assistant coach at Roanoke for that team's inaugural season. A teacher at a Roanoke, Virginia, high school since 1992, Sheedy has coached softball, basketball and track ... Marla Looper and Carla Marchetti hired at Kansas. MEN'S AND WOMEN'S SWIMMING AND DIVING--Jessica Berkowitz, a nine-time Division III champion at Kenyon, hired at Emory ... Scott Felix selected at West Virginia Wesleyan. He has assisted at Springfield and Army ... Illinois-Chicago appointed John Christie as head men's and women's swimming and diving coach. Christie, who spent last year as head coach of the Dryden Aquatics Racing Team in Dryden, New York, also has coached at Kansas and William and Mary ... Tim Flannery appointed at Kutztown ... Alfred announced the resignation of Mike Consadine, head men's and women's coach since December 1995. T. J. Davis, an assistant men's and women's swimming coach at Rochester during the 1995-96 season, was appointed to replace Consadine. MEN'S AND WOMEN'S SWIMMING ASSISTANTS--Fran McDermid hired at Penn State as assistant women's coach. She replaces Mary Bolich, who became head coach at Iowa. McDermid was an assistant coach and assistant director of aquatics at Villanova. MEN'S AND WOMEN'S TENNIS--Sam Shrivistava given additional duties as women's coach at Anderson (South Carolina). Shrivistava coached the men's team last year ... Joe French hired at Geneseo State. French, an assistant women's basketball coach at Navy, also will be head women's basketball coach and assistant women's lacrosse coach at Geneseo State ... Fred Coolidge appointed head men's and women's coach at Colorado-Colorado Springs. Coolidge, who replaces Keith Welch, is a professor of psychology at the school ... Allentown hired Scott Dicheck as head tennis coach. Dicheck served as interim head women's tennis coach at Allentown in 1993 and has been a tennis teaching professional at Allentown's Westend Racquet, Swim and Fitness Club ... Richard McLaughlin appointed head men's coach at Le Moyne ... Florida Tech announced the resignation of Ray Mazzoni ... Longwood appointed Nichole Pace as interim head coach of the men's and women's programs. Pace joins Longwood after a stellar playing career at St. Andrews, where she graduated in May ... Robert Oertel hired at Denver to head the men's and women's teams. He had been head coach at Indiana State since August 1989 ... Charleston Southern announced the resignation of Jon Choboy as tennis coach to become assistant men's tennis coach at Florida ... Kansas announced the resignation of Charles Merzbacher as women's tennis coach ... St. Peter's hired Scott Rosenbaum as women's coach ... Bruce Harrison hired at Virginia Military. MEN'S AND WOMEN'S TENNIS ASSISTANTS --Tory Plunkett, an assistant coach in charge of the women's team at Texas-San Antonio, named assistant coach for the men's and women's teams at Texas-Arlington. Plunkett was an assistant at Texas-Arlington in spring 1994 ... Garth McKinney selected as men's and women's assistant at Merrimack. MEN'S AND WOMEN'S TRACK AND FIELD--Akron appointed Scott Jones as distance coach for the men's and women's track and cross country teams. Jones was assistant women's track and field and cross country coach at Illinois for three years ... Erika Chiavetta named assistant men's and women's cross country and track coach at Swarthmore ... Buffalo State hired Nancy Kruszka as head of the women's indoor and outdoor track program and as track and field coordinator. Kruszka also will be assistant cross country coach. She has coached at the high-school level for four years ... Roosevelt Lofton, head cross country and track coach at Grambling, named assistant cross country and track coach at Northern Arizona. Lofton was selected as Southwestern Athletic Conference coach of the year for men's and women's cross country and men's track in 1995. MEN'S AND WOMEN'S TRACK ASSISTANTS--Tonya Lee, who was an assistant coach last season at Tennessee, named assistant coach at Kent ... Myrtle Chester-Ferguson and Brenda Webb hired at Tennessee as assistant women's track coaches ... Rachelle Roberts appointed at Iowa ... North Carolina hired Lynda Lipson as track administrative assistant and multi-events coordinator and Brian Bluetrich as javelin coach. MEN'S VOLLEYBALL--Sean Byron promoted to head coach of the men's team at Springfield. Byron has been assistant men's and women's coach there for the past two years ... UC San Diego announced the resignation of Doug Dannevik as men's volleyball coach. Dannevik has coached women's teams at the school to six Division III championships. WOMEN'S VOLLEYBALL--Ruth-Anne Wideman appointed head coach at Eastern Mennonite, where she also will be head women's softball coach. Weideman has coached at the high-school level ... Denise Ness hired at St. Elizabeth. Ness has coached volleyball at various levels and is an active member of a Manhattan and New Jersey volleyball league ... Colorado-Colorado Springs named George Egan after he served as interim coach ... Helen Mackrides hired as head women's coach at Allentown. She most recently was an assistant high-school volleyball coach ... Gene Doorly promoted to head women's coach at Alfred. He had been an assistant coach for the past two years ... Michelle Woodard named women's volleyball coach and assistant women's basketball coach at Coe ... Steve Hagenlocher hired at St. Francis (New York). WOMEN'S VOLLEYBALL ASSISTANTS--Jena Flynn and Jodi Kruse appointed at Emory. Flynn assisted with the men's club team at Skidmore, where she was voted the school's female athlete of the year as an undergraduate. Kruse was team captain while a student at Georgia ... Peggy Axtell hired as an assistant at Alfred. Axtell also will be head men's and women's Alpine skiing coach ... Penn State-Behrend appointed David Rapp as assistant coach. Rapp was a standout player for the men's club team at Indiana (Pennsylvania) for two seasons. Southeastern Louisiana hired Li Liu, the Atlantic 10 Conference's 1994 player of the year at George Washington, as assistant coach. Liu was student assistant coach at George Washington last year. Before attending George Washington, Liu played for a Chinese team ... Jenifer Hebert named assistant women's coach at Clark (Massachusetts). Hebert was an assistant coach at Becker ... Angela Rutledge hired at Loyola (Maryland) ... Suzy Wente appointed graduate assistant coach at Incarnate Word. Wente was the Southwest Conference's most valuable player and an honorable-mention all-American at Texas A&M last year ... Fresno State hired Jeff Wanderer, an assistant for the past three years at San Jose State ... Jill VanderStoep and Jerry Bergsma named assistants for the women's program at Calvin. VanderStoep will be in charge of the junior varsity team and Bergsma will serve as a varsity assistant ... Becky Eggering appointed at Iowa ... Anna Leung hired at New York University. WRESTLING--Anderson (South Carolina) hired Scott Amundsen as head coach. Amundsen was assistant coach at Campbell during the past five years ... Patrick Tocci, assistant wrestling coach at Harvard, named head coach at Kutztown. Tocci, a four-time letter-winner at Brown, replaces Dan Hinkel, who is retiring after 16 seasons as head coach and 32 years with the wrestling program at Kutztown ... Marty Nichols, a three-time all-American wrestler and member of two Division III championship squads at Ithaca, named head coach at his alma mater. He replaces interim head coach Dave Ruckman. Nichols coached at Cornell before returning to Ithaca as assistant coach in 1994. WRESTLING ASSISTANT--Jack Griffin hired at Northwestern. Griffin won the 1990 Division I championship at 118 pounds and finished his career as Northwestern's all-time win leader. He was an assistant at Illinois and Iowa. STAFF ACADEMIC SERVICES COORDINATOR--Eric Sanders selected as coordinator of athletics academic services at Montana. Sanders had been academic athletics counselor/coordinator of career development at Syracuse since 1993. ASSISTANT TO THE ATHLETICS DIRECTOR--Kevin White appointed as interim assistant to the athletics director at Truman State. White is a 1996 Truman State graduate who was a student assistant in the sports information office for four years and sports director for the campus radio station ... Roscoe Pondexter named special assistant to the AD at Fresno State. Pondexter played basketball at Long Beach State and for 10 seasons professionally in Europe. He has been a correctional officer for the past 12 years. COMMUNITY RELATIONS MANAGER--Denver appointed Delene Cormier manager of community relations. She has been events coordinator for Ralph Lauren in Denver. She will develop and implement a community outreach program. COMPLIANCE DIRECTOR--Stacey Brinkley hired at Ohio. She was assistant dean in the undergraduate admissions office at Shippensburg for the past three years ... Syracuse named Robert Edson acting director of compliance ... Montana appointed Robert Mathner, a former Florida State staff member, to the newly created position of compliance coordinator. COMPLIANCE OFFICER--Kim Callicoatte, head women's basketball coach at Texas Lutheran, has been appointed compliance officer at the school. EXTERNAL ACTIVITIES COORDINATOR--West Texas A&M announced the resignation of Keith Brown, coordinator of external activities. He has taken a job as a provider-relations representative with a managed care company. Brown has handled fund-raising and marketing efforts at Texas A&M since being hired in 1994. MEDIA RELATIONS DIRECTOR--Tom McClellan, a four-year member of the Georgia Southern athletics media relations division before moving to Stetson as sports information director in 1992, returned to Georgia Southern as director of media relations. MEDIA SERVICES ASSISTANTS--Chris Hughes promoted to assistant director of media services and Cortney Grant hired as media services intern for 1996-97 at Northwestern. Hughes, a 1995 graduate of Northwestern, was media services intern during the 1995-96 academic year. He replaces Mark Simpson, who left to become the director of communications at the Mid-Continent Conference. Grant graduated in May after four years in the sports information office at Ithaca and summer internships at Pennsylvania and Penn State. PUBLICATIONS COORDINATOR--Kevin Kaufman appointed to the new position of publications coordinator for athletics at Pennsylvania. Kaufman was sports information assistant at Lafayette. SPORTS INFORMATION DIRECTORS--Aaron Griess named at Chaminade, where he also will be assistant men's basketball coach. For the past three years, Griess was an assistant coach at Loras. He succeeds Dan Marcus, who was promoted to assistant AD and associate head basketball coach ... Clark Haptonstall, sports information director at Citadel for the past two years, named SID at Marshall. Haptonstall is a Marshall graduate and spent one year as assistant SID at Furman ... Eastern Mennonite named David Graybill as SID. He has been director of corporate and foundation relations at the school since last fall and will continue in that position while handling sports information duties on a half-time basis. Graybill succeeds Matt Munson, who served as interim SID while coaching track and field. He will continue as coach. SPORTS INFORMATION ASSISTANTS--Erick Smith selected as Emory's sports information intern. He has worked during the past year with the NBA's Washington Bullets and in press operations with the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games ... Amy Symons, a media relations intern for the last three years at Minnesota, Florida and Pittsburgh, named assistant to the SID at Akron ... Sean Paradis selected as sports information graduate assistant at Mount St. Mary's (Maryland) ... Cincinnati announced the resignation of Julie Swift, assistant SID for the past two years, to enter private business. Also, Dan McCormick was selected as a sports information intern at Cincinnati. He was assistant SID at Rollins last year and worked on the volleyball publicity operations staff at the Atlanta Olympics. David Johnson, an assistant in the sports information office at Northern Iowa for the past year, named sports information coordinator at Millikin ... Kansas State appointed Jennifer Keller, a 1995 Kansas State graduate, as assistant sports information director/administrative assistant, and named Jennifer Thole and Dan Wallenberg assistant sports information directors. Thole was publications coordinator at Kansas and Wallenberg was associate sports information director at Western Kentucky ... Shamus McKnight hired as assistant sports information director at Central Connecticut State, replacing Chris Shea, who accepted a full-time position with InSports Bay State ... Quinnipiac selected Stephen Kirck as assistant sports information director. He was director of media information for the Continental Basketball Association's Connecticut Pride the past year and has been public relations director for the United States Basketball League ... Mike Cihon named assistant SID at Bowling Green after two years as assistant director of communications for the Mid-American Conference. Amy Eberhard hired as assistant SID at San Jose State. Eberhard worked in the Minnesota women's athletics sports information office during the past year ... Randi Desiderio named sports information intern at Colgate ... Jill Skotarczak selected as sports information graduate assistant at Iona ... Brown announced the resignation of Dawn Wright, assistant sports information director, to become assistant women's ice hockey coach at the school ... Michael Henesey appointed graduate assistant sports information director at Niagara. STRENGTH AND CONDITIONING COACH--Mark McAllister hired as strength and conditioning coach at Indiana State. TICKET MANAGER--Loren Flynn promoted from assistant director of athletics services to ticket and venue manager at Montana. ATHLETIC TRAINERS--Scott Peterson hired at Le Moyne ... Claire Riesselmann named head athletic trainer at Hamline. She was head trainer at Carleton from 1987 to 1993 and recently received a master's degree in kinesiology from Minnesota. ASSISTANT ATHLETIC TRAINERS--Erika Cohick named assistant athletic trainer at Susquehanna. Cohick was a student trainer at Bloomsburg before her graduation in May ... Ed Aldridge hired as assistant athletic trainer at Swarthmore ... Kerri Farrell and Joseph Spelta appointed graduate assistant athletic trainers at Lynchburg ... Jill Walker and Kristen Couper named at Washington and Lee. Walker was a volunteer student trainer at Maine as an undergraduate. Couper is a graduate student at Virginia ... Chris Rose hired as an assistant to the head athletic trainer at Guilford, his alma mater. He was a graduate assistant at North Carolina State ... Sandy Perkins, a 1995 Brigham Young graduate, selected as assistant athletic trainer at Goucher. Perkins worked with the Brigham Young football team in 1995-96 and other teams before that. She replaces Dawn Zambory, who accepted a similar position at Sacred Heart ... Southern Indiana appointed Susan Welch as assistant athletic trainer and physical education instructor. Welch was facility manager and trainer at Cardinal Stritch. She succeeds Lisa Grade, who took a high-school position in Houston ... Chris Fry promoted from assistant to associate athletic trainer at Montana ... Southern Maine hired Patrick Huber as assistant athletic trainer ... Naoto Goto appointed assistant athletic trainer at Niagara. CONFERENCES The Sunshine State Conference appointed Jim Polingas as chair of the conference tennis committee for the 1996-97 academic year. Mike Cihon, assistant director of communications for the Mid-American Conference the past two years, named assistant sports information director at Bowling Green. Noreen Morris appointed director of legislative services at Conference USA. Morris was compliance coordinator and program administrator at Connecticut from 1992 to 1996. The Mid-Continent Conference named Mark Simpson, assistant director of media services at Northwestern for the past two years, as director of media relations; Tammy De Groff, a member of the Wisconsin-Eau Claire sports information staff for two years, as media relations assistant; and Dustin Bozwell, a marketing and promotions intern last year at Drake, as basketball tournament assistant. The Midwestern Collegiate Conference elected officers to two-year terms beginning with the 1996-97 academic year: Maureen Fay, president of Detroit, will chair the board of directors and serve as conference president; Brad Kinsman, athletics director at Detroit, will chair the executive council; Charles Hartmann, faculty athletics representative at Wright State, will chair the Faculty Athletics Representative Committee; and Peg Wynkoop, associate athletics director and senior woman administrator at Wright State, is the Executive Council's second delegate. Karen L'Ecuyer selected by the Trans America Athletic Conference as an intern for the 1996-97 year. L'Ecuyer, a student at Macon, will assist the director of information. The Big Sky Conference named Phil Simon assistant information director. Simon was a public relations assistant with the West Coast Conference and a sports information assistant at his alma mater, San Jose State. Also, Heather Kennedy was hired as a staff assistant after serving as sports information assistant for four years at Doane College. PAC-10 Properties, the newly formed joint marketing venture of the Pacific-10 Conference and its television partner, Liberty/Fox Sports, has named Eric Magnuson as executive director. Magnuson most recently was vice-president/account supervisor with Millsport L.L.C. The North Coast Conference named Candis Parry supervisor of field hockey and women's lacrosse officials. ASSOCIATIONS Nick Balich, a member of the Fiesta Bowl board of directors for six years, will serve as Fiesta Bowl president for the 1996-97 year, succeeding Purd Thomas. Balich will act as chief spokesman for the bowl and oversee operations for the game, including the 2,500 volunteers who help stage the bowl events. The United States Women's Lacrosse Association appointed Dorothy McKnight as its first executive director. The USWLA is opening a new national office and expanding its services in response to growth of the sport. McKnight has been interim executive director of the National Association for Girls and Women in Sports; executive director of ESI, Inc.; and president of Athletic and Sports Consultants. The Women's Basketball Coaches Association announced the restructuring of its national office staff, adding a chief executive officer position. Betty Jaynes, executive director since the WBCA's inception 15 years ago, was named CEO. Jaynes will serve as the WBCA's chief liaison to affiliated governing bodies and sport organizations, oversee the WBCA's legislative role with the NCAA, and handle additional external affairs. A new executive director, who has not been hired, will be responsible primarily for managing the daily operations of the national office and the organization. NCAA NATIONAL OFFICE The education resources staff headed by Janet Justus has been renamed the education outreach staff. Donna Hockersmith resigned as sports sciences program coordinator. She has been a member of the national office staff since 1986.
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The position for which Alison DiTomaso was hired was listed incorrectly in the EVENTS Juniata will host the inaugural Molten Division III Men's Invitational Volleyball Championship April 4-5, 1997. USA Volleyball and the American Volleyball Coaches Association recently announced the formation of the championship for teams participating in Division III men's volleyball.
NOTABLESRochelle Komula, a 5-11 middle blocker for Georgia Tech, named Division I national player of the week by the American Volleyball Coaches Association after leading the Yellow Jackets to three wins and the Kentucky Classic championship. For the week, Komula hit .463 with 69 kills, 25 digs, 22 blocks and four service aces. Cami Selbitschka was named Division II player of the week after guiding St. Cloud State to a 3-1 record at the Northern Michigan/Asics Invitational. Selbitschka totaled 73 kills, 52 digs, nine blocks and a .365 hitting percentage for the week. Syracuse honored 30-year sports information director Larry Kimball by establishing the Lawrence A. Kimball Sports Information Director Endowment Fund. Kimball, a 1994 College Sports Information Directors of America hall of fame inductee, was assistant director of public relations at Vermont before joining the Syracuse staff in 1966. He has been media coordinator for five NCAA regional basketball tournaments and two NCAA lacrosse championships, and has served as codirector of the National Intercollegiate Rowing Association Championships for the past 30 years. Winners of the AT&T Long Distance Awards for college football games played on the weekend of August 31 are: longest run from scrimmage, 96 yards, Ty King, Miami (Ohio) vs. Kent; longest pass play, 88 yards, Tony Graziani to Pat Johnson, Oregon at Fresno State; longest punt average (minimum two punts), 56.8 yards on six punts, Joe Furlow, San Jose State at Air Force; longest punt return, 67 yards, Magic Benton, Miami (Florida) at Memphis; longest kickoff return, 91 yards, Alvin Swoope, West Virginia at Pittsburgh; and longest field goal, 53 yards (tie), Tony Rogers, Texas Tech at Kansas State, and Jaret Greaser, Texas Tech at Kansas State. AT&T provides $400 weekly in each of the six categories to the NCAA Degree-Completion Scholarship Program.
DEATHSJerry Richardson, 40, Central Florida head women's basketball coach, died August 30 from injuries received in an auto accident in Orlando, Florida. Richardson had been at Central Florida through four seasons, leading his team to a conference tournament championship and its first berth in the Division I Women's Basketball Championship. Richardson joined Central Florida from the Navajo Nation Reservation in Shiprock, New Mexico, where he transformed a struggling high-school women's team into four-time state champions. Mitchell Parkinson, the first full-time women's sports information director at Southern Illinois, died August 20 in Carbondale, Illinois. He was 46. Parkinson was a member of the College Sports Information Directors of America. During his 18-year career at Southern Illinois, he expanded media coverage for women's sports and had served for the past 14 years as district coordinator for the GTE Academic All-America program. David "Kosse" Johnson died September 3 of cancer in San Antonio. He was an all-American running back at Rice as an undergraduate in 1953. -- Compiled by Sally Huggins
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Morrone, who led the Connecticut soccer program to a national championship in 1981 and into NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship play 16 times, will step down after his 28th season at Connecticut and his 39th year as a collegiate head coach.