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The NCAA News - RecordDecember 2, 1996
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Notre Dame's Holtz resigns, Davie hiredLou Holtz, winner of more games at Notre Dame than any Irish coach since Knute Rockne, has resigned, effective at the end of the 1996 season, his 11th at Notre Dame.
Notre Dame quickly filled the position, hiring the school's defensive coordinator, Bob Davie. Davie has been Notre Dame's defensive coordinator and inside linebackers coach for the last three years. In September 1995, he took over responsibility for the Irish team after Holtz underwent neck surgery and directed the team to a 41-0 win over Vanderbilt. He is a veteran of 20 seasons as a collegiate assistant coach, serving as defensive coordinator at Texas A&M for five years prior to joining the Notre Dame staff. With one game remaining in the 1996 regular season, Holtz stands 100-29-2 in 11 seasons in South Bend. His 27-year career mark is 216-94-7; only five other active coaches have won more games in their careers. Holtz has coached each of his last nine Notre Dame teams to January 1 bowl games.
GENERALCHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICERS LSU Chancellor William Davis announced his resignation. He will remain on the faculty as professor of education ... Edwin Spier Jr., president of Georgia College, announced his resignation, effective December 31. He will remain at the college as professor of environmental economic theory and policy. Ralph Hemphill, Georgia College vice-president and dean of faculties, will serve as acting president, effective January 1. COACHES Men's basketball assistants--Jesse Agel, assistant coach with the Vermont men's basketball program for the past nine years, promoted to associate head coach ... Michael Blake named assistant coach at Brandeis. Blake has been a high-school coach in Connecticut ... Chris Lambertson and Kevin Selby named assistant coaches at Western Maryland. Selby fills the paid staff position vacated by Doug Kelly, who moved out of the area after assisting for two years. Lambertson, who will be a volunteer coach, returns to his alma mater, where he was captain of the men's basketball team his senior year. Selby has been a high-school coach for the past four years. Women's basketball--Lesley's Paula O'Gilvie given additional duties as head basketball coach. She is athletics director at the school. Women's basketball assistants--Karen Caires, now in her third season as an assistant coach with the Vermont women's program, promoted to associate head coach ... Tammy Swartzlander, a 1996 graduate of Eastern Nazarene, where she played basketball for four years, hired as assistant coach at Lesley ... Terry Brant named assistant coach at Western Maryland. He replaces David Smith, who resigned after three seasons. Brant has coached at the high-school level. Men's and women's cross country--Debi Fadool, a former Albion cross country and track athlete, hired at Lesley ... Jeff Wettach hired at Luther as head men's coach, succeeding Kent Finanger, who retired at the end of the 1996 season after serving as head coach for 27 years. Wettach has been an assistant football coach at Luther for the past 12 years and head coach of the men's track program since 1987. As a student, he participated in football and track at Luther. Field hockey--Jennifer Jones-Goodrich, head coach at Kent, announced her resignation, effective immediately. Jones-Goodrich has been head coach for the past three seasons and was the assistant coach during the 1992 and 1993 seasons. Football--West Texas A&M announced the resignation of Morris Stone. Stone joined the West Texas A&M staff in 1992 as an assistant football coach and was named head coach in 1994 ... Presbyterian coach John Perry, whose teams went 29-37 in six seasons, resigned. Perry was named head coach in 1990. Before that, he was head coach at Lenoir-Rhyne for seven seasons ... Western Michigan announced that the contract of head coach Al Molde will not be renewed ... Temple has extended the contract of head coach Ron Dickerson. The extension comes five games after Dickerson resigned and then changed his mind. He has a four-year record of 5-38 ... Tulane announced that the contract of Buddy Teevens will not be renewed. In five years at Tulane, Teevens compiled an 11-44 record ... Lenoir-Rhyne announced the resignation of Charles Forbes, who will remain at the college as a faculty member. Forbes compiled a 30-31 record during six seasons at Lenoir-Rhyne and captured the South Atlantic Conference championship in 1994. Men's and women's soccer--W. Evan Nelson and Lois Kessin, both of whom have coached and played in the Cambridge, Massachusetts, area, named cohead coaches at Lesley. Kessin also was promoted to head women's softball coach. Women's softball--Lois Kessin promoted to head coach at Lesley. She was an assistant coach during the 1995-96 season. Kessin also will be cohead coach for the soccer program. Men's and women's tennis--Barbara Ruhs, who played varsity tennis at Cornell, hired at Lesley. Wrestling assistant--Brandon Totten, a two-time Division III wrestling champion for Delaware Valley, hired as assistant coach at Western Maryland. STAFF Sports information assistants--Sally Krauss named assistant sports information director at Western Kentucky, replacing Dan Wallenberg, who is now assistant SID at Kansas State. Krauss was a sports information student assistant for three years at Western Kentucky. Most recently, she was the media services assistant at the Sun Belt Conference ... Canisius appointed John Penhollow and Dana Anello White as assistant SIDs. Both previously were graduate assistants in the athletics department and they replace Michele Dubert, who was named assistant SID at Cincinnati. Athletic trainer--DeAnn Koehler, trainer for the LSU basketball program, resigned to become head women's trainer at Georgia. John Purdy, who has been on the training staff at LSU for 18 years, was named to replace her. Koehler joined the LSU staff in 1990 and worked with the football program until this year, when she moved exclusively to basketball. Purdy has worked primarily with football. CONFERENCES America East selected Chris Monasch, commissioner of the Northeast Conference, as its new commissioner, effective July 1, 1997. He succeeds retiring commissioner Stu Haskell, who became the conference's first full-time commissioner in 1988. Monasch will become commissioner-elect in February and oversee the conference headquarters' move from Orono, Maine, to Boston. He has been commissioner of the Northeast Conference since 1987. NCAA NATIONAL OFFICE Tron Faulk and Jan Gentry hired as enforcement representatives at the NCAA national office. Both are part of the 1996-97 internship program at the national office. Faulk has a law degree from North Carolina and was a volleyball student-athlete at North Carolina-Charlotte. Gentry has a law degree and a master's degree in sport management from Missouri. She was a compliance representative for two years at Missouri and a graduate assistant women's basketball coach for a year.
ETC.The state in which Mount St. Mary's College is located was listed incorrectly in the Division I men's and women's cross country district results in the November 25 issue of The NCAA News. The results should have identified Mount St. Mary's (Maryland).
NOTABLESThe U.S. Olympic Committee named 1996 U.S. Olympic women's basketball coach Tara VanDerveer of Stanford and Southern California diving coach Jeff Shaffer as its 1996 coaches of the year. VanDerveer was honored as the national coach of the year for sports in the Olympic and Pan American Games, and Shaffer earned the developmental-coach-of-the-year honor for his work with age-group diving. VanDerveer took a sabbatical from Stanford to coach the women's Olympic team. A field of 20 candidates was trimmed to eight finalists in regional voting for the Harlon Hill Trophy, which is awarded to the Division II football player of the year. The top two players from each of four regions -- the Northeast, South, Midwest and West regions -- advanced through regional voting by Division II sports information directors and now will be placed on a national ballot from which all 154 of the division's SIDs will select the award's 10th winner. Finalists are: Northeast region -- Damian Poalucci, East Stroudsburg quarterback, and Jesse Showerda, New Haven quarterback; South region -- Tregnel Thomas, Delta State running back, and Lance Funderburk, Valdosta State quarterback; Midwest region -- Randy Martin, St. Cloud State running back, and Jarrett Anderson, Truman State running back; and West region -- Mark Grieb, UC Davis quarterback, and Todd Perkins, Texas A&M-Kingsville offensive lineman. The winner will be announced December 13. Six finalists for the Bear Bryant Coach of the Year Award were announced by the Football Writers Association of America. The winner will be announced December 12. Finalists are Florida's Steve Spurrier, Ohio State's John Cooper, Arizona State's Bruce Snyder, North Carolina's Mack Brown, Army's Bob Sutton and Wyoming's Joe Tiller.
DEATHSChuck Howard, an 11-time Emmy Award winner during his 26-year career as a sports producer for ABC Sports, died November 21 after a long battle with cancer. Phil Hankinson, the Boston Celtics' No. 2 draft pick out of Pennsylvania in 1973, was found dead in his car in Kentucky November 19. Hankinson was a reserve forward for the Celtics in 1973-74 before suffering a career-ending knee injury. Thomas Morgan, head baseball coach at Lehigh, died October 1. Morgan headed the Lehigh program in 1994 and 1995, his first coaching job at the Division I level, until becoming ill. He was captain of the baseball team in 1958 while a student-athlete at Lafayette and later was named to the Lafayette Sports Hall of Fame. Morgan had been involved with baseball in some form since his college days, including Little League, community college and community teams. --Compiled by Sally Huggins
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