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April 7, 1997

DeFilippo, Slive to fill I Management Council vacancies

Two athletics administrators have been selected to fill vacancies on the NCAA Division I Management Council.

Gene DeFilippo, athletics director at Villanova University, will represent the Big East Conference, replacing Laurence C. Keating Jr., who recently resigned as athletics director at Seton Hall University.

Also, Michael L. Slive, commissioner of Conference USA, will represent his conference, taking the place of William C. Carr, who resigned as athletics director at the University of Houston.

DeFilippo was appointed athletics director at Villanova in July 1993. He had served since 1987 as associate athletics director for external affairs at the University of Kentucky. Before that, he was athletics director at the University of South Carolina at Spartanburg, director of administrative services at Vanderbilt University, and an assistant football coach at Vanderbilt, Youngstown State University and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

He is a graduate of Springfield College, where he earned three football letters and graduated cum laude. He also earned a master's degree from Tennessee.

Slive was selected as the first commissioner of Conference USA in April 1995. He previously headed the Great Midwest Conference, serving as commissioner from 1991 to 1995.

Other positions in athletics administration include director of athletics at Cornell University (1981-83), assistant executive director of the Pacific-10 Conference (1979-81) and assistant director of athletics at Cornell University (1968-69).

Slive also has extensive legal experience. He served as partner in a Hanover, New Hampshire, law firm for eight years, then served five years as judge in Hanover district court from 1972 to 1977. For two years after that, he was judicial master and clerk of Grafton County (New Hampshire) Superior Court. More recently, he was senior partner and founder of the Slive-Glazier Sports Group in Chicago and Kansas City, Missouri (1990-91).

Slive currently serves as chair of the NCAA Infractions Appeals Committee. He holds a bachelor's degree from Dartmouth. He also has a J.D. from the University of Virginia and an L.L.M. from Georgetown University.