The NCAA Record

June 30, 1997

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Western Carolina names volleyball coach

Michelle Hansen has been appointed women's volleyball coach at Western Carolina.

For the past two years, Hansen was assistant volleyball coach at Utah State with responsibility for the team's outside hitters and recruiting.

Hansen spent two years as head coach at Lake Superior State before moving to Utah State. Before that, she served as a graduate assistant at Idaho State.

Hansen played volleyball from 1986 to 1989 at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, where she capped her collegiate playing career with selection to the Division I all-America team. She still holds nine Cal Poly San Luis Obispo records and twice was named the school's female athlete of the year.

In addition to her collegiate career, Hansen has extensive national and international experience. She toured Canada with the Women's National Olympic Team and played professionally in Switzerland. In 1996, she competed for the National Volleyball Association regular-season champion Utah Predators.

GENERAL

CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICERS

Michael F. Adams, president at Centre, selected as president at Georgia effective September 1. Adams is a former member of the NCAA Presidents Commission ... Daniel Bernstine, professor of law and dean of the law school at Wisconsin, named president at Portland State ... MacMurray appointed Lawrence Bryan as president. Bryan formerly was president and professor of religion at Kalamazoo ... William Conroy, executive vice-president at New Mexico State, appointed president ... Thomas Leamer selected as president at Delaware Valley. Leamer has been executive vice-president at State University of New York College of Agriculture and Technology at Morrisville ... David Henson, vice-president for student services at Purdue, named president at Lincoln (Missouri) ... Dolores Cross, president at Chicago State, named president of the GE Fund effective October 1.

DIRECTORS OF ATHLETICS

Alfonso Scandrett Jr. named athletics director at Buffalo State. Scandrett was associate AD for student services at Texas Tech until recently being appointed coordinator of community youth relations there ... Bill McGillis, interim AD at Houston, selected as general manager of the American Basketball League's Long Beach StingRays. McGillis has served as interim AD since April 1 ... Michael Simpson appointed interim AD at San Francisco State. Simpson has been head baseball coach at the school for the past 12 years ... Scranton hired Francis "Toby" Lovecchio to succeed Gary Wodder, who retired after 24 years. Lovecchio has been assistant AD and head women's soccer coach at Bucknell ... Jo Buysse, AD at Hamline, resigned to become director of sports studies at Minnesota. Buysee, who also has been head women's basketball coach at Hamline, spent the past seven years at Hamline ... Steve Miller appointed AD at Cornell College.

ASSOCIATE DIRECTORS OF ATHLETICS

Leslie Danehy named associate athletics director and senior woman administrator at Cabrini. Danehy joins Cabrini from Western Connecticut State, where she has been assistant AD and head women's soccer coach since 1993 ... Dan Yourg, assistant AD at San Diego, promoted to associate AD. Yourg has been a member of the San Diego staff since 1985 ... Steve Uryasz named associate AD for student services at Texas Tech. Uryasz has served as assistant AD for academic and student affairs at Oklahoma State.

ASSISTANT DIRECTORS OF ATHLETICS

Wendy Guthrie promoted from acting assistant athletics director at San Diego to assistant AD/senior woman administrator ... Dave Cox appointed assistant AD for game-day management at Kansas State.

COACHES

Baseball--Bobby Humphreys hired as head coach at Hampden-Sydney, succeeding Phil Culicerto, who will devote his time to his responsibilities as head football coach. Humphreys, a standout baseball player for Hampden-Sydney before pitching in the major leagues from 1962 to 1971, currently is coordinator of instruction for the Milwaukee Brewers ... Brad Durby named head coach at Columbia Union. Durby was an assistant coach at the school. He replaces Rick Herlinger, who resigned to become full-time sports information director ... Steve Coleman hired at Hardin-Simmons.

Baseball assistants--Paul Pearl named associate head coach at Holy Cross ... Dan Canevari appointed assistant coach at LSU ... Daniel Tomlin and Jeramie Moore hired as assistant coaches at McNeese State.

Men's basketball--Gerry Freitas, assistant coach at Notre Dame (California) for the past four years, promoted to head coach. He succeeds Rodney Tention, who became an assistant at Arizona ... Dick Peth, head coach at Denver for the past 12 years, named head coach at Wartburg. Peth is the most victorious coach in Denver history, compiling a 221-123 record ... Dave Paulsen appointed at Le Moyne.

Men's basketball assistants--Long Beach State assistant coach Clyde Vaughan appointed director of recruiting for men's basketball at the school. Vaughan has been an assistant at Long Beach State for the past five years ... Larry Farmer, Jerry DeGregorio and Tom Penders Jr. hired at Rhode Island. Farmer is a former head coach at UCLA and Weber State and currently is coach of the Kuwait national team. DeGregorio has been a head coach and athletics director at the high-school level. Penders is completing graduate work at Texas ... Jim Meil, a longtime assistant coach at Towson State, named executive director of the Tiger Club, an affiliate organization of the Towson State foundation ... Glen Korobov appointed men's basketball administrative assistant at Butler ... Mike Jones named assistant coach at Furman ... Kentucky named George Felton, Shawn Finney and Mike Sutton as assistant coaches ... Carlin Hartman hired at McNeese State ... Brian Brunson hired at Southern Methodist.

Women's basketball--Jo Buysse, head coach at Hamline, resigned to become director of sports studies at Minnesota. Buysse, who also was athletics director, has been at Hamline for the past seven years ... Sue Semrau hired at Florida State. She has been top assistant and recruiting coordintor at Wisconsin for the past three seasons ... Janine Hoffman, assistant coach at Texas-San Antonio for the past three years, named head coach at Millsaps ... Ron Stewart, former assistant men's basketball coach at Florida and Kansas State, appointed head coach at Western Michigan ... Susan Johnson hired as head coach at New Hampshire. Johnson has been the top assistant coach at Boston College for the past two years ... Carol Alfano, head coach at Virginia Tech for the past 19 seasons, named assistant coach at California. Alfano replaces Marie Christian, who resigned to return to the high-school coaching ranks ... Suzanne Fox hired at Southwest Texas State ... Missouri-St. Louis hired Shelly Ethridge ... Nebraska appointed Western Kentucky coach Paul Sanderford. He coached his teams to a 365-120 record and three Women's Final Four appearances during 15 years at Western Kentucky.

Women's basketball assistants--Dawn Bryant Crim promoted to first assistant at Wisconsin and Kate Peterson appointed second assistant coach. Crim joined the Wisconsin staff last year. Peterson was an assistant coach and chief recruiter at Eastern Illinois during the past four years ... Jason Conner hired as an assistant coach at Houston. Conner was head coach at Belhaven for the last four seasons ... John Ardizone selected as an assistant at Canisius, succeeding Suzanne Row, who resigned after four years to accept a teaching position in North Carolina ... Texas-San Antonio hired Matt Rohrer and Kenda Chisum. Rohrer has been head coach at Collin County (Texas) Community College since 1993 and Chisum is a 1997 graduate of West Texas A&M, where she lettered for four seasons on the women's basketball team ... Gaye Chapman appointed assistant head coach at American. Chapman spent the past four seasons as assistant coach at Long Island-Southampton.

Fred Applin named to the Wake Forest staff. Applin was head coach at Hampton from 1995 to 1997 ... Duquesne selected Kelly Fitzpatrick as an assistant coach. She was head coach of the Long Island Silver Bullets girls' AAU team this past season ... Stephanie McCormick hired at North Carolina-Wilmington ... Donna Wise selected at Lock Haven ... Purdue named Seth Kushkin as assistant coach ... Dan Rolfes appointed at Saint Louis.

Men's and women's cross country--Mike Worrell, who coached the women's soccer team at Illinois College last fall, named men's and women's cross country coach at the school. Worrell will continue to serve as head coach of the men's basketball team ... 1997 Shenandoah graduate Brendan Chamberlain named head cross country and assistant men's lacrosse coach at his alma mater. He will have additional duties as assistant sports information director ... Marv Frye retired as head men's track and cross country coach at Ohio Wesleyan. Frye has been head coach since 1960, making his coaching tenure the second-longest in school history.

Football--Brendan Flaherty, head coach at St. Joseph's (Indiana), hired as defensive line coach at Kent. Flaherty served as head coach last season after working as defensive coordinator the previous year.

Football assistants--Rod Boykin named defensive backs coach at Wittenberg. Boykin has been a graduate assistant coach at Illinois for the past two seasons ... Darin Ward named restricted-earnings coach at Rhode Island, working with offensive linemen and film analysis ... Montana named Corey Batoon, Craig Dickenson, Carl Franks and Lance Robinson as restricted-earnings coaches ... Bob Gould hired as offensive assistant at Westminster (Missouri). He was a high-school coach for the past six years ... Dan Enos, offensive coordinator at Northern Michigan, selected as quarterbacks and receivers coach at Southern Illinois ... Erv Chambliss selected as defensive coordinator and Mark Kreydt as offensive coordinator at Columbia ... Kansas State appointed Brendan Flaherty defensive line coach and Billy Gonzales running backs coach ... Greg Olejack hired as offensive line coach at Hawaii ... R. E. Hager named at Temple.

Men's and women's golf--Rob Kulton appointed golf coach at Shenandoah, succeeding Dave Arehart, who resigned to concentrate on his duties as assistant professional at Winchester Country Club. Kulton has coached the Shenandoah men's soccer team for several years.

Women's gymnastics--Southeast Missouri State announced the resignation of Bill Hopkins.

Men's ice hockey--Paul Pearl hired as head coach at Holy Cross ... Rensselaer extended the contract of Dan Fridgen through June 30, 2000.

Men's lacrosse assistants--Frank Vitolo appointed associate head coach at Pace ... Shenandoah named 1997 graduate Brenda Chamberlain as assistant men's lacrosse coach and head cross country coach ... Paul Perdue hired at St. Joseph's (Pennsylvania).

Women's lacrosse--Sarah Nelson named at Vermont ... Scott Musa hired as head coach at Shenandoah. Musa coached the team to a 9-2 record this past season as interim coach.

Women's rowing--Christine Wilson, who rowed and coached two crews at Yale, will return to the school as head coach of women's varsity crew. Wilson has been an assistant heavyweight men's crew coach at Cornell for the past two years. She succeeds Wendy Davis, who resigned.

Men's and women's soccer--Jeff Hamilton named head women's coach at Illinois College, replacing Mike Worrell, who became head men's and women's cross country coach at the school ... Lenny Paoletti appointed head women's coach at Shenandoah, where he also will be head men's and women's tennis coach. Paoletti was head women's club soccer coach at Western Carolina ... Bob Culbreath hired as men's and women's coach at Southwest Baptist. Culbreath has been women's soccer coach at College of the Southwest since May 1994 ... Shelley Smith named head women's coach at Rhode Island, succeeding Karen Parker ... David Kreger selected as men's coach at Canisius, succeeding Greg Reeds, who resigned after seven years to become chair of the physical education program at the school ... Tom Foley, head men's coach at Massachusetts-Lowell, resigned to become assistant men's coach at James Madison ... Centenary (New Jersey) announced the resignation of Tony Faticoni, head men's coach.

Women's soccer assistant--Ryan Barke, a 1997 Illinois College graduate, named assistant coach for women's soccer and softball at his alma mater. He will continue to serve as assistant coach of the women's basketball team.

Women's softball--Lisa Bocash appointed head coach at Franklin Pierce, where she also will be assistant athletic trainer. Bocash has been head softball coach at Southern Vermont since February 1995.

Women's softball assistant--Ryan Barke, a 1997 Illinois College graduate, hired as assistant coach at his alma mater.

Women's swimming and diving assistant--Heather Johnston appointed full-time assistant coach at Oregon State. Johnston will begin her third year with the women's swimming program this fall but her first as a full-time assistant.

Men's and women's tennis--Lenny Paoletti named head men's and women's coach at Shenandoah. He also will be head women's soccer coach ... Karen Page appointed head women's coach at Hope, succeeding Kathy Van Tubbergen, who retired after the 1997 season. Van Tubbergen guided Hope to a 124-72 dual match record in 10 seaons. Page serves as director of the college's DeWitt Tennis Center ... Duke named Jay Lapidus director of tennis and Jamie Ashworth head women's coach ... Michael Dowd appointed women's coach at Pennsylvania ... Southern Mississippi promoted Chris Hayden from assistant to head women's tennis coach.

Men's track and field--Marv Frye retired as head men's track and cross country coach at Ohio Wesleyan. Frye has been head coach since 1960, making his coaching tenure the second-longest in school history.

Men's and women's volleyball--Texas Wesleyan appointed Rick Johansen as head volleyball coach .. Dinu Dan named head women's coach at Pace. Dan was men's volleyball coach at Hunter during the past year ... Stephanie Conner hired as head coach at Roanoke, replacing Dennis Mundy, who resigned after an 8-23 campaign in 1996. Conner has coached at the high-school and college level.

Women's volleyball assistants--Jennifer Torns named assistant coach at San Diego. Torns received a master's degree in sports administration from North Carolina this year ... Joana Ramsey hired as assistant coach at Illinois College.

Wrestling--Central (Iowa) appointed Matt Diehl head coach ... Mark Manning hired at Northern Iowa.

STAFF

Academic support coordinator--Jennifer Dullea named coordinator of academic support services at San Francisco. Dullea has worked as a graduate assistant in the academic services for student-athletes department at Providence since July 1996.

Athletics administrative assistant--Shannon Jennison appointed administrative assistant for varsity basketball and football at Merchant Marine. She will have additional duties in the office of athletics development and marketing, where she has served during the past year as an intern.

Communications director--Matt Winkler appointed director of athletics communications at American. Winkler has spent the past four years in the American athletics department, the past two as sports information director and the first two as assistant SID.

Development director--Kevin McGiniss named director of athletics development at Merchant Marine. McGinniss has been athletics director and men's basketball coach at Lehman.

Marketing and promotions director--Bart LaRocca, marketing and promotions director as Texas-San Antonio, resigned to accept a position with the Federal Bureau of Investigation. LaRocca joined the Texas-San Antonio staff last summer.

Sports information director--Mark Bockelman, sports information director at North Carolina State, promoted to assistant to the athletics director for special projects. Joan von Thron, assistant SID, was named interim sports information director at the school ... John Leisering appointed SID at Mercyhurst. Leisering has been at Mercyhurst since 1986, serving for three years as AD and most recently as hockey sports information director and general manager of the college's FM radio station ... Missouri Western State SID Mark Johnson resigned to accept a position with Boyd Gaming Corporation in Las Vegas. Johnson had been an SID for 16 years at five colleges ... Kevin Carmody hired as SID at Hardin-Simmons.

Sports information assistant--Craig Rybczynski hired as assistant SID at Mercyhurst. He wrote for the college newspaper and did play-by-play for the ice hockey team while a student at Mercyhurst.

Sports medicine director--Boston College selected Steve Bushee as director of sports medicine/athletic trainer.

Strength and conditioning assistant--Jeff Barnard hired as assistant strength and conditioning coordinator at Wake Forest. He served as a graduate assistant coach in strength and conditioning at Illinois State.

Athletic trainer--Carrie Graham named athletic trainer at Dartmouth.

Assistant athletic trainers--Lisa Bocash hired as assistant trainer at Franklin Pierce. She also will serve as head softball coach ... Gregg Graff named assistant trainer at Oregon State, replacing Brian Sanders. Graff served as director of sports medicine at Kansas State for the past year.

CONFERENCES

Newly elected Southeastern Conference officers for 1997-98 are Joe Johnson, Tennessee, president; William Muse, Auburn, vice-president; Pat Culbertson, LSU, secretary; and Robert Khayat of Mississippi, Gene Marsh of Alabama, June Stewart of Vanderbilt and Vince Dooley of Georgia, executive committee members.

Jeff Fanter named the first full-time Eastern College Athletic Conference ice hockey commissioner. For the past year, Fanter has been assistant director of media relations and coordinator of athletics publications and media guides at Indiana.

Thomas Bonerbo appointed assistant commissioner for communications at the Mid-American Conference. Bonerbo joins the MAC after serving as director of athletics communications at Fairleigh Dickinson for the past two years.

The Atlantic 10 Conference announced the resignation of Cindy Mazda as assistant commissioner.

NOTABLES

Matt Haugen, men's cross country coach at St. Olaf, named head coach at the USA Junior National Triathlon Team camp July 1-18 at the Olympic Training Center in San Diego. Haugen will coach the top eight women and top eight men ages 16-20 at the camp and accompany them to Australia for the 1997 World Championships in November.

Mark McCormack of William and Mary and Paula Zahn of Stephens named recipients of the Rolex Achievement Awards by the College Golf Foundation. McCormack played No. 1 for the men's golf team at William and Mary before his graduation in 1951. Zahn was a four-year varsity letterwinner at Stephens before graduating in 1978.

Athletics directors of America East have named the conference's Commissioner's Cup after retiring commissioner Stuart P. Haskell Jr. The Commissioner's Cup is awarded to the conference member that accumulates the most points through standings in individual and team championship sports competitions. Haskell is in his 10th and final year as commissioner.

Jim Jorgensen, commissioner of the Northern California Athletic Conference, awarded the Amateur Football Award by the National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame Sacramento Valley Chapter. The award is presented to a person who has made a positive contribution to the advancement of amateur football through time and effort.

-- Compiled by Sally Huggins