The NCAA Record

September 1, 1997

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Hardman takes over Hawaii swim teams

Scott Hardman, assistant swimming coach at Hawaii for the past nine years, has been promoted to head men's and women's swimming coach. Hardman succeeds Daniel Arakaki, who took an administrative position within the athletics department after 10 years as head coach.

Hardman swam for the Rainbows from 1979 through 1982 and was cocaptain of the squad with Arakaki in his senior year. He was the first recipient of the Coaches Award in 1982 and also was voted most inspirational by his teammates for three consecutive seasons -- 1979, 1980 and 1981.

Hardman has worked with the Hawaii swimming program as a part-time assistant during his nine years on the coaching staff, working primarily with the sprint freestyles group. He also has served as an assistant compliance coordinator in the academics office.

Arakaki closed out his coaching career with a combined overall record of 100-126 for the men's and women's swimming teams.

GENERAL

CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICERS

David Jorns, president at Eastern Illinois, announced his retirement effective July 1, 1999 ... Scott Miller selected as president at Wesley. Miller has been president at Lincoln Memorial ... Paul Marion, president of the Pennsylvania Association of Colleges and Universities, named president at Franklin ... Deborah Stanley appointed president at Oswego State. Stanley has been serving as interim president ... Humphrey Tonkin will retire as president at Hartford June 30, 1998. He will remain on the faculty as professor of English.

FACULTY ATHLETICS

REPRESENTATIVE

Kathleen Knafl appointed faculty athletics representative at Illinois-Chicago. Knafl is a professor in the department of maternal child nursing and director of graduate studies and associate dean for research in the College of Nursing.

DIRECTORS OF ATHLETICS

Harold "Sonny" Watkins Jr. appointed athletics director at McNeese State. Watkins, who has served as interim AD since last fall, also has been associate AD, assistant AD and women's basketball coach at McNeese State ... Joe Roberson, AD at Michigan, announced he will retire as soon as a replacement can be named. Roberson has been AD since September 1993 ... Florida International selected Orville "Butch" Henry III as director of intercollegiate athletics and recreation. Henry comes to Florida International after spending the past 14 years at Arizona, most recently as associate AD ... Bruce Baumgartner appointed acting AD at Edinboro, succeeding Jody Mooradian, who resigned to become assistant AD at Northeastern. Baumgartner, who has been head wrestling coach for seven years, will relinquish his coaching duties until an AD is selected.

Gerald O'Dell, AD at Cincinnati since April 1994, resigned. Tony Perizigian, vice-provost at the university for 27 years, was named acting AD ... Scott Kilgallon named AD at Southern Vermont, where he also will be head men's and women's cross country coach ... Frank Millerick promoted to AD at Babson. He will retain his duties as head baseball coach. He has been an associate AD since 1994 ... Jerry Cole, AD at Jacksonville State for 23 years, announced his retirement at the end of the 1997-98 academic year. Cole is the only full-time AD the university has had, taking the position March 1, 1974. He was a four-year letterwinner in football at the university from 1953 to 1956, playing both offensive and defensive tackle.

ASSOCIATE DIRECTORS OF ATHLETICS

John Montgomery, major gifts director for athletics at Southern Methodist during the past year, promoted to associate athletics director for development. Before joining the Southern Methodist staff, Montgomery was associate AD for public affairs at North Carolina-Greensboro ... Michael Veley promoted to associate AD for external affairs/relations at Syracuse. Veley has been assistant AD for marketing, promotions and special events at Syracuse for the past two years ... Stan Hyman, associate AD at Albright, promoted to director of advancement for athletics at the college. Hyman will continue as head baseball coach ... Judy Blinstrub promoted to associate AD at Babson. Blinstrub, who will continue as women's soccer and women's basketball coach, has been assistant AD for the past two years.

ASSISTANT DIRECTORS OF ATHLETICS

Dave Scheppler, athletics business manager at Cincinnati for the past four years and assistant athletics director for business affairs during the past year, resigned to enter private business ... Chad Good appointed assistant AD at Northeastern Illinois. Good has been intramurals director at Wichita State for the past three years ... David Potter hired as assistant AD for compliance and academics at Texas-Pan American. Potter was athletics academic advisor at South Alabama ... Wendy Laubach appointed assistant AD for compliance, eligibility and academic support at West Chester. Laubach has been director of compliance and academic support services at William and Mary ... Vanderbilt promoted Luther McDaniel to assistant AD and business manager. McDaniel has been business manager for the past two years ... Scott McKenzie promoted to assistant director of athletics and women's softball coach at Southern Vermont. He will continue with his duties as head women's soccer coach.

SENIOR WOMAN ADMINISTRATOR

Jane Jackson given additional duties as senior woman administrator at Westminster (Missouri), succeeding Allison Jones, who became head women's volleyball coach at Washburn. Jackson has been women's softball coach for the past year.

COACHES

Baseball--Lance Marshall hired as head coach at Franklin. Marshall, who also will be assistant football coach, has been an assistant baseball coach at Illinois, Elmhurst and Rockford ... Chuck Lelas hired as head coach at Westfield State. Lelas has coached at the high-school level since 1992 and was at American International before that ... Phil Caruso selected as head coach at Frostburg State. He was an assistant coach last season ... Mike DeFosse appointed interim head coach at Guilford, succeeding Robert Fulton, who resigned after 13 years as head coach. DeFosse returns to his alma mater after a summer coaching in the Cape Cod League in Massachusetts ... Mike Aubel selected as head baseball coach and assistant football coach at Blackburn ... Ross Eberhart hired as head coach at Worcester Polytechnic. Eberhart, who has been an assistant football coach at the school for the past four years, served as interim head baseball coach last season.

Baseball assistants--Buddy Holder, former Georgia Southern catcher and coach, rejoined the Eagle staff as an assistant coach, succeeding Garth Spendiff, who resigned. Holder was an Eagle graduate assistant coach from 1994 through 1996 ... Heath Stover hired at Lock Haven, where he was a student assistant last season before graduating ... Matt Liscum and John Risley named assistant coaches at Eastern Connecticut State ... Bryan Cross hired at Centre, where he also will be assistant football coach. He previously coached at Campbellsville ... Brad Crills named assistant baseball coach and pitching coach at Albright. Crills was an assistant baseball coach for the past two seasons at East Stroudsburg ... Jeff Edwards hired as top assistant coach at Liberty. Edwards has coached at the high-school level ... Joe McDonald named graduate assistant at Wichita State.

Men's basketball--Bob Ronai appointed head coach at Frostburg State. He was head coach at Urbana for the past 11 seasons ... Richard Roche named head coach at Hobart, where he was a four-year member of the basketball team. Roche has coached at the high-school level for the past six years and assisted at Villanova ... Richard Hurley promoted to head coach at Southern Vermont, succeeding Brian Fruscio, who was head coach for five years. Hurley has been an assistant coach at Southern Vermont for the past two years ... Herb Sendek given a new contract as head coach at North Carolina State. Sendek guided the Wolfpack to a 17-15 record in his first season.

Men's basketball assistants--Mike Rice named full-time assistant coach and Kandia Milton hired as restricted-earnings coach at Niagara. Rice has been an assistant at Marquette for the past three years ... Bethune-Cookman appointed Clifford Reed and Rick Walrond as assistant coaches. Walrond has been an assistant at Stetson and Reed has coached at the high-school level ... Chad Forcier selected as assistant coach at Oregon State. Forcier has been a special assistant for the Seattle SuperSonics for the past five years ... Kevin Ryan hired at North Florida. He was an assistant coach at Long Island-Southampton from 1995 to 1997 ... Hosea Lewis appointed assistant coach at Western Kentucky. He has been an assistant at Santa Monica College ... Gene McAteer hired as assistant coach at Albright. McAteer was assistant men's basketball coach and head junior varsity coach at Catholic for the past five years ... James Whitford, restricted-earnings coach at Miami (Ohio) last season, promoted to full-time assistant coach. Don Moormeier named as Whitford's replacement as restricted-earnings coach ... Jamie Knight named assistant coach at Southern Vermont, where he was a member of the basketball team as an undergraduate.

Women's basketball--Randy Milligan appointed head coach at Tusculum, succeeding Merry Beth Curtis, who resigned after two years. Milligan was associate director of personal development in health and physical fitness at Alabama-Huntsville ... Cheryl Cole selected as head coach at Plattsburgh State. She has been head coach at Paul Smith's College since 1994 ... Kathy Fedorjaka, head coach at Bloomsburg for the past three years, returned to Bucknell as head coach. Fedorjaka was assistant coach at Bucknell from 1990 through 1993 ... Sue Roarke hired as head coach at Russell Sage. She is a 1997 graduate of Miami (Ohio) with a master's degree in sports organization ... Linda Olson, head coach at Aurora during the 1996-97 season, named head coach at North Central.

Women's basketball assistants--Wendie Austin hired as assistant women's basketball coach and assistant director of intramurals at Centre ... Jim Wiedie appointed assistant coach at Indiana State, replacing Dana Eikenberg, who became an assistant coach at Iowa. Wiedie was an assistant coach at Northern Kentucky for the past five seasons ... Melissa Hodgdon hired as a full-time assistant at Niagara. Hodgdon was an assistant coach for the past three seasons at New Hampshire ... Jill Jameson appointed assistant coach at Francis Marion. Jameson was an assistant for the past four years at Virginia Tech ... Christine Lardon hired at Wagner, succeeding Ronalda Smitherman, who accepted a similar position at St. John's (New York). Lardon has coached at the high-school level ... Western Kentucky appointed Blane Embry as assistant coach, succeeding Mary Taylor Cowles, who was promoted to associate head coach. Embry has coached at the high-school level ... Darren Haas selected as an assistant at Saint Joseph's (Indiana). He succeeds Leslie Pottinger, who became an assistant at Florida State. Haas was a student assistant at Saint Joseph's for the past two seasons ... Stacey Jones hired as assistant coach at Virginia Union, where she also will be head women's volleyball coach and compliance coordinator ... Ann Donnelly appointed assistant coach at Keene State. She was an assistant basketball and soccer coach at Daniel Webster last year.

Men's and women's cross country--Jim Hopkins named head men's and women's cross country coach at George Washington, succeeding Greg Coan, who resigned to pursue other interests. Hopkins was head men's and women's cross country and track and field coach at St. Francis (New York) for the past seven years ... Scott Kilgallon hired as men's and women's cross country coach at Southern Vermont. Kilgallon also will be athletics director ... St. Benedict announced the appointment of Robin Balder-Lanoue as interim head coach, succeeding Ellen Carpenter, who resigned to become head coach at Old Dominion. Balder-Lanoue also will be assistant track and field coach ... Andrew Roberts named interim head men's and women's cross country and track and field coach at Syracuse, succeeding Dick Coleman, who became AD at State University of New York College of Technology at Delhi. Roberts has been an assistant coach at Syracuse for the past 13 years ... Debbie Utesch hired as head coach at Lehigh. She has been associate head cross country coach and assistant track coach at Millersville since 1994 ... Deborah Rutkowski-Zeia selected as head women's cross country and track and field coach at DePaul. She has been coaching at the high-school level.

Men's and women's cross country assistants--Tim O'Donnell hired as assistant coach at Eastern Connecticut State ... Scott Eide named assistant cross country coach at St. Benedict. Eide, who also will be head track coach at the college, was interim head cross country coach last fall and is the strength and weight coach ... Colette Dryden appointed graduate assistant for cross country and track and field at Wichita State ... Lisa Mowers Underwood hired as assistant women's cross country and track coach at Western Michigan ... Roy Harrison appointed assistant coach for men's and women's cross country at Quinnipiac.

Field hockey--Alison Hoff named head coach at Frostburg State. Hoff, who also will be assistant women's lacrosse coach, was an assistant field hockey coach last season ... Pam Dominic hired as head coach at Eastern Connecticut State ... Anne Livezey named interim head coach for field hockey and women's lacrosse at Haverford. Livezey has been an assistant coach at the college since January 1996 ... Missy Moran given dual duties as head field hockey and women's lacrosse coach at Indiana (Pennsylvania). Moran, who replaces Kofie Montgomery as head field hockey coach, coached field hockey and lacrosse at Virginia Wesleyan last year ... Former Ohio Wesleyan field hockey standout Meg Sheehan will take over as the program's head coach, succeeding her collegiate coach, Linda Strapp, who compiled a 77-30-7 record in six seasons. Strapp will concentrate on teaching and her responsibilities as head women's lacrosse coach. Sheehan made her coaching debut at Earlham last year ... Massachusetts-Lowell selected Tiffany Willis as head coach, succeeding Katrina King, who resigned after two seasons to become assistant field hockey coach at Millersville ... Ritika Bowry appointed interim head coach at Babson. Bowry was an assistant coach at Northeastern last fall.

Field hockey assistants--Daisy Boyd named assistant coach at Centre. Boyd is a 1997 Centre graduate and was a member of the basketball team ... Kelly LaVerdure hired as assistant coach at Albright. LaVerdure was a four-year letterwinner in field hockey at East Stroudsburg before graduating this year ... Heather Cabral, former Westfield State field hockey standout, appointed assistant coach at her alma mater ... Cheryl Irvine selected as assistant coach for field hockey and women's lacrosse at Haverford ... Carri Hogg appointed assistant coach at Lock Haven. She was a graduate assistant with the field hockey and lacrosse teams last year at East Stroudsburg ... Amy Umbach, associate head field hockey coach and head women's lacrosse coach at American last year, named head women's lacrosse coach at George Mason ... Cornell selected Jeremy Cook as assistant field hockey coach. Cook was a member of the U.S. National Team.

Football--LSU's Gerry DiNardo given a five-year contract extension with a perpetual annual rollover provision. DiNardo, who became head coach in December 1994, has a 17-6 record.

Football assistants--Lance Marshall appointed assistant coach at Franklin, where he also will be head baseball coach ... Mike Aubel and Jim Chinn named assistant coaches at Blackburn ... Bryan Cross hired at Centre ... Albright hired six assistant coaches: Geoff Collins as defensive coordinator and linebackers coach; John Heim and Sean Padden as defensive line coaches; Ed Baker and Ryan Ditze, tight ends; and Paul Bachia, special teams and running backs ... West Chester appointed assistant coaches: Meade Clendaniel as special-teams coordinator and secondary coach; Gerald Toney as secondary coach; Jim Smink as offensive line coach; Bob Trombino as volunteer student administrative assistant; and Mathew Ficca as football certified athletic trainer. Also, Ken Sharrar was promoted from part-time to full-time defensive line coach and assistants Michael Matta and Tom Nichols resigned to accept high-school coaching positions.

John McGregor hired as running backs coach at Washington and Lee, succeeding Dick Cerone, who resigned after six years to become offensive line coach and head baseball coach at Wabash. Also, Allan Gerber was named to coach quarterbacks and wide receivers, succeeding Tommy Laurendine, who became offensive coordinator at West Alabama ... Paul Williams hired as secondary coach at Pennsylvania after serving as graduate assistant at Western Michigan ... Joe Pizzo named quarterbacks coach and passing-game coordinator at Gardner-Webb ... Scott Underwood appointed linebackers coach at North Dakota. He was defensive coordinator at Sioux Falls ... Ross Becker, Dominique Jacques and Dave Sokolnicki hired at Nichols. Becker will work with the defensive line; Jacques will be special-teams coordinator and coach the defensive line and linebackers; and Sokolnicki returns to Nichols as graduate assistant for football and basketball ... Brian Hagens appointed equipment coordinator for football at Western Michigan ... Warren Hull named offensive coordinator at Wisconsin-Stevens Point, succeeding Fred Hebert, who became associate dean ... Wade Boxleitner, Bill Devitt and Matt Murphy named assistant coaches at Brockport State. Boxleitner will coach tight ends, Devitt the defensive line and Murphy running backs.

Men's and women's golf--John Laird appointed head coach at Georgia Southern. He has been assistant coach at Colorado since 1992 ... Mark Hankins hired as head coach at Texas-Arlington. Hankins had been head men's and women's golf coach at Iowa State since 1995 ... Mike Flanary selected as head coach at Roanoke. Flanary spent the past two years with the Ben Hogan Golf Company ... Jon Whithaus, an assistant coach for the past two seasons at Ohio Wesleyan, appointed head golf coach, succeeding Don Lockwood, who left the university to enter the ministry.

Women's gymnastics--Megan Fenton appointed head coach at UC Santa Barbara, replacing Randy Lane, who became an assistant coach at UCLA. Fenton was an assistant to Lane last year.

Women's gymnastics assistant--Tracey Wilkinson hired as an assistant coach at Penn State. She has been coaching for 10 years.

Men's ice hockey--Western Michigan extended the contract of head coach Bill Wilkinson through June 30, 2000.

Men's ice hockey assistants--Brendan Whittet, a four-year standout defenseman for the Brown hockey squad, hired as an assistant coach at his alma mater. He returns to Brown after one year as an assistant at Colby ... Lee Greseth named hockey equipment manager at North Dakota.

Men's lacrosse--Dave Pietramala appointed head coach at Cornell, succeeding Richie Moran, who resigned after 29 years. Pietramala has served as lacrosse defensive coach and recruiting coordinator at Johns Hopkins for the past three years.

Men's lacrosse assistant--John McDonough hired as assistant men's lacrosse coach at Goucher. He was an assistant at Wingate for the past two years.

Women's lacrosse--Danny Martineau appointed head women's lacrosse coach at Eastern Connecticut State ... Anne Livezey named interim head coach for field hockey and women's lacrosse at Haverford. Livezey has been an assistant coach at the college since January 1996 ... Amy Umbach hired as head coach at George Mason. She was head women's lacrosse coach and associate field hockey coach at American last year.

Women's lacrosse assistants--Cheryl Irvine selected as assistant coach for field hockey and women's lacrosse at Haverford ... Elizabeth "Lisa" Dixon hired as assistant coach at Penn State. Dixon, a 1997 graduate of William and Mary, was cocaptain in her senior year of the women's lacrosse team ... Lellie Cherry named assistant coach at Cornell. She was an assistant coach at George Mason in 1997.

Men's soccer--Liam Behrens named interim head coach at Guilford, succeeding Michael Thorn, who resigned to take a position with Adidas Soccer. Behrens has been an assistant coach for the Quakers for the past three years ... Bryan Weaver appointed head coach at Blackburn ... Dale Witmer hired as head coach at Albright. Witmer has coached at the junior high-school level and worked with soccer camps ... Keith Clark selected as head men's soccer coach at Bridgewater State (Massachusetts), succeeding Luis Reis, who became head women's soccer coach at Wheaton (Massachusetts). Reis had been at Bridgewater State for five seasons ... Allen Vital appointed head coach at Carson-Newman, replacing Stephen Jones, who resigned after seven years. Vital spent the past three years as coordinator of special student activities and soccer coach at Walters State Community College ... Steve Freeman selected as head coach at Saint Rose. He played professional soccer the past three years with the New York Capital City Alleycats.

Women's soccer--Courtney McClelland selected as head women's soccer coach at Frostburg State, where she also will be assistant women's softball coach ... Harry Kline hired as head coach at Albright. He has coached both the men's and women's soccer teams at Kutztown ... Ed Townsley promoted to head women's soccer coach at West Chester, succeeding Kendall Wilkes, who will concentrate on his duties as head men's soccer coach. Townsley has been an assistant coach for both teams ... Kris Bassler named head women's soccer coach at UC Santa Barbara, succeeding John Cossaboon, who became head coach at San Diego. Bassler was an assistant to Cossaboon during the 1996 season ... Stuart Hemsley appointed head women's soccer coach at Manhattanville. Hemsley is director of Future Stars Soccer Camp in Mamaroneck, New York ... Wisconsin-Milwaukee announced the resignation of head coach Susan Moynihan, who leaves with a 46-43-5 record after five years. Her brother, Michael Moynihan, was named interim coach after serving as assistant coach for the past four years ... Joanna Tomasino hired as head coach at Indiana (Pennsylvania). Tomasino had been an assistant coach at Brockport State since 1992 ... Melissa Eagan selected as head coach at St. Michael's. Eagan has been involved in the Vermont soccer scene at various levels ... Bob Barnes, who joined the Ohio Wesleyan staff as a volunteer assistant last season, named head women's soccer coach at the school.

Men's and women's soccer assistants--Kim Kottmeier, a soccer standout at California (Pennsylvania), selected to assist with the men's and women's soccer teams at her alma mater ... Myles Hinkel hired as part-time assistant men's soccer coach at Westminster (Missouri) ... Wendy Littlefield named assistant women's soccer coach at Southern Vermont ... Amy Hunter, former UC Santa Barbara soccer player, hired as an assistant women's soccer coach at her alma mater ... Rich Fleming and Danielle Ouellette named assistant men's and women's soccer coaches, respectively, at Massachusetts-Lowell ... Former Misericordia men's soccer standout Mark Stauffer selected as assistant men's soccer coach at his alma mater ... Thomas Bonus hired as assistant soccer coach at Hobart. He was head men's soccer coach at Keuka from 1994 through 1997 ... Quinnipiac named Sue Webb as assistant for the women's soccer program ... David Nikolic named interim assistant women's soccer coach at Wisconsin-Milwaukee, succeeding Michael Moynihan, who was named interim head coach.

Women's softball--Jim Campbell appointed head softball coach at Albright. He was an assistant coach in 1997 ... Scott McKenzie given additional duties as head women's softball coach and assistant athletics director at Southern Vermont. McKenzie will continue as women's soccer coach ... Cheryl Sprangel, head coach at Toledo, named head coach at Virginia. In 14 seasons at Toledo, Sprangel led the Rockets to three conference titles ... Pennsylvania appointed Carol Kashow as head softball coach. Kashow has been head coach at Temple since 1991 ... Lana Rutledge hired as head softball coach at Trinity (Texas). Rutledge was an assistant coach last season at Trinity.

Women's softball assistants--Ron Yenser hired as assistant coach at Albright ... Julie Liljeberg appointed assistant coach at Western Michigan ... Marie Curran named assistant coach at Northern Illinois. Curran was an assistant at Creighton for the past two seasons.

Men's and women's swimming and diving--Steve Siford selected as head women's swimming coach at Wells. Siford was diving coach at Wisconsin-Eau Claire from 1993 to 1995 ... Kiki Jacobs given additional duties as aquatics director at Washington and Lee. Jacobs will continue with her duties as head women's swimming coach ... Seth Baron, an assistant coach at South Carolina for the last three years, hired as head men's swimming coach at Georgia Tech ... Alan Boelk named head swimming and diving coach at Wisconsin-Stevens Point, replacing Red Blair, who retired. Boelk was an assistant coach last season ... Maggie Bintz promoted to head swimming coach at Drew, succeeding Patrick Mead, who resigned. Bintz was assistant coach for the past two seasons ... Andrew Pulsifer appointed head men's swimming coach at Washington and Lee ... Ken Hackett named head men's and women's swimming coach at Saint Rose.

Men's and women's swimming assistants--Matt Satterly, a member of the Centre swim team for three years before graduating last spring, hired as assistant coach at his alma mater ... Victor Wales, a former all-American in the breaststroke at UC Santa Barbara, named associate head coach for the men's and women's programs at his alma mater. He has been an assistant coach at Illinois for the past two years. Also, Toby Reclusado was hired as diving coach at the school.

Men's and women's tennis--Jeff Bloomberg named head women's tennis coach at Russell Sage. He has been coaching at the Division II level ... Tracy Tooke, head women's tennis coach at West Chester, resigned ... Grace Overstreet appointed head women's tennis coach at Roanoke. Overstreet enters the coaching profession after spending the past 18 years as a certified public accountant ... Dave Wolden selected as head coach for the Longwood men's and women's tennis programs. Wolden has been an assistant men's and women's tennis coach at Wooster since 1995 and head tennis professional at Wooster Country Club since 1996 ... Scott Phillips named head men's coach at Liberty. Phillips has been on the faculty of the school of religion for the past three years ... Peter Bradshaw hired as head women's tennis coach at Springfield. Bradshaw was assistant women's tennis coach at the college from 1994 to 1996 and head men's coach

this spring ... John Boschetti appointed head men's and women's tennis coach at Clark (Massachusetts), succeeding Deedie Steele, who resigned ... Robert Morris selected Alan Watts as head men's tennis coach. Watts has been staff tennis professional at Greensburg Racquet Club for the past five years ... Rebecca Helt hired as head women's tennis coach at Bucknell. She has coached at the high-school level ... Lottie Miller named head women's tennis coach at Saint Rose. She was most valuable player of last year's women's tennis team at Hofstra, where she was a four-year letterwinner.

Men's and women's tennis assistants--Matt Besch hired as a graduate assistant for tennis at Wichita State ... Beth Todd named assistant men's and women's tennis coach at Colgate.

Men's and women's track and field--John Wright hired as head women's track coach at Frostburg State ... Scott Eide named interim head track and field coach at St. Benedict, succeeding Ellen Carpenter, who became head cross country coach at Old Dominion. Eide also will be assistant cross country coach ... Andrew Roberts named interim head men's and women's cross country and track and field coach at Syracuse, succeeding Dick Coleman, who became athletics director at State University of New York College of Technology at Delhi. Roberts has been an assistant coach at Syracuse for the past 13 years ... Matt Utesch appointed head track and field coach at Lehigh. Utesch has been an assistant coach at Lafayette since 1994 ... Kevin Kelly, head men's and women's cross country coach at West Chester, given additional duties as head men's and women's track and field coach. Kelly, who had been serving as assistant track and field coach, succeeds Larry Larson, who resigned ... Fred Barends, an assistant men's track coach for the past four seasons at Ohio Wesleyan, will take over the men's indoor and outdoor track teams from Marv Frye, who retired after 37 years.

Men's and women's track assistants--Lisa Mowers Underwood hired as assistant women's track and cross country coach at Western Michigan ... Robert Johnson named associate head coach of track and field at Brown. Johnson has been an assistant with the program for six years.

Women's volleyball--Patrick Nicholas named head volleyball coach at Lehigh. He comes from Ohio State, where he was assistant coach for the women's team from 1995 to 1997 ... Tina Miller selected as head coach at West Chester, succeeding Melanie Kopka, who took a position at Boise State ... Dorinda von Tersch appointed head coach at Northeastern Illinois. Von Tersch was an assistant coach at Texas-Arlington last year ... Stacey Jones hired as head coach at Virginia Union, where she also will be assistant women's basketball coach and compliance coordinator ... Susan Lowe named head coach at Mississippi University for Women. Lowe was an assistant coach at Alabama-Huntsville last season after a record-setting playing career at the school ... David Sexauer hired as head coach at Franklin, succeeding Mark Britner, who guided the volleyball team for 19 years and will be concentrating on a full teaching schedule. Sexauer was an assistant with the team during spring practice ... John Cody, head coach at Holy Cross for the past eight years, resigned to become assistant coach at Massachusetts-Lowell ... Jack Lasek named head coach at Saint Rose. He was an assistant at the college for the past two years.

Women's volleyball assistants--Heather Teagarden and Mark Dantzker appointed assistant coaches at Georgia Southern. Dantzker will be a volunteer assistant coach ... Massachusetts-Lowell hired Katie Wohlfarth, a standout member of the school's volleyball squad before graduating this spring, as an assistant coach ... Michael Denardo named assistant coach at Texas-Arlington. Denardo has been a coach for 20 seasons and also is a recognized volleyball official ... Liz Herzner hired as an assistant volleyball coach and an assistant in the sports information office at Quinnipiac. Herzner was a four-year member of the volleyball team at Marist before graduating this year ... Lori Endicott Vandersnick selected as assistant coach at Pittsburg State. She has been the U.S. National Team setter for the past eight years ... Jennifer Wrightson named assistant coach at Toledo. She was an assistant last season at San Diego ... Haylee Red appointed assistant coach at San Francisco after serving as an assistant last season at South Florida.

Men's water polo--Van Hoffman hired as head coach at George Washington. He has coached with the Northern Virginia Water Polo Club since January 1996.

Women's water polo--Simone La Pay appointed at Cal State Hayward to head the first-year women's water polo program. La Pay has experience as a player, coach and swimmer.

Men's and women's water polo assistant--Brian Roth selected as assistant men's and women's water polo coach at UC Santa Barbara. Roth competed for the men's team at UC Santa Barbara in 1996.

Wrestling--Tim Flynn, assistant wrestling coach at Edinboro, named acting head coach. Flynn succeeds Bruce Baumgartner, head coach for seven years, who was named acting athletics director ... Brian Smith, an assistant at Cornell, hired as head coach at Syracuse ... Brent Newell promoted to full-time head coach at Longwood. Newell took over the program on a part-time basis in November. He also will become the school's strength and conditioning coach.

STAFF

Academic advisor--Monica Roberts hired as academic advisor and career development coordinator for the Syracuse Athletes Center for Educational Services.

Athletics relations coordinator--Lori Runksmeier named coordinator of athletics relations at St. Benedict. She has been business manager at the college.

Development director--Ralph Pim, men's basketball coach at Limestone, named director of development for athletics at the school.

Equipment manager--Scott Smith hired as equipment room manager at Eastern Connecticut State.

Facilities manager--Whitney Peter named director of the Vanderbilt Tennis Center after serving as academic counselor at the university the past year.

Marketing and promotions--Michael Gordon appointed director of athletics marketing and promotions at DePaul. Gordon has been ticket manager since May 1995.

Marketing assistant--Michael Alford, assistant marketing director at Cincinnati for the past two years, resigned to take a similar position with the Cincinnati Bengals ... Meghan Molnar named assistant to the director of marketing at Syracuse ... Suzie McAuliffe, an assistant in the Indiana sports marketing/promotions office during the past year, named assistant sports marketing director at East Carolina.

Media relations assistant--John Callan hired as assistant media relations director/publications coordinator at Santa Clara. Callan was director of media relations for the San Jose Sabercats of the Arena Football League the past three years.

Sports information director--Roy Picerill, director of sports information at Kentucky Wesleyan, promoted to assistant director of public relations at the school ... Mike Hoffman appointed SID at Indiana (Pennsylvania). Hoffman had been SID at Charleston Southern since March 1994 ... Michael Molde, SID at Kalamazoo for the past two years, named director at Wabash ... Leonard Reich appointed SID at Centenary (New Jersey) ... Ann Marie Schlottman named SID at Washington (Maryland). She was a sports information assistant at Lebanon Valley ... Grand Valley State selected Tim Nott as SID. He has been an assistant director of athletics communications and promotions at Michigan Tech since 1994 ... Judy Finney hired as SID at Marymount (Virginia).

Sports information assistants--Mary Ann Sprague named assistant sports information director at Principia ... Texas-San Antonio appointed Jared Newland as assistant SID, succeeding Jason West, who will attend medical school.

Student-athlete services director--Kenneth Peters, superintendent of Edgewood City Schools since 1994, hired as director of student-athlete services at Miami (Ohio).

Ticket manager--Marty McGinty named at Vanderbilt. McGinty was assistant ticket manager at Auburn.

Athletic trainer--Thomas Monagan appointed head athletic trainer at Blackburn ... Sandra Perkins hired as athletic trainer at Marymount (Virginia). She was assistant trainer at Goucher ... Michael Steinagel named head trainer at California (Pennsylvania) ... Illinois-Chicago selected Michael Gilmartin as head trainer. He spent the past six years at Northwestern ... Ryan Tao appointed head trainer at Northeastern Illinois. Tao was an intern in the Northwestern athletic training program.

Athletic training assistants--Angel Brown appointed assistant athletic trainer at Eastern Connecticut State ... Wade Peitersen named assistant trainer at Wisconsin-Stevens Point ... Christopher Foye, a graduate assistant trainer at Canisius last year, hired as an assistant trainer at Massachusetts-Lowell ... Steve Nordwall selected as assistant trainer at Kent, succeeding Terry Slattery, who resigned ... Jeromy Alt named assistant trainer for football at West Virginia.

CONFERENCES

Kurt Patberg, commissioner of the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference since 1991, named acting commissioner of the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference. Patberg replaces Tom Wistrcill, who became commissioner of the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference.

Bob Burke, athletics director at American International, named interim commissioner of the Northeast-10 Conference. Burke, who previously headed the Division II conference from 1989 to 1995, succeeds Paul Bogan, the conference's first full-time commissioner, who died July 29.

April Venter named media relations assistant for the Mid-Continent Conference. Previously, Venter was a public relations intern with the Chicago White Sox. The conference also announced it has moved to new offices. The new address is 340 West Butterfield Road, Suite 3-D, Elmhurst, Illinois 60126; phone 630/516-0661; fax 630/516-0673; World Wide Web site www.mid-con.com.

ASSOCIATIONS

Kathy French named associate director of informational services and Mary Staton hired as director of financial services at the American Volleyball Coaches Association.

NCAA NATIONAL OFFICE

Kirby Hocutt hired as licensing coordinator at the NCAA national office. Hocutt was assistant director of marketing and development at Kansas State ... Rose Ann Martinez, Emily Lyons and Tim Lynde selected as managers of corporate marketing. Martinez joins the NCAA staff after serving as an intern for the San Antonio Bowl Association. Lyons was promotions manager for KSMO UPN62 television station in Kansas City, Missouri. Lynde was an account executive with Advantage International Marketing in Atlanta.

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CORRECTION

A conference was listed incorrectly in a story in the August 18 issue of The NCAA News about women's enhancement program postgraduate scholarship recipients. Susan Elaine Punzo of Central Missouri State University was an all-Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association women's softball team selection at third base and also is a three-time all-MIAA academic choice.

DIRECTORY CHANGES

Active--North Adams State College: Changed name to Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts.

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