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The NCAA RecordSeptember 15, 1997
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Tom Butters, director of athletics at Duke for the past 20 years, announced he will retire by June 1998. He has been a member of the Duke athletics staff for 30 years.
A graduate of Ohio Wesleyan, Butters joined the Duke staff in 1967 as director of special events. From 1968 to 1970, he coached the Blue Devil baseball team and then became the first director of Duke's athletics fund-raising organization, the Iron Dukes. In 1972, he was promoted to assistant athletics director and then to associate AD and assistant to the chancellor in 1976. The next year, he was named to replace Carl James as AD.
Butters has served as chair of the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Committee and the College Football Association's Football Championship Study Committee.
GENERALDIRECTORS OF ATHLETICS Frank Windegger, athletics director at Texas Christian for the past 22 years, will retire May 31, 1998. Windegger, a 1957 Texas Christian graduate, rose through the school's athletics department after being hired as business manager in 1959 ... Tim Millerick named vice-president for student affairs and athletics at Austin, succeeding Bob Mason, who retired after 28 years as AD ... Diane Morea selected as AD at Chowan. She was assistant AD at Ball State for the past 10 years ... Pepperdine AD Wayne Wright will retire effective December 31, 1997, after 21 years. Wright became golf coach at Pepperdine in 1965, later serving as baseball coach before being named AD in 1976. ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF ATHLETICS Fran Reidy promoted to associate athletics director at St. Leo. Reidy has been assistant AD since 1993 and is in his 10th year as head soccer coach. ASSISTANT DIRECTORS OF ATHLETICS David Norman appointed assistant athletics director for facilities and recreation at Austin. He will retain his duties as head football coach ... Joe Thoni and Nancy Ladd promoted to assistant AD at Sewanee (University of the South). Thoni, who will be compliance officer, continues as head men's basketball coach but relinquishes his duties as head men's golf coach. Ladd will remain as head women's golf and volleyball coach ... Mike Kirk, veteran Central Oklahoma sports information director, promoted to assistant AD for media relations. He will remain in charge of the sports information office ... Brian McGuire hired as assistant AD for sports medicine at Emory. McGuire was staff athletic trainer at HealthSouth in Atlanta and was chief trainer for the rowing/canoe-kayak events during the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta. SENIOR WOMAN ADMINISTRATOR Christi Wade named senior woman administrator at St. Leo, succeeding Janet Cone. Wade is entering her second year as head women's softball coach. COACHES Baseball--Rich Duncan hired as head baseball coach and assistant football coach at Wisconsin-Platteville. Duncan was an assistant football coach at Capital for the past two seasons ... Mark Jackson, head coach at Pittsburgh, resigned to pursue opportunities as a baseball clinician and instructor. He compiled a 183-143-3 record in seven seasons. Assistant coach Jeff Minick was named interim coach. Baseball assistants--Jason Pithie hired as assistant coach at Wentworth Institute. Pithie was a four-year letterwinner at Hamilton and is a law student at Suffolk ... Hank Kraft named assistant coach at Virginia Commonwealth. He was an assistant for the past two seasons at Princeton ... Doug Wollenburg, a former standout baseball player at Ohio State, hired as graduate assistant coach at California (Pennsylvania) ... Jason Tuthill appointed pitching coach at Wagner, where he was the Seahawks' captain during his senior season in 1995. Men's basketball--Will Biggs named interim coach at Cal State Hayward, succeeding Gary Stewart, who became an assistant coach at UC Santa Barbara. Biggs was head coach at Ohlone College last season ... Gregg Gierke hired as head coach at Colorado Christian. Gierke has been head coach at Kishwaukee for the past 12 years ... Mack McCarthy, head coach at Tennessee-Chattanooga for 12 years before resigning in August, named assistant coach at Virginia Commonwealth. The school announced McCarthy will succeed Sonny Smith as head coach after the 1997-98 season. Men's basketball assistants--Don Kenney and Mark Folsom named assistant coaches at Boise State. Kenney, who spent the past three years as an assistant at Utah Valley, will be restricted-earnings coach and Folsom, an assistant at Seattle Pacific for the past three years, will be an administrative assistant ... Old Dominion appointed James Johnson part-time assistant coach. Johnson has been an assistant at Hargrave Military Academy ... Greg Herenda and Stephen Graham hired at Yale. Herenda has been an assistant coach at Seton Hall for the past three years and Graham was an assistant last year at MIT ... Jim Flynn named assistant coach at College of New Jersey ... Lester Rowe appointed restricted-earnings coach at West Virginia. A four-year starter for the Mountaineers as an undergraduate, Rowe has played professional basketball overseas ... James Rike, who served in a basketball operations post last season, promoted to assistant coach at Texas Tech ... Bill Geitner and Byron Thorne selected as assistant coaches at Albany. Geitner was an assistant coach at Rochester for six years and Thorne was an assistant at Elmira for the past two years ... Rob Senderoff named assistant coach at Fordham, succeeding Shay Berry, who resigned to accept a position with Five Star Basketball Camp ... Rahsaah Roland hired to replace Matt Nesser as assistant coach at Mercyhurst. Nesser became head coach at Alfred State. Roland was a four-year player for Mercyhurst ... Binghamton appointed Ron Johnson to the coaching staff ... Michael Palitang hired as assistant coach at Hawaii-Hilo ... Kelvin Jefferson and Terry Pfeufer retained as assistant coaches at Merchant Marine ... Wichita State announced the resignation of Bob Hull as restricted-earnings coach ... Drexel appointed Dino Presley as restricted-earnings coach, succeeding John O'Connor, who was promoted to assistant coach. O'Connor was restricted-earnings coach for three seasons ... Richard Sizer named assistant coach at Nichols. Women's basketball--Debra Hunter hired as head coach at Colorado College. Hunter has been athletics director and basketball coach at Bethel (Minnesota) ... Jeannine Ruh, head women's basketball and softball coach at Haverford for the past three years, named head women's basketball coach at Earlham ... Kanute Drugan appointed interim coach at Aurora. He already is head women's soccer coach and has worked in the men's basketball program ... Laura Habacker selected as head women's basketball and women's volleyball coach at Clarkson. Habacker was head volleyball coach at Anna Maria from 1993 to 1996 while also acting as assistant women's basketball coach at Worcester Institute from 1994 to 1996 ... Erika Gillis named head coach at Skidmore. She has been an assistant coach at Chicago ... Barbie Breedlove, an assistant coach at Appalachian State for the past 11 years, promoted to head coach, succeeding Linda Robinson, who resigned to take a position in the school's equity office after 13 years as head coach ... Nichols named Kathleen Bantley as head coach, succeeding Sandy Perrotti, who was interim coach for the 1996-97 season. Bantley, an associate attorney, was a four-year letterwinner on the women's basketball team at Connecticut ... Penny Lewis, head coach at Quincy for the past four years, hired as an assistant coach at Lamar ... Michele Stabley, assistant women's basketball coach at Allentown, hired as head coach at Wesley ... Melinda Wrye-Washington appointed head women's basketball and volleyball coach at Westminster (Missouri) ... Curt Smyth hired as head coach at New England. He was assistant coach for three years at St. Joseph's (Maine). Women's basketball assistants--Katie Schutz named assistant coach at Emory. A 1996 Emory graduate, Schutz was named the women's basketball team's most outstanding player before joining the Women's Basketball Coaches Association ... Nicole VanDenBerghe named graduate assistant coach for women's basketball and lacrosse at Nichols ... Linda Batz hired as restricted-earnings coach at Central Florida ... Clarence Kea and Penny Lewis selected as assistant coaches at Lamar. Kea was a standout basketball player at Lamar and Lewis was head coach at Quincy for the past four years ... Jill Matyuch, a two-sport athlete at Cal State Fullerton, named second assistant coach for women's basketball at her alma mater. Matyuck played basketball and softball as an undergraduate ... Steve Cochran selected as assistant coach at Washington (Missouri) ... Rhonda Rice named graduate assistant coach at Seton Hall. Rice was assistant coach for one year at Wisconsin-Green Bay ... Texas Woman's University selected Trey McKinley as assistant basketball coach ... Maureen Messer named assistant coach at New England. Messer was a volunteer assistant coach last season ... Michele Savage hired at Toledo. She was an assistant for the past two seasons at Chicago State. Denise Pickenpaugh named graduate assistant coach at Chicago State. Men's and women's cross country--Michael Orechia, head men's and women's cross country and track coach at Chicago since 1987, selected as director of cross country and track and field at Puget Sound. Orechia succeeds 29-year veteran Joe Peyton, who retired ... Ron DeShon, head women's cross country and track and field coach at Northwest Missouri State, resigned after four seasons. Bud Williams, who recently retired as head track and cross country coach at Iowa City (Iowa) High School, was named interim head coach ... Augie Argabright given additional duties as men's cross country coach at San Jose State. Argabright will retain his duties as head women's cross country coach, a position he has held for the past three seasons ... Dianna Elder hired as head women's cross country coach at Central (Iowa), succeeding Jean Manecke, who resigned after three seasons ... Susquehanna swapped assistant and head coaches. Dick Hess, head coach for the past two seasons, becomes assistant men's and women's cross country coach and Randi Kunkel, assistant coach for the past two seasons, becomes head coach. Hess also relinquished his duties as head women's track and field coach ... Kelly Liljeblad named as Curry's first women's cross country coach. The Curry team will begin competition this fall. Men's and women's cross country assistants--Danny Laufer named assistant men's cross country and track and field coach at Wagner ... Julia Galeazzi given additional duties as assistant men's coach. Galeazzi already is assistant women's coach ... Matt Roeber hired as assistant men's cross country coach at Wisconsin-Stout ... Joah Iannotta appointed assistant cross country and track and field coach at St. Catherine ... John McConnell hired as assistant cross country coach at Bradley. Field hockey--Michelle Burt hired as head field hockey and women's lacrosse coach at Virginia Wesleyan. Burt is a 1996 graduate of Lock Haven, where she played field hockey and lacrosse ... Harriet Barbaresi selected as head field hockey coach at Sacred Heart, succeeding Robin Schwartz, who had led the program since its inception in 1993. Field hockey assistants--Denise Szatkowksi hired as assistant coach at La Salle. She also will be head women's lacrosse coach ... Nanette Fox named assistant coach at Brockport State. She served as head coach at the school in 1982 ... Michelle D'Amore appointed assistant coach at Quinnipiac. Football assistants--Wisconsin-Platteville appointed four assistant coaches. Rich Duncan will be offensive coordinator; Merle Johnson, defensive coordinator; Jeff Weisner, defense and special teams; and Todd Samargia, defensive coach ... John Bunyan hired as defensive line coach and Ryan Zeman appointed defensive backs coach at Wisconsin-Stout ... Darrell Brand, Chris Hulleman and Curt Pakkebier named assistant coaches at Central (Iowa). Brand will coach offensive backs, Hulleman will serve as coordinator of residence life and Pakkebier will be a defensive assistant ... George Howanitz and Jack Freeman hired at Western Maryland. Freeman will work with the offensive line and Howanitz will assist with defensive backs ... Bill Horsman named offensive line coach at Slippery Rock ... Terry Driscoll selected as defensive backs coach at Guilford. He was running backs coach at Swarthmore last season ... Curry hired Jim Crowley as defensive coordinator, Bill Goodwin as offensive coordinator, Roy Lucas as running backs coach, Jeff Person as defensive backs coach and Jarrod Schenewark as receivers coach. Men's and women's golf--Joe Thoni, head coach at Sewanee (University of the South), relinquished his duties as head men's golf coach after being promoted to assistant athletics director. He will continue as head men's basketball coach. Assistant football coach Mike Summers was named to succeed Thoni as golf coach ... Charlie Estabrook named head men's golf coach at Central (Iowa), succeeding Todd Isley, who resigned to concentrate on his duties as assistant pro at Willow Creek Golf Course in Des Moines ... Assistant men's basketball coach Charlie Schaef given additional duties as head men's and women's golf coach at West Texas A&M ... Caroline O'Connor hired as head women's golf coach at Stanford. O'Connor has served as interim head coach since February 1996 ... Kevin Fillman selected as head men's golf coach at Longwood. Men's golf assistants--Jim Sander returned to Virginia Commonwealth, where he will serve as assistant golf coach while completing work on a degree ... Casey Whalen named assistant coach at UNLV. Women's gymnastics--Kris Merlo Buchhesiter named head coach at Southeast Missouri State. Buchheister has been assistant women's gymnastics coach at Missouri for the past 11 years. Men's ice hockey assistant--Stephane Gauvin hired as graduate assistant coach for the 1997-98 season at Sacred Heart. Gauvin played professionally in Norway. Men's lacrosse--Mike Maltais named head men's lacrosse coach at Clark (Massachusetts), succeeding Tim Buchanan, who stays on the staff as assistant coach. Maltais, a 1991 Clark graduate, was a standout lacrosse player at the school. Men's lacrosse assistants--Vince Lang appointed assistant men's lacrosse coach and assistant director of intramurals at Mercyhurst, succeeding Jeremy Murphy, who took a position at Penn State ... Jeffrey Roberts named graduate assistant men's lacrosse coach at Drew. He was offensive coordinator at Colorado College. Women's lacrosse--Denise Szatkowski hired as head women's lacrosse coach at La Salle, where she also will be assistant field hockey coach ... Rudy Pompert appointed head women's lacrosse and soccer coach at Buffalo State. Pompert competed with the Netherlands' national soccer team at the World University Games in Buffalo, New York, in 1993 ... Jennifer Hart named interim head coach at College of New Jersey, succeeding Sharon Pfluger, who compiled a 182-13-1 record in 12 years. A full-time assistant coach last season, Hart was acting head coach while Pfluger was absent for the birth of her second child ... Douglas Kohler hired as head coach for Canisius' inaugural women's lacrosse season. Kohler started the women's lacrosse club program in 1988 and coached the team for two seasons ... Colleen Smith, head coach at Wagner from 1995 through 1997, resigned to become an assistant coach at Virginia. She led Wagner in its inaugural season ... Michelle Burt hired as head field hockey and women's lacrosse coach at Virginia Wesleyan. Women's lacrosse assistants--Kristen Carano hired as assistant women's coach at Wagner ... Nicole VanDenBerghe named graduate assistant coach for women's basketball and lacrosse at Nichols. Men's and women's rowing--Louis Renzulli named head men's and women's crew coach at Drexel, succeeding Dan Lyons. Renzulli had been head men's and women's crew coach at Ohio State since 1993 ... Tom Murray, who rowed in the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, named freshman heavyweight coach at Cornell. Murray was a three-year letterwinner with the Cornell heavyweight crew team. Men's and women's skiing--Dale Rodgers hired as director of skiing at St. Michael's. He will oversee all aspects of the Alpine and Nordic ski programs and serve as head coach of the Nordic team. Men's and women's soccer--Rudy Pompert appointed head women's lacrosse and soccer coach at Buffalo State. Pompert competed with the Netherlands' national soccer team at the World University Games in Buffalo, New York, in 1993 ... Paul Rosenbrook hired as head women's soccer coach at Hope. He is a 1996 Hope graduate and was a standout soccer player there ... Dallas promoted assistant coach Stefani Webb to head coach of the men's and women's teams ... Staci Hendershott named head women's coach at UNLV for the program's inaugural season in 1998. Hendershott has been an assistant women's coach at Michigan State for the past five seasons ... Chris LeGates appointed head coach at St. Joseph (Connecticut). He spent the last five years as associate head coach of women's soccer at Quinnipiac. Men's and women's soccer assistants--Ray Smith named associate head men's soccer coach at Wisconsin-Platteville. Smith, who was head coach at Elmhurst, was selected to succeed Fred Eberlein as head coach after Eberlein's retirement at the end of the 1997-98 season. Eberlein will step down after 25 years as head coach ... Curt Kenoyer named assistant men's soccer coach at Central (Iowa) ... Ashley Surles and Mike McGinty hired as assistant women's coaches at Virginia Commonwealth. Surles is a recent graduate of Berry. McGinty, starting goalkeeper for the Richmond Kickers, will be goalkeepers coach ... Celia Mosier selected as assistant women's coach at Wagner. She was a three-year starter for the women's soccer team at Albany ... Colleen Nasis named graduate assistant coach for women's soccer and softball at Nichols ... Michelle Coon named assistant women's coach at Wisconsin-Stout ... Duke Cochran selected as assistant women's coach at Central (Iowa) ... Fred Parker hired as assistant women's coach at Brockport State ... Mark Wagner named assistant men's coach at Nichols ... Brian Young appointed assistant men's coach at Brown ... Robert McCourt selected as assistant men's coach at Seton Hall ... Gene Robbins hired as assistant soccer coach at California (Pennsylvania) ... Woody Hartman, longtime assistant men's coach at Drexel, rejoined the Dragon staff after spending last season as an assistant coach with the Philadelphia Kixx of the National Professional Soccer League ... Drew appointed Emily Rogic as graduate assistant for women's soccer ... Erica Strey hired as assistant women's coach at San Diego. Women's softball--Janet James returned to Wisconsin-Platteville, her alma mater, as head softball coach and assistant volleyball coach. James spent the past six years at Madison Area Technical College ... Jeannine Ruh, head women's softball and basketball coach at Haverford, resigned to become head women's basketball coach at Earlham. Ruh had been head coach at Haverford for the past three years ... Tiffany Strnad, assistant coach at Butler last season, promoted to head coach ... Kathy Van Wyk appointed head coach at San Diego State. Van Wyk has been an assistant coach at the school the past three years ... Thomas York hired as head women's softball and volleyball coach at Eastern Connecticut State. Women's softball assistants--Heather Sholtis hired as assistant coach at Wagner, where she graduated this year after participating on the softball and basketball teams ... Colleen Nasis named graduate assistant coach for women's soccer and softball at Nichols ... Jami Simmons selected as assistant softball coach at Texas Woman's University. She was the Pioneers' student assistant last year. Men's and women's swimming and diving--Mary Anne Gerzanick appointed head coach at Skidmore. She spent last season as an assistant coach at Amherst and was head coach at Western New England from 1993 to 1996 ... After two seasons as assistant coach, Paul Dotterweich promoted to head men's and women's swimming and diving coach at Buffalo State ... Rick Simpson appointed head men's and women's swimming coach and aquatics coordinator at Seton Hall. Simpson joins Seton Hall after eight years with the Rutgers swimming program, where he served as interim head coach during the past year. Men's and women's swimming and diving assistants--Kathleen Dolan appointed assistant women's swimming coach at Wagner. Dolan is a 1996 Syracuse graduate and was captain of the swim team there during her senior year ... Jennifer Boyd McLean and Robert Hauck named assistant coaches at Brown ... Joshua Smith hired as graduate assistant for men's and women's swimming at Drew. Men's tennis--Jim Harwood named head men's tennis coach at Curry. Women's tennis--Kevin Cummins hired as head women's coach at Buffalo State ... Tracy Zawacki appointed head women's coach at Seton Hall. She was head men's and women's coach at Drew for the past three years ... Drew named Cecilia Lopez-Arnold as head women's coach. Arnold is head pro at the Summit Tennis Club in Summit, New Jersey, and has played professionally on the international circuit ... Teresa Sainato hired as women's coach at Cleveland State. She has been head tennis professional at Lorain (Ohio) Country Club during the past year ... Gary Victor selected as head women's coach at Cal State Northridge. He was an assistant coach at the school in 1995-96 ... Kim Gall appointed head women's coach at Calvin, succeeding interim coach Dean Ellens, who guided the Knights for the past two years. Men's and women's tennis assistants--Sergio Guillem returned to the Virginia Commonwealth tennis courts as assistant women's coach after playing last year for the men's tennis team ... Mark Wallace selected as assistant men's and women's tennis coach at Wagner. He has been assistant men's and women's tennis coach at College of New Jersey ... Sheryl Sattler named assistant women's tennis coach at Bradley. Men's and women's track and field--Shawn Weigel given additional duties as head men's and women's track and field coach at Austin. Weigel will continue as assistant football coach ... Michael Orechia, head men's and women's cross country and track coach at Chicago since 1987, selected as director of cross country and track and field at Puget Sound. Orechia succeeds 29-year veteran Joe Peyton, who retired ... Ron DeShon, head women's cross country and track and field coach at Northwest Missouri State, resigned after four seasons. Bud Williams, who recently retired as head track and cross country coach at Iowa City (Iowa) High School, was named interim head coach ... Jim Taylor, head men's track and field coach at Susquehanna for the past 20 years, given additional duties as head women's track and field coach. He succeeds Dick Hess, who relinquished his head coaching responsibilities in women's cross country and track to become assistant cross country coach ... Steve Carter named head men's and women's track and field coach at Simpson. He has been assistant track and cross country coach at Simpson during the past year ... Macks Dillon, head track and field coach at Texas-San Antonio, resigned to accept a coaching position in Port Charlotte, Florida. He was an assistant coach for four years before being named head coach last year. Men's and women's track and field assistants--Danny Laufer named assistant men's cross and track and field coach at Wagner ... Mike Fahnestock hired as assistant men's and women's track and field coach at Susquehanna. He also is an assistant football coach at the school ... Joah Iannotta appointed assistant cross country and track and field coach at St. Catherine ... John McConnell hired as assistant women's track coach at Bradley ... Julie Butcher named assistant women's track and field coach at Rice. She was a student manager last year. Women's volleyball--Laura Habacker selected as head women's basketball and women's volleyball coach at Clarkson. Habacker was head volleyball coach at Anna Maria from 1993 to 1996 while also acting as assistant women's basketball coach at Worcester Institute from 1994 to 1996 ... Melinda Wrye-Washington appointed head women's basketball and volleyball coach at Westminster (Missouri) ... Cheryl Bayuk named head coach at Roger Williams, succeeding Tamara Sutton, who resigned after three seasons ... Rachelle Leonard given additional duties as head volleyball coach at Dallas. She will continue as head women's basketball coach. Women's volleyball assistants--Ruth Donahoo and Liana Roman named assistant coaches at Emory. Donahoo was assistant coach at Georgia Tech for the past five years. Roman is a 1997 Emory graduate ... Janet James returned to Wisconsin-Platteville, her alma mater, as head softball coach and assistant volleyball coach. James spent the past six years at Madison Area Technical College ... Andrew DiOrio III hired as assistant coach at Wagner. He spent the past two years in Wagner's sports information office after graduating from the school in 1995 ... Vic Briggs appointed assistant volleyball coach at Texas Woman's University ... Angie Wait selected as assistant coach at Wisconsin-Stout ... Jenn Gowac named assistant coach at Guilford, where she graduated last May as one of the best volleyball setters in school history ... Betsy DeVries hired as assistant coach at Calvin. DeVries was a standout volleyball player at Calvin from 1989 to 1992 ... Ben Heroux selected as assistant coach at Roger Williams, his alma mater. He was a standout player for the men's team while a student ... Alecia Facey named graduate assistant coach at California (Pennsylvania). Women's water polo--Dan McOsker given additional duties as women's water polo coach at Massachusetts, succeeding Bob Newcomb, who resigned to concentrate his efforts on the women's swimming and diving program. McOsker is in his second year as an assistant with the men's water polo team. Wrestling--Two former Wisconsin wrestlers were hired as cocoaches for the Wisconsin-Platteville squad. Ryan Lord and Chris Walter were promoted from assistant coach. Wrestling assistant--Tom Shifflet, a three-time all-American at Edinboro, appointed assistant coach at Cornell. He has been assistant coach at Georgia State for the past two years ... Adam Mariano promoted to top assistant coach at Drexel. He has been on the Drexel staff for the past two years as an assistant coach ... Joel Greenlee hired as assistant coach at Ohio. He was an assistant coach at Northern Iowa for the past eight years. STAFF Academic support coordinators--Sara Hickmann named director of academic support at San Diego ... Shari Clapp hired as assistant coordinator of student-athlete academic services at Ohio. Administrative assistant--Kelly Longo named administrative assistant for athletics at Seton Hall. Longo was assistant director in the school's athletics ticket office for the past two years. Community relations director--Vanessa Adams appointed community relations director at Buffalo State. Compliance coordinator--Stephanie McDonald hired as compliance coordiantor in the athletics department at Cleveland State, succeeding Julie Jones, who became head women's softball coach. Equipment managers--Sara Doty appointed equipment room intern at Merchant Marine ... Ron Osterman hired as equipment and facility manager at Macalester. Game operations coordinator--Matt Muldoon hired as coordinator of game operations at UNLV. Marketing and promotions directors--Kevin Sugrue named director of marketing and promotions at Texas-San Antonio. He was a graduate assistant in marketing at Arizona State for the past two years ... Curtis Krouse named marketing director at Delaware. Since 1993, Krouse had been athletics marketing coordinator at Princeton. Marketing and promotions assistants--LaTanya Dunn hired as athletics marketing and promotions assistant at Buffalo State ... Colette Wesier named assistant director of marketing at Rice. She was development assistant for the Crimson Club at Utah ... Ryan Page hired as coordinator of athletics promotions at Purdue. Media relations assistant--Stacee Manske appointed assistant athletics media relations director at San Diego State. She was a sports information assistant at Texas. Olympic sports coordinators--UNLV announced the appointment of Pamela Graves as coordinator of Olympic sports corporate sales, Sara Weber as coordinator of Olympic sports publicity and promotions, and Rob Nelson as game operations manager for Olympic sports. Sports information directors--Chris LeGates named sports information director at St. Joseph (Connecticut), where he also will be head soccer coach ... Matt Turk hired as SID at Simpson. He was a graduate assistant SID at North Dakota State for the past two years ... Charleston Southern hired Ken Gerlinger as SID, replacing Mike Hoffman, who took a position at Indiana (Pennsylvania) ... Don Stoner appointed sports information coordinator at Augsburg. He was a sportswriter with the Worthington (Minnesota) Daily Globe ... Geoffrey Brown selected as SID at Kalamazoo. He was sports information assistant at Western Michigan ... Tracy King hired as SID at Jersey City State, succeeding John Stallings, who had served in the position since 1991. King was assistant SID at Holy Cross ... Charles Jackson named SID at Bethune-Cookman, succeeding Earl Kitchings, who returned to graduate school. Jackson was southwest bureau chief for the Daytona Beach News-Journal ... Dom Donnelly selected as SID at North Carolina-Pembroke. He was SID at Lenoir-Rhyne ... Kimberly Parker appointed SID at Colby. Parker graduated in May from Colby, where she was student director of intramural sports, manager of men's basketball and a student representative to the college's athletics advisory committee. Sports information assistants--Ben Mutzabaugh appointed sports information intern at Emory ... Chris Jenkins, a recent Virginia Comonwealth graduate, returned to serve as publications coordinator in the athletics department and Cara Rosson named sports information assistant ... Kevin Currie hired as assistant sports information director at La Salle ... Lou Noce named sports information assistant at Buffalo State ... Catherine Hughes named sports information intern at Seton Hall ... Patty Barnes selected as sports information assistant at Rice. She worked in Texas women's media relations for the past two years ... John Leith hired as graduate assistant in sports information at California (Pennsylvania) ... Lisa McEvoy named assistant manager of sports information at Maine. She was interim SID at Eastern Connecticut State during the past year ... Hung Tsai selected as a sports information assistant at San Jose State. He was a student assistant in the sports information office at Humboldt State. Ticket operations manager--Scott Smith named ticket manager at Seton Hall ... Joe Sharpe named athletics ticket manager at Oregon State. He was coordinator of ticket sales for the Tallahasse Tiger Sharks hockey club. Ticket operations assistants--Todd Justice named assistant for ticket operations at Virginia Commonwealth ... Karl Walker appointed assistant ticket manager at Rice. He was an assistant to the ticket manager for the former Houston Oilers. Athletic trainers--Dan Cahill named athletic trainer at Austin ... Kris Rowe, assistant trainer at Alma for the past three seasons, named head trainer at Wisconsin-Platteville. Assistant athletic trainers--Kevin Stalsberg and Brian Baxter hired as assistant trainers at Wisconsin-Platteville ... Chris Leonard named graduate assistant for training at Virginia Commonwealth ... Renita Patton selected as assistant trainer at Wisconsin-Stout ... Carrie Hughes selected as assistant trainer at La Salle ... Charlene Mottau, a part-time assistant trainer last season at Curry, promoted to a full-time position ... Bill Tillson hired as assistant trainer at San Diego. He was assistant trainer at California ... Grace Golden and Dave Tomchek named assistant athletic trainers at UNLV ... John Levitt resigned as assistant trainer at Seton Hall after 11 years ... Cynthia Hall, Josephine Lee and Tony Zaworski named first-year graduate assistants in sports medicine at Syracuse ... Alan Mayard appointed full-time assistant trainer at Tampa ... Sharon Belle named assistant trainer at St. Andrews. She recently completed a master's degree at North Carolina, where she was a graduate assistant trainer. CONFERENCES The West Coast Conference moved Jennifer Markey from public relations assistant to membership services assistant. Also, Mark Papadopoulos was named public relations assistant and Jeanette Margenti administrative intern. Jim Miller hired as assistant to the executive director at the Middle Atlantic Conference, succeeding Brad Epps, who served in the position for four years. Miller was a sports information intern at Delaware last year. Brian Pracht selected as director of marketing for the Southland Conference. Pracht has been director of corporate relations at Long Beach State. Deepti Shah hired as administrative assistant at the Northeast Conference, succeeding Jennifer Dawson, who resigned to pursue a teaching career. ASSOCIATIONS Don Porter, executive director of the Amateur Softball Association for 35 years, will retire April 30, 1998. Porter assumed the post May 1, 1963, as the third executive director in the association's history. He directed the association's move to Oklahoma City in 1966. NCAA NATIONAL OFFICE Lynn Holzman hired as a membership services representative at the NCAA national office. Holzman was an intern in the membership services group during the past year and worked in event operations at North Carolina before that.
Etc.CORRECTIONS The sport affiliation was listed incorrectly for Katherine B. Maynard, NCAA Woman of the Year winner for New York, in the September 1 issue of The NCAA News. She was nominated in tennis. The institutional affiliation for Carol Oakland was listed incorrectly in the August 18 issue of the News in an article about the annual National Association of Athletic Development Directors Workshop. Oakland is affiliated with Augustana (Illinois). A chart accompanying a story on athlete-agent laws in the August 18 issue of The NCAA News contained incorrect information regarding the number of agents registered in states with laws regulating athlete agents. In listings for states (California, Colorado, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, North Dakota, Ohio and Pennsylvania) that do not require athlete agents to register, the symbol "N/A" -- indicating not applicable -- should have appeared instead of "0." In addition, the chart should have indicated that two agents were registered in Missouri, 75 in North Carolina and 84 agents in Florida (as well as 231 previously registered agents who have yet to renew their licenses). The information contained in the chart regarding the number of athlete agents registered was based on individual calls placed during the month of July 1997 to the respective state agencies charged with administering the registration process under their states' athlete-agent laws. NEW MEMBERS Affiliated--United States Team Handball Federation: Dennis Berkholtz, 106 Springlace, Atlanta, Georgia 30318 -- 770/956-7660 (P); Kim Clarke, 1903 Powers Ferry, Atlanta, Georgia 30339 -- 770/956-7660 (Sec.); Maureen Stone, 1903 Powers Ferry, Suite 230, Atlanta, Georgia 30339 -- 770/956-7660 (Exec. Dir.) Corresponding--Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University: 600 S. Clyde Morris Blvd., Daytona Beach, FL 32114 -- 904/226-6155. SEMINARS The ninth annual Conference on Legal Issues in Intercollegiate Athletics will be October 7 at the DePaul College of Law. Presenters will include William S. Saum, NCAA enforcement representative and gambling authority; Stephen A. Mallonee, NCAA director of membership services, on problems associated with aiding athletes, including job-related income; and Beverly Ledbetter, vice-president and general counsel at Brown University, concerning termination of coaches' contracts. For registration information, contact Susan Alico at DePaul at 312/362-5292. |
Butters was a relief pitcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates who got into athletics administration after a neck injury ended his professional baseball career in 1964.