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The NCAA RecordNovember 24, 1997
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West to retire after '97-98 academic yearCharlotte West, who has coached five women's sports and served as an athletics administrator at Southern Illinois for 40 years, will retire June 30, 1998, as associate athletics director.
In 1987-88, she served an 11-month term as interim athletics director at Southern Illinois. West also has held a variety of leadership roles in the NCAA and currently represents the Missouri Valley Conference on the Division I Management Council. West also was a member of the former NCAA Council. She currently chairs the Division I Financial Aid and Amateurism Committee and the Committee on Athletics Certification.
West has received numerous awards, including the Honda Award of Merit for outstanding achievement in women's collegiate athletics.
GENERALCHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICERS Randolph Bromery will retire as president at Springfield upon selection of a successor ... Charles Duke appointed interim president at Grinnell. Duke was vice-president for academic affairs and dean of the college at Grinnell ... A. Lee Fritschler will retire as president at Dickinson June 30, 1999 ... Leonard Haynes III, provost and vice-president for academic affairs at Grambling, named acting president ... James Machen selected as president at Utah. Machen was provost and executive vice-president for academic affairs at Michigan ... Morris Brown announced the resignation of President Samuel Jolley Jr. effective December 31 ... Richard Wallace appointed president at Missouri. Wallace had been acting president since July 1996. DIRECTOR OF ATHLETICS Ron Perry, athletics director at Holy Cross, announced he will retire July 1, 1998. ASSISTANT DIRECTORS OF ATHLETICS Stacy Danley named assistant athletics director for external affairs at Auburn. An all-Southeastern Conference running back on the Auburn football team, Danley has been compliance assistant at the SEC office since 1996 ... Shawn Brennan, assistant AD and sports information director at Iona for the past four years, resigned to become assistant commissioner of the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference. COACHES Baseball--Joe Jordano, head coach at Mercyhurst for the past 10 years, named head coach at Pittsburgh, succeeding Mark Jackson. Jordano, who compiled a 285-118-1 record at Mercyhurst, also has served as sports information director, academic advisor to student-athletes and assistant athletics director at Mercyhurst North East. Men's basketball assistants--Pat Donahue promoted to associate head coach at Bradley. Donahue has been an assistant coach at Bradley since 1991 ... Bill Comar named administrative assistant at Dayton ... Rob Colbert hired as administrative assistant at Marist ... Jim Delsandro appointed assistant coach at Westminster (Pennsylvania). Women's basketball--Fred Kettrell named head coach at St. Elizabeth ... Nancy Dorn Keeler appointed at Fairleigh Dickinson-Madison. Women's basketball assistants--Becky Timmins and Liz Cranmer hired as assistant coaches at Bucknell. Timmins was an assistant coach at College of New Jersey for the past two years and Cranmer was a volunteer assistant last year at Harvard. Bucknell also appointed K. C. Vlah, a former women's basketball standout at the school, as a graduate assistant ... Jennifer Connery selected as assistant coach at Brandeis. Connery was a standout on the women's basketball team at Massachusetts-Dartmouth ... Mariann Balmann and Patrick Carter hired at St. Elizabeth. Balmann also will be head women's softball coach ... Rochone Dilligard hired at Alabama State. Football--Kent will not renew the contract of head coach Jim Corrigall. Corrigall is completing his fourth year with the Golden Flashes, compiling an 8-34-1 record ... Mal Scanlan, head coach at St. Thomas (Minnesota), resigned ... Newberry extended the contract of Mike Taylor through 2001 ... Dewayne Wells, head coach at Tusculum, resigned. Offensive coordinator Kent Green was appointed interim coach. Women's gymnastics assistant--Joanne Bowers named assistant coach at Kent. Men's soccer--Wayne Ramsey, head coach at Monmouth (New Jersey), resigned ... Paul Banta resigned as head coach at Coastal Carolina but will remain as instructor in the department of physical education at the university ... Pennsylvania announced it will not renew the contract of head coach George O'Neill. O'Neill served as head coach for the past five years, compiling a 28-47-4 record. Women's soccer--Noreen Tenaglia named head coach at St. Elizabeth ... Kym Eynard-Bozzi, first-year head coach at Binghamton, resigned. She joined the Binghamton staff as associate coach in 1996. Women's softball--Mariann Balmann hired as head coach at St. Elizabeth. Balmann also will be an assistant women's basketball coach. Women's softball assistants--Tina Kramos and Lisa Quinsenberry appointed assistant coaches at Nicholls State. Kramos was an assistant coach for the past two years at Colorado-Colorado Springs. Quinsenberry has been a therapist in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and has participated on Amateur Softball Association slow-pitch teams. Men's and women's track and field assistant--Llewellyn Starks hired as assistant coach overseeing jumps events at Syracuse. Starks spent the past two seasons as an assistant at Tulane. Women's volleyball--Oscar Segovia, head coach at Texas-Pan American, resigned. STAFF Assistant athletic trainer--Mary Meaux hired at Kansas State. CONFERENCES Stacy Danley, compliance assistant at the Southeastern Conference, resigned to become assistant athletics director for external affairs at Auburn. An all-SEC running back on the Auburn football team, Danley has been compliance assistant at the SEC office since 1996. Shawn Brennan hired as assistant commissioner of the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference overseeing media relations for men's basketball, football and hockey. Brennan spent the past four years as assistant athletics director/sports information director at Iona. He succeeds Jay Williams, who resigned after 12 years with the MAAC. NCAA NATIONAL OFFICE Phil Grayson hired as a membership-services representative at the NCAA national office. Grayson has been a sales representative for Nystrom Division of Herff-Jones in Indiana ... Sally Huggins resigned as assistant editor of The NCAA News to enter private business in the Kansas City area. ASSOCIATIONS Brian Flajole resigned as executive director of the Carquest Bowl to become vice-president of golf operations for Raycom Sports. Mitch Morrall was named to succeed Flajole.
Etc.BOWL GAME SPONSORSHIP The Copper Bowl has been renamed the Insight.com Bowl. Insight Enterprises, a Tempe, Arizona-based, computer company, signed a multiyear sponsorship agreement for the bowl game, which was created in 1988. The 1997 game will be played December 27 in Arizona Stadium in Tucson, Arizona. CORRECTION A story in the November 17 issue of The NCAA News incorrectly described Judith Kuipers' role on the Division III Presidents Council after the 1998 Convention. Kuipers, chancellor of the University of Wisconsin, La Crosse, recently was appointed vice-chair of the Presidents Council. She will continue in that role after the 1998 Convention. President Curtis McCray of Millikin University will continue as chair of the Presidents Council. SEMINARS The National Soccer Coaches Association of America and Umbro will host the fourth annual NSCAA/Umbro Women's Soccer Symposium December 5-7 in conjunction with the 1997 NCAA Division I Women's Soccer Championship in Greensboro, North Carolina. Clinicians for the symposium include Chris Petrucelli, head women's soccer coach at Notre Dame; Janet Rayfield, head coach at Arkansas; Kristine Lilly, midfielder on the U.S. Women's National Team; and Dr. Colleen Hacker, former coach and current professor of sports psychology at Pacific Lutheran. For a registration form, contact the NSCAA national office at 800/458-0678. AGREEMENTS Raycom Sports and Turner Sports have reached an agreement to extend the contract allowing TBS Superstation to continue televising the Carquest Bowl through 2000. The National Soccer Coaches Association of America and Umbro, an international soccer company, have signed a three-year extension of Umbro's sponsorship agreement. The new agreement ensures that Umbro will be official sponsor and supplier to the NSCAA through August 2000. A new program included in the contract is the NSCAA/Umbro College Soccer Player of the Year awards to be presented to the top male and female players in each of five divisions -- NCAA Divisions I, II and III; NAIA; and junior college. |
West joined the Southern Illinois staff in 1957 and during the next 18 years coached five women's sports and a coeducational sport at the university. In 1982, she was among the first group of women inducted into the university's hall of fame.