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The NCAA RecordFebruary 2, 1998
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NCAA committee member Stoepler diesJohn W. Stoepler, a member of the Division I Infractions Appeals Committee and former chair of the NCAA Research Committee, died January 19 in Maumee, Ohio, after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage. He was 66. A full professor of law at Toledo since 1969, Stoepler was named associate dean of the school's college of law in 1970 and acting dean in 1983. He was appointed dean the following year. In addition to his responsibilities in the college of law, he served a five-month stint as interim president of the school and, in 1989, was interim vice-president for university relations. Stoepler was president of the Toledo Bar Association and the League of Ohio Law Schools. In the mid-1970s, he was appointed to the city and county plan commissions and later served as chairperson for both commissions until his 1984 appointment as dean of the law school. After retiring as dean in 1990, Stoepler continued to teach law courses at Toledo and served as a trustee at Lourdes College. He also was a member of the education council of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Toledo, which oversees schools in a 19-county diocese.
Stoepler, a 1953 graduate of Notre Dame, earned a law degree from Toledo in 1961 and, a year later, earned a master's degree in law from Yale.
GENERALASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF ATHLETICS South Florida selected Steve Horton as assistant athletics director for compliance services. COACHES Baseball--John Cohen named head coach at Northwestern State. Cohen, a seven-year member of the Missouri baseball staff and chief assistant coach for the past three years, replaces Dave Van Horn, who assumed the head coaching post at Nebraska. Baseball assistant--Sean McCann hired as pitching coach at Northwestern State. McCann has been an assistant coach at Central Missouri State for the past three years. Men's basketball--Bellarmine announced the appointment of Charlie Just as head men's coach, effective next season. He replaces Bob Valvano, who is stepping down at the end of the season. Just has piloted the women's team at the school for the past 14 seasons. Field hockey assistant--Kristen Holmes accepted the position of assistant coach at Kent. Holmes is a three-year member of the U.S. National Field Hockey team and was an alternate on the 1996 Olympic team. Football--Bates head coach Randy Pardy resigned after six seasons ... Washington extended the contract of head coach Jim Lambright through the 2001 season. Lambright guided his team to an Aloha Bowl victory last season in the school's third straight bowl appearance ... Cornell head coach Jim Hofher resigned after eight years to assume the position of quarterbacks coach and passing game coordinator at North Carolina ... Mike Kruczek, offensive coordinator at Central Florida, named interim coach at the school for the 1998 season. Kruczek replaces Gene McDowell, head coach since 1985, who resigned ... Alcorn State tapped Johnny Thomas as head coach at his alma mater, succeeding Cardell Jones, who was released. Thomas has been an assistant health and physical education professor at Arkansas-Pine Bluff. Football assistants--Syracuse defensive line coach Ed Orgeron left to assume the same position at Southern California ... Grambling named Todd Bowles defensive coordinator and defensive backs coach, Michael Roach linebackers coach, Heishma Northern running backs coach, and Tyrone McGriff offensive line coach. Bowles, Roach and Northern most recently coached as Morehouse. McGriff has served as head coach at Fort Lauderdale (Florida) High School for two years ... Randy Edsall selected as defensive coordinator and defensive backs coach at Georgia Tech, succeeding Dave Huxtable, who resigned to take an assistant coaching position at East Carolina. For the past three years, Edsall has served as defensive secondary coach of the National Football League's Jacksonville Jaguars. Women's golf--Sharon Sims appointed head coach at Wilmington (Ohio). The program's inaugural season is slated for next fall. Men's soccer--Brian Fuller tapped as head coach at Pennsylvania. Women's soccer--Springfield's Herb Zettl resigned as head coach. Zettl, who compiled a 156-105-13 record in 17 years, will continue at the school as an associate professor of history. Women's softball--Georgia Tech selected Kate Madden as its first full-time assistant coach. Last year, Madden was a pitcher, infielder and leadoff batter for the Durham (North Carolina) Dragons of the Women's Professional Fastpitch Softball League during its first year of play. Men's and women's swimming--James "Trip" Breen appointed swim coach/aquatics director at Wilmington (Ohio). Breen will be in charge of initiating the school's men's and women's swimming program for next winter. Men's tennis--Jim Moortgat named head coach of the men's squad at Boise State. Moortgat replaces five-year coach Greg Patton, who was selected as a national coach for USA Tennis and will continue to serve in a volunteer assistant coach capacity at the school. Moortgat has been head coach of the school's women's tennis team for three years ... Jersey City State hired Mark Schroback as head coach. Schroback succeeds Mark Teague, who resigned after nine seasons. Women's tennis--Katherine Price resigned as head coach at Stetson. Women's volleyball--Tennessee-Martin's Milly MacDonell resigned as head coach, effective February 28 ... Kellie Diehl selected as head coach at Wilmington (Ohio). Diehl also will assume head coaching responsibilities with the softball program. STAFF Development director--Miami (Florida) tapped Mike Lynch as director of athletics development. Lynch has been associate director of annual giving at Union. Media relations assistant--Todd Kober accepted the position of assistant director of media relations at Illinois State. Sports information director--Howard Payne selected Scott Jeffries as sports information director, replacing Mike Blackwell. CONFERENCES The Mountain Pacific Sports Federation named Al Beaird as its executive director. Beaird, who joined the UC Davis athletics staff in 1990, most recently has been director of youth and community programs at the school. The Mountain Pacific Sports Federation was established in 1992 by the Pacific-10, Big West and Western Athletic Conferences. Charlie Lyle, associate commissioner of the Southern Conference, appointed interim commissioner of the conference. He succeeds Wright Waters, who resigned to pursue a private business opportunity. For the past five years, Lyle has served as director of marketing and promotions. ASSOCIATIONS USA Baseball promoted Paul V. Seiler to director of national team baseball operations. Seiler has been a special project manager with the organization since 1988. Patrick E. Auerbach, director of media and public relations for the Women's Basketball Coaches Association since 1995, selected as assistant general manager/director of public relations for the Women's National Basketball Association's Detroit Shock. NCAA NATIONAL OFFICE Bob Fiala named human resources coordinator II. Fiala has worked in human resources for General Motors/Hughes Electronics Corporation for more than 10 years ... Carolyn Claude, NCAA membership services representative, promoted to coordinator of athletics certification in membership services ... Brad Bertani, Lisa Roesler and Chris Martin named membership services representatives. Bertani has served as compliance and academic coordinator at Detroit for the past three years while Roesler joins the staff from Brooklyn Center (Minnesota) High School, where she was a language arts teacher and department chair in addition to serving as head coach of the gymnastics squad. Martin comes from the San Diego Padres of Major League Baseball, where he worked as baseball operations assistant ... Tony Babcock selected as programmer/analyst II. Babcock most recently worked as a programmer/analyst at Sunrise, Inc., a greeting cards company in Bloomington, Indiana ... David Choinacky accepted the position of gift shop manager in the NCAA Hall of Champions. Choinacky has been gift shop manager for the College Football Hall of Fame in Indiana ... Kay Hawes named assistant editor at The NCAA News. Hawes has worked at the Golf Course Superintendents Association of America, where she was senior associate editor of Golf Course Management magazine ... Shawn Moore hired as an enforcement representative. Moore most recently worked as membership director for The Fitness Company in Washington, D.C.
NotablesHead softball coaches Margo Jonker, Central Michigan; Jay Miller, Missouri; Mona Stevens, Utah; Teresa Wilson, Washington; and Margie Wright, Fresno State, named to the nine-member USA Softball national team coaches pool, making them eligible for coaching assignments, including the 1998 South Pacific Classic in New Zealand, 1999 Pan American Games in Canada and the 2000 Olympics in Australia. |