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The NCAA RecordMarch 23, 1998
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Buttafuoco named ECAC commissionerPhilip A. Buttafuoco, NCAA senior assistant director of championships, has been selected as new commissioner of the Eastern College Athletic Conference.
He will replace longtime ECAC commissioner Clayton W. Chapman, who is retiring. Buttafuoco has been responsible for the administration of NCAA championships in men's golf, men's ice hockey, men's lacrosse, men's and women's skiing, and women's soccer. Buttafuoco is a graduate of Hobart College, where he served as assistant to the treasurer and as athletics business manager, golf coach and assistant athletics director.
He joined the NCAA staff in 1989.
GENERALDIRECTORS OF ATHLETICS Westminster selected Terry Logue as interim athletics director. Logue most recently worked as the school's sports information director ... Pete Boone, Mississippi athletics director for the past three years, announced his resignation. Boone plans to establish a community business bank in the Baton Rouge, Louisiana, area ... Niagara assistant athletics director Jim Mauro named acting athletics director, replacing Mike Jankowski, who has been placed on leave. ASSOCIATE DIRECTORS OF ATHLETICS Cherri Mankenberg named associate director of athletics at Nebraska-Omaha, replacing Connie Claussen, who is retiring but will remain with the school on a part-time basis. Mankenberg stepped down from her most recent post of head women's basketball coach to accept the associate athletics director position. ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF ATHLETICS Brandon Macneill appointed assistant director of athletics for marketing and promotions at Dartmouth. Since June 1996, Macneill has worked as a graduate assistant for athletics marketing at Connecticut. COACHES Baseball--La Verne tapped Robert E. Lee as head coach. Lee succeeds Owen Wright, who is retiring. Lee, who has been assistant coach at Azusa Pacific since 1994, also will advise students and teach courses in the sport science department. Baseball assistant--Steve Pappajohn tapped as assistant baseball coach at Southern Vermont. Pappajohn will be in charge of hitting and infielding. Men's basketball--Niagara's Jack Armstrong will be replaced as head coach next season. Armstrong closed his tenure with a 100-154 mark in his nine-year stint ... Al Wolejko resigned as head coach at Westfield State. In four seasons, Wolejko compiled an overall record of 36-66 ... Jerry Tarkanian's contract as head coach at Fresno State extended one year. Men's and women's cross country--Tennessee Tech selected Dena Adams Fairley as head cross country coach to succeed Ron Filipek, who retired. As a collegian, Fairley represented the school as its 1997 NCAA Woman of the Year and served as captain of the track and cross country squads. She also will assume the position of head track and field coach. Football--Amherst promoted E. J. Mills to head coach. Mills was interim head coach last season ... Steve Lee accepted the head coaching position at Chowan ... West Georgia has appointed Glenn Spencer as head football coach to succeed Charlie Fisher, who accepted a coaching position at North Carolina State. Football assistants--North Texas appointed Bruce Bell running backs coach ... Robert Fraser selected as linebackers coach, Brian Britton selected as defensive assistant coach and Jim Buonocore selected as offensive assistant coach at Colgate ... Villanova added Jim Fleming to its staff as defensive coordinator ... Ken Zampese resigned as quarterbacks coach at Miami (Ohio) after two years to accept an offensive assistant coaching position with the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League ... Southern Methodist hired Gary Briner, quarterbacks coach at Georgia for the last two seasons, as offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach. Briner succeeds Darrell Dickey, who was appointed head coach at North Texas. Also, the following Southern Methodist assistant coaches assumed additional responsibilities: defensive coordinator/secondary coach Eric Schumann added assistant head coaching responsibilities; offensive line coach Randy Williams added recruiting coordinator duties; and linebackers coach Warren Belin and wide receivers coach Derek Dooley assumed assistant recruiting coordinator responsibilities. Women's golf--Dartmouth appointed Kevin Gibson to the position of interim women's golf coach. Gibson currently works as head golf professional at the Country Club of New Hampshire and has been varsity golf coach at Kearsage Regional High School since 1988. Women's lacrosse--Kati Coll named head women's coach at Beaver. Coll currently works at Wissahickon High School. Women's soccer--Jane Wildman accepted the head women's coach position at Susquehanna. Wildman also has assumed coaching duties with the track and field program. Men's tennis--Cornell tapped Carl Small as head men's tennis coach. Small, who replaces Rusty Graff, also serves as assistant men's basketball coach at the school. Women's tennis--Becky Cecere hired as women's tennis coach at Dickinson. Cecere, who replaces Frank Petre, also works as head girl's tennis coach at the high-school level. Petre resigned after a five-year stint. Men's and women's track and field--Tennessee Tech selected Dena Adams Fairley as head track and field coach to succeed Ron Filipek, who retired. She also will assume the position of head cross country coach. Men's and women's volleyball--Gary Lee tapped as head coach at Christian Brothers. Lee worked as an assistant coach at Delaware for the past five seasons and succeeds Christine Masel, who accepted the head coaching post at Chicago ... Robert Morris named Kelley Hartley head women's volleyball coach. Hartley hails from Walsh University, where she was head volleyball coach for four years and had been assistant director of athletics, senior woman's administrator and assistant sports information director since last July. STAFF Athletic trainer--Missouri-Kansas City hired Darren Odum as athletic trainer replacing Scott Nichols, who resigned. For the last five years, Odum has been a certified athletic trainer and coordinator of sports medicine at Shawnee Mission Medical Center in Overland Park, Kansas. Athletics promotions coordinator--Lori Litzelman accepted the position of athletics promotion coordinator at Purdue.
ETC.CLARIFICATION The circumstance under which Widener head coach C. Alan Rowe vacated his position was stated incorrectly in The Record section of the March 9 edition of The NCAA News. Rowe said he was released as head basketball coach. CORRECTIONS The dates for the 1999 NCAA Division I Men's and Women's Indoor Track Championships were stated incorrectly in the March 16 issue of The NCAA News. The correct dates are March 5-6. The RCA Dome will not be available March 12-13, 1999. St. Benedict was incorrectly listed as the only undefeated women's team in Division III basketball in a championship preview story in the March 2 edition of The NCAA News. Millikin also was undefeated as of March 2. |
Buttafuoco will assume his new duties in June.