The NCAA Record

May 4, 1998

Barry nets McCrath as head soccer coach

Barry appointed Steve McCrath as head men's soccer coach. McCrath has been an assistant coach at Seattle Pacific for the past three years.

Prior to his stint at Seattle Pacific, McCrath was an assistant coach at Pacific Lutheran. He coached the Inglemore (Washington) High School boys' team for seven years and the girls' squad for four. McCrath also has served as director of operations and co-coaching director of the Northwest Soccer Camp.

While attending Seattle Pacific, McCrath played on the 1986 Division II championship soccer team and captured all-region honors as a senior in 1989. He has played professionally with the Seattle Storm, Everett BigFoot and Milwaukee Wave.

McCrath is a 1990 graduate of Seattle Pacific, where he earned a bachelor's degree in communications. He also holds a master's degree in sports administration from the school.

GENERAL

CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICERS

Tennessee-Martin named Philip W. Conn chancellor, effective July 1. Conn has been president at Dickinson ... Morningside President Jerry Israel selected as president at Indianapolis ... R. Byron Pipes resigned as president at Rensselaer, effective July 1 ... James E. Wright promoted to president at Dartmouth. Wright has served as provost ... Lees-McRae appointed Earl J. Robinson President. Most recently Robinson fulfilled responsibilities as executive vice-president for academic affairs, dean of the faculty and professor at Briar Cliff ... Wright State's dean of the school of medicine, Kim Goldenberg, appointed president at the school. Goldenberg succeeds Harley E. Flack, who died March 29.

DIRECTOR OF ATHLETICS

Tom Box selected as athletics director at Seattle Pacific. Box has been director of development at the school for the last nine years and replaces Alan Graham, who resigned.

ASSOCIATE DIRECTORSOF ATHLETICS

Rutgers tapped Joe Quinlan as senior associate athletics director. Quinlan has worked as director of operational review and analysis for the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority for approximately two years and also directed the Meadowlands Organizing Committee for the 1996 Final Four ... Roxanne Dale promoted to senior associate director of athletics at Colorado College. Dale had been associate athletics director and senior woman administrator since 1994.

COACHES

Baseball assistant--Larry Owens, assistant coach at Northern Illinois, resigned for personal reasons. Wally Widelski, volunteer assistant, succeeds Owens, who worked with the pitching staff. Widelski will retain responsibility for coaching first base and working with first basemen.

Men's basketball--Northern Iowa appointed Thurlon "Sam" Weaver head coach, replacing Eldon Miller, who resigned. Weaver served as associate head coach at Iowa last season ... Pete Strickland added as head coach at Coastal Carolina. Most recently, Strickland has worked as an assistant at Dayton ... Kent awarded a two-year contract extension to head coach Gary Waters. Waters, who has compiled a 22-35 record in two seasons, has led squads to the Mid-American Conference tournament in each of the last two years.

Men's basketball assistants--UC Irvine tapped Calvin Byrd as assistant coach. He succeeds Cameron Dollar, who resigned to become head coach at Southern California College. Byrd has been assistant varsity coach at St. Joseph Notre Dame (California) High School, where he also served as head junior varsity coach last season ... Ronnie Dean appointed assistant basketball coach at New Orleans. Dean, who spent last season as an assistant at Cal State Fullerton, replaces Bill Gleason ... John Shulman and Tracy Garrick selected as full-time assistants and Dave Lebo named restricted-earnings coach at Tennessee Tech. Shulman was an assistant at Wofford for two seasons and Garrick worked as a two-year assistant coach at East Tennessee State. Lebo has coached basketball for 31 years and amassed an overall record of 564-243 ... Chad O'Donnell promoted to full-time assistant coach at Holy Cross after serving as restricted coach at the school for the past two seasons ... Virginia Commonwealth added E. J. Sherod as an assistant and Joe Cantafio as director of basketball operations.

Women's basketball--Centenary announced plans to re-establish women's basketball and hired John Raff, assistant coach at Sam Houston State last season, as head coach. The school is scheduled to begin competition in the 1999-2000 season.

Field hockey--Wynn Holt, head field hockey and lacrosse coach at Plymouth State for the past six years, resigned to work in a similar capacity at Bates.

Football--Scott Isphording, passing-game coordinator at Colorado School of Mines for the past two seasons, accepted the position of offensive coordinator at Wittenberg. Isphording succeeds Mike Leonard ... Ferris State named Eric Eidsness running backs coach and special teams coordinator, replacing Jim Boccher. Eidsness had been graduate assistant coach at South Dakota State for two years ... North Texas added Kenny Evans as tight ends coach, Bruce Bell as running backs coach, Steve Brickey as offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach, and Gary DeLoach as secondary coach.

Men's soccer--Anthony O'Neil resigned as head coach at Redlands. O'Neil joined the school as an assistant in 1990, and assumed the head coaching post in 1993. He also served as women's soccer coach last season.

Women's soccer--St. Mary's (California) head coach Randy Farris resigned, effective April 23. Farris, who has been head coach for 17 years, guided squads to NAIA championships in 1984 and 1986 and NCAA Division I tournament appearances in 1988 and 1994 ... Albright tapped Michelle Kline as cohead coach. Kline was assistant women's soccer coach at the school last season.

Women's tennis--North Carolina-Pembroke announced the resignation of Brenda Burgess, effective May 15. Burgess had been head coach for the past three years.

Women's volleyball--North Carolina-Pembroke selected Beverly Justice as head women's coach, replacing Melanie Grooms, who resigned. For the past three seasons Justice has been assistant women's basketball coach, and she also has been assistant athletic trainer for four years ... Maria Oistad Bruggeman appointed head coach at North Dakota. Bruggeman, who currently serves as a graduate assistant basketball coach at the school, replaces Lori Stemen ... Macalester head coach Bob Weiner resigned after four seasons to assume head coaching duties at Montana State University-Northern.

Women's volleyball assistant--Betsie Aldridge tapped as assistant coach at Ferris State, succeeding Andrea Leonard, who became an assistant coach at New Hampshire. Aldridge previously coached on the high-school level.

STAFF

Sports information director--Alan Aldinger, director of news services and sports information director at Wittenberg, will relinquish sports information responsibilities. Aldinger will retain his duties as director of news services.

CONFERENCES

Tom Bonerbo resigned as assistant com-missioner for communications of the Mid-American Conference, effective April 24. Bonerbo has accepted a position with the 1998 Goodwill Games.

Britton Banowsky, Big 12 Conference associate commissioner, appointed senior vice-president and general counsel for Universal Sports America. Banowsky had been with the Big 12 Conference for two years.

ASSOCATIONS

The Motor City Bowl promoted Ken Hoffman to executive director. Hoffman was assistant executive director. Also, George Perles was promoted to chief executive officer after working as executive director.

ETC.

NEW MEMBERS

New England Women's Lacrosse Alliance (III): John Ratliff, commissioner, Keene State College, 229 Main Street, Keene, NH 03435 -- 603/358-2813 (P); 603/358-2888 (F). E-mail jratliff@keene.edu. Deb Butler, Keene State (secretary). Bridgewater State (Massachusetts), Endicott, Castleton State, Keene State, Colby-Sawyer, New England College, Eastern Connecticut State, Massachusetts-Dartmouth, Elms and Plymouth State.

North Eastern Collegiate Volleyball Association (III): Michael J. Ricciardi, commissioner, Ramapo College, 505 Ramapo Valley Road, Mahwah, NJ 07430 -- 201/529-7675 (P); 201/529-6708 (F). E-mail mricciar@ramapo.edu. Gerry Matacotta, executive director. Bernard Baruch, Ramapo, Brooklyn (provisional), Rivier, Hun-ter, Mount St. Vincent, Jersey City State, Stevens Tech, John Jay, Merchant Marine, Johnson and Wales, Wentworth Institute, Lehman, Western New England, CCNY, Yeshiva, Old Westbury, York (New York) and Polytechnic (New York).

SEMINAR

The Ethics Center at South Florida will present The Sports Summit, an international conference exploring ethics issues in sport May 20-22. Keynote speakers for the conference include Alan C. Page, associate justice, Minnesota Supreme Court and National Football League Hall of Fame football player; Walter Payton, National Football League Hall of Fame football player; Bonnie Blair, U. S. Olympic speedskating gold medalist; and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, National Basketball Association Hall of Fame player. For more information, contact Marcia Sage, JD, LLM at 619/282-3665 or via e-mail at sage1@cts.com, or visit the World Wide Web site at http://www.usf.edu/sports_summit.html.

NOTABLES

DEATHS

Harley E. Flack, president at Wright State, died of cancer March 29. He was 51.

Junior LSU football player Naeshall Menard died recently of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. Menard, 20, played center and competed in three games during the 1997 season.

Bill Nash, who handled radio and television broadcasting duties at Chattanooga and was known as "the voice of the Mocs," died April 2 at age 62. Nash, who was a radio and television broadcaster for 45 years, is a member of the Chattanooga Hall of Fame.

--Compiled by Leilana McKindra