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The NCAA RecordMay 25, 1998
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Former Georgia swimmer Coole diesLisa Ann Coole, former Georgia swimmer and 1997 NCAA Woman of the Year, died in a car accident May 16 in Champaign, Illinois. She was 23.
Academically, Coole garnered recognition as an GTE Academic All-American in 1997. Twice she was an all-College Swimming Coaches Association of America academic selection. Coole served as secretary and vice-president of the Student Athletic Council at Georgia and was a two-time National Student-Athlete Day volunteer. She also participated in a mentoring program and volunteered at a homeless shelter for three years. Coole earned a degree in biology from Georgia in 1997 and had completed her first year in the College of Veterinary Medicine at Illinois. At the time of the accident, she was on her way to adopt a greyhound. Investigators speculated she may have been blinded by the sun and unable to see the garbage truck that struck her car.
GENERALCHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICERS Pfeiffer named Charles Ambrose president, effective July 1. Ambrose was vice-president for advancement at Carson-Newman ... Mark A. Brister, pastor at Broadmoor Baptist Church, Shreveport, Louisiana, selected as president at Oklahoma Baptist, effective September 1. DIRECTORS OF ATHLETICS Fordham promoted director of athletics Frank McLaughlin to executive director of intercollegiate athletics and recreation. McLaughlin had been athletics director at the school for 13 years and will be responsible for overall supervision and long-range planning of the athletics department and recreational life programs. ASSOCIATE DIRECTORSOF ATHLETICS Jerry Koloskie appointed acting senior associate athletics director at UNLV. Koloskie has been a member of the school's athletics staff for 16 years and has served as assistant athletics director for sports medicine and operations ... UTEP named Jin Schaus as senior associate athletics director. Most recently, Schaus worked at Staubach Company in Cincinnati. ASSISTANT DIRECTORSOF ATHLETICS Patrick Guerriero named assistant athletics director at Lock Haven. Last year Guerriero worked as the school's summer development program director, interim Act 101/EOP director and served as interim assistant athletics director throughout the 1996-97 academic year ... North Carolina-Charlotte selected Darin Spease to fulfill assistant athletics director for business affairs duties. Spease closes a six-year stint at Alabama-Birmingham where he most recently served as associate athletics director ... Doug Kraft hired as assistant athletics director at Marywood. Kraft most recently served at East Stroudsburg and also will fulfill responsibilities as head men's basketball coach. COACHES Baseball--Harry VanSant resigned as head coach at Delaware State, effective June 30. VanSant compiled a 205-242 record in 14 years ... Lafayette announced the resignation of Greg Vogel to pursue other business interests. Vogel has been head coach for the past eight seasons ... Vernon Prather, head coach at Tennessee-Martin for the past 22 seasons, announced plans to retire. Prather coached 900 games and amassed a 475-418-9 mark during his tenure. Baseball assistant--Delaware State assistant Robert Probst stepped down from his position, effective June 30. Men's basketball--Rich Sutter appointed head coach at Westfield State. Sutter, who has been an assistant at Colgate for six years, replaces Al Wolejko ... Kentucky extended the contract of head coach Tubby Smith by one year through the 2002-03 season. Smith's squad captured the 1998 national championship in his first season as head coach ... Earl Diddle resigned as head coach at Eastern New Mexico. Diddle closes a 10-year tenure with a 152-124 record ... Jeffrey A. Justus added as head coach at Earlham. Justus has been an assistant at DePauw for the past six years. Men's basketball assistants--New Mexico hired Kevin Lewis as an assistant coach ... North Carolina-Charlotte named Orlando Early as assistant coach. Early has been with Western Carolina for three seasons and has served as associate head coach for the past two ... Barret Peery chosen has assistant coach at Southern Utah to succeed Louis Wilson, who assumed a post at Idaho State. Last season Peery was an assistant at Utah Valley State College ... UC San Diego announced the resignation of two-year assistant coach Marty Wilson to accept a similar position at UC Santa Barbara ... Wade O'Connor promoted to full-time assistant coach at Dayton after serving as a restricted-earnings coach at the school for the last two years. O'Connor succeeds Pete Strickland, who assumed head coaching responsibilities at Coastal Carolina. Women's basketball--Britt King selected as head coach at Fresno State. King has most recently been head coach at Coppin State ... Hilary Recknor accepted the position of head coach at Idaho, succeeding Julie Holt. Recknor was an assistant coach at the school last year. Women's basketball assistants--North Alabama appointed Annette Alston as assistant basketball coach. Alston, who served as an assistant coach at Charleston Southern in 1997, also will be head men's and women's cross country coach at the school ... Clarence Kea promoted to full-time assistant coach at Lamar. Kea joined the program before the 1997-98 season. Men's and women's cross country--North Alabama chose Annette Alston as head coach. Alston, who was a basketball assistant at Charleston Southern during the 1997 season, also will fulfill assistant women's basketball coaching duties. Field hockey--Goucher named Kathy Railey head coach. Railey has been head coach at the high-school level for the past three years and coached at Western Maryland in 1993 and 1994. Football assistants--Mike Muschamp hired as offensive coordinator and Pat Roberts selected as offensive line and strength coach at Millsaps. Muschamp was offensive coordinator at Mars Hill during the 1997 season and Roberts was offensive line coach at DePauw for two years ... St. Cloud State announced the hiring of John Lewis as assistant football coach. Lewis, who was a graduate assistant coach at Mississippi in 1997, will work with the receiving corps next season ... Pat Murtha named linebackers coach at Carleton. Murtha replaces Mike Barnes, who will coach defensive back at the school. Barnes succeeds Tom Ross ... Cornell added former National Football League coach Bill Arnsparger as part-time assistant special teams coach. Arnsparger retired from coaching in the NFL after the 1994 season. Men's and women's golf--Jeff Johnson, head men's golf coach at UC Irvine for more than two years, appointed director of golf and intramural sports director at the school. Women's ice hockey--St. Catherine selected Jeff Smith as the school's first ice hockey head coach. The school is scheduled to begin varsity competition during the 1998-99 school year. Smith started girls' ice hockey at Simley High School and has coached the program for the past three years in addition to coaching volleyball and baseball on the middle-school level. Women's soccer--Tim Ward promoted to head coach at Pepperdine after serving as an assistant coach for the past four seasons. Ward succeeds Kenny Dale, who resigned ... Clayton State head coach Bill Holleman resigned to pursue other career opportunities. Holleman, who closes his tenure after one year, posted an 8-8 mark, the best record in the program's three-year history ... Kristine Jeremiah resigned as head coach at Lafayette to become head coach at Monmouth. Jeremiah had been head coach for three seasons. Women's swimming--Gwynn Evans named head coach at James Madison. Men's and women's swimming assistant--Colgate appointed David Teel part-time assistant coach to succeed Molly Kuhlman. Teel has been head coach of the Las Cruces Aquatic Team in New Mexico for the past three years. Men's and women's track and field--Laura Crain Nardelli hired as head coach of men's and women's track and field at Colgate. Nardelli, a former head cross country and track and field coach at Cortland State and West Virginia, replaces Arthur McKinnon, who relinquished track and field coaching responsibilities but will remain director of cross country and track and field at the school ... Sewanee (University of the South) selected Jeff Heitzenrater as head men's track and field coach. Heitzenrater, who has served as volunteer assistant cross country and track and field coach since 1996, succeeds Al Logan, who became assistant football coach at Davidson ... David Bobb chosen as head women's track and field coach at UMBC to replace David Langford, who retired to focus full-time on his position as associate athletics director for academic support services. Last season, Bobb was men's assistant track and field coach at the school. Volleyball--Wisconsin-Stevens Point picked Kelly Geiger as head coach. Geiger replaces Julie Johnson after serving as an assistant coach for the past four seasons. Wrestling--Johnny Johnson named head coach at Wisconsin-Stevens Point. Johnson, who succeeds Marty Loy, has been an assistant at the school for four years. STAFF Sports information director--Idaho State's Loren Wohlgemuth resigned, effective May 25, to work in a similar capacity at Portland. Wohlgemuth has been with Idaho State for four years. Sports information assistant--Bill Rogers resigned as associate sports information director at Arkansas to join the Springdale Chamber of Commerce as director of economic development. Rogers has been on the sports information staff since 1981. AGREEMENTS Sanford, a company specializing in making writing products, agreed to become title sponsor of the Independence Bowl, scheduled to be played on New Year's Eve and broadcast on ESPN. CONFERENCES Conference USA selected Nick Floyd as associate commissioner. For the past four years, Floyd has served as senior associate athletics director at Southern Mississippi, where he has been an athletics administrator since 1986. |
In four years at Georgia, Coole was a two-time NCAA champion. She won the 100-yard butterfly in 1996 and was a member of Georgia's champion 200-yard freestyle relay team in 1995. Additionally, Coole was a 26-time all-American and a 10-time Southeastern Conference champion. She also captured gold, silver and bronze medals in the 1995 World University Games.