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The NCAA RecordNovember 9, 1998
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Auburn names Oliver interim coachAuburn has elevated assistant Bill Oliver to interim head football coach for the remainder of the 1998 season. Oliver succeeds Terry Bowden, who resigned.
Oliver, formerly an Auburn defensive backs coach from 1966 to 1970, has been defensive coordinator at the school since 1996 and will retain those duties throughout his tenure as interim head coach. Prior to joining Auburn, Oliver served as defensive backs coach and defensive coordinator at his alma mater, Alabama, from 1990 to 1996, after previously serving as defensive backs coach at Alabama from 1971 to 1979. He also has coached at Chattanooga, Clemson, and with the Memphis Showboats of the United States Football League, as well as at the high-school level. A three-year letterman in football as a defensive back and a two-year letter winner in baseball at Alabama, Oliver competed on Alabama's 1961 national-championship football team and earned all-Southeastern Conference honors in baseball in 1962.
Oliver earned a biology degree from Alabama in 1962.
GENERAL
CHIEF OPERATING OFFICERS Southern Illinois Chancellor Donald L. Beggs named president at Wichita State, effective January 1, 1999 ... James Donaldson appointed acting president at Lincoln (Pennsylvania). Donaldson has been a mathematics professor at Howard ... Colgate President Neil R. Grabois resigned, effective in June ... Patsy B. Reed, chancellor at North Carolina-Asheville, announced plans to retire, effective June 30, 1999 ... Greenville named V. James Mannoia Jr. president, effective January 1. Mannoia has been academic vice-president and dean of the college at Houghton College in South Carolina. DIRECTORS OF ATHLETICS Metropolitan State appointed Joan McDermott as interim athletics director, replacing Bill Helman, who retired. McDermott has been volleyball coach at the school for five years and serves as senior woman administrator ... George Mason extended the contract of Tom O'Connor through 2002 ... Wesleyan (Georgia) selected Peter Smith as athletics director. Smith formerly served as head swimming coach at Emory ... Hood named Eric Dennis as athletics director. Since 1995, Dennis has been athletics director at Robert Morris. ASSOCIATE DIRECTORS OF ATHLETICS Jim White, assistant athletics director for administration at North Carolina State since 1994, elevated to associate director of athletics for public relations. ASSISTANT DIRECTORS OF ATHLETICS Pam Samuelson selected as interim assistant director of athletics at Massachusetts-Boston. Since 1995, Samuelson has served as director of athletics at Curry ... Framingham State appointed Carey Williams as assistant director of athletics to replace Christine Merlo. COACHES Baseball--Chris Hanks selected as head coach at Mesa State. Hanks, an assistant with the program for the past six years, has been serving as interim head coach for approximately one month and succeeds Joe Giarratano ... Ed Puck selected as head coach at Illinois College. Puck formerly served as a volunteer assistant baseball coach and football assistant coach at the school from 1995 to 1997. Baseball assistant--Carmen Nocera selected as part-time assistant coach at Westminster (Pennsylvania). Since 1993, Nocera has been head baseball coach at New Castle (Pennsylvania) High School. Men's basketball--Richard Zvosec resigned as head coach at Millersville after 16 months to become a men's basketball assistant at St. Peter's. The school named assistant Frederick Thompson as interim head coach ... New York City Tech chose Reggie Howard as head coach to succeed Eric Fogle. From 1996 to 1998, Fogle was head coach at SUNY-Purchase ... Jim Flynn selected as head coach at Rutgers-Camden ... Missouri-Kansas City awarded head coach Bob Sundvold a one-year contract extension through the 2001-02 season. Sundvold has been head coach at the school since March 1996. Men's basketball assistants--Detroit assistant David Greer promoted to associate head coach. Greer has been with the program for the past three seasons ... King's (Pennsylvania) hired Chibi Johnson as an assistant ... Doug Novsek promoted to associate head coach at Southwest Texas State. Novsek has been an assistant with the program since 1994 ... Lakeland selected Pat Geigel as an assistant ... Bryan Goodman named as an assistant coach at Susquehanna. Goodman, who takes over for Doug Wingard, has been a men's assistant coach at Barat College since 1996 in addition to serving as director of the school's fitness center ... Rhode Island College named Alex Butler as an assistant coach. Butler currently teaches at the Moses Brown School in Providence, Rhode Island ... Ted Bardach appointed as an assistant coach at Marymount (Virginia) ... Jason Chaluisan chosen as an assistant at Concordia (New York) ... VMI hired Webb Hatch as an assistant. Hatch, who succeeds Kenny Brooks, has been head basketball coach and assistant athletics director at Marymount (Virginia) for 10 seasons. Women's basketball--William E. Carter Jr. hired as head basketball and volleyball coach at Wesleyan (Georgia). Women's basketball assistants--John Motherwell hired as an assistant for the 1998-99 season at St. Scholastica ... Worcester Polytechnic added Mary Speliotis as an assistant ... Rhode Island College hired Audra Plante as an assistant ... Concordia (New York) announced Lorice Watson as an assistant. Football--Carroll head coach Bob Petrino announced plans to retire at the end of the season ... Eddie Vowell announced plans to retire as head coach at Texas A&M-Commerce, effective at the end of the season. Vowell has an overall record of 73-70-1. Men's golf--Michigan State named Bruce Fossum as interim head coach. Men's ice hockey assistants--Gary Heenan and Michael Germain added as assistants at Brockport State. Heenan most recently has been defensive assistant coach for the Shelburne Wolves Hockey Club (Ontario) and head instructor at the Caledon Canadiens Hockey School. Germain currently works as an account executive at Southerland Group in Rochester, New York. Women's ice hockey--Rochester Institute of Technology hired Robert Scuteri as head coach. Scuteri has been acting athletics director and head football coach on the high-school level. Men's and women's rowing--Susquehanna appointed Brian Tomko as head men's and women's rowing coach of the school's club-level teams to succeed Ted Swinford. Tomko, who also will fulfill duties as director of aquatics, has most recently served as rowing coach at Stanton Prep School in Jacksonville, Florida. Men's soccer--Stefan Charles-Pierre succeeded Orville "Ted" Mowatt as head coach at New York City Tech. Men's soccer assistants--Carlton Whyte chosen as an assistant at New York City Tech ... Laurence Piturro selected as an assistant at Concordia (New York). Softball--St. Francis (Pennsylvania) hired Christy Cameron as head coach. Cameron has been an assistant with the program for the past two seasons ... Dawn Strout accepted head coaching duties at Bowdoin. Softball assistant--Wendy Morgan chosen as part-time assistant at Binghamton. Men's and women's swimming and diving--Cal State Northridge appointed head men's and women's swimming and diving coach Barry Schreifels to the post of director of aquatics. In addition to retaining swimming and diving coaching duties, Schreifels will serve as head women's water polo coach. The school is scheduled to begin women's water polo competition next season ... Binghamton appointed Lance Graham head men's and women's diving coach and aquatics director. Graham, who replaces Cindy Weingartner, has been head diving coach at Maine for the past nine years ... James Milton Richey hired as head coach at Metropolitan State. Richey, who succeeds Brant Noonan, has been masters swim coach at the Denver Athletic Club and head coach of the Colorado Rapids swim team. Men's and women's swimming and diving assistants--Lauralyn Beckley named as men's and women's assistant at Cal State Northridge ... Patrice Back announced as men's and women's assistant at Binghamton ... Bill Johnson chosen as men's and women's assistant at Connecticut College. Men's and women's tennis--New Orleans named Jim Hunter as men's and women's coach, succeeding Charlotte Twitty. Hunter has been head men's and women's coach at Loyola (Illinois) for six years ... Kristin Hall accepted the head women's coaching post at Detroit ... Nova Southeastern head women's coach Tim Burke resigned. Men's and women's tennis assistants--Paul Garside named part-time assistant men's coach and Jenifer Hagadorn named part-time assistant women's coach at Binghamton. Men's and women's track and field--New York City Tech chose John Strickland as men's and women's cross country and men's and women's indoor and outdoor track coach. Strickland replaces Kim Perry. Men's and women's track and field assistant--Jerry Clayton announced as an assistant at Auburn ... Binghamton hired Mitchell Brown as men's and women's assistant coach. Men's and women's volleyball--St. Francis (Pennsylvania) hired Michael S. Rumbaugh as head men's coach. Since 1993, Rumbaugh has been an assistant men's and women's volleyball coach at Mercyhurst ... John Wasielewski resigned as women's head coach at St. Bonaventure ... Cartrecia "Chi" DiMaggio named men's and women's volleyball head coach at New York City Tech ... Sue Medley, head women's coach at Cornell since 1994, resigned. The school elevated two-year assistant Christie Jackson to interim head coach for the remainder of the 1998 season ... Hood chose Joe Mahan as head coach and assistant sports information director. Mahan has been head volleyball coach at Robert Morris ... Wentworth Institute's Jan Raich resigned. Raich has been head men's coach for four seasons and head women's coach for three seasons. Men's and women's volleyball assistants--New York City Tech appointed Jason Dibelius as men's and women's assistant coach ... Matt Sorochinsky selected as part-time assistant at Binghamton. Wrestling assistants--Tony Purler chosen as an assistant at Clarion ... Matt Sorochinsky selected as part-time assistant at Binghamton. STAFF Athletic training assistant--Saint Joseph's (Indiana) appointed Elizabeth Gillem as assistant athletic trainer. Communications--Hofstra renamed its sports information office the office of athletics communications, elevating Len Skoros to associate director of athletics communications and selecting Rikki J. Dileo as assistant director of athletics communications. Development--Andy Hurley hired as director of development for the division of athletics at Buffalo. Since January 1995, Hurley has been director of marketing at Genesee Research and Development Corporation. Facilities--Todd Dyer chosen as facilities manager at Detroit. Office management--Teri Kromrei accepted athletics office manager responsibilities at Detroit. Marketing--Niagara hired Michael J. Skowronski as marketing coordinator. Skowronski has been employment manager of the Adam's Mark Hotel in Buffalo, New York, for the past four months. Olympic sports--Detroit named Kristie Arnst as Olympic sport office administrator. Sports information--Steve Kahn accepted the sports information director post at New York City Tech. Kahn is a former assistant sports information director at Hunter and Stony Brook ... Hunter hired Damion Jones as sports information director. For the past two years Jones has been sports information director at Northeastern Illinois ... Sean Paradis hired as interim sports information director at Quinnipiac to succeed Bill Berger, who became public relations and marketing director of the New Haven Ravens AA Baseball Club. Sports information assistants--Cal Poly named Scott Flanders as assistant sports information director ... Rice appointed Kris Thompson as sports information assistant. Sports medicine--Melanie Adams named coordinator of sports medicine and physical development at Hood. Adams has been assistant athletic trainer at Mount St. Mary's (Maryland) since 1995. Ticket operations--Daron Montgomery selected as director of ticket operations at Detroit. CONFERENCES The Pacific-10 Conference announced the selection of Daniel P. Coonan as assistant commissioner for governance and enforcement. Coonan has been assistant athletics director for legal affairs at California since 1995. The conference also elevated Michael A. Matthews to assistant commissioner for compliance. ORGANIZATIONS Host Communications chose Kelly Krauskopf as president of women's sports. NATIONAL OFFICE Pam Hamler resigned as financial/travel analyst to become a contract and staffing specialist with The Management Network Group, a telecommunications consulting company. Hamler has been with the Association since 1995 and served as an administrative assistant before assuming the financial/travel analyst position. Etc. CORRECTION The dates and site for the 1999 Division II Men's Tennis Championships were incorrectly reported in the October 12 edition of The NCAA News. The championships will be held May 13-16 at the University of West Florida.
NOTABLESThe Football Writers Association of America announced the selection of the following 10 football coaches as finalists for the Eddie Robinson/FWAA Coach of the Year Award: Houston Nutt, Arkansas; Bill Snyder, Kansas State; Bob Toledo, UCLA; Mike Bellotti, Oregon; Barry Alvarez, Wisconsin; Tommy Bowden, Tulane; Phillip Fulmer, Tennessee; Dick Tomey, Arizona; Larry Smith, Missouri; and George O'Leary, Georgia Tech. |
