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The NCAA News -- November 23, 1998

Three members selected to fill Management Council seats

Three new members have been elected to fill vacancies on the NCAA Division II Management Council, effective immediately.

They are Dianthia Ford, associate director of athletics at Shaw University; Gail Fults, faculty athletics representative at Humboldt State University; and Bruce Harger, director of athletics at Drury College.

Ford

Ford has served as senior woman administrator at Shaw since 1990.

She also is head coach of women's volleyball and softball and is an instructor in the department of public administration.

Previously, Ford was a management consultant for E.L. Hamm and Associates.

Before that, she was on the staff at Fayetteville State University. She earned her undergraduate degree from Fayetteville State and her master's from Northern Illinois University.

She has served as a member of the NCAA Committee on Women's Athletics and on the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association's Executive Committee as vice-president of women's sports. She also is past president of the CIAA's softball coaches association and current president of the CIAA volleyball coaches association.

Fults

Fults is professor of business and economics at Humboldt State, where she teaches accounting and management.

She previously was on the faculty at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Claremont McKenna College; and Pomona College.

Fults has served as the faculty athletics representative for six years, working with the Northern California Athletic and Pacific West Conferences.

She has been active in developing processes to assure satisfactory degree progress for student-athletes and adding women's sports to comply with California gender-equity law while maintaining competitive opportunities for male student-athletes.

Fults is a graduate of the University of Utah. She has a master's and doctorate degrees from Claremont Graduate University.

Harger

Harger, who came to Drury in 1988, is director of athletics and chair of the exercise and sport science department.

Before joining Drury, Harger was a colonel on the U.S. Air Force, holding command positions in NATO and the Strategic Air Command.

He taught and coached at the U.S. Air Force Academy and served as director of the academy's human performance laboratory.

At Drury, he has overseen the rapid growth of the athletics department and facilities.

Harger was selected as a fellow in the American College of Sports Medicine in 1993.

He earned his undergraduate degree from Denison University, a master's from Pennsylvania State University and a Ph.D. from Ohio State University.