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The NCAA RecordDecember 7, 1998
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Luong chosen as head volleyball coach
Luong most recently served as an assistant women's volleyball coach at Northeastern. Prior to his one-season tenure there, Luong spent two seasons as an assistant women's coach at New Hampshire. From 1994 to 1996, he worked as a student/graduate assistant coach at Ferris State, in addition to fulfilling duties as head junior varsity volleyball coach at Big Rapids (Michigan) High School from 1993 to 1995. Luong coached the Reed City Smash AAU girls 18s elite squad in 1994, and in 1996 he coached the West Michigan Juniors AAU Girls 18s to a first-place finish in the Michigan AAU State Tournament. A four-year member of the Ferris State men's club volleyball team, Luong also competed with the Grand Rapids (Michigan) AAU squad for three years.
Luong earned a bachelor's degree in business management with a minor in finance from Ferris State in 1995.
GENERAL
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICERS Kendall Blanchard appointed as president of Fort Lewis. Blanchard has been vice-chancellor for academic affairs at Tennessee-Martin ... Dolores E. Cross, professor of leadership and diversity at the Graduate School and University Center of City University of New York, named president at Morris Brown ... Allentown President Daniel Gambet announced plans to retire, effective July 1, 1999 ... Loyola Marymount chose Robert B. Lawton as president, effective July 1, 1999. Lawton has been dean of Georgetown College at Georgetown. ASSOCIATE DIRECTORS OF ATHLETICS Robert Edson selected as associate athletics director for finance and team services at Syracuse. Edson, who succeeds Dennis Helsel, has been director of athletics compliance at the school for the past two years ... Georgia Southern promoted Paul Johnson to associate athletics director. Johnson, who will continue to serve as head football coach, has won two straight Southern Conference football championships and earned two consecutive conference coach-of-the-year honors since joining the program in 1997. ASSISTANT DIRECTORS OF ATHLETICS Miami (Florida) hired Rob Grady as assistant athletics director for marketing ... Paul Lizzo selected as assistant athletics director for external affairs at Ramapo ... Cal Poly hired Michael LaPlante as assistant athletics director for annual giving. LaPlante has been assistant executive director of San Diego State's Aztec Athletic Foundation since 1996. COACHES Men's basketball--Curry appointed Sean Casey head coach ... Tim McGraw named interim head coach at Hartwick to succeed Nick Lambros, who resigned to become golf coach and assistant director of special gifts at the school. Men's basketball assistants--Sean Kearney elevated to associate head coach at Delaware. Kearney has been with the program for the last seven years ... Mike Manning added as an assistant at Coker ... Bryan Goodman chosen as an assistant at Arizona. Goodman most recently was an assistant at Barat College ... Duquesne selected Scott Young as director of basketball operations ... Pat Geigel appointed as an assistant at Lakeland ... Lehman added Bob Zawoluk and Joe Fagan as assistants. Women's basketball assistants--Colby-Sawyer named Nate Camp as assistant coach ... Coker appointed Katie Hanson as an assistant coach ... South Alabama chose Dorianne Johnson and Roosevelt Riley as assistants. Football--Norfolk State released Darnell Moore as head coach ... UNLV announced that Jeff Horton will not return as head coach next season ... Tony DeCarlo, head coach at John Carroll, announced plans to retire ... Washington and Jefferson's John Luckhardt retired as head coach, effective immediately. Luckhardt, the school most-victorious coach, will continue as director of athletics and professor of physical education at the school ... Missouri-Rolla will not renew the contract of head coach Jim Anderson. Anderson has guided the school's football program for the past seven years ... Michael Manley resigned as head coach and associate professor of physical education at Anderson. Manley built a 68-86-3 record during his span as head coach from 1982 to 1997 ... Arkansas-Monticello head coach Carl Preston resigned after two years ... Southwest Texas head coach Bob DeBesse awarded a three-year contract ... Idaho State named Larry Lewis as football coach ... Nelson Stokley, head coach at Southwestern Louisiana, resigned ... Clemson released head coach Tommy West, effective at the end of the season ... Doug Cosbie and Monte Clark resigned as assistants at California. Cosbie was offensive coordinator and Clark served as offensive line coach ... South Carolina released head coach Brad Scott ... South Dakota will not renew the contract of head coach Ron Rankin. Rankin served as assistant head coach and offensive line coach at the school before being elevated to head coach in January 1997 ... Dave Keeny awarded a multiyear contract at Kutztown. Keeny has been head coach since last December ... Auburn appointed Tommy Tuberville as head coach, succeeding interim coach Bill Oliver. Tuberville has been head coach at Mississippi for the past four years. Football assistants--Auburn named Noel Mazzone as offensive coordinator, Eddie Gran as running backs coach, Greg Knox as receivers coach, Joe Pannunzio as tight ends and special teams coach, Hugh Hall as offensive line coach, Don Dunn as defensive tackles coach, John Lovett as defensive backs coach and Terry Price as defensive ends coach. Men's and women's golf--Sacred Heart hired Tony Mastronardi to replace George Heslin as head men's and women's coach. Mastronardi presently serves as a teaching professional and director of golf operations at Golden Bear Golf Center in Elmsford, New York ... Maryland selected men's assistant golf coach Jason Rodenhaver as head women's golf coach, effective December 7. The women's program is scheduled to begin competition next fall. Men's lacrosse--Paul Kieltyka selected as head coach at Kean ... Randy Mearns accepted head coaching duties at Canisius. Last season, Mearns served as an assistant with the program ... West Chester named Pat Cullinan interim head coach at West Chester, succeeding Bob Brinton, who resigned after 14 seasons. Cullinan has been an assistant with the program for 10 seasons. Men's soccer--Blake New resigned as women's head soccer coach at Oberlin to become men's head soccer coach at the school. New, women's head coach for the past three seasons, succeeds Chris Barker, who resigned, effective February 1 ... Nova Southeastern head men's soccer coach, Frankie Delgado, resigned to become an assistant soccer coach at Radford ... Kwame Lloyd chosen as full-time director of soccer at Whittier. Lloyd will assume head men's soccer coaching duties and remain head women's soccer and women's lacrosse coach. Women's soccer--Tulane's Carla DeSantis resigned as head coach ... Liza Grant resigned as head coach at Wyoming ... Ryan Livengood resigned as head coach at Troy State. Men's and women's volleyball--Karl France appointed head men's coach at Mount St. Vincent ... Marquette head women's coach Tat Shiely announced plans to resign after 24 seasons. Shiely also has served as the school's head women's basketball coach from 1975-86, senior woman administrator from 1985-94 and compliance officer from 1988-94. STAFF Athletic training--Chris Schmidt elevated to full-time head athletic trainer at Whittier, succeeding Allison Shepherd, who became an assistant athletic trainer at Oregon. Schmidt has been an assistant athletic trainer at the school for two and a half years. External affairs--St. Francis (Pennsylvania) appointed Scott Allen Goldberg director of external affairs for intercollegiate athletics. Goldberg has been northeast region sales director for Fairtron Corporation. Recruiting--Wheeling Jesuit selected Guy Lucci as athletics recruiting coordinator. Sports information--Hartford sports information director Jim Keener resigned. Sports information assistant--George Washington elevated Chris Stockton to associate director of sports information. Since 1995, Stockton has been an assistant sports information director. AGREEMENTS Schafer Corporation named as an official sponsor of the Hobey Baker Award, presented annually to the top collegiate ice hockey player. Established in 1972, Schafer is a high-technology company that offers digital video editing solutions in the athletics industry. The company also provides technical, professional and consulting services to industry and government. CONFERENCES George P. Evans named coordinator of men's basketball officials for the Southwestern Athletic Conference during the 1999-2000 season. The Eastern College Athletic Conference hired Doug Loughrey as assistant commissioner for marketing and broadcast services. NATIONAL OFFICE Robert Dittrich hired as manager of corporate marketing. Dittrich most recently worked as a contemporary marketing team representative at Anheuser-Busch, Inc. ... Rhonda Winter appointed as director of information systems and technology. Winter most recently has been vice-president of information technology and operations for InterArt/Sunrise Publications in Bloomington, Indiana ... Richard Johanningmeier and Amanda Schuster selected as enforcement representatives. Johanningmeier most recently was athletics director at Illinois College and formerly served as an enforcement representative at the NCAA from 1986 to 1990. Schuster has been a criminal trial attorney for the last four years in the Washtenaw County Prosecutor's office in Ann Arbor, Michigan ... Debbie Powell-Terry appointed as an accountant. Most recently, Powell-Terry has been an accounting assistant at Northside Cardiology in Indianapolis ... Corey Bray added as a research assistant. Bray has held graduate teaching positions, and has been a high-school track and field coach and assistant basketball coach in Eugene, Oregon.
ETC.CORRECTIONS The score of the Division II women's soccer first-round game between LIU-C.W. Post and Bloomsburg was reported incorrectly in the November 23 edition of The NCAA News. The correct score of the game was LIU-C.W. Post 3, Bloomsburg 2. |
Wentworth Institute has named Phuong Luong head men's volleyball coach to succeed four-year head coach Jan Raich, who resigned.