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The NCAA RecordDecember 21, 1998
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Dayton administrator plans retirement
Dreidame currently serves on the NCAA Academics/Eligibility/Compliance Cabinet and the Subcommittee on Legislative Review/Interpretations. She has served as Division I vice-president and as a member of the former NCAA Council and Executive Committee. Dreidame also has been a member of the NCAA's Joint Policy Board and numerous other NCAA Committees. In 1970, Dreidame joined Dayton as an assistant professor of physical education and women's basketball and volleyball coach. Dreidame, who is the school's winningest volleyball coach with a 309-94 record, became Dayton's first full-time female athletics administrator when she was appointed associate director of athletics in 1974. Dreidame, a 1994 inductee into the Dayton athletics Hall of Fame, accepted the senior associate director of athletics position in 1989.
Dreidame earned a bachelor's degree in health and physical education and a master's degree from Cincinnati in 1964 and 1966. She earned her doctorate in physical education and higher education administration from Ohio State.
GENERAL
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICERS Toledo promoted Vik Kapoor, dean of the college of engineering, to president, effective January 1 ... Larry D. Large named as president at Oglethorpe, effective April 1. Large has been executive vice-president at Reed College. DIRECTORS OF ATHLETICS Curry appointed Steve Nelson as athletics director ... Sam Jankovich appointed as interim athletics director at Cal State Northridge ... Nichols appointed Charlyn Robert as athletics director. Robert has been head field hockey coach and senior woman administrator at the school and will retain her head coaching responsibilities ... Stanley "Butch" Perchan named as director of athletics at Southern Colorado to succeed Tony Taibi, who resigned. Perchan has been director of athletics, intramurals and recreation at Indiana/Purdue-Fort Wayne. ASSISTANT DIRECTORS OF ATHLETICS Towson hired Kathy Newburg as assistant athletics director for facility and event operations. Newburg has most recently been a physical education teacher ... Maine elevated Sean Frazier to assistant athletics director for diversity and student/staff welfare, promoted Scott Lowenberg to assistant athletics director for marketing and promotions and elevated Joe Roberts to assistant athletics director for media relations. Frazier most recently served as assistant to the director of athletics for equal opportunity. Lowenberg has been coordinator of marketing and promotions since 1996, and Roberts has been manager of sports information since 1997 ... Wisconsin appointed Richard J. Franchak as assistant athletics director for business services. For the past four years, Franchak has been assistant director of athletics at Akron. COACHES Baseball--John Cole chosen as head coach at Rowan. Men's basketball--Gary Williams, head coach at Maryland, awarded a contract extension through the 2005 season ... CCNY head coach Gary Smith announced plans to retire, effective at the end of the 1998-99 season, to become the assistant athletics director at the school ... Massachusetts head coach Bruiser Flint awarded a two-year contract extension through 2002. Men's basketball assistants--Catholic added Bob Wagner, Steve Howes and Brian Duignan as assistants. Wagner has coached at the high-school level for 28 years, and Howes has been an assistant coach at Good Counsel (Maryland) High School for three years. Duignan served as head manager for men's basketball at Maryland for three seasons. Women's basketball assistants--Maigan Braley selected as an assistant at Keene State ... Kristina Katori and Bevin Szokoli appointed as assistants at Long Island-Southampton. Field hockey--Linwood Vrolijk resigned as head coach at Eastern Mennonite ... Lasell added Jessica Cormier as head coach. Cormier has been an assistant at Bentley for the past two years. Football--Fred Goldsmith released as head coach at Duke ... Northeast Louisiana released Ed Zaunbrecher as head coach ... Mark Collins released as head coach at Saint Peter's ... UTEP extended the contract of head coach Charlie Bailey through the 2001 season ... Theophilus Danzy chosen as head coach at Stillman ... Bob Stoops named as head coach at Oklahoma to succeed John Blake, who was released after three seasons. Stoops has been defensive coordinator at Florida for the past three seasons ... Iowa appointed Kirk Ferentz as head coach to succeed Hayden Fry, who retired after 20 years. Ferentz has been an assistant head coach for the offense and offensive line coach for the Baltimore Ravens of the National Football League ... David Cutcliffe chosen as head coach at Mississippi to replace Tommy Tuberville, who became head coach at Auburn. Cutcliffe, an assistant coach at Tennessee for 16 years, has been assistant head coach and offensive coordinator at Tennessee since 1992 ... Tommy Bowden hired as head coach at Clemson to replace Tommy West, who was released. Bowden was head coach at Tulane where he led the team to an 11-0 season and a berth in the Liberty Bowl ... Jim Grobe, head coach at Ohio, awarded a one-year contract extension through the 2003 season. Grobe has built a 21-23-1 record in four seasons ... UNLV appointed John Robinson as head coach ... Georgia Tech head coach George O'Leary awarded a contract extension with a six-year rollover ... South Carolina hired Lou Holtz as head coach. Holtz, former head coach at Notre Dame, has most recently been a college football analyst at CBS ... Dave Roberts released as head coach at Baylor ... Illinois College selected Tom Rowland as head coach. Rowland, who has been interim head coach for most of the 1998 season, succeeds Rich Johanningmeier ... Georgia assistant coach Chris Scelfo named head coach at Tulane. Scelfo replaces Tommy Bowden, who became head coach at Clemson ... Middle Tennessee State hired Baylor assistant coach Andy McCollum as head coach ... Northeast Louisiana appointed Bobby Keasler as head coach ... Skip Holtz resigned as head coach at Connecticut to become offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at South Carolina. Holtz closes a five-year tenure as head coach with a 34-23 record ... Rutgers awarded head coach Terry Shea a one-year contract extension through the 2001 season ... Greg Purdum named as head coach at Central Methodist, succeeding Jim Grasdorf. Purdum has most recently served as an assistant football coach at Dodge City (Kansas) High School ... McNeese State elevated Kirby Bruchhaus to head coach. Bruchhaus has been defensive coordinator ... Jerry Baldwin appointed head coach at Southwestern Louisiana ... Toledo head coach Gary Pinkel awarded a three-year contract extension. Football assistants--Mike Cummings resigned as tight ends and special teams coach at Michigan State ... Wake Forest released offensive coordinator Hank Small and reassigned tight ends and special teams coach Pat Flaherty ... Buddy Teevens added as running backs coach at Florida ... Clemson hired Rich Rodriguez as offensive coordinator and assistant head coach. Rodriguez has been offensive coordinator at Tulane. Clemson also added Burton Burns, Thielen Smith, Ron West, Brad Scott, Rodney Allison and Jack Hines as assistants. Burns, Smith and West were assistants at Tulane, Scott was head coach at South Carolina and Allison and Hines most recently coached at Auburn ... Mississippi appointed John Latina, offensive line and running backs coach at Clemson, as an assistant ... Idaho State named Keith Uperesa offensive coordinator, Joe Borich running backs coach, Alan Salanoa tight ends coach, Chris Ball defensive coordinator and linebackers coach, Aaron Price quarterbacks coach, James Ward secondary coach, James Franklin wide receivers coach and Joe Lorig assistant defensive backs coach ... Darwin Huey announced plans to retire as an assistant at Westminster (Pennsylvania). Men's and women's golf--Belmont selected Carroll Clark as head men's coach and Tonya Gill as head women's coach ... Boise State added Megan Benn-Menzel as head coach. Benn-Menzel, who succeeds Mary Enright, has been an assistant professional at Shadow Valley Golf Course in Boise, Idaho, since May 1998. Men's ice hockey--Curry appointed Steve Goddard as head coach. Women's soccer--Lasell chose Catherine Kidd as head coach. For the past two years Kidd has served as an assistant at MIT ... Andrea Zeiler resigned as head coach at Curry ... Youngstown State head coach Jen Zebrozki resigned ... Alan Kirkup hired as head coach at Arkansas to succeed Janet Rayfield, who resigned. Kirkup has served as head women's soccer coach at Maryland for the past three seasons Softball--Tony Hatmaker hired as head coach at Southwest Baptist to succeed Anne Julian, who resigned to focus on duties as head volleyball coach at the school. Hatmaker also is an assistant football coach at the school ... Bob McKinley accepted head coaching responsibilities at Lasell. Men's and women's swimming--George Mason named Peter Ward as head men's and women's coach. Since 1995, Ward has served as head men's and women's swimming coach at Indiana (Pennsylvania) ... Indiana (Pennsylvania) named Matt Tallman as head coach to succeed Peter Ward. Men's and women's tennis--Chapman selected Ken Parker as head men's and women's coach ... Ferris State selected Paul Marcum as head men's coach to replace Mike Haber, who became an assistant women's tennis coach at Wisconsin. Marcum most recently served as codirector of the tennis program at Suntree Country Club in Melbourne, Florida. Men's and women's tennis assistant--Yale chose Duke Diaz as men's assistant coach. Men's and women's track and field--MIT selected Paul Slovenski as women's indoor and outdoor head coach. Slovenski, who has served in various capacities at the school since 1990, will be the first head coach of the indoor team and succeeds Joe Sousa as head coach of the outdoor program. Men's and women's track and field assistant--Dave Shoehalter promoted to men's and women's associate head coach at Yale. Men's and women's volleyball--Rich Hereau appointed head men's coach at Lasell ... Cornell named Christie Jackson as head coach. Jackson, who has been interim coach since October, succeeds Sue Medley, who resigned ... Mike Krause resigned as head women's coach at Muhlenberg. Krause built a record of 45-34 in three seasons ... St. Michael's head women's coach Rick Gouse resigned. The school selected Betsy Cieplicki as interim coach. Men's and women's volleyball assistant--Steve Loeswick selected as an assistant at Cornell. STAFF Facilities--Springfield chose Mark Douglas as assistant supervisor of equipment and athletics facilities. Marketing--Stetson chose Keith Napier as director of marketing. Sports information--Joe Dalfonso, Bradley sports information director since 1976, resigned to pursue another business opportunity ... Chris Hermann resigned after three years as sports information director at American International. Sports information assistant--Toledo appointed Angela Russo as assistant sports information director. Strength and conditioning--Vern Banks resigned as strength and conditioning coordinator at LSU ... Long Island-Southampton chose Lisa Caroleo as strength and conditioning coach. AGREEMENTS The Northeast Conference announced that Neutrogena T/Gel Shampoo will be the title sponsor of the 1999 conference men's and women's basketball tournament scheduled for February 26 through March 1. The National Soccer Coaches Association of America announced a multiyear sponsorship agreement with adidas as the organization's official sponsor and supplier of soccer equipment and apparel. CONFERENCES The Big Ten Conference promoted Brad Traviolia to director of finance and human resources and Sue Ryan to assistant commissioner. Traviolia was assistant director of sports management, and Ryan served as director of communications. The conference also appointed Andrea Williams and Duer Sharp as sports management administrators, and Wendy Wilkinson as assistant to the commissioner. Steve Albert chosen as a broadcaster for six of 13 Northeast Conference basketball games on the Madison Square Garden Network. Donna Poyant appointed as assistant director of communications, and Ronald Ratner selected as assistant commissioner at the Northeast Conference. CUNY Athletic Conference added Gregorio Velez and Juan Villamar as sports information assistants. NATIONAL OFFICE
Nichole Manning hired as an assistant director of championships. Manning has been director of championships at the Colonial Athletic Association since August 1995 ... The Association appointed Frank Losquadro as assistant director of broadcast services. For the past three years, Losquadro has worked at NCAA TV News in New York as a producer, writer and director ... Information services support Cindy Glass resigned to become a PC specialist with First National Bank of Kansas ... Crystal Reimer named financial/travel analyst. Reimer has been with the Association since August 1996 and has served as staff assistant for championships and staff assistant for the Division I Men's Basketball Championship.
The following Divisions I-A, I-AA, II and III football coaches have earned 1998 GTE Regional Coach-of-the-Year honors, presented by the American Football Coaches Association: Division I--George O' Leary, Georgia Tech; Houston Nutt, Arkansas; John Cooper, Ohio State; Bill Snyder, Kansas State; Bob Toledo, UCLA. Division I-AA--Mark Whipple, Massachusetts; Paul Johnson, Georgia Southern, L. C. Cole, Tennessee State; Randy Ball, Western Illinois; Sam Goodwin, Northwestern State. Division II--George Mihalik, Slippery Rock; Glenn Spencer, West Georgia; Brian Kelly, Grand Valley State; Mel Tjeerdsma, Northwest Missouri State; Joe Glenn, Northern Colorado. Division III--Mike DeLong, Springfield; Frank Girardi, Lycoming; Steve Mohr, Trinity (Texas); Joe Fincham, Wittenberg; Rich Kacmarynski, Central (Iowa).
The following four assistant football coaches are winners of the American Football Coaches Association Assistant Coach of the Year award for Divisions I-A, I-AA, II and III, respectively: Richard Bell, linebackers coach, Air Force; John Wright, offensive line coach, Hampton; Wesley McGriff, defensive coordinator/secondary coach, Kentucky State; Mike Plinske, defensive coordinator, Bethel (Minnesota).
Ricky Williams, running back at Texas, named 1998 Walter Camp player of the year. This season, Williams, an education major, cracked the Division I-A career rushing mark with 6,279 yards and the career all-purpose yards record with 7,206. He also established records for career rushing touchdowns, career total touchdowns, career points overall and career yards per carry. Williams was also named inaugural recipient of the Associated Press College Player of the Year.
The Downtown Wilkes-Barre Touchdown Club selected the following football players as finalists for the Melberger Award, which recognizes the outstanding Division III player of the year: R. J. Bowers, Grove City; Mike Burton, Trinity (Texas); Scott Hvistendahl, Augsburg.
The Intercollegiate Tennis Association named Anita Kurimay of California and Peter Handoyo of Tennessee as national players of the month for November. Ken Kigongo and Francisco Trinidad of Michigan State, and Ana Fernandez and Elisa Penalvo of Marquette were chosen as Intercollegiate Tennis Association national doubles teams of the month for November.
John McNichols, Indiana State head men's track and field coach, selected as head coach for the U.S. men's team competing in the 1999 Pan American Junior Track and Field Championships scheduled for July 8-10 in Miami. Also, Chandra Cheeseborough of Tennessee State was named as an assistant for the women's track and field team and Debra Lombardi, Washington State, and Kathleen Raske-Sparrey, Central Michigan, were appointed head manager and assistant manager for the women's team, respectively.
Texas A&M linebacker Dat Nguyen selected as the 1998 Lombardi Award winner. The award is presented annually to the top collegiate lineman. Nguyen holds the school record for career tackles with 517.
Jennifer Rosales, a sophomore at Southern California, and Edward Loar, a junior at Oklahoma State, were named Rolex College Golfers of the Month for November.
Georgia football player Matt Stinchcomb was selected as winner of the Vincent dePaul Draddy Award. Presented by the National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame, the award is given to the foundation's top scholar-athlete. Stinchcomb, a finance major, was a 1997 GTE/CoSIDA Academic All-America.
The National Soccer Coaches Association of America named ESPN's Bob Ley as an honorary all-American. Ley, who has been with ESPN since 1979, is a weeknight co-anchor of SportsCenter and hosts ESPN's Outside the Lines series ... Pomona-Pitzer head women's tennis coach Ann Lebedeff was named winner of the Rolex Meritorious Service Award. Presented during the recent Intercollegiate Tennis Association Coaches Convention, the award recognizes a coach's extraordinary contributions to collegiate tennis and service to the collegiate tennis community throughout his or her career. Lebedeff, who serves on six Intercollegiate Tennis Association committees, including the board of directors, has been head coach at Pomona-Pitzer since last summer.
Former Akron athletics director Kenneth "Red" Cochrane died November 24 after suffering from an extended illness. He was 90. Cochrane, a two-time football all-Ohio Conference halfback at Akron from 1928 to 1930, served as director of athletics at the school from 1948 to 1969.
Thomas Samuel "Sammy" Small, a Florida Southern baseball player, died December 1. Small, 23, sustained head injuries when he fell out of the back of a pickup truck and struck his head on the pavement. He had been helping a friend move. He was a sports management major and played second base and shortstop.
Jack Whalen, former head baseball coach at Holy Cross, died of cancer December 7, at the age of 73. Whalen, who played baseball and basketball at the school before graduating in 1948, served as head baseball coach for 27 seasons.
Former Grambling State basketball coach and athletics director Fred Hobdy died recently at the age of 75. Hobdy was the most-victorious collegiate basketball coach in Louisiana history with 572 wins and 288 losses.
Former Texas football player and coach G. C. "Ox" Emerson died of pneumonia on November 26 at the age 90. Emerson was a football all-Southwest Conference guard at Texas. From 1951 to 1957, he was an assistant coach at the school. In addition to playing professionally with the Detroit Lions of the National Football League, Emerson also coached on the high-school level.
--Compiled by Leilana McKindra
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Elaine Dreidame, senior associate director of athletics at Dayton, has announced plans to retire, effective January 15, 1999.