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The NCAA RecordJanuary 18, 1999
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Petrucelli assumes soccer post at Texas
For the past nine years, Petrucelli has piloted the women's soccer program at Notre Dame. During his tenure, the school has collected eight straight conference championships, competed in four straight national semifinals between 1994 and 1997 and captured the national championship in 1995. In 1994 and 1995, he was selected as the National Soccer Coaches Association of America National Coach of the Year. He is the only coach to win the honor in consecutive years. Petrucelli earned a bachelor of arts degree in business administration at North Carolina-Greensboro and competed on the school's 1982 and 1983 NCAA Division II national championship teams.
Petrucelli is a former chair of the NCAA Men's and Women's Soccer Rules Committee and has been a member of the committee since 1993.
GENERAL
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICERS Jeffrey D. Baker resigned as president at Luther, effective upon the selection of a successor ... Trinity (Texas) hired John R. Brazil as president, effective this summer. Brazil has been president at Bradley ... James E. Bultman, president at Northwestern College (Iowa), appointed president at Hope, effective July 1 ... John Carroll promoted acting President Edward Glynn to president ... Wendell M. Holloway chosen as interim president at Bowie State. Holloway has been a lobbyist in Washington, D.C., and a member of the University System of Maryland Board of Regents ... Eastern Illinois hired Texas Woman's University President Carol D. Surles as president, effective March 1. DIRECTOR OF ATHLETICS Charles H. Moore, director of athletics and physical education at Cornell for the past four years, announced plans to retire, effective upon the selection of a successor. SENIOR WOMAN ADMINISTRATOR Michigan State appointed Shelley Appelbaum as senior woman administrator and associate athletics director to replace Kathy Lindahl, who was promoted to assistant vice-president for finance. Appelbaum closes a five-year stint at Bowling Green, where she most recently served as senior associate athletics director. ASSOCIATE DIRECTORS OF ATHLETICS
Maryland promoted Rob Mullens to associate athletics director for administration. Mullens had served on an interim basis since last May and has been with Maryland as an assistant athletics director for business since summer 1996 ... Larry Wahl resigned as senior associate athletics director at Miami (Florida) to become director of investor relations and corporate communications ASSISTANT DIRECTORS OF ATHLETICS Lisa Dahman selected as assistant director of athletics/development at Minnesota State-Mankato. Dahman has been assistant director of the school's corporate and foundation relations department for the past year ... Curry appointed Vincent Eruzione as assistant athletics director ... Brad Hovious selected as assistant athletics director for development at Rice. COACHES Baseball assistants--Jacksonville assistant coach Johnny Wiggs appointed as head baseball coach at Polk Community College in Winter Haven, Florida. Wiggs has been with Jacksonville for the past three years ... Clemson added Tim Corbin as an assistant. Women's basketball--Cindy Anderson elevated to head coach to replace Pat Coyle, who accepted an assistant coaching post with the New York Liberty of the Women's National Basketball Association. Anderson has been with the program for four seasons and has been associate head coach since July ... Augusta State head coach Lowell Barnhart resigned, effective at the end of the season. Women's basketball assistant--Lehman selected La Tricia Gunnells as an assistant coach. Football--Arkansas-Monticello chose Clarence Holley as head coach. Holley has been defensive coordinator at West Texas A&M ... Richard Beal named as head coach at Stonehill to succeed Connie Driscoll, who resigned after six years. Beal has been an assistant coach at Tufts for the past three years ... Missouri-Rolla announced Kirby Cannon as head coach. Cannon, an assistant at Western Illinois for the past two seasons, replaces Jim Anderson ... Regis Scafe named head coach at John Carroll, succeeding Tony DeCarlo, who retired as head coach and remains athletics director at the school. Since 1994, Scafe has been head coach at Case Western Reserve ... Texas A&M-Commerce appointed Eddie Brister as head coach ... Holy Cross awarded head coach Dan Allen a two-year contract extension ... Alabama awarded head coach Mike DuBose a two-year contract extension through February 2003 ... William Elias Jr. appointed as head coach at Gannon ... Washington hired Rick Neuheisel as head coach. Neuheisel, who has been head coach at Colorado for the past four years, succeeds Jim Lambright. Football assistants--Villanova elevated Mark Ferrante to assistant head coach, Sam Venuto to offensive coordinator/quarterbacks coach and Stan Drayton to running backs coach/recruiting coordinator. The school also added Drew Maginnis as wide receivers coach ... Alabama-Birmingham chose Pat Sullivan as offensive coordinator ... Boise State promoted offensive line coach Brent Myers to offensive coordinator ... Kansas State named Rex Ryan defensive coordinator, Phil Bennett secondary coach and Jim Gush defensive ends coach ... Middle Tennessee State selected Larry Fedora as offensive coordinator and Miles Aldridge as defensive coordinator. The school also added Joe Wickline, Dan Karl, Alex Robbins, Floyd Walker and Dom Green as assistant coaches ... Southern Mississippi elevated Dave Wommack to defensive coordinator. Wommack was defensive backs coach ... Widener assistant coach Lou Orth resigned ... Oklahoma named Mark Mangino and Steve Spurrier Jr. as assistants ... Georgia Tech selected Danny Crossman as an assistant ... Dan Lounsbury, offensive coordinator at Houston, has been reassigned within the football program ... Michigan State chose Bob Casullo as special teams and tight ends coach ... South Carolina added Dave Roberts and Jon Fabris as assistants ... Baylor selected Mickey Matthews as defensive coordinator and linebackers coach ... David Sollazzo added as defensive line coach at Georgia Tech ... Idaho released defensive line coach Dionicio Monarrez ... Georgia Southern hired Ivin Jasper as quarterbacks coach to replace Michael Carter, who resigned after two seasons. Jasper spent the 1998 season as offensive coordinator and quarterbacks and fullbacks coach at Indiana State ... Stephen F. Austin added Todd Ivicic and Robert Walker as assistants ... Alabama appointed Kance Thompson as defensive line coach ... Georgia Tech elevated linebackers coach Ted Roof to defensive coordinator and running backs coach Bill O'Brien to recruiting coordinator. The school also added Paul Ferraro as defensive backs coach ... Gary Bartell selected as defensive backs coach at Southwestern Louisiana. Men's and women's golf--Tom Simmons announced as head men's and women's coach at Mercyhurst. The women's program is scheduled to begin competition as an independent in fall 1999. Simmons established the school's men's program in 1970-71 ... Middle Tennessee State appointed Kacy Rodgers as defensive line coach. Men's lacrosse--Clark hired Chris Triolo as head coach. In 1998, Triolo served as an assistant varsity lacrosse coach at Long Island-C. W. Post. Men's soccer--Wilson Egidio resigned as head coach at CCNY ... Curry head coach Peter Vasiliadis resigned. Women's soccer--Kansas named Mark Francis as head coach. Softball--Centenary head coach Michael Bastian resigned as head coach, effective December 31, to assume head coaching duties with the Women's Professional Softball League ... Brittney Cannavino hired as head coach at Kalamazoo. Most recently, Cannavino has been a teacher and softball coach at the high-school level in addition to serving as pitching coach at the community-college level for the past two seasons ... Elaine Carr Schwager, head coach of the Croation National Softball Team, named head coach at Regis (Massachusetts) ... Indiana State chose Tom Rupert as head coach. Rupert most recently spent one year as head coach at Kentucky Wesleyan. Men's and women's tennis--Thomas S. Walker chosen as head women's coach at Kalamazoo ... Mary Washington appointed Cindy VanderBerg as head women's coach ... Gaurav Misra named director of the tennis center at Columbia ... Barton named Danny Colangelo as men's and women's tennis coach ... Jim Hayes appointed as head men's and women's coach at Clark. Hayes formerly coached men's and women's tennis at the school from 1993 to 1995. Men's and women's tennis assistants--Justin Clark chosen as men's assistant coach at North Carolina State ... Curt Speerschneider chosen as women's assistant coach at North Carolina State. Men's and women's track and field assistant--Bucknell appointed Marc Sweet as an assistant coach. Men's and women's volleyball--Appalachian State head coach Dave Markland resigned after seven seasons. Markland closes his tenure with an overall record of 154-89 ... Muhlenberg hired Stewart Arevalo as head women's coach. Arevalo, head coach at Cedar Crest since 1997, succeeds Mike Krause, who resigned. Men's water polo--Erik Farrar resigned as head coach at Brown. STAFF Marketing--Chris Branscome selected as director of marketing and promotion for athletics at Towson.
Sports information--Case Western Reserve appointed Creg Jantz as sports information director. Since 1995, Jantz Sports information assistant--Appalachian State chose Kelby Siler as assistant sports information director. Strength and conditioning--UCLA chose Mike Linn as strength and conditioning coach for all varsity sports ... Auburn named Kevin Yoxall as strength and conditioning coach. CONFERENCES Nancy Smith selected as interim director of media relations at the Mid-Continent Conference, effective January 13, 1999. Smith succeeds Jeff Reynolds, an assistant commissioner, who resigned.
Mark Mentone, sports information assistant at Southern Connecticut State, accepted additional duties as media relations director for the New England Collegiate Confer- NATIONAL OFFICE Mike Bailey appointed as licensing coordinator. Bailey most recently served as licensing manager at Churchill Downs, Inc. ... Todd Greenwood selected as sales and marketing manager for the Hall of Champions. Greenwood most recently served as a national sales manager for the Indiana Convention and Visitors Association.
NOTABLESThe Walter Camp Football Foundation named Lou Holtz as 1998 Man of the Year. Holtz, recently appointed head football coach at South Carolina, formerly served as head football coach at Notre Dame, where he compiled a 100-30-4 record and led the school to nine straight bowl appearances. G. K. "Joe" Guennel selected as a 1999 inductee into the National Soccer Coaches Association of America Hall of Fame. Guennel has assisted in the establishment of numerous college-level soccer programs nationwide, including Denver and Indiana, where he was head coach from 1949 to 1959. He also was instrumental in the creation of several high-school soccer programs as well as soccer coaches and soccer officials' organizations. |
Texas has hired Chris Petrucelli as head women's soccer coach. He replaces Dang Pibulvech, whose contract was not renewed after the 1998 season.