The NCAA Record

March 1, 1999

Washington (Missouri) volleyball coach retires

Teri Clemens retired as head volleyball coach at Washington (Missouri) at the end of the 1998 season. Clemens' winning percentage of .873 is the highest of any NCAA Division III volleyball coach.

Clemens, who finished with a 529-77 record, joined the Washington (Missouri) program as head coach in 1985. During her tenure, she led teams to seven NCAA Division III titles. She also coached national teams at the 1991 and 1994 U.S. Olympic Festivals. In 1994, the team earned a bronze medal. Clemens earned coach-of-the-year honors from Asics/Volleyball Monthly in 1989 and 1992 and from the American Volleyball Coaches Association in 1991, 1994 and 1996.

As a student-athlete at Northeast Missouri State University (now Truman State), Clemens played softball, field hockey and tennis, capturing recognition as female athlete of the year and MVP for all three teams in 1978.

Washington (Missouri) hired Rich Luenemann, head coach at St. Francis (Illinois) for the past 18 seasons, to succeed Clemens.

CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICERS

Leslie H. Cochran announced plans to retire as president at Youngstown State, effective June 30, 2000 ... Missouri-Kansas City appointed Gordon H. Lamb as interim chancellor. Lamb was formerly president at Northeastern Illinois ... J. Cordell Maddox, president at Carson-Newman, announced retirement plans, effective July 31 ... Indiana State President John W. Moore resigned, effective summer 2000 ... Joseph A. Chapman named as president at North Dakota State, effective this summer. Chapman has been senior vice-president and provost at Montana State ... William R. Cotter, president at Colby, announced plans to retire, effective June 30, 2000 ... Bernard W. Franklin named president at Virginia Union, effective July 1. Franklin has been president at St. Augustine's.

DIRECTORS OF ATHLETICS

Robert J. Arkeilpane chosen as director of athletics at Buffalo. Arkeilpane, who replaces Nelson E. Townsend, has been serving as interim athletics director for 10 months ... Cal State Sacramento selected Debby Colberg as interim athletics director ... Andrea Myers selected as athletics director at Indiana State ... Westminster (Pennsylvania) athletics director Joseph B. Fusco announced plans to step down, effective June 30. Fusco, a former football coach at the school from 1972-90, will retain his duties as a professor of physical education through the 1999-2000 school year.

ASSOCIATE DIRECTORS OF ATHLETICS

La Salle elevated John Lyons to associate athletics director. For the past 16 years, Lyons has been head swimming coach. He will continue to fulfill his coaching duties ... Debra Gore-Mann appointed as associate athletics director for finance and operations at Stanford ... Texas Christian hired Kevin O'Connell as associate athletics director for varsity sports to succeed Mel Thomas. O'Connell has been senior associate athletics director of external affairs at Miami (Ohio).

ASSISTANT DIRECTORS OF ATHLETICS

Margot Early named as assistant director of athletics for compliance at Central Connecticut State ... Northeast Louisiana named Cory Rogers as assistant director of athletics for media relations. Rogers, who succeeds Robby Edwards, has been sports information director at Troy State for a year ... Emil Parker, assistant athletics director for media relations/sports information director at Davidson, announced plans to retire after 31 years, effective June 30.

COACHES

Baseball assistants--Framingham State selected Michael Connor as an assistant coach ... Jason Lewis hired as an assistant at Rhode Island College. Lewis spent the 1998 season as an assistant baseball coach at Plymouth State ... Tommy Dempsey chosen as an assistant coach at Susquehanna ... Misericordia named Jim White as assistant coach.

Men's basketball--Brown head coach Frank Dobbs resigned, effective at the end of the season ... Holy Cross head coach Bill Raynor will not return next year.

Men's basketball assistants--Jim Yarbrough promoted to associate basketball coach at College of Charleston ... West Georgia elevated David Draper to assistant head coach.

Women's basketball--Webster's Ron Roberts resigned as head women's basketball coach, women's cross country coach and assistant athletics director, positions he has held since 1995 ... Alan LeForce awarded a contract extension through the 2002-03 season at Coastal Carolina. LeForce is in his second season as head coach.

Field hockey--Missi Sanders resigned as head coach at Virginia. The school chose Jessica Wilk as Sanders' successor ... Kristen Geissler chosen as part-time head field hockey coach and assistant women's lacrosse coach at New Paltz State. The field hockey program is slated to begin competition this fall. Geissler has been an assistant field hockey coach at Lock Haven.

Football--Norfolk State appointed Maurice Forte as head coach ... Rob Stern chosen as head coach at Saint Peter's ... Steve Barrows chosen as head coach at Anderson. Barrows has been an instructor and offensive coordinator/recruiting coordinator at Bethany (West Virginia) since 1996 ... Saginaw Valley State selected Randy R. Awrey as head coach ... Doug Malone resigned as head coach at Wingate ... David Jaumotte appointed as head coach at St. Francis (Pennsylvania).

Football assistants--Hofstra defensive coordinator Tom Masella resigned to accept a similar position at Louisiana Tech ... Denny Schuler named as defensive backfield coach at Stanford ... Mark Fetterman elevated to defensive coordinator at Jacksonville. The school also appointed Greg Boyce as offensive coordinator and Paul Williams as defensive backs coach ... James Madison's Tom Everson resigned as assistant coach ... Brian Knorr named as defensive coordinator at Ohio to replace Tim DeRuyter. Knorr has been inside linebackers coach at the school ... Maryland chose Bob Heffner as offensive coordinator ... Donnie Treadwell appointed as running backs coach at North Carolina State... Tennessee selected Larry Slade as defensive backs coach ... Bowling Green hired Tim Banks as running backs coach. The school also named Tim Beckman as defensive coordinator and Tim Walton as secondary coach. Bob Ligashesky accepted new duties as assistant head coach. Ligashesky, an assistant for the past eight years, will continue to coach linebackers and special teams ... Bill D'Ottavio hired as linebackers coach at Central Florida. D'Ottavio has been defensive coordinator and linebackers coach for two years at Millersville. Also, Gene Chizik, who spent last season as linebackers coach at Central Florida, was named as secondary coach to succeed Danny Crossman ... Earl Buckingham selected as defensive coordinator at Arkansas-Pine Bluff ... James Madison assistant Bob Fello resigned ... Joe Cullen accepted the defensive line coaching post at LSU ... Middle Tennessee State chose Steve Bird as wide receivers coach ... Clifford Lewis appointed as defensive line coach at Southern University ... Washington selected Tom Williams as assistant defensive coach ... Haskel Buff and Lee Hays added as assistant coaches at West Texas A&M. Buff, who succeeds Clarence Holley as defensive coordinator, has been linebackers coach and special teams coordinator at Texas Southern. Hays, tight ends coach at Texas A&M-Kingsville for two years, succeeds Darren Hiller as offensive line coach ... Russell Spires resigned as assistant head coach at Newberry. Spires has been an assistant with the program for six seasons, the last two as assistant head coach ... Miami (Ohio) running backs coach Ron Johnson has been awarded additional duties as assistant head coach. The school also selected Jon Wauford as defensive line coach, Joe Palcic as linebackers coach, Bobby Johnson as tight ends coach, Brian Von Bergen as wide receivers coach/recruiting coordinator, Greg Seamon as offensive coordinator, Jim Wachenheim as defensive coordinator, John Peterson as offensive line coach and Mel Tucker as defensive backs coach ... Morris Watts appointed as offensive coordinator at Michigan State ... Washington chose Steve Axman as an assistant coach ... Eastern Kentucky defensive coordinator/recruiting coordinator Dean Hood hired as defensive secondary coach at Ohio. Hood has been at Eastern Kentucky for the past five years ... Kennedy Pola chosen as linebackers coach at San Diego State to replace Ron Aiken, who became an assistant at Iowa. Pola spent the 1997 and 1998 seasons as running backs coach at Colorado ... Colgate named Chip West wide receivers coach ... Mike Woodford appointed secondary coach at Middle Tennessee ... North Texas chose Ramon Flanigan as an assistant ... Tom Brattan accepted offensive line coaching duties at Stanford ... Kansas State selected Phil Bennett as defensive coordinator, Matt Miller as tight ends coach, Bob Fello as defensive ends coach, Jim Gush as linebackers coach and Jeremy Martin and Darren Holmes as graduate assistant coaches ... Bob McConnell promoted to offensive coordinator and Hal Hunter elevated to assistant head football coach at LSU. McConnell was receivers coach and Hunter served as offensive line coach ... Tulane chose Giff Smith as defensive line coach ... West Virginia hired Darrell Hazell as assistant running backs coach. For the past two seasons, Hazell has been tight ends and split ends coach at Army. The school also announced that Tony Pierce, running backs coach for the past two seasons, has been named secondary coach to succeed Jerry Holmes, who accepted a post with the National Football League's Cleveland Browns ... Jim Tanara selected as defensive coordinator at Eastern Kentucky ... Georgia Southern promoted Joey Houston to secondary coach to replace Giff Smith and named Bob Bodine as outside linebackers coach. For the past two seasons Houston has been coaching cornerbacks, and Bodine was a staff assistant ... Bill Miller chosen as defensive coordinator at Michigan State ... Redlands assistant coach Henry Sroka resigned to become a scout for the National Football League's Dallas Cowboys ... Larry McDaniel added as defensive line coach at Ball State. During the 1998 season, McDaniel was tight ends coach and assistant recruiting coordinator at Southwest Missouri State. The school also announced the resignation of assistant coach Levern Belin, who accepted a similar post at Connecticut. Belin coached outside linebackers for one season and defensive ends for four seasons ... Kent chose Paul Haynes as secondary coach. During a two-year stint with Northern Iowa, Haynes coached the kickoff return team and spent one year as running backs coach and one year as secondary coach.

Women's ice hockey--Joe Cranston named as head coach at Wisconsin-River Falls.

Men's lacrosse assistant--Stevens Tech selected Adam Jackson as an assistant coach.

Men's soccer--East Carolina chose Devin O'Neill as head coach ... Patrick Bourgeacq hired as head men's coach at Cornell College to replace Corey Tafoya, who resigned. Bourgeacq spent last season as an assistant women's soccer coach and men's and women's goalkeeper coach at Grinnell ... Brendan Nash named as head coach at Bucknell.

Men's soccer assistant--California appointed Todd Higley as an assistant coach.

Women's soccer--Kathleen Penner resigned as head coach at Belmont ... Ron Rainey appointed as head coach at Ball State. The program is scheduled to begin competition this fall. Rainey was an assistant at Iowa during the 1997 and 1998 seasons. ... Colorado College hired Greg Ryan as head coach to succeed Nicole Crepeau, who resigned after five seasons. Ryan has been head coach at Southern Methodist since 1996 ... Rena Richardson chosen as head coach at Northeast Louisiana ... South Dakota appointed Carrie Plute as head coach. The program is scheduled to begin competition in the fall of 1999. In 1997 and 1998, Plute was assistant women's soccer coach at Wheeling Jesuit ... Michael Varga named as head coach at South Alabama. For the past five years, Varga has been head men's and women's soccer coach at Lincoln Memorial. He replaces Mark Francis ... Gwynedd-Mercy hired Mike Hallahan as head women's soccer coach and assistant softball coach. Hallahan has been head girls' soccer and softball coach at Paul VI (New Jersey) High School.

Women's soccer assistants--Texas added Jennifer Renola and Antonio Capasso as assistants. Renola has been West Coast promotions manager for adidas America since 1997. Capasso competed professionally with the Montreal Impact A-League during 1997-98.

Softball--Pacific (Oregon) selected volleyball coach Melissa Jones as softball coach.

Softball assistant--Tammy Lehr accepted assistant softball coaching duties at Susquehanna.

Men's and women's swimming--McMurry selected Beverly Ball as head men's and women's coach.

Men's and women's tennis--Stevens Tech added Doug Brickel as men's and women's head coach ... Belmont head women's coach Nancy Griffith resigned. The school named Mark Srouji as interim head women's coach ... David Benjamin, head men's coach at Princeton since 1974, announced plans to retire after the 1999-2000 season. Benjamin also is executive director of the Intercollegiate Tennis Association and will retain those duties following his retirement from coaching ... New Paltz State named Robert Bruley as head coach and event manager.

Men's and women's track and field--Susquehanna appointed Karen Brandt as women's head coach.

Men's and women's volleyball--Pam Allshouse resigned as head volleyball coach and assistant women's basketball coach at Heidelberg, effective May 15 ... Cornell College appointed Shannon Staton as volleyball coach to replace Lori Riha ... Cole Tallman became head coach at St. Thomas (Minnesota) to replace interim head coach Penny Starkey. Tallman most recently was head coach at Furman.

Men's and women's water polo--Dan Maloney appointed as head women's coach at Lehman ... Long Beach State named Ricardo Azevedo as head men's coach.

STAFF

Athletic training--Kent appointed Kim Peer as athletic training program coordinator.

Development--Penn State selected Tom Jackovic as associate director of development. Jackovic has been executive director of the Blue and White Club at Buffalo for the past year and a half.

Media relations--Buddy Pearson, director of media relations and marketing at Carson-Newman, resigned to accept an assistant sports information director slot at Tennessee Tech.

Precollegiate services--Central Connecticut State appointed Michael Ansarra director of precollegiate and access services.

Sports information--Davidson named assistant sports information director Rick Bender as interim sports information director for the remainder of the school year, replacing Emil Parker ... Will Roleson elevated to sports information director at Kent to replace assistant athletics director/sports information director Dale Gallagher. Roleson has been assistant sports information director since July of 1996.

Sports information assistant--Seton Hall assistant sports information director Patrick McBride resigned.

Sports marketing--Texas Christian added Ashby Porter as assistant director of sports marketing and Barry Vaughn as director of corporate sales.

Student-athlete services--Keith Roughton promoted to director of student-athlete services at Georgia Southern. Roughton, who replaces Scott Farmer, has been assistant director of the student-athlete services division since July 1, 1998.

Ticket operations--Binghamton public-address announcer Dave Simek promoted to full-time status and named coordinator for basketball ticket sales and summer camps.

CONFERENCES

Keanah Smith has been appointed assistant director of championships at Conference USA.

The Big Sky Conference named Doug Toole as coordinator of football officials.

Brad Stricklin selected as business manager at Conference USA. Stricklin has been an assistant athletics director at Georgia Southern since 1994.

The Big South Conference appointed Jill Deese as assistant commissioner for compliance. For the past 12 years, Deese has been assistant athletics director and senior woman administrator at Winthrop.

ASSOCIATIONS

John Rebelo elected as president of the 1999 Culligan Holiday Bowl to succeed Weldon Donaldson, who became chairman of the board. Rebelo is chairman and CEO of Peninsula Bank of San Diego. The following also have been elected as officers of the bowl: Jim Philion, president-elect; Joe Craver, vice-president; Bob Shumake, secretary; and Lisa Richards, treasurer.

Bill Topp named editor of Referee magazine, a monthly publication for sports officials. Topp is an NCAA Division I baseball umpire and high school and small college basketball and football official and has been with Referee Enterprises, Inc., for nine years. Referee Enterprises, Inc., publishes the magazine and manages the National Association of Sports Officials.

NATIONAL OFFICE

Susan Peal was selected as a membership services representative. Peal most recently was associate athletics director for compliance at Charleston Southern ... John Johnson hired as director of special events. Johnson has been with the Kansas City Royals Baseball Club for nine years, most recently working as senior director-stadium administrator.

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B>CORRECTION

The first name of one of the winners of a scholarship awarded by the NCAA Foundation and the Freedom Forum was listed incorrectly in the February 15 issue of The NCAA News. The winning entrant from Hawaii Pacific University was Kenoa Leahey.

--Compiled by Leilana McKindra