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The NCAA RecordMarch 1, 1999
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Knorr-Moliken to lead Ursinus field hockeyUrsinus has hired Laura Knorr-Moliken as head field hockey coach. Knorr-Moliken succeeds Vonnie Gros, who retired after the 1998 season.
As a student-athlete at Old Dominion, Knorr-Moliken competed in field hockey from 1989-1992 and helped lead the Monarchs to three national championships and a four-year mark of 98-4-1. She served as team captain and gained NCAA all-tournament team recognition in 1990 and 1992. As a senior, she was honored as a second-team all-America selection. Knorr-Moliken also has played on the U.S. National Field Hockey Team.
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICERS David Skeen appointed as interim president at Muskingum. Skeen has been a professor of psychology at the school ... Molloy President Martin D. Snyder resigned ... Paul Torgersen announced plans to retire as president at Virginia Tech, effective December 31 ... Sewanee (University of the South) President Samuel R. Williamson announced his retirement, effective June 2000 ... Texas Southern released President James M. Douglas ... Pamela Brooks Gann named as president at Claremont-Mudd-Scripps, effective July 1. Gann has been dean of the school of law at Duke ... Simpson appointed R. Kevin Lagree as president. Lagree has been dean of the school of theology at Emory ... Ricardo Romo, vice-provost for undergraduate education at Texas, chosen as president at Texas-San Antonio ... Albright hired Henry A. Zimon as president. Zimon has been senior strategic planner for the Joint Chiefs of Staff in Washington. DIRECTORS OF ATHLETICS Jim Houdeshell selected as interim athletics director at Findlay to replace Mary Beth Kennedy, who resigned ... Rocco J. "Rocky" Carzo retired as director of athletics at Tufts, effective in July. Carzo has been athletics director at the school since 1973 ... Saint Leo appointed Fran Reidy, associate athletics director for the past two years, as athletics director to succeed Ted Owens, who resigned. Reidy, who also has been compliance officer for the past three years and head men's soccer coach for 11 years, will retain his compliance duties until July 1 and continue as head men's soccer coach indefinitely ... Tampa athletics director Hindman Wall announced plans to retire, effective July 31. SENIOR WOMAN ADMINISTRATORS Charleston Southern chose Julie Hutchins as senior woman administrator and compliance officer ... Dena Hiller hired as senior woman administrator/associate athletics director at American. Hiller has been assistant athletics director for academics at St. Bonaventure for the past two years. ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF ATHLETICS Dick Strahm, head football coach at Findlay, named as interim associate athletics director at the school. ASSISTANT DIRECTORS OF ATHLETICS Sheila Wooten resigned as assistant athletics director at Bloomfield. The school selected Ralph Dougan to succeed Wooten ... Georgia Southern named Tom Norton as assistant athletics director for business to succeed Brad Stricklin. Norton, who has been the school's director of soccer since 1996 and head women's soccer coach since 1993, will retain his head coaching duties ... Akron elevated Mike Rodriguez to assistant athletics director for business, Riko Chung to assistant athletics director for facilities and operations and Vinny Maculaitis to assistant athletics director for external relations. Rodriguez has been business manager since 1992, and Chung has served as director of athletics and recreational facilities for the past two and a half years. Maculaitis was director of sports marketing/promotions. COACHES Baseball--Fairmont State head coach Donnie Retton resigned ... Bob Gates announced his retirement, effective July 1. Gates has been head coach since 1976 ... Nebraska-Omaha head coach Bob Gates announced plans to retire, effective July 1 ... Gordon selected Scott MacKilligan as head coach. Baseball assistants--George Zanic appointed as an assistant at Juniata ... Gordon announced Russ Willette as an assistant coach. Men's basketball--Wisconsin-Milwaukee released Ric Cobb as head coach ... Montana interim head coach Don Holst elevated to head coach ... East Carolina head coach Joe Dooley resigned ... Georgia Southern released head coach Gregg Polinsky after four seasons. Polinsky closes his tenure with an overall mark of 34-76 ... Florida Atlantic released Kevin Billerman as head coach ... Rich Meckfessel, head coach at Missouri-St. Louis, resigned ... St. Francis (Pennsylvania) head coach Tom McConnell resigned ... Randy Peele resigned as head coach at North Carolina-Greensboro ... Arkansas-Little Rock head coach Wimp Sanderson resigned ... Serge Debari resigned as head coach at Assumption ... Augustana (Illinois) announced the resignation of head coach Steve Yount ... Tim Rapp selected as head coach at Cal Poly Pomona ... CCNY named Dan Nigro as head coach ... John Leonard released as head coach at Manhattan ... Northwestern State head coach J.D. Barnett resigned ... Tim Capstraw released as head coach at Wagner. Women's basketball--Tom Jernigan resigned as head coach at Livingston ... Illinois State head coach Jill Hutchison announced plans to retire ... Kay James will not return next season as Southern Mississippi head coach ... Ball State head coach Robyn Markey resigned after seven seasons, effective March 31 ... Fairleigh Dickinson will not renew the contract of head coach Sharon Manning Beverly ... Cecelia DeMarco retired as head coach at Yale ... Maryland head coach Chris Weller awarded a one-year contract extension. Field hockey assistant--Paula Wagoner accepted an assistant coaching post at Kent. Wagoner spent the 1998 season as an assistant field hockey coach at Georgetown. Football--Worcester Polytechnic hired Edward Zaloom as head coach. Zaloom, who has been head football coach at Siena for three seasons, succeeds Kevin Morris ... Case Reserve selected Peter Germano as head coach ... Darren Rizzi named as head coach at New Haven ... St. Norbert appointed Jim Purtill as head coach.
Football assistants--Greg Clough appointed as defensive coordinator at Minnesota State-Mankato to replace Marty Monroe, who resigned as defensive coordinator/defensive backs coach. Clough has been defensive line coach ... Sam Houston State chose Todd Whitten as offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach and Ben Norton as offensive line coach ... Allan Cox chosen as offensive coordinator at Tennessee-Martin ... Wisconsin appointed Joe Baker as special teams and outside linebackers coach ... Eastern Illinois announced the resignation of Ben Norton, offensive line coach ... Bob Boyd resigned as tight ends coach at Mississippi State ... Northern Arizona chose Brent Pease as offensive coordinator ... Nick Rapone appointed as assistant defensive coach at Temple ... Tennessee selected John Chavis as assistant coach and Dan Brooks as football program recruiting director ... Pittsburgh added Bryan Deal as recruiting coordinator. Deal most recently served as a head football coach on the high-school level. The school also announced J. D. Brookhart as wide receivers coach and Curt Cignetti as tight ends coach. Brookhart has been tight ends coach for two seasons, and Cignetti has worked as recruiting coordinator since 1993 ... UNLV named John Jackson as assistant head coach and running backs coach; Gene Dahlquist as quarterbacks coach and passing game coordinator; Rob Boras as offensive line coach; Steve Leach as wide receivers coach; Jeff Kearin as special teams and tight ends coach; Jeff McInerney as defensive coordinator; Joe Barry as linebackers coach; and Joe Hubbard as recruiting coordinator ... Parker Wildeman chosen as defensive line and strength and conditioning coach at Western Illinois ... San Jose State added Steve Graf as offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach and Carl Dean as wide receivers coach. Graf replaces Steve Hagen and formerly served as head coach at West Texas State. Dean succeeds Matt Lubick and has been a graduate assistant at San Jose State ... Paul Humphries resigned as defensive backs coach at Marietta to pursue playing opportunties in the Canadian Football League ... Houston appointed Brad Peveto as defensive secondary coach ... Harvard selected Bob Stitt as offensive coordinator and offensive line coach ... Buzz Preston announced as running backs coach at Stanford ... Notre Dame chose Lou West as defensive backs coach ... Sammy Steinmark added as an assistant head coach and slotbacks coach at Navy. Steinmark has been an assistant at
Men's lacrosse assistant--Gordon appointed Patrick DeBenedictus as an assistant.
Women's lacrosse--Danielle Caro named as head coach at St. Bonaventure ... Gordon hired Mark Scarlata as head coach.
Men's soccer--Creighton added Bruce Erickson and Matt Stimson as assistants to succeed Dana Taylor and Kevin O'Brien. Erickson has been head men's soccer coach and director of athletics at Viterbo College in La Crosse, Wisconsin, and Stimson was a men's assistant coach at Hartford during the 1998 season ... Curry appointed Brendan Donohue as head coach.
Men's soccer assistant--Jaime Smith accepted assistant coaching duties at Brown.
Women's soccer--Alabama extended the contract of head coach Don Staley through the 2000-01 season ... Camie Bechtold hired as head coach at Saint Joseph's (Indiana). Bechtold, who was an assistant with the program last seasons, succeeds Mike Minielli ... Pennsylvania added Andrew Nelson as head coach. Nelson, head women's soccer coach at Wellesley since 1994, replaces Patrick Baker, who resigned to accept the same position at Florida State ... Beth Field resigned as head coach at Plymouth State after one season.
Softball assistant--Lisa Kehoe named as assistant coach at Framingham State.
Squash--Jim Masland resigned as head coach at Penn.
Men's and women's tennis--Gordon named J. R. Kerr as head men's coach ... Brian Eisner resigned as head men's coach at Michigan, effective at the end of the season.
Men's and women's volleyball--Alycia Martin-Varytimidis hired as head coach at Nicholls State to replace Chip Didier, who resigned after five seasons. Martin-Varytimidis spent the last two seasons as head coach at Bethune-Cookman ... Annie Feller resigned as women's head coach at Santa Clara ... Wisconsin head women's coach John Cook resigned to replace Cathy Noth as associate head coach at Nebraska. Cook closes a seven-year stint at Wisconsin with a 160-72 mark. Wisconsin chose assistant Christy Johnson as interim head coach.
Men's and women's volleyball assistant--Anne Kordes added as an assistant at Indiana to replace Jody Dascoli.
Wrestling--Mansfield head coach Henry Shaw announced plans to retire ... Tim Clouse resigned as head coach at Rhode Island College. Clouse has been head coach since 1992.
STAFF
Athletic business services--Jeff Pritsker named athletic business manager at Marquette after serving in the same capacity at South Dakota State since May 1998.
Athletic training--Alabama added Chris Gillespie as head football athletic trainer. Gillespie, who replaces Bill McDonald, has been head athletic trainer and director of athletic training education at Samford for the past 15 years.
Compliance--Robert Mathner named as director of athletics compliance at Syracuse.
Development--Patrick J. Tevlin appointed as executive director of Lenior-Rhyne's Piedmont Educational Foundation. Most recently, Tevlin served as associate director at the Rutgers University Foundation ... Northeastern director of athletics development, Robert M. Turcotte, resigned to become director of Rhode Island's private fund-raising campaign for a new Convocation Center.
Sports information--Bradley hired Bobby Parker as sports information director. Parker has been sports information director at Creighton since 1996 ... Matt Howell resigned as sports information director at Dickinson to join the school's computer services department.
CONFERENCES
The Pacific-10 Conference chose Gooch Foster as coordinator of women's basketball officiating to succeed Carter Rankin, who announced plans to retire at the end of the season. From 1979-96, Foster was head coach at California and is a past president of the Women's Basketball Coaches Association.
Amy Turner accepted the position of assistant commissioner, communications, with the Mountain West Conference. Turner most recently has been associate athletics director at Portland State.
NATIONAL OFFICE
Michael Gant hired as education outreach program coordinator. Gant has been a presidential aide at Central Missouri State University ... Karren Bishop resigned as programmer/analyst, effective February 26
CORRECTIONS
The Division I men's basketball championship preview story in the March 1 issue of The NCAA News incorrectly identified the number of teams from Florida who have competed in the Final Four. Three squads from the state, Jacksonville in 1970, Florida State in 1972 and Florida in 1994, have made Final Four appearances.
The recruiting calendar in the March issue of The NCAA News incorrectly described a contact period for men's basketball. The early April contact period runs through April 4.
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Since 1995, Knorr-Moliken has been head coach at William Penn High School in Newcastle, Delaware. She led her 1997 squad to the state championship game.