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The NCAA News -- March 29, 1999

Staff appointments made in enforcement, reinstatement

Three director-level appointments have been announced in the national office's enforcement and student-athlete reinstatement staff.

Current staff members Julie Roe-Sumner and Tom Hosty have been promoted to the chief-aide level. Also, former staff member David Didion, currently assistant director of athletics for compliance at Auburn University, will rejoin the NCAA staff in May.

Didion

Didion, also chosen as a director of enforcement, previously has worked for the NCAA enforcement staff three times. Between his jobs here, he has worked as an assistant to former University of Kansas and University of Pittsburgh football coach Mike Gottfried, has served as special investigator for the law firm of Coffield, Ungaretti, Harris and Slavin, and served as assistant to the president and NCAA compliance coordinator at the University of South Carolina, Columbia.

Didion holds a bachelor's degree

in education from Ohio State University. He will assume his new duties May 24.

Hosty

Hosty will become director of enforcement June 1. He has been with the NCAA since 1993 as an enforcement representative, processing several major infractions cases. Before that, he was a trial attorney in the district attorney's office for Wyandotte County, Kansas, trying more than 30 felony cases.

Hosty has a bachelor's degree in journalism and political science from Benedictine College and a J.D. from Washburn University of Tope-

ka. In addition, he is the researcher and author of "Assignment: Oswald," a book about the assassination of President Kennedy that was published in 1996.

Roe-Sumner

Roe-Sumner has been appointed NCAA director of student-athlete reinstatement. She will assume her new responsibilities June 1, at which time she will replace Carrie A. Doyle, who chose not to relocate to Indianapolis.

Roe-Sumner currently serves as a student-athlete reinstatement representative. Her duties have includ-

ed covering student-athlete reinstatement issues for the annual NCAA regional rules-compliance seminars, researching inconsistent areas of case precedent and reporting findings at subcommittee meetings, and developing training booklets for staff members for the Administrative Review Subcommittee.

She also is serving as liaison for the Division II Amateurism Project Team and the Division III Subcommittee on Student-Athlete Reinstatement.

Before joining the student-athlete reinstatement staff, Roe-Sumner worked with the education and membership services staffs.

Roe-Sumner is a graduate of Millikin University, where she won numerous academic awards. She also was the player of the year in the College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin for 1996 and 1997 and was a finalist for the NCAA Woman of the Year honor in 1997.

Doyle

Doyle joined the NCAA staff in 1987 as an enforcement representative and became director of eligibility in 1994. The position later was renamed director of student-athlete reinstatement.

Doyle has supervised a staff that examines eligibility issues in about 1,100 cases annually. She also has established a process for evaluating about 300 waiver requests per year that has permitted student-athletes to engage in activities not otherwise permitted under NCAA legislation.

She also has supervised staff efforts to facilitate review of about 600 waiver requests presented annually to the Administrative Review Panels.

For the last three years, Doyle also has served as senior Convention manager, playing a lead role in the administration of the annual NCAA Convention.

She is a graduate of the State University College at Cortland and has postgraduate degrees from the University of Iowa.