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The NCAA RecordMarch 1, 1999
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Mercyhurst tabs Sisti as ice hockey coach
For the past six seasons, Sisti has been an assistant with the Mercyhurst men's ice hockey program, serving the last three as associate head coach. He also has been director of operations for the Mercyhurst Ice Center and will retain those responsibilities. Before joining Mercyhurst, Sisti was an assistant coach at Canisius for three seasons. He also has worked at USA Hockey. In college, Sisti played ice hockey at Canisius, where he was team captain for two years. He is third on Canisius' list of all-time leading scorers with 163 points and is second in goals scored in one season with 33. He graduated with a marketing degree in 1990. Women's ice hockey will be one of two Division I sports sponsored by Mercyhurst. The school also sponsors men's ice hockey at the Division I level.
GENERALCHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICERS Concordia-Moorhead hired Thomas W. Thomsen as president. Thomsen has been president at Grand View College ... Joan Wadlow announced plans to retire as chancellor at Alaska Fairbanks, effective July 1. Marshall L. Lind, chancellor at the university of Alaska Southeast, was named as Wadlow's successor ... Drake appointed David Maxwell as president, effective May 15. Maxwell has been director of the National Foreign Language Center at Johns Hopkins ... Stanislaus Sobczyk, assistant to the president and coordinator of education and outreach programs at St. Mary's (California), chosen as president at Christian Brothers ... Case Western Reserve announced David H. Auston as president, effective July 1. Auston has been provost and professor of engineering at Rice ... Vic Boschini, vice-president and dean of student affairs at Illinois State, promoted to president, effective July 1 ... Indiana State President John W. Moore resigned, effective in summer of 2000 ... Ivory V. Nelson, Central Washington president, announced retirement plans, effective April 1, 2000 ... Thomas O'Hara, associate vice-president for academic affairs at King's (Pennsylvania), elevated to president ... John C. Reynders named as president at Morningside, effective July 15. Reynders has been vice-president for administrative services and treasurer at Allegheny. DIRECTORS OF ATHLETICS Cal State Stanislaus appointed Milton Richards as athletics director ... Kevin Emerick named as athletics director at Oklahoma Panhandle State. Emerick also is head women's basketball coach and will retain head coaching duties ... Louisville awarded athletics director Tom Jurich a 13-year contract extension through 2012. Jurich has been athletics director since October 21, 1997 ... Dianne Jones and Willie Myers resigned as athletics directors at Wisconsin-Whitewater. Jones, who has been athletics director for women since 1990, will continue as a professor in the department of health, physical education, recreation and coaching. Myers, who has been athletics director for men since July 1983, will continue to teach in the department of health, physical education, recreation and coaching and will retain his duties as head wrestling coach, a position he has held since 1968 ... Irv Cross hired as athletics director at Macalester to replace Ken Andrews, who resigned. Cross formerly served as athletics director at Idaho State and has been a television broadcaster ... Paul Krebs, senior associate athletics director at Ohio State, chosen as athletics director at Bowling Green. ... Samford's Stephen Allgood announced plans to retire as athletics director, effective at the end of the academic year. Allgood has been athletics director since 1988. SENIOR WOMAN ADMINISTRATOR Lamar's Laura Myers resigned as senior woman administrator and head women's golf coach to become assistant health and fitness director at the Jewish Community Center of Dallas. The school selected Karen Saevarsdottir as interim head women's golf coach. ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF ATHLETICS Misericordia appointed Dave Martin as associate athletics director. Martin also serves as head men's basketball coach and recruiting coordinator at the school. ASSISTANT DIRECTORS OF ATHLETICS Gary Sobba, assistant athletics director for marketing and broadcasting at Houston for the past four years, resigned to join Learfield Communications, a national sports marketing and communications firm. COACHES Baseball--Wentworth Institute added Josh Carroll, a 1998 graduate of Amherst, as an assistant coach ... John Jay head coach Lou DeMartino announced plans to retire following the 1999 season. Baseball assistant--Franklin Pierce named Stan Jurkoic as an assistant coach. Men's basketball--John MacLeod resigned as head coach at Notre Dame ... St. Peter's extended the contract of head coach Rodger Blind ... Ben Howland hired as head coach at Pittsburgh. Howland has spent the past five years as head men's basketball coach at Northern Arizona ... Ralph Patterson resigned as head coach at Erskine. Patterson has been head coach since 1992 ... La Salle head coach Speedy Morris' contract was extended for three years.... Steve Robinson awarded a two-year contract extension at Florida State ... Millersville appointed Fred Thompson as head coach ... Kevin Eastman resigned as head coach at Washington State ... Ron Jirsa released as head coach at Georgia ... Manhattan selected Bobby Gonzalez as head coach ... Tennessee-Martin appointed Brett Campbell as head coach ... David Smith promoted to head coach at Methodist to replace Bob McEvoy, who resigned after seven years. McEvoy, who is entering his second year as athletics director, will retain those responsibilities. Smith spent last season as a full-time assistant with the program ... North Carolina A&T head coach Roy Thomas resigned. The school appointed Curtis Hunter as interim head coach ... Ritchie McKay, head coach at Colorado State, awarded a five-year contract extension ... Hal Nunnally announced plans to step down as head coach at Randolph-Macon after 24 years. Nunnally built a career 431-232 mark and led teams to 10 NCAA tournament appearances. The school chose Mike Rhoades, an assistant with the program since 1996, as Nunnally's successor. Men's basketball assistants--Brian Ostermann resigned as an assistant coach at Missouri-Kansas City to become head coach at Colby. Assistant coach Bernie Pearson also resigned to become head coach at Pratt (Kansas) College. Women's basketball--Washington State released Harold Rhodes as head coach ... Florida State awarded head coach Sue Semrau a contract extension ... Deb Reardon resigned as head coach at New Hampshire College ... UMBC head coach Jennifer Bednarek accepted a four-year contract extension ... Clayton State chose A. C. McCullers to succeed Laura Williges as head coach. McCullers, the third most-victorious girls' basketball coach in Georgia, has been head girls' basketball coach at Morrow (Georgia) High School ... Tracy Spencer-Sullivan resigned as head coach at Eastern ... Augustana (Illinois) head coach Diane Schumacher resigned ... Janice Richard added as head coach at San Jose State. Richard, who has spent the past six seasons as head women's basketball coach at Xaiver, succeeds Karen Smith ... Ohio will not renew the contract of head coach Marsha Reall for the 1999-00 season. Reall has been head coach for nine seasons ... Brad White selected as full-time head coach at Nebraska Wesleyan to replace Mary Beth Kennedy, who resigned in 1998 to become athletics director at Findlay. White spent three seasons as an assistant with the program and most recently completed a one-year appointment as head coach of the program. Women's basketball assistants--John Hughes resigned as an assistant coach at South Florida ... Maureen Messer resigned as assistant coach at New England ... Hunter assistant coach Derrick Harrison resigned. Men's and women's cross country--Doug Martin selected as head men's and women's coach at Anderson. Martin was an assistant at Cumberland ... New Paltz State hired Brett Willmott as head men's and women's cross country and indoor and outdoor track and field coach. For the past two and a half years, Willmott has served as an assistant men's and women's cross country and indoor and outdoor track and field coach at Plattsburgh State. Football--Nicholls State chose Daryl Daye, an assistant coach at Liberty for the past eight seasons, as head coach. Football assistants--Andrew Swasey appointed as cornerbacks coach at Houston. For the past two years, Swasey has served as an assistant on the strength and conditioning staff at Miami (Florida) ... Jacksonville chose Shap Boyd as defensive backs coach ... Mike Garrison selected as running backs coach at New Mexico State ... Bryant selected Eric Hancock as assistant football coach/defensive coordinator. Hancock, who has been linebackers coach at Wagner for three seasons, succeeds Dennis Moynihan ... Tim Drevno replaces Bob Bostad as offensive line coach at San Jose State. Drevno spent the 1998 season as running backs coach at UNLV ... Georgia Southern named Carey Baker as an assistant coach to succeed Joey Houston. Baker has been a graduate assistant coach at Southern Mississippi for three seasons ... Cornell named Greg Gigantino as assistant head coach, defensive coordinator and linebackers coach; Bill Lazor as passing game coordinator and quarterbacks coach; Ron Prince as running game coordinator and offensive line coach; Dennis Simmons as running backs coach; and Brandon Stott as wide receivers coach ... Thurmond Moore chosen as defensive ends coach at Syracuse. In 1997 and 1998, Moore served as defensive line coach at Colorado State. The school also announced that defensive assistant Kevin Kelly also will be secondary coach; Dennis Goldman, tight ends coach, accepted expanded duties as special teams coordinator; Jeff Stoutland, recruiting coordinator, awarded additional responsibilities as offensive line coach; linebackers coach Chris Rippon accepted expanded duties as defensive coordinator; and associate head coach George DeLeone moved from defensive coordinator to offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach ... UCLA selected Jethro Franklin as interior defensive line coach ... Millikin added Derrick Winston as an assistant coach and elevated Jay Hood to defensive coordinator ... Youngstown State secondary coach Mike Sullivan resigned ... Arkansas State named Leon Burtnett as defensive coordinator ... Randy Zimmerman selected as defensive coordinator and Jim Kiernan chosen as offensive coordinator at Saginaw Valley State ... Pennsylvania added Lewis Acquarulo as defensive assistant, Steve Downs as offensive assistant and Al Tama as coordinator of football operations ... Bucknell added Marty Schaetzle as offensive coordinator and Derek Mason as wide receivers coach ... Chip Garber appointed as defensive coordinator at Hofstra ... Ted Gilmore appointed as tight ends coach at Kansas ... Akron added John Reagan as defensive line coach and Keith Uecker as offensive line coach to succeed Bobby Johnson and John Peterson, who accepted positions at Miami (Ohio). Men's and women's gymnastics--Diane DeMarco resigned as women's head coach at Iowa, effective June 30. Women's ice hockey--Mercyhurst hired Michael Sisti as head coach. For the past six seasons, Sisti, who will retain his responsibilities as director of operations for the Mercyhurst Ice Center, has been associate head coach of men's hockey at the school ... St. Lawrence named Paul J. Flanagan as head coach. Women's ice hockey assistant--Shawna Davidson added as an assistant coach at Minnesota-Duluth. The program is scheduled to begin competition next fall. Men's soccer--Bloomsburg named Paul Payne head coach ... Eddie Ballas named as head coach at Rutgers-Newark. Ballas replaces Percy Pineda, who resigned following the 1998 season ... Wesleyan (Connecticut) hired Geoffrey Wheeler, an assistant men's soccer coach at Stanford for two seasons, as head coach to succeed Terry Jackson, who announced plans to retire after 31 years. Jackson is the school's most-victorious soccer coach with a 209-163-39 record. Men's soccer assistant--Erin Sullivan chosen as an assistant coach at St. John's. Women's soccer--Curry named Danielle Ferrara as women's soccer and women's lacrosse coach and director of intramurals ... Heather Kerby added as head coach at Southeast Missouri State ... Wagner hired Phil Fluhr as head coach. Fluhr, who most recently coached women's soccer at Dominican College in Orangeburg, New York, succeeds Ed Hynes ... Diane Drake added as head coach at Georgetown. From 1996-99, Drake has been an assistant soccer coach at North Carolina-Greensboro ... Southern Indiana chose Bill Wilkins as head coach. Wilkins has been head coach at Auburn since 1994. Women's soccer assistant--Kerry Dziczkaniec hired as an assistant coach at Maryland. Dziczkaniec has been assistant women's soccer coach and recruiting coordinator at Florida State for three seasons. Softball assistants--Angel Schofield added as an assistant coach at Wentworth Institute. Schofield also works as the school's head women's soccer coach ... Brockport State appointed Jennifer Polo as an assistant. Men's and women's tennis--Anthony Wocke replaces Bob Coker as head men's and women's head coach at Bryant. Men's and women's track and field assistant--Ronald Hardy accepted assistant coaching duties at Brockport State. Men's and women's volleyball--Metropolitan State hired Jenelle Duvall as head coach to succeed Joan McDermott, who became athletics director at the school. Duvall has been an assistant at Northern Arizona for two years ... New Jersey Institute of Technology named Sheila Wooten as head women's coach ... St. Michael's selected Betsy Cieplicki as women's head coach ... Joe Getzin selected as women's head coach at Portland ... Oglethorpe head women's volleyball coach and assistant women's basketball coach Meredyth Grenier resigned. Men's and women's volleyball assistant--Joy McKenzie selected as women's assistant at Long Beach State. STAFF Academic services--East Stroudsburg named Julie A. Del Giorno as academic coordinator for athletics ... Sue Perlis chosen as coordinator of academic support at Misericordia. Marketing and promotions assistant--Miami (Florida) chose Melissa Vigues as assistant director of marketing and promotions. Media relations assistant--Kris Kamann added as assistant director of sports media relations at Indiana State. Sports information--New Jersey Institute of Technology appointed Philip Kuhlthau as sports information director. Sports information assistant--Tennessee Tech hired Buddy Pearson as assistant sports information director to replace Jeff Patton, who resigned. Pearson has been director of media relations and marketing at Carson-Newman. CONFERENCES The Mid-Continent Conference appointed Nancy Smith as director of media relations after serving in an interim capacity for the past two months. Smith joined the conference as assistant media relations director last July. The Atlantic Coast Conference named Tommy Hunt as supervisor of football officials. The Mountain West Conference hired Dan Butterly as assistant commissioner of marketing and Sarah Yount as director of special projects. Butterly most recently served as an assistant commissioner at the Missouri Valley Conference and Yount was director of marketing for the National Junior College Athletic Association. ASSOCIATIONS Tom Starr chosen as associate executive director for marketing for the Sanford Independence Bowl. Starr formerly served as executive director of the Sun Bowl and Freedom Bowl. Sherry L. Calvert resigned as secretary-treasurer of the NCAA Division III Track Coaches Association. Jeff Wettach, head coach at Luther, has been selected as Calvert's successor. Michael F. Adams, president at Georgia, chosen as chair-elect of the American Council on Education, and Tufts President John DiBiaggio named as chair of the American Council on Education board of directors. The U.S. Olympic Committee hired John Ruger as USOC Athlete Ombudsman. Ruger has been president of his own sports marketing and management company since 1997 and formerly served as USOC manager of southeastern operations for the Hometeam '96 program from 1995 to 1996. NATIONAL OFFICE Robert Philippi was named as a membership services representative. Philippi has been director of compliance and student services at UNLV ... Carol Struewing added as a membership services representative. Struewing has been a senior capital sales administrator for Hill-Rom Company in Batesville, Indiana ... The Association hired Ron Barker, an investigator at Novell, Inc., since 1993, as an enforcement representative ... Andrea Sears, human resources coordinator, resigned to become a compensation analyst at Sprint ... Sharon Cessna named as assistant director of championships after serving as a youth programs coordinator ... Wayne Davis has been elevated to graphics manager to replace Vic Royal, effective after the Association's relocation to Indianapolis. Davis was senior graphics designer ... Israel Negron, membership services representative, resigned to become coordinator of player relations with the Florida Marlins of Major League Baseball ... Chad Spencer was named as technical specialist. Spencer has been a network administrator/computer support specialist at Indiana ... The Association hired Sherry Neeb as training specialist to succeed Steve Belcher, who was selected as a programmer/analyst. Neeb has been director of the applications group at Electrical Systems Company in Indianapolis.
ETC.CORRECTION The name of Arkansas head track and field coach John McDonnell was misspelled in the March 15 issue of The NCAA News. |
Mercyhurst has chosen Michael Sisti as head women's ice hockey coach. The program is scheduled to begin varsity competition next fall.