The NCAA Record

June 7, 1999

Raizk announces retirement after 52 years

Wilmington (Ohio) coach Fred Raizk has announced plans to retire. He has been head coach of six different sports during his 52-year tenure.

Raizk began his coaching career at the school in 1947 as head football coach, a position he held for nine seasons. From 1947 to 1961, he led the baseball and track squads and served as head men's basketball coach from 1951 to 1972. Raizk also helped establish the Wilmington golf program in 1958, a position he has held since that time. In addition to guiding the men's soccer program for three seasons, Raizk also was athletics director, dean of men and a member of the school's faculty.

Raizk was inducted into the school's Hall of Fame in 1991 and the school renamed its basketball arena after him in 1997.

Raizk earned a degree from Wilmington in 1936 and a master's degree at Ohio State.

GENERAL

Pittsburg State named Thomas W. Bryant as president. Bryant has been dean of education at the school ... St. Scholastica chose interim President Larry Goodwin as president ... Charles Karelis appointed as president at Colgate, effective July 1. Karelis has been director of the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education ... Cal State Northridge provost Louanne Kennedy chosen as interim president at the school ... Harold M. Kolenbrander, president at Mount Union, announced plans to retire, effective June 2000 ... Richard J. Devine selected as acting president at Niagara. Devine has been professor of theology at St. John's (New York) ... J. Wade Gilley named as president of the University of Tennessee system, effective August 1. Gilley has been president at Marshall ... Georgia Southern chose Bruce F. Grube as president, effective in July. Grube has been president at St. Cloud State.

DIRECTORS OF ATHLETICS

Dan Gavitt hired as athletics director at Bryant. Gavitt has been president of Craigville Sports Associates ... Eastern Connecticut State announced the retirement of Sharlene Peters, effective June 1. Peters has been with the school since 1988 ... Judy Sweet announced plans to resign as athletics director at UC San Diego, effective June 30, after 24 years. Sweet formerly served as NCAA president for two years and was NCAA secretary-treasurer from 1989 to 1991 ... Wittenburg hired Garnett Purnell as athletics director to replace Carl Schraibman. Purnell has been director of athletics at Morgan State for three years ... Jeff Bourne appointed as athletics director at James Madison ... Missouri-Kansas City hired Robert Thomas as athletics director to succeed Lee Hunt and interim athletics director Ed Grom. Thomas has been a senior membership services representative at the NCAA national office ... Scott Barnes accepted athletics director responsibilities at Eastern Washington. Since July 1997, Barnes has been athletics director at Humboldt State ... Cal State Northridge named Dick Dull as athletics director to replace Sam Jankovich. Dull has spent the past year as athletics director at Moravian ... Jim Dafler elevated to director of athletics at Westminster (Pennsylvania). Dafler, who replaces Joe Fusco, most recently has been assistant director of athletics at the school in addition to serving as head men's basketball coach ... Emporia State's Bill Quayle announced plans to retire, effective June 30. Quayle has been athletics director since 1979 ... Gail Cummings-Danson chosen as interim athletics director at Albany. Cummings-Danson has been with the school since 1994 when she was appointed as associate athletics director.

SENIOR WOMAN ADMINISTRATORS

Austin hired Debra Hunter as senior woman administrator and head women's basketball coach. Hunter, who succeeds Robin Potera, has been head women's basketball coach at Colorado College for two seasons ... Ursinus promoted women's lacrosse coach Carrie Reilly to senior woman administrator/assistant athletics director.

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF ATHLETICS

Thomas P. LaFalce Jr. chosen as assistant athletics director for programs at Cornell ... Miami (Florida) promoted Michael Lynch to assistant athletics director for development and elevated Dawn Reynolds to assistant athletics director for business. Lynch has been director of athletics development for the Hurricane Club and Reynolds was senior business manager.

COACHES

Baseball -- Bob Herold named as head coach at Nebraska-Omaha ... Dayton announced that head coach Chris Sorrell will not return next season. Sorrell has been head coach for seven seasons ... Joe Spano promoted to head coach at Mercyhurst. Spano, who was an assistant with the program, succeeds Scott Norwood ... Kenneth Thomas named as head coach at South Carolina-Aiken to replace Tony Casas. Thomas has been head coach at Volunteer State Community College in Gallatin, Tennessee ... Georgia Southern head coach Jack Stallings retired. Stallings, who has been head coach at the school since 1976, closes his tenure with an overall mark of 1,258-796-5 ... Southwest Baptist hired Sam Berg as head coach. For the past four years, Berg has been head baseball coach, director of athletics and physical education teacher at Sparta (Missouri) High School ... Tom Schwaner retired as head coach at New Orleans after 14 seasons. He compiled a 462-373 record.

Men's basketball -- Greg Mason accepted head coaching duties at Centre after serving as an assistant coach with the program since 1996 ... Southern Vermont hired Robert Nugent as head basketball and baseball coach. Nugent, who succeeds Richard Hurley, has been an assistant coach at Williams since 1996 ... Mike Voyack promoted to head coach at Dowling to succeed Joe Pellicane, who resigned. Voyack has been an assis- tant and associate head coach with the program ... Guilford named Butch Estes as head coach. Estes, who replaces Jack Jensen, formerly coached at Presbyterian and Furman and most recently was head coach at St. Joseph's (South Carolina) High School ... Tennessee awarded head coach Jerry Green a one-year contract extension through the 2004 season.

Men's basketball assistants -- Missouri appointed Bruce Fraser as an assistant coach ... Two-year Redlands assistant Jason Lowery stepped down to become head men's basketball coach at Hope International University ... Doug Novsek named as an assistant at Illinois State. Novsek has been associate head coach at Southwest Texas ... Portland State added Tony Marcopulos and Kirk Crawford as assistants. Marcopulos, who succeeds Jim Shaw, has been an assistant at Pacific (California) for 11 seasons. Crawford spent last season as an assistant at Lewis & Clark and replaces Richard Lucas ... Scot Bunnell promoted to part-time assistant at Ball State. Bunnell spent last season as a volunteer coach with the program ... American hired Rich Zvosec as an assistant. Zvosec has been an assistant at St. Peter's ... Larry King promoted to full-time assistant coach at Binghamton after serving as a part-time assistant coach with the program for six years ... Ohio hired John Rhodes as an assistant to succeed James Jones, who became head men's coach at Yale. Rhodes has been an assistant at St. Bonaventure for two seasons ... Robert Holt Jr. selected as an assistant at Loyola (Illinois). Holt has been associate head coach at Butler High School in Huntsville, Alabama ... Scott Shepherd hired as an assistant at Virginia. Shepherd has coached at Hargrave Military Academy in Chatham, Virginia, for five years ... Tennessee-Martin chose Deane Martin as an assistant. Martin was an administrative assistant at Saint Louis.

Women's basketball -- Dennis Masi selected as head coach at New Hampshire College to replace Deb Reardon. For the past five years, Masi has been an assistant men's and women's basketball coach at New Haven ... Pat Summitt, head coach at Tennessee, awarded a one-year contract extension through the 2004 season ... Belin- da "Boe" Pearman hired as head coach at Rhode Island. Pearman was an assis- tant coach with the American Basketball League's New England Blizzard.

Women's basketball assistants -- Pittsburgh named Trisha Elser as an assistant basketball coach. Elser has been an assistant at Fairleigh Dickinson for four seasons ... Assumption named Sue Cahill as an assistant coach ... Joy Westendorf selected as an assistant coach at Southwest State ... Richmond chose Nekisa Cooper as an assistant to replace Toni Shropshire. Since 1998, Cooper has been an assistant women's coach at Christopher Newport ... Annette Watts resigned as an assistant at North Carolina State ... Butler added Molly Murray and Liana Coutts as assistants. Murray has been a volunteer student assistant at Michigan. Coutts was an assistant coach at Ohio for two seasons ... Bobbi Morse named as an assistant coach at Rhode Island. Morse has been an assistant with the San Jose Lasers of the American Basketball League.

Men's and women's cross country -- Mitch Brown selected as head men's and women's coach at Binghamton. Brown spent 1998-99 as an assistant cross country and track coach and succeeds Mike Thompson as men's coach and Kim King as women's coach. Thompson will continue as head men's and women's track and field coach and King will retain responsibilities as assistant athletics director for student services.

Field hockey -- Mary Casabian selected as an assistant at Virginia. Casabian was an assistant coach at Harvard in 1997 and 1998.

Football assistants -- David Fipp elevated to full-time assistant as secondary coach at Holy Cross to replace Vince Marino. Fipp was part-time safeties coach last season ... St. Lawrence named Bernie Walker as an assistant football coach ... Joe Henrich added as defensive coordinator at Albright ... Saint Peter's added Lou Zampella and Jon Chevalier as assistant coaches ... Dave Everson appointed as defensive coordinator at Capital ... Missouri-Rolla quarterbacks and receivers coach Joe DuPaix resigned ... Kwame Dixon selected as wide receivers coach and Joe Loth selected as defensive backs coach at Rhode Island ... G.A. Mangus appointed as offensive coordinator at Ursinus.

Men's and women's golf -- Richard Distlerath resigned as head men's coach at Seton Hall ... Akron hired Steve Parker to succeed Rick Jones as head men's coach. Jones will continue as an assistant with the program during the 1999-00 season.

Men's and women's gymnastics assistant -- Mike Franco resigned as assistant coach at Rhode Island after four years.

Men's ice hockey -- Rochester Institute of Technology named Wayne Wilson as head coach and manager of the Ritter Ice Arena, effective July 1. Wilson, who succeeds Eric Hoffberg, has been an assistant hockey coach at Bowling Green for 13 seasons.

Women's ice hockey -- Wayne State (Michigan) chose Tom O'Malley as women's head coach.

Men's and women's lacrosse -- Bob Ewell resigned as head men's coach at Plymouth State ... Bear Davis named as head coach at Wheeling Jesuit ... Pace men's head coach Dan Mulholland resigned. The school chose Frank Vitolo as Mulholland's successor.

Men's and women's skiing -- St. Lawrence named James DeFoe as Nordic ski coach.

Men's soccer assistants -- Michael Benn selected as an assistant at East Carolina ... Sewanee (University of the South) chose Rafe Mauran as an assistant ... John Skelton appointed as head men's soccer and head Alpine ski coach at New England College. Skelton was head men's soccer coach at Southern Maine from 1995 to 1998 and women's soccer assistant at Southern Maine from 1997 to 1998.

Women's soccer -- Bemidji State hired Ericka Pickett as head coach ... Elizabeth "Libby" McCaffrey appointed as head women's soccer coach and director of intramurals at Manhattanville. McCaffrey has been an administrative assistant in the school's athletics department ... Otterbein chose Brandon Koons as head coach to replace Scott Crowder.

Women's soccer assistant -- Syracuse appointed Whitney Cali as graduate assistant women's coach.

Softball -- Dante Fedeli resigned as head coach at Iona ... Carl Triola selected as head coach at Mercyhurst. Triola, who succeeds Carrie Roberts, also serves as the faculty athletics representative for the school ... St. Francis (New York) hired Nick Trani as head coach. Trani was an assistant with the program during the 1999 season ... Rhode Island head coach Melissa Jarrell resigned.

Men's and women's swimming -- Brian Pearson appointed as head swimming and diving coach at Colorado College. Pearson served in an interim capacity during the 1998-99 season ... Austin hired Stephen Jungbluth as head men's and women's coach to succeed Sig Lawson. Jungbluth has been head men's and women's swimming coach at Amherst.

Men's and women's swimming assistant -- Alabama named Mike Anderson as associate head coach for men's and women's swimming and diving.

Men's and women's tennis -- Eric Ratchford, head men's tennis coach at Robert Morris, accepted additional responsibilities as head women's coach at the school ... Pace women's head coach Ramona Polvere announced plans to retire. Polvere has been head women's coach since 1978 and also formerly served as the school's coordinator of women's athletics for 10 years and as assistant athletics director for compliance and eligibility for one year.

Men's and women's track and field -- Mia Pollard appointed as women's head coach at Virginia Commonwealth ... Frank Gagliano, director of track and field at Georgetown for 16 years, named as coach emeritus. Gagliano has been coaching track and field for 39 years. The school selected associate head coach Ron Helmer to become director of track and field ... Alonzo Ruffin resigned as men's and women's track and cross country coach at New Orleans ... Ball State head men's track and field and cross country coach Joe Rogers announced plans to retire, effective at the end of the 1999 cross country season. Rogers has been with the program for 15 seasons. The school chose three-year assistant Chris Campbell as interim coach for the 1999-00 season.

Men's and women's track and field assistants -- Andrew Valmon promoted to associate head coach at Georgetown ... Paul Kassabian resigned as an assistant coach at Rhode Island.

Men's and women's volleyball -- Colorado College chose Rick Swan as head women's coach. Swan has been interim head coach of the program ... Northern Illinois hired Todd Kress as head coach to replace Pete Waite. Kress has been head coach at Fairfield since 1995 ... Melissa "Missy" Soboleski selected as women's head coach at Mercyhurst to replace Carrie Roberts. Soboleski has most recently coached at Gannon ... Albany (New York) named Curtis Strife as head women's coach. Strife has been an assistant coach at Plattsburgh State for three years ... Sharon Sexton appointed as head women's volleyball and head women's golf coach at Otterbein. The women's golf program is scheduled to begin competition during the 1999-00 academic year. Sexton, who succeeds Patti Wilson, was an assistant volleyball coach at Ashland.

Men's and women's volleyball assistants -- New Orleans appointed Dana Castillo Launey as an assistant. Last season, Castillo Launey was an assistant at North Carolina-Charlotte ... Texas-Pan American added Christine Phillips as an assistant coach ... Stephanie Milbradt resigned as assistant coach at Rhode Island after six seasons.

Wrestling -- Matt Sorochinsky elevated to full-time assistant coach at Binghamton.

STAFF

Academic services -- Akron appointed Nancy House, coordinator for student-athlete development at Emporia State University, as academic advisor, effective June 1. House succeeds Mary Lu Gribschaw.

Athletic training -- Karin Mann named as athletic trainer and compliance officer at Teikyo Post.

Athletic training assistants -- Seton Hall assistant athletic trainer Nicole Hagner resigned ... Syracuse hired Josephine Lee as an assistant athletic trainer. Lee has been a graduate assistant athletic trainer at the school for two years.

Marketing and promotions -- Brett Davidson named as director of marketing and promotions at Merchant Marine. Davidson has been soccer operations manager of the Eastern Indoor Soccer League for three years.

Marketing and promotions assistant -- Melissa Vigues named as assistant director of marketing and promotions at Miami (Florida).

Sports information -- Jim Moore resigned as sports information director at Chapman ... Ithaca chose Amy Ward as assistant sports information director. Ward formerly worked with the Wisconsin-Whitewater and Wisconsin-La Crosse sports infor- mation offices.

Strength and conditioning -- Joseph A. Schoenleber chosen as strength and conditioning coach at Drexel. Since 1998, Schoenleber has been assistant strength coach at Villanova.

Strength and conditioning assistants -- Rob Phillips and David Sandler added as assistants at Miami (Florida).

Ticket services -- Rutgers tabbed Greg Menzel as ticket manager.

Ticket services assistants -- Taz Carrington accepted duties as assistant ticket manager at Virginia to replace Corbin Hunt. Carrington was an athletics ticket office specialist at Oregon ... Reinaldo Mirabal selected as ticket sales associate at Miami (Florida).

CONFERENCES

Kim Anderson selected as director of basketball operations at the Big 12 Conference.

The Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athlet- ic Conference hired Matthew Stanek as sports information director. For the past 10 months, Stanek has been fulfilling similar duties as an intern at the school.

John W. Adams chosen as coordinator of men's basketball officiating at the Midwestern Collegiate Conference. Adams, who succeeds Jim Lessig, most recently has been an officiating observer for the Indiana High School Athletic Association and the Midwestern Collegiate Conference.

West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference appointed Will Prewitt as associate commissioner. Prewitt has been sports information director at Tusculum.

ASSOCIATIONS

The Orange Bowl Committee hired Bryan P. Moynihan as director of ticket operations, Charmaine Milton as events coordinator and Cheryl Haywood as sponsor relations coordinator. The committee also promoted Jeff Merk to director of events. Merk was an event manager.

NATIONAL OFFICE

Jim Shaffer hired as director of the Hall of Champions. Shaffer has been vice-president of corporate affairs at IWC Resources Corporation in Indianapolis.

The Association hired Lori Braa as committee coordinator. Braa has been an assistant athletics director at Messiah.

AGREEMENTS

The AXA/Equitable Liberty Bowl, Mountain West Conference and Conference USA announced a three-year agreement to feature the champion of each conference in the bowl. The game will be televised on ESPN at 4 p.m., Central time, December 31.

SEMINAR

The University of Kentucky Sports Marketing Academy will be held June 21-24 in Lexington, Kentucky. The Academy, a unique public-private partnership by education (the Gatton College of Business and Economics and the Kentucky athletics department) and business (Host Communications, Inc.), will feature prominent practitioners from both the public and private sectors. Among the speakers are Cathy Snow, Kentucky Fried Chicken; Bill Ogle, Pizza Hut; Steve Kirchner, Valvoline; Bill Glenn, GTE; Pat Battle, Collegiate Licensing Group; Lori Satterfield, NCAA; Mark Dyer, NASCAR; Tim Smith, NTRA; Harvey Schiller, Turner Broadcasting Network; Dave Gavitt, D.R. Gavitt, Inc.; Keith Ritter, CBS Sports; Brian Donlan, Lifetime TV; Don Dixon, Lifestyle Marketing Group; Patrick Hare, Nabisco; Rick Jones, Corporate Marketing Associates; Grant Teaff, American Football Coaches Association; Matthew Pace, GM; Kevin Monaghan, NBC; Frank Daniels, Total Sports, and others. Contact http://gatton. gws.uky.edu/SMA/99Brochure.html or call 800-284-6407 for additional information.

CORRECTIONS

The nickname of Brigham Young-Hawaii's women's tennis team was incorrectly reported in the Division II Women's Tennis Championship story in the May 24 issue of The NCAA News. The correct nickname for Brigham Young-Hawaii is the Seasiders.

NOTABLES

The following are national Intercollegiate Tennis Association winners for NCAA Division II: Women -- Wilson/ITA Coach of the Year, Dave Porter, Brigham Young-Hawaii; Tennis Magazine/ITA Arthur Ashe Award for Leadership and Sportsmanship, Elissa Bennett, Armstrong Atlantic State; ITA Senior Player of the Year, Mutsumi Izutsu, Concordia; ITA Rookie Player of the Year, Petra Gaspar, Brigham Young-Hawaii; ITA Player to Watch, Karien Loeffen, Georgia C&SU. Men -- Wilson/ITA Coach of the Year, George Samuel, Barry; Tennis Magazine/ ITA Arthur Ashe Award for Leadership and Sportsmanship, Marcus Nilsson, Bloomsburg; ITA Senior Player of the Year, Wei-Su Yu, Brigham Young-Hawaii; ITA Rookie Player of the Year, H.B. Nordstrom, Lander; ITA Player to Watch, Jalal Chafai, Drury.

Following are the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Division I women's and Division III men's and women's national award winners: Division I women -- Wilson/ITA National Coach of the Year, Frank Brennan, Stanford; ITA National Senior Player of the Year, Vanessa Webb, Duke; ITA National Rookie of the Year, Marissa Irvin, Stanford; ITA National Player to Watch, Teryn Ashley, Stanford; ITA National Assistant Coach of the Year, Kathy Toon, California; ITA/Cissie Leary Sportsmanship Award, Barbara Urbanska, Wisconsin. Division III women -- Wilson/ITA Coach of the Year, Ed Hegmann, Mary Washington; Tennis Magazine/ ITA Arthur Ashe Award for Leadership and Sportsmanship, Kanta Murali, Smith; ITA Senior Player of the Year, Lola Taylor, Trinity (Texas); ITA Rookie Player of the Year, Jasmine Bradley, Williams; ITA Player to Watch, Amy Wachenheim, Skidmore. Division III men -- Wilson/ITA Coach of the Year, Butch Newman, Trinity (Texas); Tennis Magazine/ITA Arthur Ashe Award for Leadership and Sportsmanship, Ben Lipari, Gustavus Adolphus; ITA Senior Player of the Year, Brian Cummings, UC Santa Cruz; ITA Rookie Player of the Year, Josh Lefkowitz, Williams; ITA Player to Watch, Danny Kim, UC Santa Cruz.

Georgia gymnast Karin Lichey named a Honda Award winner as the top woman collegiate athlete in her sport. In addition to earning recognition as Southeastern Conference Athlete of the Year and capturing the maximum number of first-team all-America honors, Lichey, a senior, helped lead Georgia to its second straight NCAA team championship.

Senior Duke tennis player Vanessa Webb selected to receive the Honda Award as the top collegiate woman athlete in her sport. Webb is a two-time Atlantic Coast Conference Player of the Year.

John Crouthamel and the late David Nelson selected as recipients of the National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame's 1999 John L. Toner Award. Crouthamel currently serves as athletics director at Syracuse and is a member of the NCAA Football Issues Committee. Nelson was commissioner of the Yankee Conference from 1989 until his death in 1991. He also was athletics director at Delaware and Hillsdale. The award is presented to the athletics director who has demonstrated superior administrative abilities and shown outstanding dedication to college athletics and particularly college football.

DEATHS

Former Morehead State assistant athletics director John E. (Sonny) Allen died May 13. He was 72.

--Compiled by Leilana McKindra