The NCAA Record

August 16, 1999

Barry hires Neveu to lead women's soccer

Mike Neveu has been hired as head women's soccer coach at Barry, succeeding Brian Dooley.

Neveu presently serves as associate director of the Cardinal Soccer Club in Cincinnati, where he is responsible for training and coaching 43 teams. He also is head coach of the Cardinal Premier under-16 team.

Neveu, a former assistant women's soccer coach at Fairfield and Cincinnati, played collegiate soccer at Brockport State. He lettered three seasons and captured all-academic honors at the school in 1991.

Neveu has a bachelor's degree in physical education with a concentration in sports management, and he holds an 'A' coaching license and a national youth license from the United States Soccer Federation. Neveu earned a master's degree in sports management from Northern Colorado in 1994.

GENERAL

CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICERS

Geoffrey Bannister resigned as president at Butler, effective May 2000 ... North Dakota President Kendall Baker selected as president at Ohio Northern, effective September 1 ... Matthew Goldstein appointed as chancellor at CCNY. Goldstein has been president at Adelphi and formerly was president at Bernard Baruch ... Marshall named Mike Perry as interim president. Perry has been chairman of Bank One West Virginia ... James (Dolph) Norton chosen as interim president at Central Washington. Norton was formerly interim president at Adelphi.

DIRECTORS OF ATHLETICS

Frostburg State hired Diane M. Morea as athletics director to succeed Loyal Park. Since October 1997, Morea has been athletics director at Chowan ... Troy L. Tucker resigned as athletics director and head men's basketball coach at D'Youville to become athletics director at Herkimer County (New York) Community College. D'Youville selected Brian Miller, assistant basketball coach at Canisius for the past four years, to succeed Tucker ... Kentucky Wesleyan appointed Larry Moore as director of athletics to succeed William Meadors, who retired effective June 30 ... Sheila Wooten promoted to athletics director at Bloomfield to replace Al Restaino. Wooten was assistant athletics director and head volleyball coach at Bloomfield. She also coached volleyball at New Jersey Institute of Technology ... Centre named Joe McDaniel as athletics director. McDaniel, who has been serving in an interim capacity for the past seven months, succeeds Ray Hammond.

SENIOR WOMAN ADMINISTRATORS

Southern Mississippi hired Sonya Varnell as senior woman administrator/associate athletics director. Varnell has been coordinator for multicultural programs for athletics at Nebraska for the past four years ... Barbara Young, head men's and women's tennis coach at Lafayette, selected as senior woman administrator and assistant director of athletics at the school. Young has been women's head coach for 25 seasons and men's head coach for three seasons.

ASSOCIATE DIRECTORS OF ATHLETICS

Trinity (Connecticut) assistant athletics director, head field hockey coach and head women's lacrosse coach Robin Sheppard relinquished coaching duties to accept a promotion to associate athletics director. Sheppard compiled a 240-67-13 mark in field hockey and a 213-68-5 record in lacrosse ... Quinnipiac elevated Linda J. Wooster to associate director of athletics and recreation. Wooster, who has been assistant athletics director for the past six years, also is senior woman administrator at the school ... Chris Denari resigned as associate athletics director for marketing and events at Butler.

ASSISTANT DIRECTORS OF ATHLETICS

Dennis Toney appointed as assistant athletics director at VMI. Toney has been assistant athletics director at Massachusetts since 1996 ... Robert Harris promoted to assistant athletics director for athletics promotions and marketing and Scott Musa promoted to assistant athletics director. Harris, who has been coordinator of athletics promotions and marketing since 1996, will continue as assistant men's basketball coach, a position he has held since 1992. Musa, who has been sports information director since July 1994 and head women's lacrosse coach since 1997, will retain head coaching duties for one more year ... Steven LaSalle elevated to assistant athletics director for recruitment at Merchant Marine. LaSalle, who enters his fifth season as an assistant football coach at the school, will retain coaching responsibilities ... Mike Roberts selected as assistant athletics director and head baseball coach at North Carolina-Asheville ... Montana appointed James Bandy as assistant athletics director for compliance. Bandy has been assistant athletics director for compliance at Houston since May 1998 ... Barbara Young, head men's and women's tennis coach at Lafayette, selected as assistant director of athletics and senior woman administrator at the school. Young has been women's head coach for 25 seasons and men's head coach for three seasons.

COACHES

Baseball -- Albany (New York) elevated Jon Mueller to head coach, replacing Doug O'Brey. Last year, Mueller was a volunteer assistant coach with the program ... Indiana/Purdue-Fort Wayne announced William Gernon as head coach ... Northern Illinois hired Dave Schrage as head coach. Schrage has been head coach at Northern Iowa for nine years and replaces Frank Del Medico ... Jim Hoar named head coach at Lebanon Valley. For the past three years, Hoar has been an assistant at Millersville ... Mike Roberts selected as head baseball coach and assistant athletics director at North Carolina-Asheville.

Baseball assistants -- John Russo promoted to succeed Jason Swearengen as an assistant coach at West Alabama. Russo was a student assistant coach ... Southern Colorado hired Mark Magdaleno as an assistant.

Men's basketball -- Bill Lavery hired as head coach at Rockford. Lavery has been head coach of the CBA's Rockford Lightning since March 1998 ... Clarkson chose Tobin Anderson as head coach. Anderson, who has been the top assistant at LeMoyne, succeeds Walt Townes ... Arkansas-Monticello hired Charlie Schaef as head coach to succeed Mike Ritchie. For the past four years, Schaef has been an assistant at West Texas A&M ... Mark Few promoted to head coach at Gonzaga to replace Dan Monson, who became head coach at Minnesota. Few joined the program as a graduate assistant during the 1989-90 season and was promoted to full-time assistant for the 1991-92 season.

Men's basketball assistants -- Charles Howard named as an assistant at Maryland Eastern Shore. Howard spent last season as an assistant at Barton ... Morehead State added Brian Lane as an assistant. For the past four years, Lane has been an assistant with Florida Atlantic ... Marc Hostetter selected as full-time assistant at Longwood. For the past two seasons, Hostetter has been an assistant coach at Southern Indiana ... Jim Harrick Jr. resigned as an assistant coach at Rhode Island ... New Orleans' Anthony Anderson resigned as an assistant coach to take a similar position at Tulane ... Grant Pate added as basketball administrative assistant at Mississippi ... Davidson selected Mike Kelly as an assistant coach and Billy Cumplido as basketball administrative assistant ... B.J. Dugan appointed as an assistant coach at Moravian ... La Salle named John Gallagher as an assistant coach ... Merchant Marine appointed Chuck Guittar and John Krikorian as men's assistant coaches ... Delaware added Tyrone Perry as an assistant coach to succeed G.R. Myers ... Howard Moore selected as a volunteer assistant coach at Chicago. Moore spent the 1998-99 season as head coach at Chicago Taft High School ... Texas A&M-Kingsville hired Chris Coker as an assistant. Coker has been a graduate assistant coach at West Alabama for two years.

Women's basketball -- Kalamazoo head coach Michelle Fortier promoted to assume a newly created full-time post that includes serving as a physical education instructor and fulfilling administrative duties in the athletics department. Fortier has been head women's basketball coach for five years ... Orick Smith tabbed as head coach at Beaver. Last season, Smith was an assistant coach with the program ... Drury announced Nyla Milleson as its first head coach. The program is scheduled to begin competition during the 2000-01 academic year. Milleson has been head women's basketball coach at Springfield (Missouri) High School for the past seven years.

Women's basketball assistants -- UNLV added Ayanna Hines as director of basketball operations. Hines has been events manager for the Women's Basketball Coaches Association ... Kim Trudel named assistant coach at Stonehill. Trudel has been assistant women's basketball coach at Wesleyan for two seasons ... Josh Keister appointed as an assistant coach at Missouri Western State. For the past three seasons, Keister has been men's and women's graduate assistant coach at the school ... St. Cloud State hired Lori Fish as an assistant coach. Fish most recently served as an assistant women's coach at South Dakota State ... Jody Hensen selected as an assistant coach at Clemson ... Carol Sensley selected as an assistant coach at Mississippi ... Nicole Scholl named as an assistant at Binghamton. Scholl, who replaces Melanie Stephens, has been a graduate assistant coach at North Dakota State.

Men's and women's cross country -- Merchant Marine announced the selection of Gary Gardner as head cross country and track and field coach. Gardner has been assistant cross country and track and field coach at Trinity (Connecticut) for three years.

Men's and women's fencing -- Harvard chose Peter Brand as head men's and women's coach succeeding Ben Zivkovic, who stepped down after 23 seasons. For the past six years, Brand has served as head men's and women's coach at Brown.

Field hockey -- David Foley named as first full-time coach at Saint Louis, effective August 2. Foley has been head coach at Catholic ... Franklin & Marshall announced the resignation of Kara Tierney as head field hockey and women's lacrosse coach to fulfill the same capacity at Trinity (Connecticut). Tierney, who has been with the Franklin & Marshall programs since the 1996-97 academic year, will succeed Robin Sheppard at Trinity (Connecticut) ... Streya Hart resigned as head coach at Westfield State ... Martha Kerrik chosen as head coach at Moravian.

Football assistants -- Shawn Weigel added as defensive backs coach at West Texas A&M. Weigel has been an assistant at Austin for the past five seasons, including serving as defensive coordinator, linebackers coach and strength and conditioning coach in 1998 ... David Wood promoted to assistant head coach and named head golf coach at Widener. The school also elevated graduate assistant coach Jim Clements to full-time assistant responsible for the defensive line and named Ryan Ricedorff as graduate assistant coach ... Cary Marquell resigned as a graduate assistant coach at Ball State to become an assistant coach at Cortland State ... St. Cloud State added Mark Hulet as defensive coordinator. Hulet has been defensive coordinator and assistant head football coach at William Jewel College ... Paul Barnes and Reed Prosser named as assistant coaches at Shenandoah. Barnes has been offensive coordinator at Ferrum for the past two seasons, and Prosser has been coaching at the high-school level ... Cornell College named Tim Lovell and Matt Casebolt as assistant coaches ... David Clausen, Donald Colgan and Scott Larkee added as assistants at Bowdoin ... Moravian added Mike Kramer as an assistant coach ... Kevin Fountaine added as wide receivers coach at Merchant Marine. For the past four years, Fountaine has been head coach at Nazareth (New York) High School ... Indiana (Pennsylvania) selected Charles Bankins as wide receivers and tight ends coach. Bankins spent last year as wide receivers coach at James Madison ... Guilford added Shane Handy as defensive backs coach and Mike Working as quarterbacks coach and offensive coordinator.

Men's and women's golf -- David Wood appointed as head coach at Widener. Wood also was promoted to assistant head football coach at the school ... Baldwin-Wallace named Michael Gallagher as women's golf coach and men's and women's swimming and diving coach ... Belmont Abbey appointed Doug Ehmann as head coach. Ehmann formerly coached the school's men's squad from 1987 to 1996 and most recently coached at North Carolina-Charlotte in 1997 and 1998.

Men's and women's golf assistant -- Craig Distl chosen as an assistant coach at Belmont Abbey.

Women's gymnastics -- Northern Illinois appointed Mark Sontag as head coach ... Andrea Elkins resigned as women's gymnastics coach at West Chester.

Men's ice hockey assistant -- Mercyhurst appointed Seth Appert as an assistant coach and assistant director of the Mercyhurst Ice Center. Appert succeeds Michael Sisti.

Men's and women's lacrosse -- Keene State hired Mark Theriault as head men's coach. Theriault was head coach at Western New England and most recently was an assistant at Northfield Mount Hermon School ... Chris Bates elevated to head coach at Drexel after serving in an interim capacity since May 1999. Bates, who replaces Randy Voigt, has played lacrosse professionally with the Philadelphia Wings of the National Major Indoor Lacrosse League ... Byron Collins chosen as head men's coach at Stevens Institute. Collins, who was associate head lacrosse coach at the school during the 1999 season, succeeds Dean Witty.

Men's and women's lacrosse assistant -- Brian Delaney accepted responsibilities as men's graduate assistant coach at Widener.

Men's soccer -- Moravian named Eric Lambinus as men's and women's head coach ... Donald Thompson selected as men's and women's head coach at Southwest Baptist. Thompson has coached multiple sports and taught mathematics and statistics at Alvin (Texas) High School

Men's soccer assistant -- Mike Maire chosen as an assistant men's soccer coach and as assistant director of marketing and promotions at Merchant Marine. Maire is a 1999 graduate of VMI.

Women's soccer -- Belmont Abbey hired Scot Wieland as head coach. Wieland succeeds Jimmy Mitchell ... Hilbert appointed James Ruggiero as head coach ... Drury hired Ann Cook to replace Rick Burns as head coach. Cook currently plays professionally with the Chicago Cobras of the W-League ... West Chester selected Drew Hoffman as interim head coach to succeed Ed Townsley, who resigned.

Softball -- Drexel appointed Renee Clarke as head coach. Clarke, who was head coach at Kean, succeeds 1999 interim coach Ray Perri ... Jeff Savage named head coach at Delaware State to succeed Lisa Weis. For the past two years, Savage has been head softball coach at Caesar Rodney (Delaware) High School ... Judy Favor named head coach at Wichita State. Favor has spent the last seven years as head softball coach at Columbus State ... Butler hired Dirk Welch as head coach. Welch has been an assistant at Bradley for the past three years ... West Chester named Joy Figueredo as head coach.

Softball assistants -- Jodie Ricciardi added as an assistant at Drew. Ricciardi, who played outfied at Penn State, graduated from the school in May ... Indiana State named Missy Phillips as an assistant coach.

Men's and women's squash -- Stephen Neal accepted head men's squash and assistant men's and women's tennis coaching duties at Wesleyan (Connecticut). Neal has spent the last year as varsity squash coach at Milton Academy in Milton, Massachusetts.

Men's and women's swimming and diving -- Kim Wallach chosen as diving coach at Colorado College. Wallach succeeds Ellen Berens ... Vicky Grocki selected as head men's and women's swimming coach at Beaver ... La Salle tabbed Matthew Nunnally as men's and women's head coach ... Baldwin-Wallace named Michael Gallagher as men's and women's swimming and diving coach and women's golf coach ... Northern Illinois selected Anne Marie Wozniak as head men's and women's head swimming coach.

Men's and women's tennis -- American hired Martin Blackman as head men's coach ... Brendon Travis selected as head men's coach at Goucher to replace Mike Hootner. Travis has been a coach at the high-school level for two years ... Roger Williams named August M. (Mike) Cecchi as head women's coach. For the past two years, Cecchi has been head boys' coach at St. George's School ... Robert "Mac" Gifford selected as head women's coach at Syracuse. Gifford was interim head coach during the 1997-98 season ... Art Smith appointed as an associate men's coach at Moravian ... Dan Silverstein appointed as men's and women's tennis coach at Southeastern Louisiana ... Maria Zavala accepted head women's coaching responsibilities at Stetson. Zavala has been an assistant women's coach at Jacksonville State for the past three seasons ... Illinois Wesleyan appointed Sally McShane Mangina as head women's coach. Mangina succeeds Barb Cothren.

Men's and women's tennis assistant -- Stephen Neal accepted assistant men's and women's tennis and head men's squash coaching duties at Wesleyan (Connecticut). Neal has spent the last year as varsity squash coach at Milton Academy in Milton, Massachusetts.

Men's and women's track and field -- Dereck Chavis appointed as men's and women's track and field coach at Hope. Chavis, who has been a graduate assistant track and field coach at Indiana State since 1997, replaces Mark Northuis as head men's coach and Donna Eaton as head women's coach. Northuis will retain duties as head men's and women's cross country coach and will coach distance runners during track season. Eaton will continue to serve as women's golf coach ... Barry Collins resigned as head coach at Lamar, effective July 31. Collins, who was an assistant with the program from 1980-91, has been head coach for eight years ... Penn State women's head coach Teri Jordan announced plans to retire from coaching to become coordinator of disability programming and assistant coordinator of the Multi-Sports Complex at the school. Jordan has been head women's track coach since 1984 ... Central Washington cross country coach Kevin Adkisson accepted additional duties as interim men's and women's track and field coach. Adkisson succeeds John Picha, who requested reassignment in order to spend more time as defensive coordinator of the football team. Picha will continue to serve as an assistant track and field coach ... Darren Schneider named as head men's coach at Wisconsin-Whitewater. Schneider has been men's and women's head track and field coach and physical education instructor at Wisconsin-Platteville since 1996 ... Wofford track and cross country coach Jimmy Stephens resigned to accept a director of operations position at Alabama.

Men's and women's track and field assistants -- Lynda Blutreich selected as an assistant coach at Duke ... Clemson added Jarrett Foster and Jackie Hoover as assistant coaches at Clemson.

Men's and women's volleyball -- Felix Hou named as head women's coach at UMBC, succeeding Catherine Lavery. For the past four years, Hou has been an assistant coach at Maryland ... Maryland Eastern Shore chose Wilhelmenia Wright-Harrison as head women's coach. Wright-Harrison has been head women's volleyball coach at Norfolk State for nine years ... Roy Martin added as head women's coach at Francis Marion. Martin, who replaces Jerry Pruitt, has been an assistant coach at Tulane ... Hilbert hired Chad Ahren as head women's coach ... Jesse Adams resigned as head women's coach at Westfield State ... Beaver appointed Leslie Hayes as head women's coach ... LaJean Jensen selected as women's head coach at Vermont ... Rider added Emily Ahlquist as head women's coach.

Men's and women's volleyball assistants -- Texas-San Antonio selected Rhonda Rust as an assistant coach. Rust was a three-year letter-winner at Texas-Arlington and was head coach of the Mid Cities Volleyball Club from 1996-99 ... Janet Jaeger chosen as an assistant coach at Purdue. Jaeger has been head coach at Wheeling Jesuit for two years ... Ball State hired Heidi Coulter as an assistant coach to replace Stefanie Decker. Last season, Coulter served as a volunteer assistant coach ... Heidi Nichols added as a volunteer assistant coach at Saint Louis.

Men's and women's water polo -- Harvard head men's water polo coach Jim Floerchinger accepted additional duties as head women's coach. Floerchinger replaces Sachi Gahan.

STAFF

Academic services -- Tracy Robinson chosen as director of the student academic enhancement program at Southern Mississippi.

Administrative -- North Carolina selected Arthur Johnson as assistant to the athletics director.

Athletic trainers -- Todd France appointed as head athletic trainer at Rockford. France has been part-time athletic trainer at Rockford since 1988 and most recently has been director of the Sports Institute of Northern Illinois since 1990 and head athletic trainer and assistant director of basketball operations for the Rockford Lightning of the Continental Basketball Association ... Bill Drake resigned as athletic trainer at Nevada to take a similar position at Washington State.

Assistant athletic trainers -- Drexel elevated Cesar Nava to full-time assistant athletic trainer. Since January 1998, Nava has been a part-time athletic trainer ... Mike Vittorino hired as an assistant athletic trainer at Robert Morris. Vittorino completed a master's degree in athletic training at California (Pennsylvania) in May and has served as head athletic trainer at Uniontown High School.

Communications -- Akron appointed Melanie Schneider as assistant director of athletics communications. Schneider, a sports information intern at Fresno State in 1998-99, succeeds Amy Symons.

Communications assistants -- Colin McDonough selected as an athletics communications intern at Akron.

Facilities assistant -- Akron hired Michael Pechac as a facilities and operations intern.

Marketing assistants -- Michelle Smith added as a marketing assistant at Kent ... Manhattanville chose Tomia Wooten as special assistant to the athletics director for marketing and development. Wooten most recently served as foundation coordinator for the Florida Citrus Sports Foundation ... Evansville selected Taryn Nance as assistant marketing and promotions director ... Mike Maire chosen as assistant director of marketing and promotions and as an assistant men's soccer coach at Merchant Marine. Maire is a 1999 graduate of VMI ... Akron added Margaret Crawford as promotions and marketing intern.

Media relations -- Wally Johnson selected as director of athletics media relations at St. Lawrence. Johnson has been sports information director at the school since 1975.

Media relations assistants -- South Alabama named Corey Thomaston as athletics media relations intern for the 1999-00 season.

Operations -- Brian Gibboney appointed as director of athletics operations at Bloomsburg.

Publications -- St. Lawrence selected Courtney A. Erickson as director of athletics publications. Erickson spent the 1998-99 academic year as assistant sports information director at Hartwick.

Recreation -- Carlyle Lawrence tabbed as director of recreation and intramurals at Albany (New York). Lawrence has served the school in various capacities since 1991 and has spent the last four years as assistant director of residential life.

Sports information -- Matt Daskivich named as sports information director at Gettysburg. Daskivich has been assistant director of college relations/sports information director at Elizabethtown ... Geoff Hassard appointed as sports information director at Oneonta State. For the last five years, Hassard has been sports information director at Worcester Polytechnic ... Centre appointed Ed Rall as sports information director. For the past 11 years, Rall has been an assistant football coach and head baseball coach at the school ... Danielle Barney announced as sports information director at Lock Haven. Since 1997, Barney has been sports information graduate assistant at Edinboro ... Austin Peay chose Cody Bush as sports information coordinator ... Chapman chose Doug Aiken as sports information director. Aiken has been ticket sales and on-field promotions assistant with the High Desert Mavericks professional baseball club.

Sports information assistants -- Lauren Zimmerman named as sports information graduate assistant at St. Lawrence ... Jeff Williams added as an assistant sports information director at Evansville. For the past two years, Williams has been a graduate assistant at Southwest Missouri State ... Johns Hopkins added Paul Krome and B.J. Spigelmyer as sports information interns ... Rice tabbed Kelly Kuczko as sports information assistant. Kuczko is a 1999 Virginia Tech graduate and formerly served as a student assistant in the sports information offices at East Tennessee State and Virginia Tech.

Sports medicine -- Butler promoted Bruce Willard to director of sports medicine replacing Ralph Reiff. Willard has been assistant athletic trainer for the past six years.

CONFERENCES

Mike Anderson appointed as assistant sports information director at the Gulf South Conference. Anderson, who succeeds Tammy DeGroff, was with the Patriot League.

The Mid-Continent Conference added Dustin Bozwell as assistant commissioner for external affairs. Bozwell most recently served as assistant director of marketing/athletics ticket manager at Western Illinois.

Bill White selected as coordinator of officiating for the California Collegiate Athletic Association. For the past two years, White has been coordinating officiating in the conference's South region. The conference awarded commissioner Robert J. Hiegert, who is beginning his third year as commissioner, a three-year contract extension and reappointed Joe Lang as director of media relations for the 1999-2000 academic year.

The Mid-American Conference chose Bryan McGowan as assistant media relations director, effective August 1. McGowan has been assistant sports information director at Southern Illinois since 1995.

Conference USA chose Stephanie Vlach as compliance and championships assistant and James Jackson as information services assistant. Vlach has worked with the Illinois-Chicago athletics department for the past year, and Jackson has been assistant director of sports information at Arkansas-Pine Bluff since August 1997.

The American Southwest Conference hired Dan Lathey as director of media relations to succeed Michael Ziegler. Lathey, who also will serve as assistant director of media relations for the Lone Star Conference, has been assistant sports information director at Air Force.

Brian Briscoe elevated to assistant commissioner at the Lone Star Conference. Briscoe, who has been director of media relations for the conference, will retain media relations duties.

The Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference announced Machli Joseph as administrative fellow for championships and marketing, Julie Griffin as administrative fellow for compliance and Ken Taylor as administrative fellow for ice hockey and media relations. Joseph has been a graduate assistant for men's basketball at East Stroudsburg, Griffin has been an assistant women's basketball coach at Springfield, and Taylor has been a compliance assistant at Michigan.

The North Coast Conference named Keri Alexander and Sue Penicka as assistant directors.

Beth DeBauche promoted to associate commissioner and Leann Cook elevated to assistant commissioner at the Southeastern Conference. The conference also appointed Leslie Pigg as administrative assistant for compliance and Allyson Quinn as administrative assistant for media relations.

ASSOCIATIONS

The National Soccer Coaches Association of American hired Allison Koester as public relations/promotions intern and Mike Parsons as director of coaching education.

Kelly D. Krauskop, president of Host Communications, Inc. women's sports, resigned to become president of the Women's National Basketball Association team in Indianapolis.

Candice Kwok named administrative assistant at the Silicon Valley Bowl. Kwok has been an athletics administrator at California for the past year and a half.

NOTABLES

Jack Fleming, football broadcaster at West Virginia, named recipient of the National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame's 1999 Chris Schenkel Award. The honor is given to a "broadcaster who has had a long and distinguished career broadcasting college football, with ties directly to colleges and universities." Fleming, a 47-year veteran of broadcasting, has won seven West Virginia Sportscaster of the Year Awards.

Jim Kramer, Northern Iowa strength and conditioning coach, selected as the National Strength and Conditioning Coach Association's Professional of the Year. Kramer, who has been with Northern Iowa since July 1997, qualified for the honor by being named Missouri Valley Conference strength and conditioning coach of the year last fall.

Chris Voelz, women's athletics director at Minnesota, was named by CityBusiness as one of the 25 most influential women in business in the Twin Cities. The recipients were nominated by peers and were selected based on their impact on the community and performance in their positions. Voelz has been women's athletics director at the school for 12 years.

Mary Barrett, an athletics administrator at Massachusetts-Boston and Boston State College, named as the 1999 Katherine Ley Award winner. The honor recognizes a women's athletics administrator who demonstrates leadership abilities and who is a strong proponent of women's issues and a role model for women coaches and administrators. Barrett was the first woman elected as president of the Eastern College Athletic Conference in 1985 and has served on the NCAA Executive Committee in 1992 and the NCAA Council. She also was chairperson of the Division III championships committee.

DEATHS