The NCAA Record

September 13, 1999

Ready chosen as men's assistant at Coppin State

Coppin State has named Stephanie Ready as an assistant men's basketball coach. Ready has been head women's volleyball coach and assistant softball coach at the school.

Ready is only the second female to join a Division I men's basketball coaching staff. She will continue as head volleyball coach, a position she has held since 1998, but will relinquish duties as assistant softball coach.

A two-sport standout as a student-athlete at Coppin State, Ready competed in basketball and volleyball. She ranks among the school's all-time basketball leaders in steals (second), assists (fourth), points (eighth) and rebounds (10th).

Ready graduated cum laude in 1998 with a bachelor's degree in psychology.

GENERAL

DIRECTORS OF ATHLETICS

Rick Hartzell appointed as athletics director at Northern Iowa. Hartzell, who has been director of athletics at Bucknell since 1988, replaces Chris Ritrievi, who resigned ... Georgia State selected Greg Manning as athletics director ... Edward J. Manetta Jr. elevated to associate vice-president and director of athletics at St. John's (New York) ... Regina Sullivan, associate athletics director at UC San Diego, announced as acting athletics director until a successor to Judith Sweet is appointed ... Morningside elevated Beth Sibenaller to athletics director. Sibenaller, who has worked as interim athletics director since June 1998, has been with the school since 1992 ... Kent Weiser hired as athletics director at Emporia State. Since 1993, Weiser has been associate athletics director for external affairs at Oregon State ... Larry Mortensen, head men's basketball coach at Adams State, named as athletics director at the school ... Jerry W. Wollmering, associate athletics director of finance and administration at Bowling Green, hired as athletics director at Truman State to succeed Walter Ryle.

SENIOR WOMAN ADMINISTRATORS

Methodist appointed head women's basketball coach DeeDee Jarman as senior woman administrator. Jarman is in her third year as head coach with the program ... Beth Watson, head softball coach at Southern Indiana, has been awarded additional responsibilities as senior woman administrator.

FACULTY ATHLETICS REPRESENTATIVES

Syracuse selected Michael Wasylenko as faculty athletics representative. Wasylenko, economics professor and associate dean of the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, succeeds Dale Tussing ... Jack Marr succeeds Charles Bertram as faculty athletics representative at Southern Indiana. Bertram passed away this summer.

ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF ATHLETICS

Adams State selected Damon Martin as associate athletics director. Martin also is head cross country and track coach at the school.

ASSISTANT DIRECTORS OF ATHLETICS

Richard Flight hired as assistant athletics director at Samford ... Ball State elevated Joe Hernandez to assistant athletics director. For the past nine years, Hernandez has been director of athletics communications ... Jeremy Richardson elevated to assistant athletics director for media relations at South Carolina-Spartanburg. Richardson has been sports information director for the past two years ... Hartford promoted Ellen Crandall to assistant athletics director for external relations. Crandall has fulfilled athletics development duties for the past year ... Jonathan Harper resigned as Fitchburg State's assistant athletics director and sports information director to become director of media relations at the Northeast-10 Conference ... Southern Indiana assistant athletics director Jon Mark Hall will assume responsibilities as compliance officer, succeeding Charles Bertram, who passed away this summer.

COACHES

Baseball -- John Susi appointed as head coach at Western Connecticut State ... Clarion hired Scott Feldman to replace Rich Herman as head coach ... Tony Skole hired as head coach at East Tennessee State ... Clark appointed Jason Falcon as head coach. Falcon formerly served as an assistant at Western New England and Massachusetts-Boston ... B.D. Parker awarded head coaching responsibilities at Nicholls State.

Baseball assistants -- Adelphi assistant coach Tom Sowinski resigned ... Micah Nori accepted assistant coaching duties at Miami (Ohio) ... Texas A&M-Corpus Christi added Ehren Earleywine as an assistant. The program is scheduled to begin competition in February 2000. Earleywine has been head coach at Westminster (Missouri) since 1996 ... West Virginia promoted Bruce Cameron to assistant coach and recruiting coordinator and promoted Mike Hampton to full-time assistant coach. The school also named Joe McNamee as volunteer assistant coach and Brian Sutphin as administrative assistant.

Men's basketball -- Texas-Pan American released head coach Delray Brooks. Brooks has been head coach since 1997 ... Frostburg State hired Webb Hatch as head coach. Hatch most recently was an assistant at VMI ... Don Haskins, head coach at UTEP for the past 38 years, announced his retirement. Haskins closes his tenure with a 719-353 career record ... Mercer extended the contract of head coach Mark Slonaker through the 2002-03 season.

Men's basketball assistants -- Texas-Pan American will not renew the contracts of assistant coaches George Morgan and Patrick Harrington for the 1999-00 fiscal year ... Kennesaw State hired Pete Strayhorn as an assistant coach. Strayhorn, who succeeds Brook Steppe, has been an assistant at Georgia C&SU for six seasons ... Michael Wernicki named as assistant coach at Mercyhurst after serving as graduate assistant for the past two years. Wernicki replaces Rahsaah Roland ... Brad Burris added as basketball administrative assistant at Marquette. During the 1998-99 season, Burris served as coordinator of basketball operations at Dayton ... Al Biancalana selected as third assistant coach at Bradley. Biancalana has been head boys' basketball coach at Amos Alonzo Stagg (Illinois) High School ... Notre Dame named David Cason as coordinator of basketball operations ... Brian Anderson appointed as an assistant coach at West Alabama ... Penn State-Behrend added Greg Curley and Jeff Fiolek as assistants. Fiolek also will be head junior varsity coach ... San Francisco added Calvin Byrd as an assistant coach. Byrd, who replaces Bill Carr, was an assistant at UC Irvine ... Brian Judski added as assistant coach at Guilford ... Carlton Owens appointed as an assistant coach at Saint Peter's ... Joe Loughran and Kendrick Moore chosen as assistant coaches at Hartford ... Southern Indiana elevated Rich Herdes to associate head coach and appointed Ken Johnson as an assistant coach ... Brian Regan, Kevin LaDuke and Eric Eaton appointed as assistant coaches at Assumption ... Central Missouri State chose Lamont Frazier as an assistant ... Jason Shay hired as an assistant coach at Mercyhurst. Shay has been director of game operations with the Quad City Thunder of the Continental Basketball Association.

Women's basketball -- Texas-San Antonio head coach Terry Gray resigned to become head girls' coach at Midland (Texas) High School. In three seasons as head coach, Gray had a 38-43 record ... Gary Oftedahl accepted head coaching duties at Edgewood. Oftedahl has been an assistant with the program for three years ... Hartford head coach Allison Jones resigned after seven years ... John Stroud, men's basketball coach at Millsaps, accepted duties as interim women's basketball coach at the school ... Adams State hired Sheila Adams as head coach.

Women's basketball assistants -- Shannon Litton chosen as an assistant at Florida Atlantic ... George Mason selected Maureen Costello as an assistant ... Leanna Stockdale appointed as an assistant coach at McNeese State ... New England chose Caryn Lasante as an assistant ... Jerilynn Johnson accepted assistant coaching duties at Roger Williams. Johnson has been an assistant varsity girls' coach at Saint Raphael Academy for three seasons ... Meredith Luebbers chosen as an assistant coach at College of Charleston ... Auburn selected Lauretta Freeman as an assistant ... Guilford added Chris Kosiba as an assistant coach ... Kelly Peter named as an assistant at Oswego State ... Portland State hired Andrea Durieux as an assistant. Last year, Durieux was a student assistant at Boise State ... Tami White chosen as an assistant coach at Morningside ... South Alabama added Steve Williams and Marvin Harvey as assistant coaches ... Boston University selected Cindy Blodgett as an assistant ... Kelly Mazza appointed as an assistant at Carnegie Mellon. Mazza has been assistant girls' basketball coach at Seton La-Salle (Pennsylvania) High School ... Amber Magner selected as an assistant coach at Furman ... New Hampshire College named Chris Wood as an assistant. Wood has been head coach for the last nine years at Plymouth Regional (New Hampshire) High School ... Joanna Bernabei accepted assistant coaching duties at Eastern Kentucky. Bernabei has been head coach at West Virginia Wesleyan for the past year.

Men's and women's crew/rowing -- Clark appointed Anthony Phillipo as head men's and women's coach.

Men's and women's crew/rowing assistants -- Richard Laurance named as an assistant coach at Mercyhurst to replace Ben Foster. Laurance has spent the last four years as head rowing coach at Grand Valley State.

Men's and women's cross country -- Susquehanna hired Craig Penney as head men's and women's cross country and head women's track and field coach. Penney succeeds Karen Brandt as women's track and field coach and Jim and Karen Brandt as head cross country coach. For the past three years, Penney has been head men's and women's track and field coach at Dickinson ... Wofford added Roger Saltsman as men's and women's head coach ... Carl Hicks promoted to head men's and women's cross country and track and field coach at Coppin State. Hicks has been with the programs for six years ... Gwynedd-Mercy selected James Williams as head men's and women's cross country and track and field coach. Last season, Williams was an assistant outdoor track coach at Cabrini ... Karyn Walton Weeks chosen as head women's coach at New Hampshire College to succeed Nick Nugent. Weeks has been assistant boys' track and field coach at Londonderry (New Hampshire) Junior High School.

Men's and women's cross country assistants -- Carthage named Brett Witt as an assistant men's cross country and track and field coach ... Ray Shrout chosen as assistant cross country and track and field coach at Penn State-Behrend ... Holley Cooper tabbed as assistant cross country and enhanced running coach at North Carolina-Greensboro ... Goucher hired Russ Drylie as men's and women's assistant ... Central Michigan hired Karen Lutzke as an assistant. Lutzke spent the 1998-99 season as head men's and women's cross country coach and women's track and field coach at Olivet.

Field hockey -- Jennifer Motyka named as head coach at New Paltz State. Motyka, who was an assistant field hockey and women's lacrosse coach at Hamilton, also will serve as assistant women's lacrosse coach and be in charge of the school's athletics facility management ... Saint Louis appointed Shannon West as head coach ... Stephanie Bunker hired as head coach at Framingham State.

Field hockey assistants -- Julie Cribbs replaces Alison Brown as assistant field hockey and assistant women's lacrosse coach at Mercyhurst. Cribbs was head field hockey coach at Louisville (Kentucky) Male Traditional High School from June 1995 to February 1999 ... Maureen Kavanagh named as an assistant at Keene State ... Goucher appointed Mary Beth Francis and Eliza Hahn as assistants ... Manhattanville named Cecilia Harrigan as assistant coach.

Football -- Rockford hired Victor Clark as head coach. From 1990-98, Clark was head coach at Thomas More ... Mike Bellotti awarded a new seven-year contract at Oregon. Bellotti enters his fifth year as head coach.

Football assistants -- Framingham State appointed Bill Manchester as defensive backs coach, Chris Reale as linebackers coach, Jack Strachan as running backs coach, Mike Taveira as quarterbacks and tight ends coach and Bob Weeks as offensive line coach ... Clarion chose Kim Niedbala as outside linebackers and strong safeties coach and Alvin Slaughter as receivers and tight ends coach ... Millersville hired Ron Rankin as defensive coordinator and linebackers coach, Barry Hawkins as defensive line coach, Jim Jackominic as defensive line coach, Mike Griffin as intern/linebackers assistant and Eddy Augustin as running backs coach. The school also promoted Brad Mangle to associate head coach and Jim Shiffer to assistant offensive coordinator. Mangle will continue as offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach, and Shiffer will retain responsibilities as recruiting coordinator and offensive line coach. Gary Krol, running backs coach for two seasons, will be wide receivers and tight ends coach ... Mike Barela, Mario D'Ortenzio, Clay Jennings and Tarn Sublett appointed as assistant coaches at Morningside ... Trinity (Connecticut) chose Bo Ryan as defensive line coach. The school also promoted Bill Decker, defensive coordinator and linebackers coach for nine years and head baseball coach, to head coach, replacing Don Miller. Sean Spencer added as offensive coordinator and running backs coach and Ryan Hankard, defensive line coach, moved to linebackers coach and defensive coordinator. Additionally, Steve Fountain, running backs coach, moved to wide receivers coach and Mark Melnitsky, wide receivers coach, moved to tight ends and offensive line coach. Bill Mella named as part-time offensive line coach ... Assumption added Kevin Morrisey as defensive line coach, John Kenneway as kickers coach, Sean McIntyre as linebackers coach and academic advisor and Dassin Blackwell as wide receivers coach.

Men's and women's golf -- Edgewood appointed Dave Smith as head men's coach ... Johnny Cake tabbed as director of golf at North Carolina.

Men's and women's gymnastics assistant -- LSU added Bob Moore as an assistant.

Men's and women's ice hockey assistants -- Eric Hoffberg hired as an assistant at Bowling Green to replace Wayne Wilson. For the past 10 years, Hoffberg has been head coach at Rochester Institute of Technology ... Mercyhurst named Kristine Pierce as an assistant women's coach ... Clarkson named Ron Fogarty as men's assistant coach ... Jeff Blashill elevated to men's assistant coach at Ferris State. Blashill, who succeeds Jamie Russell, has been a volunteer assistant with the program ... Chris Davidson chosen as men's assistant and Michele Selzer chosen as women's assistant at Manhattanville.

Men's and women's lacrosse -- Marymount (Virginia) added Laura Biggs as head women's coach. For the past two years, Biggs has been head field hockey and women's lacrosse coach at St. Mary's (Maryland) ... Nazareth hired Sue Behme to succeed Tony Zostant as head women's coach. For the past four years, Behme has been women's soccer and lacrosse coach at Geneseo State ... Aaron Koproski elevated to head men's coach at Wentworth Institute succeeding Brian Silcott.

Men's and women's lacrosse assistant -- Tucker Radebaugh hired to replace Doug Knight as an assistant at Virginia.

Men's soccer -- Dallas elevated Kenny Jones to head coach. Jones has been an assistant coach since last spring and replaces Adeneyi Harding, who resigned.

Men's soccer assistants -- Francis Marion hired Martin Beall as assistant men's and women's coach. Beall has been a women's assistant soccer coach at Notre Dame (Maryland) for the past two years ... Bo Jurney added as an assistant coach at Catawba ... DuPage named William R. Fajkus as an assistant coach ... Penn State-Behrend hired Nate Wiley as an assistant coach. Wiley is a 1999 graduate of Geneseo State ... Plattsburgh State selected Pat McMahon as an assistant coach ... James Derse and Kent Yuen added as assistants at Goucher ... John Conte and Timm Hippert selected as assistant coaches at Assumption ... Curry named Anson Smith as an assistant coach ... Fred Broxton appointed as an assistant coach at Manhattanville.

Women's soccer -- Greg Stone hired as Tennessee Tech's first full-time head coach. For the past three seasons, Stone has been head coach at Southern Indiana ... Cristin Burtis added as head coach at St. John's (New York).

Women's soccer assistants -- Dawn Crow selected as an assistant coach at Alabama ... New England named Mike Farley as an assistant ... Carolyn Gerrior selected as an assistant soccer and softball coach at Carthage ... Plattsburgh State chose Kelly Danahey as an assistant ... Tom McGuinness and Tim Moody appointed as assistants at Keene State. McGuinness has been head women's coach at Bridgewater State (Massachusetts) for six years, and Moody has played semi-professionally for nine years ... Goucher chose Doug Oppenheimer as an assistant coach ... Assumption named Suzanne Simandle as an assistant coach ... Julie McNulty added as an assistant coach at Curry ... Manhattanville appointed Denise Strehle as an assistant coach ... Deb Robitaille and Hilary Gitchell named as assistant coaches at New Hampshire College. Robitaille also will serve as an assistant softball coach with the school.

Softball -- New England appointed David Labbe as head coach ... St. Scholastica added Jennifer Walter as head coach to succeed Shawna Davidson ... Mellanie Surratt resigned after seven years as head coach at Tennessee-Martin ... St. John's (New York) named Melody Cope as head coach ... Rutgers-Newark named Celia Mosier as head softball and women's soccer coach. The program is scheduled to be elevated to varsity status in time for the 2000 season. Mosier spent the 1997 and 1998 seasons as an assistant women's soccer coach at Wagner.

Softball assistants -- Charmelle Green selected as an assistant at Syracuse. Green spent last year as an assistant at Colorado State ... Nicole Ruffo named as an assistant coach at Holy Cross. Ruffo is a 1999 graduate of Boston College ... Wendy Logue selected as an assistant at Stony Brook ... Jen McIntyre added as an assistant at Indiana ... Texas A&M-Corpus Christi added Kim Fritts as an assistant. Fritts has most recently been an assistant at Miami (Ohio).

Men's and women's swimming and diving -- West Virginia chose Eric McIlquham as head coach to succeed Dan Langan. For the past three years, McIlquham has been an assistant at Virginia ... Coe appointed Robert Kelley Jr. as men's and women's head coach ... Victor Laughlin accepted head men's and women's diving coaching duties at Northern Iowa. Laughlin has been head diving coach at Luther and at the high-school level.

Men's and women's swimming and diving assistant -- Heather Bruner chosen as an assistant coach and pool director at St. John's (New York).

Men's and women's tennis -- Texas-San Antonio hired Oliver Trittenwein and Brenda Niemeyer as men's and women's head coaches. Trittenwein and Niemeyer replace Becky Roberts, who resigned ... Peter Haney accepted head men's coaching duties at Missouri-Kansas City, replacing Pat Looney. Haney will retain responsibilities as assistant tennis professional at Mission Hills Country Club in Kansas City, Missouri ... Emory appointed John Browning as director of tennis and head men's coach. For the past five years, Browning, who replaces Don Schroer, has served as head men's and women's coach at Salisbury State ... Ryun Ferrell selected as women's head coach at Drake ... Earlham added John Ross as head men's and women's coach. Ross has been head tennis professional and general manager at Fox Cities Racquet Club since 1995 ... Laura Lambrecht hired as head women's coach at Edgewood ... South Alabama announced Joey Scrivano as head women's coach to succeed Scott Novak ... Millikin hired Matt Moore as head women's coach ... Keith Roach added as men's and women's tennis coach at Oswego State ... Tulane head women's tennis coach Jennifer Tuero Melius resigned. The school named David Schumacher as interim coach ... Wentworth Institute appointed Eddie Davis as head women's coach. For the past 11 seasons, Davis has been head women's tennis coach at Pine Manor ... Hartwick chose Andrea Pontius as men's and women's head coach ... Steve Rodecap hired as men's head coach at Northern Illinois ... Rutgers-Newark selected Gary Gross as men's and women's head coach ... Bentley appointed Beverly Hansen as women's coach ... Paul Dorsey accepted the position of men's and women's head coach at Curry.

Men's and women's tennis assistants -- Pedro Perata announced as graduate assistant coach at Texas-Pan American ... Jed Murray accepted men's and women's assistant coaching duties at Hartwick ... Curry named Herb Chenell as women's assistant.

Men's and women's track and field -- Peter Thomas elevated to full-time men's and women's cross country and track coach at Keene State. Thomas has been part-time head coach since 1982 ... Tim Boyce chosen as head coach and assistant sports information director at Oswego State. Last year, Boyce was assistant men's and women's cross country and track and field coach at Willamette ... James Reid selected as head men's and women's track and field and cross country coach at Angelo State. Reid, who replaces David Noble, has been an assistant with the program for six seasons ... Rob Mohr added as men's and women's head coach at Wofford.

Men's and women's track and field assistants -- Twalia Powell and Julius Green added as men's and women's assistant coaches at New Orleans ... Bill Lawson resigned as an assistant at Northern Iowa to become an assistant coach at Oregon. Lawson has been an assistant with Northern Iowa since 1984 ... Western Carolina named David Price as an assistant ... Dan Laufer selected as an assistant coach at Texas-Pan American. Laufer has been assistant track and field coach at Loyola (Illinois) ... Texas named Dana Boone as women's assistant.

Men's and women's volleyball -- Siena named Ron Racey as women's head coach ... Ben Heroux elevated to head women's coach at Roger Williams after serving as an assistant coach during the 1998 season ... Clarion appointed Scott Pennewill as head women's coach. Pennewill, who was head coach at Drexel from 1993-97, succeeds Jodi Pezek Burns ... Medgar Evers chose Sybil Smith as women's head coach ... Karen Chambers selected as head coach and director of media relations at Clark. Chambers formerly coached the program during the 1994 season and most recently spent four seasons as head coach at Case Western Reserve ... Cindy Alvear resigned as head coach at Pittsburgh, effective at the end of the 1999 season. In six seasons, Alvear has built a 116-74 record ... Goucher chose Christy Rawlins as interim head coach. Rawlins most recently coached at Genoa-Kingston (Illinois) High School ... Molly Whitecotton-Logan hired as head coach at Eureka. Whitecotton-Logan was an assistant with the program last year ... Adams State chose Penny Graves as head volleyball and softball coach.

Men's and women's volleyball assistants -- Bentley named Ann Marie Flynn as women's assistant coach ... Bill Wadsworth appointed as women's assistant coach Oswego State ... Wentworth Institute announced the hiring of Tiffany Renaud as an assistant ... Assumption named Robin Succol as women's assistant ... Tiffany McMaster selected as an assistant coach at Manhattanville.

Men's and women's water polo -- Adam Krikorian, an assistant for the past three years, elevated to co-head coach of the men's and women's teams at UCLA. Krikorian will share duties with Guy Baker, who enters his ninth season as head coach and currently serves as head coach of the U.S. Women's National Team.

Wrestling -- Jason Ramstetter accepted head coaching duties at Adams State.

Wrestling assistants -- Pittsburgh added Sanshiro Abe and Jason Robison as assistant coaches.

STAFF

Academic services -- Arline Robbins added as academic advisor and Desiree Fray elevated to coordinator of academic counseling at Hartford ... Allison Housman appointed as director of academic support at American. Housman has been athletics academic advisor at South Alabama ... Bradley named Jennifer Jones as athletics academic coordinator to replace Sue Rapp. Jones has been assistant general manager with the Indoor Football League's Peoria Pirates.

Administrative -- Roger Ouderkirk promoted to assistant to the athletics director at St. John's (New York).

Athletic trainers -- John Culp elevated to head athletic trainer at Colby-Sawyer to replace Matt Gerken. Culp has been an assistant athletic trainer and adjunct assistant professor since 1995 ... Earlham hired Dennis Sunderman as head athletic trainer. Sunderman has been graduate assistant athletic trainer at Missouri for two years ... Michael Recore chosen as head athletic trainer at Marymount (Virginia) ... Regis hired Maureen Mahoney as head athletic trainer. Mahoney has been head athletic trainer for the United States Basketball League's Connecticut Skyhawks and graduate assistant athletic trainer at Sacred Heart ... Wade Peitersen named as head athletic trainer at Wisconsin-Oshkosh to replace Jeff Chambers. For the past two years, Peitersen has been assistant athletic trainer and associate lecturer at Wisconsin-Stevens Point ... Morningside hired Charles Baughman as compliance officer and athletic trainer and selected Marna Youngberg as athletic trainer and physical education instructor ... Chris Johnston appointed as head athletic trainer at Southern Indiana ... Lisa Ayles appointed as trainer at Framingham State.

Assistant athletic trainers -- New Orleans selected Tim Johnson as assistant athletic trainer ... Kris Hartz appointed as assistant athletic trainer at Marquette. Hartz has been working at Waukesha Sports Medicine and Physical Therapy Center and serving as head athletic trainer at the high-school level ... Jack Johnsen chosen as assistant athletic trainer ... Bradley hired Jennifer Stumpf as assistant athletic trainer. Stumpf has been a graduate assistant athletic trainer at Alabama-Birmingham for the past two years.

Business manager -- Hartford hired Jorge Colon as business manager.

Communications assistant -- Greg Licamele accepted graduate assistant responsibilities with the sports communications office at George Washington. Licamele is a 1999 St. Bonaventure graduate.

Compliance -- Hartford selected Sherri McKelvey as director of compliance.

Compliance assistants -- Jason Hall named as assistant director of compliance at Syracuse. Hall most recently served as a graduate assistant in compliance at Florida State ... Syracuse named Corrine Wright as assistant director of athletics compliance.

Equipment operations -- Mike Maerten promoted to supervisor for equipment operations at St. John's (New York).

Facilities -- Redlands chose Rachel Johnson as athletics facility and event manager and assistant volleyball coach. Johnson most recently worked as a physical therapy technician.

Marketing/promotions -- Sacred Heart hired Mark Adzigian as director of marketing for athletics and student affairs. Adzigian has been an athletics marketing assistant at Connecticut for two years.

Media relations assistants -- Virginia announced the selection of Bill Hurd as assistant athletics media relations director. Hurd has been sports information director at Georgetown.

Recreation -- St. John's (New York) elevated William Gavin to interim head of recreational sports.

Recreation assistant -- Rob Basile promoted to interim assistant to the director of recreational sports at St. John's (New York).

Sports information -- Troy Pearson added as sports information director at Concordia-Moorhead. Pearson has been a marketing and sales representative with the National Basketball Association's Minnesota Timberwolves since 1998 ... Blair Cash hired as sports information director at George Fox. Cash replaces Rob Felton, who resigned ... Louis J. Noce hired as sports information director at Carnegie Mellon to replace Jon Surmacz. Noce was assistant sports information director at Cortland State ... Adams State hired Chris Day as sports information director.

Sports information assistants -- Lee Wright accepted assistant sports information director responsibilities at West Georgia ... Manhattanville chose Howie Burke as sports information assistant. Burke is a 1999 graduate of the school ... Alfred Kojima added as assistant sports information director at Saint Leo ... Hartwick selected Sean Cotten as sports information assistant ... Tim Volkmann chosen as assistant sports information director at Springfield. Volkmann was sports information director at Oneonta State during the 1998-99 season.

Sports medicine -- Northern Iowa hired Darryl Conway as director of sports medicine to succeed Terry Noonan. Conway has been head athletic trainer and lecturer in the health, physical education, recreation and dance department at Morgan State since 1998.

Strength and conditioning -- St. John's (New York) elevated William Martinov to director of strength and conditioning/equipment operations.

Strength and conditioning assistant -- Helen Haarlander selected as assistant strength and conditioning coach at Syracuse. Haarlander is a May graduate of Springfield.

Ticketing services -- Dann Tervo appointed as ticket manager at Marquette. Tervo has been assistant athletics ticket manager at Minnesota for three years.

CONFERENCES

The Atlantic 10 Conference selected Marie Koch as assignor of field hockey officials and Nick Cinquanto as assignor of soccer officials.

Pete Rhoda named assistant director of information services at Conference USA. Rhoda has been assistant sports information director at Navy since July 1998.

The Big South Conference named Cindy D'Amico and Shemika Turner as interns.

ASSOCIATIONS

Chris Walker added as assistant media relations director with the Cotton Bowl.

NATIONAL OFFICE

LuAnn Humphrey added as an enforcement representative at the NCAA, effective October 4. Since 1992, Humphrey has been in private law practice in Indianapolis.

DEATHS

Paul Reyna, a freshman defensive tackle at Boise State, died August 23 from a massive head injury sustained during scrimmage five days earlier. He was 19.

Edinboro assistant basketball coach Bryant Houston died recently when his car skidded out of control on a wet road and hit a utility pole. He was 42.

Robert Hulton, former coach and athletics director at Gettysburg, died August 25. He was 78. Hulton came to Gettysburg as head men's basketball coach in 1957, a position he held for 20 more years. Hulton also served as head men's tennis coach for 28 years and head baseball coach for four seasons. From 1983 until his retirement in 1989, Hulton fulfilled athletics director responsibilities for the school.

--Compiled by Leilana McKindra