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The NCAA RecordSeptember 27, 1999
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Southwestern names Smith as head coach
Smith, a National Track and Field Hall of Fame member, has set 36 U.S. records and has established 12 world records in distances ranging from 1,000 to 10,000 meters during her career. She also was the flag bearer for the 1992 U.S. Olympic team. Tabbed by Runners World magazine as the Most Versatile Runner of the Quarter Century, Smith has served as national honorary chair of the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Race for the Cure.
GENERALCHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER Hope College appointed James E. Bultman as president, effective July 1. Bultman succeeds John H. Jacobson, who retired. DIRECTORS OF ATHLETICS Texas-San Antonio hired Lynn Hickey as athletics director. Hickey has been senior associate athletics director/senior woman administrator at Texas A&M ... Rufus R. Hackney, former athletics director and golf coach at Francis Marion, retired from teaching full time at the school. Hackney served as athletics director from 1971 to 1973 and also worked as a professor and director of the physical education academic program and director of intramural activities ... New Hampshire athletics director Judy Ray resigned, effective at the end of the 1999-00 school year ... Daniel P. Starr retired as athletics director at Canisius, effective June 30, 2000. Starr, who has been athletics director since 1974, joined the school as a full-time professor in 1962 and joined the athletics department as a promotions manager and faculty athletics representative in 1969 ... St. John's (New York) athletics director Edward J. Manetta was elevated to associate vice-president. Manetta will retain his duties as athletics director, a position he has held since 1995 ... Warner Alford hired as athletics director at Louisiana-Monroe. Alford succeeds Richard Giannini. SENIOR WOMAN ADMINISTRATORS Nebraska Wesleyan selected Jo Bunstock as senior woman administrator. Bunstock has been assistant to the athletics director since 1990 ... Amanda Long-Backus chosen as senior woman administrator at Quinnipiac. Since January, Long-Backus has been assistant athletics director for compliance and student services at the school ... Georgia Southern awarded senior woman administrator duties to Cathy Beene. Beene, who succeeds Brenda Carter, will continue as director of tennis and as health and physical education instructor ... Lamar selected Carolyn Struck as senior woman administrator. ASSOCIATE DIRECTORS OF ATHLETICS
Auburn named Mark Richards as associate athletics director for compliance ... Lori Flanagan was elevated to senior associate athletics director for administration at Saint Louis. Flanagan, who will continue as senior woman administrator, has been with the school since 1992 and has served as associate athletics director for administration/ ASSISTANT DIRECTORS OF ATHLETICS Texas-San Antonio elevated Jerry Greeson to assistant athletics director for athletics medicine, Dan Kaderli as assistant athletics director for academic services and Rick Nixon as assistant athletics director for media relations. Greeson has been head of athletics medicine services for 11 years. Kaderli has been academic coordinator since 1984, and Nixon has been director of media relations for 12 years ... Methodist promoted Matt Eviston to assistant director of athletics for sports information. For the past four years, Eviston has been sports information director ... Terry Mohajir promoted to interim assistant athletics director for external relations at Missouri-Kansas City. In 1998-99, Mohajir served as director of athletics advancement ... Saint Louis promoted Matt Oldani to assistant athletics director for development. Since 1995, Oldani has been development director for athletics ... Findlay named Jim Givens as assistant athletics director. COACHES Baseball -- John Carroll named Mark Thibeault as interim head coach for the 2000 season, succeeding Brian Brewer. Thibeault was a graduate assistant coach with the program during the 1999 season ... Eureka hired Mike Mason as head coach. Mason, who has been head coach at Spoon River College in Canton, Illinois, also will serve as an assistant football coach and men's sports information director ... George Horton, head coach at Cal State Fullerton for the past three years, was awarded a four-year contract extension through the 2003 season ... Steve Hauser resigned as head coach and associate athletics director at Macalester to become the athletics director at Madison (Wisconsin) Area Technical College. Hauser, who spent the 1998-99 year as interim athletics director, has been head coach since 1994. Macalester chose associate head coach Matt Parrington as interim head coach. Baseball assistants -- Travis Beauchamp appointed as an assistant coach at Washington (Maryland). Beauchamp, a 1999 Washington graduate, also will serve as assistant men's soccer coach ... Rutgers-Newark hired Adam Gawason as an assistant coach. Gawason was a student-athlete in the program during the 1998 and 1999 seasons ... Jeff Young added as an assistant coach at Furman. Men's basketball -- Dick Bihr, head coach at Buffalo State, will be on sabbatical leave for the 1999-00 season. The school appointed Fred Batchelor as interim head coach. Men's basketball assistants -- Tim Cleary hired as an assistant coach at UC Irvine. For the past two seasons, Cleary has been top assistant at Chico State ... Kris Klamberg named as graduate assistant at Redlands ... Le Moyne hired Jonathan Tsipis as an assistant coach ... Brian Judski added as an assistant at Guilford. Judski has been men's basketball administrative assistant at Furman for two years ... Dave Turetzky named as an assistant coach at Plattsburgh State ... Spring Hill selected Thomas Kenna as an assistant coach. Kenna has been an assistant at St. Thomas (Minnesota). Women's basketball -- Connecticut College selected Susan Kelly as head coach and assistant volleyball coach ... Bernard Baruch announced the resignation of head coach Rick Swillinger. Women's basketball assistants -- Notre Dame awarded Coquese Washington assistant coaching duties ... Redlands appointed David Bemis as part-time assistant to succeed Linn Sroka ... Kirsten Roberts appointed as assistant coach at Manhattan ... Yale selected Pamela Bass as an assistant coach ... Bethann Shapiro and Aisha Veasley named as assistants at Tulsa. Shapiro has been head women's basketball coach for the Empire State Games, and Veasley has most recently been an assistant at the high-school level ... La'Tosha Lewis and Kristen Gillespie added as assistants at Central Florida. Lewis has been an assistant at Stephen F. Austin for three seasons, and Gillespie is a recent graduate of North Carolina State ... Guilford hired Chris Kosiba as an assistant to replace Calvin Hunter. Kosiba has spent the last two years as a graduate assistant women's baskeball coach and athletics academic advisor at Western Illinois ... Cornell named Michele Savage as assistant coach ... Amy Crossman chosen as an assistant basketball coach ... Washington (Maryland) hired Diane Zeng as an assistant ... Clarion appointed Al Modrejewski as an assistant coach. For the past two seasons, Modrejewski has been an assistant at East Stroudsburg. He replaces Mike Power ... Chico Garcia awarded assistant coaching and academic advisor duties at Metropolitan State. For the past four years, Garcia has been an assistant coach at Fort Lewis ... North Dakota State chose Naomi Stohlman as an assistant coach ... Quinnipiac chose Jennifer Natale as an assistant. Natale is a 1999 Fairfield graduate ... Tina Krah added to succeed Tamlyn Tills as an assistant coach at Cal State Fullerton. Men's and women's crew/rowing -- Tim Royalty named head coach at Cincinnati. The school is scheduled to begin varsity competition in 2000-01. Royalty has been head men's and women's club coach at the school since 1990. Men's and women's crew/rowing assistants -- Ben Foster, Amanda Schreckengaust and Jessica Normand added as assistant coaches at Tufts ... Matthew Pascal selected as an assistant in charge of coaching the men's novice team at George Washington. For the past year, Pascal has been an assistant coach at Duquesne ... Washington (Maryland) selected Alyssa Wiedenmayer as an assistant coach. Men's and women's cross country -- Karen Brandt hired as head men's and women's cross country and track coach at Bloomsburg to succeed Lanny Connor. Last season, Brandt coached at Susquehanna. Men's and women's cross country assistants -- Bloomsburg chose Jim Brandt as an assistant men's and women's cross country and track and field coach. Brandt spent last season coaching at Susquehanna ... Jason Terry and Nikita Walker appointed as assistant cross country and track and field coach at Coppin State ... Don Wilson appointed as a women's assistant coach at George Mason. Field hockey assistant -- Leanne Cole awarded additional duties as assistant field hockey coach at Washington (Maryland). Cole will continue as an assistant softball coach, a position she has held since last spring. Football assistants -- Mark Ehlers and Mike Magistrelli added as assistant coaches at Coe ... St. Peter's appointed Mike Casazza, Enrique Pizarro and Erik Van Boeckel as assistants ... Redlands added Tony Crutchfield and Joe Kelly as graduate assistant coaches; Alex Eckert, Jason Glotzbach, Brian Hayes and Ken Welton as volunteer assistants; and Garrett Skipper as kicking coach ... Lebanon Valley's Rick Beard named as defensive coordinator after coaching special teams in 1998. Beard will continue to serve as linebackers coach with the program, a position he has held since 1998 ... Tyree Allison chosen as graduate assistant coach at Stony Brook ... John Rafail chosen as defensive backs coach at Thiel. Men's and women's golf -- Gerald Runey selected as director and golf coach at The Citadel ... Rhode Island College selected Jerome Morgan as head men's coach. The program is scheduled to begin competition this fall ... Alex Lemmon added as head coach at Messiah. Lemmon succeeds Troy Boone ... Manhattanville added Scott W. Allen as head coach. Allen has been golf coach at Hackley School for three seasons. Men's and women's golf assistants -- Penn State named Richard Distlerath as men's assistant coach ... Caroline Keggi added as women's assistant coach at Stetson ... Austin Peay named Doug Peterson as an assistant coach ... Virginia hired Chris Wallace as a men's assistant coach. Wallace has been a weekly golf columnist and beat writer for Virginia's men's basketball and men's soccer teams for the Charlottesville Daily Progress ... Charlie Ortega accepted assistant coaching duties at UC Santa Barbara. Men's and women's gymnastics -- Bridgeport named Lorraine Duffy as women's head coach. Men's and women's gymnastics assistant -- Rhode Island hired Miles Johnson as an assistant coach. Men's and women's ice hockey assistants -- Greg Klym replaces Michael Sisti as men's assistant at Mercyhurst ... Fairfield appointed Chris Wayland as an assistant ... Colgate hired Andrew Dickson as an assistant men's coach to succeed Ron Fogarty. Dickson has been playing ice hockey professionally. Men's and women's lacrosse -- Messiah elevated Karen Sheaffer to head coach. Sheaffer served as an assistant coach last year ... Amy Everitt named as head women's coach at Salem State ... Marcia Trinkley stepped down as head women's coach at Keene State. Men's and women's lacrosse assistants -- Duke selected Jim Gonnella as men's assistant coach ... Notre Dame named Will Deriso as men's assistant coach ... Jerry Balaker chosen as an assistant men's lacrosse coach at Washington (Maryland). Balaker was an assistant coach at Roanoke in 1997, Kenyon in 1998, and Alfred last spring ... Keene State hired Vincent Schuck as men's assistant coach. Men's soccer -- Franklin & Marshall's head coach Chris Shinn resigned. The school chose Dan Medoza as interim head coach. Men's soccer assistants -- Pete Anzalone added as an assistant coach at Misericordia ... Francisco Fuentes added as part-time assistant coach at Redlands ... Rhode Island appointed Frank Bergren as an assistant ... Terry Brennan accepted assistant men's and women's coaching duties at Susquehanna ... Washington (Maryland) appointed Tommy Greenawalt as an assistant coach ... Soren Balea and Peter LaVasseur added as assistant coaches at Salem State. Women's soccer -- Fairleigh Dickinson selected Peter Gaglioti as head coach. Gaglioti also will serve as assistant director of student-athlete support services. Women's soccer assistants -- Lori Graham accepted assistant coaching duties at Manhattan ... Rhode Island College chose Elizabeth Pilicy as an assistant. Pilicy was a women's soccer assistant coach at Rhode Island in 1998 ... Marcey Engelstein added as an assistant coach at Lasell ... Redlands chose Deirdre Hamilton as a part-time assistant ... Sue Willard named as an assistant coach at Washington (Maryland). Softball -- Cara Hirsch selected as interim head coach at Chicago for the 2000 season. Hirsch, who replaces Michele Hawkins, spent the 1999 season as an assistant with the program ... Dana selected Lori Foster as softball coach and assistant women's basketball coach ... Southwest Texas appointed Bobby Reeves as head coach. Softball assistants -- Jennifer McMahon chosen as an assistant coach at Iowa ... Northern Illinois selected Kevin Welch and Amy Laboe as assistant coaches ... Tom Gray accepted assistant coaching responsibilities at Illinois-Chicago, where he also will serve as assistant director of academic services ... Manhattan selected Jennifer Drum as an assistant ... Shane Weaver added as an assistant at Western Kentucky. For the past four seasons, Weaver has been an assistant coach at Lincoln Memorial ... Lock Haven selected Jennifer Payne as an assistant coach. Payne is a 1999 graduate of Dayton, where she was a four-year starter at first base. Men's and women's swimming and diving -- Coast Guard appointed John Westkott as head men's and women's coach ... Kathy Lawlor-Gilbert announced plans to retire as swimming and diving coach at Pennsylvania. Michael Schnur has been selected as interim coach ... Colgate's Bob Benson announced his retirement as head coach, effective at the end of the 1999-00 season. Benson has led the men's squad for 31 seasons and has headed the women's program for 21 seasons ... Ken Pierson appointed as head women's swimming coach at Sacred Heart ... Lock Haven elevated Jennifer Fenton-Cournoyer as head women's coach. Fenton-Cournoyer spent the 1998-99 season as an assistant with the program. Men's and women's swimming and diving assistant -- Illinois-Chicago hired Ina Harizanova as an assistant coach. Harizanova most recently has been coaching fencing and pentathlon at the Chicago Fencing Club. Men's and women's tennis -- Albertus Magnus hired Betsy Fahy as head women's coach for the 1999 season. Fahy most recently coached women's tennis at Foran (Connecticut) High School ... Jeff Greene resigned after two seasons as head men's coach at Seton Hall to become head coach at Manhattanville ... Guilford named Caroline McAlister as head women's coach to replace Chuck McCracken, who will continue as head volleyball coach and director of intramurals ... Salem State hired Greg LaBelle as head men's coach and Joe Dunn as head women's coach ... Whitney Springstead was awarded duties as men's and women's head coach at Drexel. Men's and women's tennis assistants -- Megan McCarney named women's assistant coach at Georgia Tech ... Gale Bacon named assistant women's coach, and Matthew Tiberii named assistant men's coach at Salem State. Men's and women's track and field assistants -- Texas named Dana Boone as assistant women's coach. Boone has coached at Tulane for the past two years ... Scott Catone named men's and women's assistant coach at Manhattan ... Kansas chose Candace Mason as assistant coach ... Ed Roskiewicz and Tria Tyler added as women's assistant track and field coaches at Princeton. Men's and women's volleyball -- Lynn head coach Lindy Binnis resigned to pursue other interests. Binnis coached the volleyball squad for one season and lead the softball program for two seasons. The school appointed Deb Pope, assistant women's basketball coach, as interim head volleyball coach and promoted Amy Alderman, assistant softball coach, to interim head coach ... Andrew Viselli accepted co-head women's coaching responsibilities at Salem State. Men's and women's volleyball assistants -- Manhattan chose Michelle Seeley as women's assistant ... James McDermott hired as assistant men's coach at Lasell ... Washington (Maryland) added Anne Plunkett as an assistant women's coach. For the past four years, Plunkett has been an assistant volleyball and soccer coach at Clear Creek (Texas) High School ... Stony Brook selected Teri Tiso as women's assistant. Men's and women's water polo -- Ken Ralph named head men's and women's coach at Connecticut College. The program is scheduled to assume varsity status in the 2000-01 academic year. Ralph is in his second year as the school's head men's and women's swimming coach and aquatics director. Wrestling -- Tony Ersland added as an assistant coach at Northern Illinois ... Angelo Borzio chosen as interim coach at East Stroudsburg. STAFF Academic services -- Saint Peter's chose Erika Rigby as academic/athletics coordinator to replace Mary Wessely. Athletic trainer -- Jeff Stotler appointed as athletic trainer at Greensboro. Assistant athletic trainers -- Seton Hall selected Lori Liegl and Chad Clements as assistant athletic trainers ... Jennifer Brown, Marcie Fyock, Jason Mulholland, Jason Simala and Heather Ward added as graduate assistant athletic trainers at Syracuse for the 1999-00 academic year ... Laurie Bowers appointed as assistant athletic trainer at Susquehanna ... Columbia added Louis Fraulo and Sean Thomas as assistant athletic trainers ... Kelly Gibbons selected as graduate assistant trainer at Manhattan ... Rhode Island College appointed Heather Jones as assistant athletic trainer ... Robert DeSimone chosen as an assistant athletic trainer at Lasell ... Texas-Pan American awarded assistant athletic trainer duties to Melissa Russell ... Todd Fuhrmann selected as assistant athletic trainer at Washington (Maryland). Last year, Fuhrmann served as an athletic trainer and assistant soccer coach at Tattnall Academy in Macon, Georgia. Business manager -- Fairleigh Dickinson selected Leslie LaFronz as athletics business manager. Development -- Joseph Del Rossi selected as assistant director of Seton Hall's Pirate Blue Athletic Fund. Equipment manager -- Brian Blumenfield chosen as assistant to the director-equipment manager at Seton Hall. Marketing/promotions -- Emporia State appointed J.D. Campbell as director of public affairs and marketing. Since 1993, Campbell has been sports information director at the school. The school also awarded director of sports promotion responsibilities to Don Weast. Weast most recently spent one year as a graduate assistant in sports information at Central Missouri State. Media relations -- Temple's Kevin Lorincz resigned as assistant sports media relations director. Sports information -- Worcester Polytechnic added Steve Raczynski as sports information director. Raczynski most recently worked as director of media relations for the American Basketball League's New England Blizzard ... Mason Logan promoted to sports information director at Emporia State. Logan has been an assistant sports information director since 1995 ... Allentown named Tim Brooks as sports information director. Brooks has most recently been a sports information affiliate at Delaware ... Chapman selected Doug Aiken as sports information director to succeed Jim Moore. Aiken has been a student-assistant with the school for two years ... Bob Balut accepted director of sports information duties at Wagner ... Spring Hill hired Niall Adler as sports information director. Adler spent last year serving as assistant sports information director at Portland ... Bloomfield named Steve Patchett as sports information director ... Chris Wagenseller selected as sports information director at Franklin & Marshall ... Yakik Rumley appointed as acting sports information director at Brooklyn ... Lewis and Clark selected Patrick Stewart as sports information director. Sports information assistants -- Michigan State assistant sports information director John Farina resigned, effective October 25 ... Christopher DeLorenzo resigned as assistant sports information director at St. John's (New York). Strength and conditioning --Texas A&M-Corpus Christi appointed Don Melrose as strength and conditioning coach. Melrose most recently worked in the physical education department at Southern Illinois ... Delaware hired Russell Barbarino as head strength and conditioning coach to replace Tony Decker. Barbarino has been an assistant strength and conditioning coach at Florida State since 1995. Strength and conditioning assistant --David Grant appointed as assistant coordinator of strength and conditioning at Seton Hall. CONFERENCES Bob McEvoy, athletics director at Methodist, has been chosen as president of the Dixie Intercollegiate Athletic Conference. McEvoy will fulfill a two-year term as president. The Mid-American Conference appointed Bob Gennarelli as associate commissioner for external operations and Dell Robinson as associate commissioner for legislative and compliance services. Gennarelli has been assistant executive director of the Sylvania Alamo Bowl and San Antonio Bowl Association, and Robinson has been assistant commissioner for compliance with the Western Athletic Conference. The Mid-American Conference also selected Stephanie McDonald as assistant commissioner for sports programs and women's basketball operations. McDonald has been director of compliance at North Carolina State. The American Southwest Conference announced the following Executive Committee officers for the 1999-00 academic year: Howell Todd, Mississippi College, president; Rick Niece, Ozarks (Arkansas), vice-president; and Milam Joseph, Dallas, past president. The following were selected as members of the Lone Star Conference's Council of Presidents for the 1999-00 academic year: Russell Long, West Texas A&M, chair; Don Davis, Cameron, vice-chair; James Hindman, Angelo State, second vice-chair; Joe Anna Hibler, Southwestern Oklahoma State, third vice-chair. The conference named Robert Ziegler, faculty athletics representative at Cameron, as president. AGREEMENTS The Ohio Valley Conference announced a five-year contract extension with the Gaylord Entertainment Center for its basketball tournaments through 2006.
ETC.CORRECTIONS A caption in the Dates & Sites insert in the September 13 edition of The NCAA News contained incorrect information. The University of Arizona, not the University of Kentucky, won the 1997 Men's Final Four in Indianapolis. Also, in the listing for the next availability for championships, the correct availability for the Division II Men's and Women's Cross Country Championships is November 17, 2001. The school from which Howie Burke graduated was incorrectly stated in The Record section of the September 13 issue of The NCAA News. Burke, sports information assistant at Manhanttanville, is a 1999 graduate of Manhattan. |