A total of 25 new members either have begun or soon will begin new terms on the Division I Board of Directors and Management Council.

The Board of Directors in October approved several appointments made to both the Management Council and the Board, including appointments made to fill vacancies of members rotating off each group as well as several appointments that were necessary due to recently passed legislation that increased the rosters for both groups.

The Board approved the following individuals who were selected to serve on the Management Council by the conferences due to the expansion of the Council to 49 seats: Robert Aronson, University of Washington, Pacific-10 Conference; Kathryn Berg, Southern Utah University, Mid-Continent Conference; Bill Bibb, Trans America Athletic Conference; Clarence Doninger, Indiana University, Bloomington, Big Ten Conference; Damon Evans, University of Georgia, Southeastern Conference; Alfreeda Goff, Midwestern Collegiate Conference; Charles Harris, Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference; Chris Hill, University of Utah, Mountain West Conference; Tom Jurich, University of Louisville, Conference USA; Chris Monasch, America East Conference; Jeffrey Orleans, Ivy Group; John Parry, Butler University, Midwestern Collegiate Conference; Chris Plonsky, University of Texas at Austin, Big 12 Conference; Richard M. Regan Jr., College of the Holy Cross, at-large, Patriot League; Alison Sexton, Fairfield University, at-large, Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference; Ron Wellman, Wake Forest University, Atlantic Coast Conference; and Stan Wilcox, Big East Conference.

The Board approved the following individuals to serve on the Management Council, effective after the January 2000 meeting: Carolyn Schlie Femovich, Patriot League (reselection); Thomas O'Conner, George Mason University, Colonial Athletic Association; Kathryn Statz, Marquette University, Conference USA; Betsy G. Stephenson, University of California, Los Angeles, Pacific-10 Conference; and Kathryn DeBoer, University of Kentucky, Southeastern Conference.

The following members were appointed to the Board due to the expansion of the Board to 18 seats: Ron Eaglin, Morehead State University, Ohio Valley Conference (effective immediately); Carol Harter, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Mountain West Conference (effective immediately); and Linwood H. Rose, James Madison University, Colonial Athletic Association (effective January 2000).

The Board also provided the following term extensions (subject to the respective conferences agreeing that these individuals should continue to serve) in order to appropriately stagger the terms of the Division I-AA and I-AAA Board members: Claire Van Ummerson, Cleveland State University, Midwestern Collegiate Conference (new term expiration: January 2003); Donald Spencer, Western Illinois University, Mid-Continent Conference, (new term expiration: January 2001); and Leroy Davis, South Carolina State University, Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference, (new term expiration: January 2002).

Following are brief biographical sketches of each of the new members:

Management Council

Robert Aronson

Aronson, a professor of law, is in his seventh year as the faculty athletics representative at Washington. He has been a member of the Washington faculty since 1975, having taught classes in civil procedure, criminal law, evidence, legal research and professional responsibility. He has written six books and numerous journal articles, and is recognized as a national expert in legal and judicial ethics. Aronson also was chair of the school's faculty senate in 1987-88 and served on Washington's advisory committee on intercollegiate athletics from 1988 to 1991.

Aronson received a bachelor's degree from the University of Virginia in 1969 and his juris doctor from the University of Pennsylvania in 1973. He was a two-sport athlete (lacrosse and soccer) while at Virginia, and he made the Atlantic Coast Conference honor roll for his academic and athletics achievements.

Kathryn Berg

Currently the associate director of athletics at Southern Utah University, Berg has worked in athletics administration at the school since 1968. Berg has served in several capacities, including as a coach of several sports, assistant department chair for physical education and as assistant athletics director.

Berg spent 12 years as a track and field coach at Southern Utah, 11 as a gymnastics coach and 10 as a volleyball coach. She also has coached basketball, softball and swimming teams at the university.

She is a graduate of Brigham Young University, where she earned her bachelor's and master's degrees. Berg also has a doctorate from the University of Utah.

She has earned several awards from Southern Utah, including outstanding educator, female teacher of the year and professor of the year. She also has been involved with several professional activities, including the Utah Summer Games board of trustees and the Special Olympics.

Bill Bibb

Bibb is entering his ninth year as commissioner of the Trans America Athletic Conference and his 39th year as an administrator or coach in intercollegiate athletics. Bibb began his association with the TAAC while serving as Mercer University's head men's basketball coach from 1974-89. Bibb compiled a 222-194 record at Mercer, including two TAAC postseason tournament titles, two NCAA tournament appearances and two league coach-of-the-year awards.

Bibb played basketball under Adolph Rupp for two seasons at the University of Kentucky and was a member of the undefeated 1953-54 Wildcats team. He finished his career and earned his undergraduate degree from Kentucky Wesleyan University and later served as the Panthers' head coach.

Bibb has been an assistant coach at Kentucky Wesleyan, Saint Louis University and Utah State University, among others. In 1989, Bibb accepted the athletics director position at the University of Texas at Arlington, where he stayed for two years before assuming the top spot at the TAAC.

Kathleen J. DeBoer

DeBoer is in her 15th year with the Kentucky athletics department. Currently the associate athletics director, DeBoer directs the development and fund-raising staff. She heads the Blue and White fund, annually raising over $3 million for student-athlete scholarships.

Before assuming her current position, DeBoer spent nine years as Kentucky's head women's volleyball coach. During her tenure, the Wildcats compiled a 212-96 record, won three Southeastern Conference championships and advanced at least to the final 16 of the NCAA tournament four times. Her Kentucky team won the National Invitation Tournament in 1991, and in 1987, DeBoer was named national coach of the year.

From 1988 to 1996, DeBoer served as an advisor to the U.S. National Women's Volleyball Team, coached three Olympic Sports Festival teams, a World University Games team and several national "B" teams.

DeBoer was a member of the Division I Business/Finance Cabinet from 1997 to 1999, serving as the chair of the cabinet's finance committee.

Clarence H. Doninger

Doninger has been the athletics director at Indiana since 1991. Before assuming those duties, Doninger was engaged in private law practice in Indianapolis for 30 years, and he currently is counsel to the Indianapolis law firm of Stark, Doninger and Smith.

Doninger lettered in basketball at Indiana University, Bloomington, and was a member of the Hoosiers team that won a Big Ten Conference co-championship in 1957. He also was a member of a winning Little 500 bike team and is a charter member of the Little 500 Riders Hall of Fame.

Doninger served as president of the Indiana Alumni Association in 1989-90, and he is a member of the Indiana University Foundation board of directors. He also has served as a member of of the board of directors of the Legal Services Organization of Indiana, Inc., and the board of managers of the Indianapolis Bar Association.

Damon Evans

A former letter-winner in football at Georgia, Evans is now the school's associate athletics director for internal affairs, a position he has held since June 1998. He serves as chief financial officer and oversees the areas of compliance, facilities, event management, human resources and sports medicine.

Evans returned to his alma mater after serving as an assistant commissioner for eligibility and compliance services at the Southeastern Conference from 1995 to 1998. Before that, Evans was the director of compliance and operations at the University of Missouri, Columbia, from 1994 to 1995.

Evans played in three bowl games while at Georgia, including the 1992 Florida Citrus Bowl.

Carolyn Schlie Femovich

Femovich is the executive director of the Patriot League, a post she assumed last year. She oversees all aspects of the conference, including strategic planning, marketing and promotions, and conduct of league championships.

Before her appointment at the Patriot League, Femovich served as the senior associate athletics director at the University of Pennsylvania since 1982. Before that, she was a faculty member at Gettysburg College.

Femovich graduated from Valparaiso University and earned her master's degree from Indiana University, Bloomington. She was elected as president of the Eastern College Athletic Conference in 1996. She also is a member of the executive board of the Philadelphia Sports Congress, and she played a primary role in bringing the 2000 Division I Women's Basketball Championship to Philadelphia.

Alfreeda Goff

Goff became the associate commissioner of the Midwestern Collegiate Conference in 1998 after serving as the director of athletics at Virginia State University since 1994.

Goff also had been an assistant director of athletics and an associate director of athletics at Virginia Commonwealth University from 1987 to 1994. Before that, she was the program and scheduling coordinator for women's sports at the University of Pittsburgh.

Goff earned her B.S. in health and physical education from Slippery Rock State College in 1965 and her master's degree from Pennsylvania State University in 1973. She was a teacher in two Pennsylvania public school districts before becoming an assistant women's track coach at Pittsburgh in 1975. Goff became the head track coach there in 1976, and she also served as co-head coach of women's basketball at Virginia Commonwealth in 1988-89.

Goff currently chairs the NCAA Woman of the Year selection committee. She also has served previously on the Division II Management Council, the Division I Women's Basketball Committee and the Division I Men's and Women's Track and Field Committee.

Charles Harris

Harris assumed the role of commissioner at the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference in 1996. He is only the second commissioner since the league was formed in 1969.

Before taking the MEAC position, Harris was the director of athletics at Arizona State University from 1985 to 1995. Before that, Harris was the director of athletics at the University of Pennsylvania for seven years. In addition, Harris served as an assistant athletics director at the University of Michigan from 1973 to 1979.

Harris' NCAA service is extensive, having been a member of the Division I Men's Basketball Committee for seven years and having served on various other NCAA committees, including the Special Events Committee, Financial Aid and Amateurism Committee and the Special Committee on Television Negotiations.

Chris Hill

Hill, who chaired the Division I Championships/Competition Cabinet from 1997 to 1998, has served as the athletics director at Utah since 1987. In 1998, Hill also was appointed as special assistant to the president at Utah. Under Hill's watch, Utah has won seven NCAA championships, including four in women's gymnastics and three in skiing.

Hill first came to Utah as a graduate assistant basketball coach after graduating from Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, with three letters in basketball. In 1975, Hill left the school to coach boys' basketball at Granger (Utah) High School, winning 4-A coach-of-the-year honors his first year.

Hill returned to Utah as an assistant basketball coach in 1979 until 1981, when he became the executive director of United Cerebral Palsy of Utah. Hill returned to Utah in 1985 as the athletics department's director of development. He obtained his master's degree from Utah in 1974 and his doctorate from the school in 1982.

Tom Jurich

Jurich became the director of athletics at Louisville in 1997 following a four-year stint as athletics director at Colorado State University. After just 18 months on the job at Louisville, Jurich signed an unprecedented 13-year contract extension in March 1999.

Before taking the helm at Colorado State, Jurich was the director of athletics at Northern Arizona University in 1988 after previously serving as co-director since 1986 and assistant director since 1984. He was inducted into Northern Arizona's athletics hall of fame in 1989.

Jurich was a noted punter and place-kicker at Northern Arizona, becoming the first kicker to earn first-team Kodak all-America honors in 1977. He is the only kicker to have been named the Big Sky Conference offensive player of the year.

Jurich was drafted by the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League and also played with the Minnesota Vikings before a brief coaching stint with the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.

Chris Monasch

Monasch is in his third year as commissioner of America East. Under Monasch, the conference has expanded its staff and services, moved its headquarters to Boston, and restructured its governance.

Before joining the league, Monasch served for 10 years as the commissioner of the Northeast Conference. During that period, the conference experienced unprecedented growth, gaining autonomy from the Eastern College Athletic Conference and changing its name from the ECAC Metro to Northeast Conference in 1988. Monasch helped the Northeast Conference expand from 12 championship sports to 17, including football.

Before his tenure with the Northeast Conference, Monasch served as associate athletics director at Seton Hall University from 1985 through 1987. Before that, Monasch was an assistant athletics director at Fordham University. He is a 1981 graduate of St. John's University (New York), and he earned a master's degree from Fordham and a law degree from Seton Hall.

Monasch currently serves on the NCAA Minority Opportunities and Interests Committee, as well as the Division I Committee on Athletics Certification.

Tom O'Connor

O'Connor is in his sixth year as George Mason's athletics director after being named to the position in November 1994. He added the title of assistant vice-president in 1999. O'Connor recently spearheaded an effort by the university to come into full compliance with Title IX. George Mason also was one of the first 15 Division I schools to go through the NCAA's certification process.

O'Connor previously served as athletics director at Loyola College (Maryland) (1976-68), Santa Clara University (1986-92) and St. Bonaventure University (1992-94). He also was the head basketball coach at Dartmouth College (1972-74) and Loyola (Maryland) (1974-76).

O'Connor is a 1967 graduate of Assumption College, where he was a four-year letter-winner in basketball. He is a member of Assumption's athletics hall of fame. He also is involved in the NCAA governance structure, having served on the Division I Business/Finance Cabinet and currently serving as a member of the Men's Basketball Rules Committee.

Jeff Orleans

Orleans, who returns to the Management Council for a second term, has been executive director of the Ivy Group since 1984. In recent years, the league has begun selected national television coverage, a licensing program, and an increasingly Web-based approach to public information. In 1998-99, the league produced an award-winning Silver Anniversary Celebration in honor of 25 years of Ivy women's championships.

Orleans' earlier professional experience includes nine years as associate counsel in the University of North Carolina system and four years as a federal civil rights attorney in the Office for Civil Rights. He is a specialist in issues related to Title IX, and he also has extensive experience in academic freedom, discrimination, affirmative action and diversity issues.

Orleans is a 1967 graduate of Yale University. He obtained his law degree from Yale in 1971.

John Parry

Parry was named the athletics director at Butler in 1990 after an 11-year stint at the athletics director at Brown University. Since his arrival at Butler, the school has added varsity teams in women's soccer, women's golf and men's lacrosse. This is Parry's second stint as a Management Council member. He also is beginning a four-year term on NACDA's executive committee.

Parry co-chairs a local organizing committee that hosted the 1996 Division I men's basketball Southeast Regional and the 1997 Men's Final Four, and will host the 2000 and 2006 Men's Final Fours.

He attended Brown and was a letter-winner in football, basketball and lacrosse. He earned a bachelor's degree in economics from Brown in 1965 and a master's degree in business administration from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in 1967. Parry coached football and lacrosse at Pennsylvania and Brown and served four years as an assistant athletics director at Brown.

Chris Plonsky

Plonsky is in her 12th year overall with the Texas athletics department, her second as senior associate athletics director. She rejoined the Texas staff in 1993 after seven years with the Big East Conference staff, where she served as public relations director and later as associate commissioner for administration. She also worked as the women's sports information director at Texas from 1981-86 and at Iowa State from 1979-81.

Plonsky currently oversees men's and women's athletics department public relations efforts, including radio, television, media services, marketing, promotions and corporate agreements. In addition, she represents Texas at Big 12 Conference senior woman administrator meetings.

In addition to her role at Texas, Plonsky is president of the National Association of Collegiate Marketing Administrators. She also is a member of the NCAA Basketball Marketing Subcommittee.

Plonsky is a graduate of Kent State University, where she earned a bachelor's degree in news-editorial/journalism. She played varsity basketball from 1975-78.

Richard M. Regan Jr.

Regan took over the reins as athletics director at Holy Cross in 1998 and became just the fourth athletics director at the school in the last 50 years.

Regan previously served as the managing director of the Scottish Claymores of NFL Europe League (formerly the World League of American Football). He joined the World League in 1991 and was based in London beginning in 1992. When the World League went through a reorganization following the 1992 season, National Football League Commissioner Paul Tagliabue appointed Regan as managing director of NFL International to oversee and develop the NFL's business interests throughout Europe.

Regan is a 1976 graduate of Holy Cross, and spent nine years after graduation working for Arthur Andersen & Company in its Boston offices, rising to the level of senior manager. He then moved to the NFL with the New England Patriots, where he served in the role of vice-president for finance from 1985-88.

Alison Sexton

Sexton is in her third year at Fairfield, having joined the staff in June 1997. She coordinates all institutional compliance activities, including eligibility certification, financial aid and all educational activities. She also supervises various men's and women's sports, as well as marketing and promotions for the school.

Before coming to Fairfield, Sexton spent more than five years at Marist College, where she served as the assistant athletics director for compliance and scheduling, and as senior woman administrator. And before that, Sexton served an internship at the NCAA national office.

She is a 1986 graduate of Hastings College, where she earned a bachelor of arts degree in physical education. She obtained her master's degree in 1996 from Minnesota State University-Mankato.

Kathryn Statz

Now in her sixth year at Marquette, Statz handles the dual role of senior woman administrator and assistant athletics director for compliance. She is responsible for monitoring all varsity athletics teams to assure NCAA compliance.

Statz coordinates the initial recruiting process for all Marquette athletics programs, and oversees Marquette's men's and women's cross country and track, golf, women's soccer and wrestling programs. She also chairs the school's Title IX and gender-equity committee.

Statz came to Marquette after serving two stints at the NCAA national office and also having worked for the Great Midwest Conference. After serving as an NCAA eligibility appeals intern during the 1990-91 academic year, Statz moved on to become the director of legislative services for the Great Midwest in 1991-92. She returned to the NCAA in 1992 as an eligibility appeals representative until 1994.

She received her bachelor's degree from Mundelein College in Chicago in 1988. She currently is a part-time student at Marquette's law school.

Betsy G. Stephenson

Stephenson is in her fourth year as associate athletics director/senior woman administrator at UCLA, a position she held at the University of Kansas from December 1992 until coming to UCLA in August 1996.

She currently serves on a number of Pacific-10 Conference committees, including budget and finance, long-range planning and committee selection. She also is a member of the NACDA executive committee and the NACDA/Sears Directors' Cup Committee.

Before her tenure at Kansas, Stephenson spent nine years at the NCAA national office, serving for four years as the director of operations for the Division I Men's Basketball Championship.

Stephenson earned a bachelor's degree from Kansas in 1983 and was a member of the Jayhawks' women's volleyball team.

Ron Wellman

Wellman has served as Wake Forest's director of athletics since 1992. Wellman has instituted new and progressive measures within the athletics department, such as the annual academic excellence banquet, a campus-wide affair that honors those student-athletes who have achieved in the classroom. Wellman also has taken the lead in establishing an athletics program that will be in compliance with all issues involving gender equity.

After receiving his undergraduate degree from Bowling Green State University, where he was a four-year letter-winner in baseball, Wellman earned a master's degree from Bowling Green and joined the faculty and coaching staff at Elmhurst College in 1971. He became the school's athletics director in 1977. He was inducted into Elmhurst's athletics hall of fame in 1985.

Wellman went on to become the head baseball coach at Northwestern University in 1981 and then the director of athletics at Minnesota State University, Mankato, in 1986. One year later, Wellman took over the athletics director post at Illinois State University.

Stan Wilcox

The associate commissioner for compliance at the Big East Conference, Wilcox is a 1981 graduate of the University of Notre Dame, where he played basketball from 1977-81. Wilcox was a member of Notre Dame teams that participated in two regional finals and one Men's Final Four.

He was employed by the Brooklyn (New York) Supreme Court while earning his law degree from Brooklyn College in 1988, and was admitted to the New York Bar in 1989.

Wilcox joined the NCAA national office staff in 1989 as a legislative assistant. During his five-year tenure there, Wilcox handled test-score approval and core-course approval for students with learning disabilities and was staff liaison to several NCAA committees, including the Council, Student-Athlete Advisory Committee and Administrative Review Panel.

Board of Directors

Ronald G. Eaglin

Eaglin is the president at Morehead State University, a position he assumed in 1992. The university has increased its annual giving by more than 26 percent under Eaglin's watch, and the school's endowment has gone from $500,000 to more than $8 million.

Eaglin came to Morehead State after spending seven years as chancellor at the University of South Carolina Coastal Carolina College, the largest branch of the University of South Carolina System. Before that, Eaglin was the vice-chancellor for academic affairs at the University of South Carolina, Spartanburg, from 1974 through 1985.

Eaglin earned his bachelor's degree from Southeast Missouri State University in 1962, then went on to obtain a master's degree from the University of Southern Illinois at Carbondale in1965. Eaglin also earned a doctorate from the University of Utah in 1970.

In addition to his success in administration, Eaglin also has been a faculty member at Coastal Carolina; South Carolina-Spartanburg; Southern Illinois; Utah; and the University of Nebraska, Lincoln.

Carol Harter

Harter returns to the Board of Directors after stepping down in 1998 after UNLV joined seven other schools in announcing they were leaving the Western Athletic Conference to form the Mountain West Conference.

Harter is the seventh president of UNLV and has been in the position since 1995. Before coming to the school, Harter was president at State University of New York at Geneseo since 1989. Before that, she was a faculty member in English and an administrator at Ohio University, where she was named university ombudsman in 1974, vice-president and dean of students in 1976 and vice-president for administration in 1982.

Harter is a three-time graduate of State University of New York at Binghamton, having earned her bachelor's degree in 1964, a master's in 1967 and a doctorate in 1970.

Linwood H. Rose

The president of James Madison University, Rose was appointed in 1998 after serving as executive vice-president and chief operating officer, a position he held since 1994.

Rose has enjoyed a long and successful career at James Madison, beginning in 1975 as the assistant director of residence halls. Since then, Rose has held several positions, including executive assistant to the president, vice-president for administration, vice-president for administration and finance and senior vice-president. Rose also served as the deputy secretary of education for the Commonwealth of Virginia in 1985.

He graduated from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in 1973 and earned his master's degree from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, in 1975. Rose obtained a doctorate from the University of Virginia in 1987.