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Werner named SWA at Loyola Marymount

Loyola Marymount has hired Betty Werner as senior woman administrator/associate athletics director. Werner has fulfilled similar responsibilities at Arkansas State for the past year and a half.

Before joining Arkansas State, Werner worked as an athletics administrator at Eastern Kentucky from 1996 to 1999. She also served as women's athletics director at Drake from 1974 to 1979 before being promoted to associate athletics director, a position she held for eight years.

A member of the first NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Committee and a former Midwest Regional chair, Werner is an ex-officio member of the board of directors for the Intercollegiate Tennis Association. She also is a member of the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics and the National Association of Collegiate Women Athletic Administrators.

Werner earned a bachelor's degree from Tulsa and a master's degree in education from Missouri.

GENERAL

CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICERS

Margaret M. Healy announced plans to retire as president at Rosemont, effective June 30, 2001 ... R. Eugene Smith was chosen as interim president at Middle Tennessee State. Smith has been vice-president for business and finance at Memphis ... Tufts President John DiBiaggio announced his resignation, effective not later than June 2002 ... Robert J. Bruce, president at Widener since 1981, announced retirement plans, effective at the end of the 2000-01 academic year. Bruce was a three-year member of the NCAA Presidents Commission ... Christopher M. Thomforde was selected as president at St. Olaf. Thomforde has been president at Bethany College (Kansas).

DIRECTORS OF ATHLETICS

Tom Burman was appointed as director of athletics at Portland State. Burman, who replaces Jim Sterk, has been associate athletics director at Wyoming for the past five years ... Francis Marion named Murray Hartzler as athletics director ... Jean B. Chandler was chosen as interim athletics director at Clark Atlanta. Chandler, who most recently served as associate athletics director at the school, succeeds Richard Cosby ... Joe Mahan was selected as interim athletics director at Hood, succeeding Eric Dennis. Mahan will continue to work as head volleyball coach at the school ... Lee G. Fowler accepted duties as athletics director at North Carolina State. Fowler succeeds Leslie Robinson ... Stuart Robinson, associate athletics director at New Paltz State for the past five years, was chosen as interim athletics director, succeeding Jim Zalacca. Robinson, a member of the NCAA Men's and Women's Soccer Rules Committee, will continue to serve as head men's soccer coach, a position he has held for nine years.

SENIOR WOMAN ADMINISTRATORS

Incarnate Word chose Tina Patterson as senior woman administrator. Patterson will continue as head women's soccer coach at the school ... Mars Hill named Laura Timmons, head women's basketball coach, as senior woman administrator ... Dayton promoted Cindy Hartmann to senior woman administrator, replacing Megan McCallister, who assumed the senior woman administrator and associate director of athletics position at Michigan. Hartmann has been Dayton's assistant athletics director for compliance since January 2000.

FACULTY ATHLETICS REPRESENTATIVE

Scranton selected E. Springs Steele as faculty athletics representative. Steele currently serves as acting chair of the department of theology/religious studies.

ASSOCIATE DIRECTORS OF ATHLETICS

Michigan State named Demetrius Marlowe as associate athletics director ... J.D. Barnett was added as senior associate athletics director for revenue development at Tulane. Barnett has been associate athletics director and head basketball coach at Northwestern State ... New Paltz State's Joe Kremer was appointed as interim associate athletics director. Kremer, who has spent the last year as assistant athletics director for compliance at the school, has been head men's basketball coach since 1996 and will retain his coaching responsibilities.

ASSISTANT DIRECTORS OF ATHLETICS

Greensboro chose Scott Rash as assistant athletics director for recruitment and marketing. Rash will retain duties as head baseball coach at the school, a position he has held since the program began in 1992 ... Matt Winkler was promoted to assistant athletics director for communications at American. Winkler has been director of athletics communications and sports information director at the school for six years ... UC Santa Barbara hired Dan McCarthy as assistant athletics director for compliance. For the past 10 years, McCarthy has fulfilled responsibilities as director of compliance at Duquesne ... Doug Kokoskie was promoted to assistant director of athletics for operations at Rutgers ... UC San Diego chose Wendy Taylor as assistant athletics director for compliance. Taylor has been associate athletics director and compliance coordinator at Virginia Commonwealth.

COACHES

Baseball assistants -- Delaware promoted Dan Hammer to full-time assistant and chose Brian August as a part-time assistant coach. For the past four seasons, Hammer has been a part-time assistant coach at the school. August has been a member of MLB's New York Yankees organization for three years ... Sean Moran was tabbed as an assistant coach at Marist ... Maryland hired Gregg Kilby as an assistant. For the past four seasons, Kilby has led the program at Lynn ... Mark McQueen was awarded duties as an assistant coach at Virginia Commonwealth. McQueen has been an assistant at Richmond for the past 12 years ... Tim Perry assumed responsibilities as an assistant coach at Newberry ... Akron selected Scott Demetral as an assistant coach. Demetral has worked as infield and hitting coach at Western Michigan for the past three years ... Robbie Moen was named as hitting coach at Loyola Marymount, and Joe Gandra was appointed as catchers coach. Moen has been an assistant at Kansas State for four years. Gandra served as an assistant varsity baseball coach at the high-school level from 1998 to 2000 ... Shenandoah added Jon Seymour as an assistant coach. Most recently, Seymour was an assistant with the Santa Clara (California) Dodgers ... Rudy Garbalosa was chosen as interim head coach at Lynn. Garbalosa, who succeeds Gregg Kilby, has been an assistant with the program since 1999. The school also selected Tim DeVinney as graduate assistant coach, replacing Ben Bachmann. DeVinney was a volunteer assistant with the school last spring ... Dave Osteen was selected as pitching coach at Purdue ... North Carolina-Asheville named Torry Zerilla as an assistant coach.

Men's basketball -- Richard Stockton elevated Gerry Matthews to full-time head coach. Matthews has served as part-time head coach at the school for 14 years ... Jack Grant was named as interim head coach at Savannah State ... Rhode Island College's James Adams announced plans to retire as head men's basketball coach and assistant athletics director, effective September 30. Adams will continue to work part-time in the athletics department. The school chose assistant coach Dave Johnston as interim head coach for the 2000-01 season ... Mike Marcinko assumed responsibilities as interim head coach at Case Western Reserve ... CCNY chose Andy Stampfel as head coach ... Sherman Dillard, head coach at James Madison, signed a contract extension through the 2004-05 season.

Men's basketball assistants -- Chris Moore was appointed as an assistant coach at Canisius ... LeMoyne named Jeff Collins as an assistant coach ... Haverford added Jim Rowe and George Brosky as part-time assistant coaches ... Dan Panaggio and Julius Smith were selected as assistants at Indiana. Panaggio guided the Quad City Thunder of the Canadian Basketball League to a 313-191 mark in nine seasons. Smith spent last season as an assistant at Southeastern Louisiana ... Newberry appointed Matt Colin as an assistant coach ... Rob Kornaker was awarded an assistant coaching post at St. John Fisher ... Citadel selected Chris Cowart as an assistant coach ... Toledo added Bob Simon as an assistant coach ... Chris Carideo assumed duties as an assistant coach and assistant athletics recruiting coordinator at Merchant Marine. For the past three years, Carideo has worked as an assistant coach at Widener ... Butler's Jamal Meeks resigned as an assistant coach ... Xavier Fitzgerald and Art Redmond were added as assistants at Felician ... Hofstra added David Duke as an assistant coach, Veta Williams as men's basketball administrative assistant and Lawrence Thomas as men's basketball strength and conditioning coach ... Rob Burke assumed duties as an assistant coach at Princeton.

Women's basketball -- Joe Fussner was promoted to full-time head coach at Richard Stockton. Fussner formerly led the program from 1982 to 1988 and has been part-time head coach since 1994 ... Elmhurst hired Ray Card as head women's basketball coach and head softball coach, effective September 18. Card has been an assistant coach at North Central for two seasons and also has coached baseball and softball at the high-school level ... Hofstra appointed Meredith Pine as an assistant coach and selected Elizabeth Bradshaw as graduate manager and women's basketball strength coach ... Deanna Tate was hired as an assistant at Rhode Island. Tate played professionally in the American Basketball League and in Iceland ... Drew added Anne Jones as an assistant. Jones most recently has been a long-term substitute teacher and assistant girls' basketball coach at Roxbury (New Jersey) High School.

Women's basketball assistants -- Jodi Culbertson and John H. Spaschak were added as assistant coaches at Canisius, succeeding Michelle Collins and Kathy Lynch ... Montana State-Billings appointed Kevin Woodin as an assistant coach ... Jerry Michael DeMaio and Mary Gleason assumed assistant coaching duties at New York University ... Long Island named Christi Lagueux and Bill Carpenter as assistants ... Jerome Moss was added as an assistant coach at Fredonia State. From 1986 to 1992, Moss served as an assistant men's coach at the school ... Central Missouri State promoted LeAnn Weeks to full-time assistant coach. Weeks, who was a graduate assistant coach at the school last season, replaces Kim Yancey ... Thom Dartt assumed duties as an assistant coach at Baldwin-Wallace ... Cincinnati named Chris Moore as an assistant coach and Christina Jansen as women's basketball program coordinator. Moore was an assistant at Manual (Kentucky) High School for four years, and Jansen served as an assistant coach with the program last season ... Terri Dadio Campbell was selected as an assistant coach at Princeton ... Holy Cross hired Anna Kinne as an assistant coach. Kinne, a recent graduate of the school, competed on three basketball Patriot League championship squads and served as co-captain during her last season.

Men's and women's bowling -- Curtis W. Butler accepted responsibilities as head women's coach at Howard.

Men's and women's cross country -- Bill Preston was elevated to full-time head cross country and track and field coach at Richard Stockton. Preston has been working as part-time head coach of the program since 1996.

Football -- Gary Blackney announced plans to resign as head coach at Bowling Green, effective at the end of the football season. Blackney has guided the program for 10 seasons.

Football assistant -- James Urban was elevated to coordinator of football operations at Pennsylvania.

Men's and women's golf -- Bob Simms was added as head men's coach at St. John Fisher ... Augusta State named Shannon Hanson as head women's coach ... Brent Powell was selected as head men's and women's coach at Incarnate Word ... Barry hired Joel Williamson as head men's coach. Williamson formerly was head of golf instruction at Baylor ... Mark Gaynor was appointed as head men's coach at Texas-Pan American, succeeding John Garcia. Gaynor has been an assistant men's and women's coach at Furman.

Men's and women's golf assistant -- Bradley selected Renee Heiken as an assistant coach. Heiken is a professional with the LPGA.

Men's and women's gymnastics assistant -- Penn State named Ron Roeder as an assistant men's coach.

Men's and women's ice hockey -- Canisius elevated part-time head coach Brian Cavanaugh to full-time coaching status. Cavanaugh most recently has been teaching in the school's physical education program in addition to coaching ... Notre Dame head coach Dave Poulin signed a contract extension ... Massachusetts-Boston named Joe Mallen as head men's coach.

Men's and women's ice hockey assistants -- Jade Kersey accepted assistant men's coaching duties at Sacred Heart ... Armand Latulippe was selected as an assistant men's coach at Fredonia State.

Men's and women's lacrosse -- Howard named Alexis Seth as head women's coach. Last season, Seth worked as an assistant with the program.

Men's and women's lacrosse assistants -- Kristen Sander was named as part-time women's assistant coach at Delaware. Sander is a former assistant at Catholic ... Jon Stainbrook was appointed as an assistant men's coach at Maryland ... Lars Tiffany accepted responsibilities as defensive coordinator at Penn State, replacing Rick Young. For the past two years, Tiffany has been an assistant at Dartmouth ... Melinda Vaughn was selected as an assistant women's coach at Howard. Vaughn spent last season as an assistant at George Washington ... Brown chose Michael Fraioli and Jim Finlay as assistant men's coaches ... Andrew DeCicco was added as an assistant men's coach at Sacred Heart.

Men's and women's rowing -- Bates hired Andrew Carter as head men's and women's coach. Carter, who succeeds Richard Ruggieri, has fulfilled duties as an assistant at Southern California since January 2000 ... Rhode Island chose Juila Chilicki as head women's coach. Chilicki competed in the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta and has formerly served as an assistant swimming coach at Springfield and assistant rowing coach at Harvard.

Men's and women's rowing assistant -- Christine Elkins was tabbed as an assistant women's crew coach at Rutgers.

Men's soccer -- Richard Stockton elevated Jeff Haines to full-time head coach. Haines has fulfilled head coaching duties on a part-time basis for the past two seasons.

Women's soccer assistants -- Amphone Ketnouvong was chosen as an assistant coach at Long Island ... Akron appointed Keith Closson as an assistant coach. Closson has been an assistant men's soccer coach at Walsh for the past three and a half years ... Steve Cukalevski was tabbed as an assistant coach at Fredonia State ... Haverford added Cynthia Rabideau as a part-time assistant coach ... Bill Dickinson was chosen as an assistant coach at Elmhurst.

Softball -- Chris Elze was selected as head coach at Sonoma State ... Wilson hired Brett Cline as head coach. Cline succeeds Lori Frey, who relinquished head coaching duties to concentrate on duties as athletics director at the school ... Laura Cliett was hired as head coach at Incarnate Word.

Softball assistants -- Kerrie Porter was added as an assistant coach at Delaware. Last season, Porter served as assistant boys' basketball and assistant softball coach at Rising Sun (Maryland) High School ... Virginia named Cathy Johnson as assistant coach and Tiffany Redding as graduate assistant coach. Johnson spent the 2000 season as head coach at Skagit Valley College in Mount Vernon, Washington. Redding is a four-year letter-winner and a May 2000 graduate of Tulsa ... Newberry selected Sondi Creglow as an assistant coach ... Rhode Island College added Donna Konuch and Ken Stanley as assistants. Konuch was co-head coach at the Community College of Rhode Island. Since 1993, Stanley has led the Rhode Island Raiders women's team and the under-18 team of the Rhode Island National Softball Association League ... Dana Lynn Jeannetti was awarded assistant coaching responsibilities at Fairleigh Dickinson.

Men's and women's swimming and diving -- New York University named Mariejo Pasion as head women's swimming coach ... Alexander Hutchison was hired as head men's and women's swimming and diving coach at Austin, succeeding Robin Dyer. Hutchinson recently completed a master's degree in kinesiology at Texas A&M, where he also served as assistant strength coach in the school's strength and conditioning lab ... Howard chose Solomon Robinson as head men's and women's swimming coach.

Men's and women's swimming and diving assistants -- Cynthia Rumbaugh was appointed as an assistant women's swimming and diving coach at St. Francis (Pennsylvania) ... Suzanne Yee was chosen as an assistant coach at Washington State ... Chuck Kaylor and Allan Kopel were hired as men's and women's assistant swimming coaches at North Carolina. Kaylor has been assistant coach at the Mecklenburg Aquatic Club, and Kopel has been regional director for SwimAtlanta Pool Management Company.

Men's and women's tennis -- St. Francis (Pennsylvania) selected Jamie Taylor as head men's coach ... Joseph Calarco was chosen as head men's and women's coach at Fredonia State ... Transylvania added Matt Hill as head men's and women's coach. Hill replaces Jack Ebel, who will continue as head swimming coach at the school ... Mike Guidone, head women's basketball coach at Molloy, assumed additional duties as head women's tennis coach ... Elmhurst hired John Baines as head men's tennis and assistant men's basketball coach ... Guilford's Brian Judski assumed additional duties as head men's coach, replacing Steve MacDermut. Judski also serves as assistant men's basketball coach.

Men's and women's track and field -- Mark Kostek was named as director of the Drake Relays, succeeding the retired Bob Ehrhart. Kostek has been track and field coordinator at Nebraska since 1980 and has served as chairman of the NCAA Track and Field Committee since 1998.

Men's and women's track and field assistant -- Rana Reider was chosen as assistant women's coach at Clemson.

Men's and women's volleyball assistants -- Rich Borawski accepted duties as an assistant coach at Long Island ... UC Irvine named Mike D'Alessandro as associate head men's coach.

Wrestling -- Army named Chuck Barbee as head coach ... Howard added Wade Hughes as head coach.

Wrestling assistants -- Virginia hired Jim Harshaw as an assistant coach to replace Brendan Buckley. As a member of Virginia's wrestling program from 1995 to 1999, Harshaw was a 1998-99 all-American, earned three Atlantic Coast Conference championship titles and is tied for first on the school's career wins list with 102 ... Rick Schweitzberger was added as an assistant at Simpson. Schweitzberger was a 2000 graduate of Buena Vista, where he was a two-time all-American and three-time national-qualifiying wrestler at the school.

STAFF

Administrative -- Joe Baudo was appointed as assistant to the director of athletics at Fredonia State. For the past two years, Baudo has been an assistant men's ice hockey coach at the school ... Leonard Kaplan was hired as senior administrator for physical education, athletics, intramurals and recreation at New Jersey Institute of Technology. For the past eight years, Kaplan has served as assistant athletics director at Manhattan.

Academic services assistant -- Megan Kahn was hired as an assistant academic coordinator at Texas-Pan American. Kahn is a former basketball student-athlete and recent graduate of Truman.

Athletic trainers -- Saint Louis selected Tony Breitbach as an athletic trainer ... Anne Hutchins was awarded head athletic trainer duties at Elmhurst ... Missouri-Kansas City hired Lance Mullen as head athletic trainer. Since 1997, Mullen has been head athletic trainer at Lawrence High School for the Kansas left for Athletic Medicine in Lawrence, Kansas ... New Jersey Institute of Technology named Roger Olean as head athletic trainer. Olean has been athletic trainer at Leechburg (Pennsylvania) High School ... Texas Wesleyan added Alex McCulloch as head athletic trainer.

Assistant athletic trainers -- Jeffrey Bodenhamer assumed assistant trainer responsibilities at Newberry ... Pace appointed Daniel Caputo as assistant athletic trainer ... Jason Cohen was named as a full-time assistant athletic trainer at Molloy ... Andrew Stangel was chosen as assistant athletic trainer at Central Missouri State. Last year, Stangel was a graduate assistant athletic trainer at the school ... Tim Grinnell and Kerry Lee Wingarnder were selected as assistant athletic trainers at Rhode Island ... Heather Corey assumed the graduate assistant athletic trainer post at Albany (New York). Corey was a sports medicine intern at Yale.

Communications assistant -- Rhode Island hired Dan Booth as associate coordinator of sports communications. Most recently, Booth has been director of sports information at Adelphi.

Development -- Trey Stewart was chosen as director of development for athletics at Elon, replacing Scott Joyner. Stewart, who has been an outside salesman for Best Distributing Company of Greensboro (North Carolina), Inc. for three years, formerly was associate director of admissions at the school for five years.

Development assistant -- Jack Griffin was named as assistant director of development for athletics at Northwestern.

Facilities -- Aileen Kowal was promoted to director of facilities and events at Rutgers.

Marketing -- Eric Dennis assumed duties as director of athletics marketing at Chicago State. Dennis most recently served as director of athletics and recreation at Hood.

Media relations -- Holy Cross hired Larry Napolitano as coordinator of athletics media relations. Napolitano has been sports information director at Merrimack.

Media relations assistants -- John Romo assumed responsibilities as assistant director of media relations at Minnesota ... Tracy Cervone and Eddie Suarez were added as sports media relations graduate assistants at Rutgers ... Matt McCullough was selected as athletics media relations intern at Albany (New York). McCullough was a production assistant for the Tar Heel Sports Network in 1999-00.

Recreation -- Albany (New York) named Maria Moon as director of recreation and intramurals. From 1999 to 2000, Moon served as assistant intramural director at Rensselaer.

Sports information -- Richard Stockton selected Chris Rollman as sports information director. Rollman has been sports information director at Capital for the past two years ... Kevin O'Connor assumed responsibilities as sports information director at Wisconsin-Milwaukee ... Elmhurst added Hope Wagner as sports information director and associate director of public relations for the school. Wagner has been admissions coordinator at The Women's College of the University of Denver ... George Washington added Galen Munroe as assistant sports information director ... Jason Hughes was tabbed as sports information director at Livingston ... Chris Lynch was selected as sports information director at Saint Leo. Lynch replaces Tom O'Brien ... Jimmy Yule accepted duties as sports information director at Texas Wesleyan.

Sports information assistants -- Arkansas hired Robby Edwards as associate sports information director. Edwards, who spent nine and a half years at Louisiana-Monroe as assistant sports information director and sports information director, most recently has been executive and financial communications coordinator at CenturyTel, Inc. ... Barry named Dennis Jezek Jr. as assistant sports information director and named J.C. de los Reyes as graduate assistant sports information director ... Mark Mentone was added as coordinator of sports information services at New Jersey Institute of Technology. For the past three years, Mentone has worked as sports information assistant at Southern Connecticut State.

Strength and conditioning assistant -- Rutgers appointed Bill Graybush as assistant strength and conditioning coach.

CONFERENCES

The America East Conference extended the contract of commissioner Chris Monasch through June 30, 2003. Monasch, who has led the conference since June 27, 1997, is a member of the NCAA Division I Management Council, Division I Baseball Committee and the Committee on Athletics Certification. The conference also chose Marjorie Adams as assistant director of communications, Danielle Peterman as administrative intern and Megan Zeager as marketing and communications intern. Adams has been an athletics communications intern at Cornell since August 1998. Peterman and Zeager are May 2000 graduates of Delaware.

The Mid-American Conference chose Lori Montgomery as director of marketing and hired Dave Youngers as media relations assistant.

Bernadette McGlade was appointed as coordinator of women's basketball officials for the Southern Conference.

The South Atlantic Conference named Dennis Switzer as assistant to the commissioner. For the past 15 years, Switzer has been a sportswriter with The (Rock Hill, South Carolina) Herald.

ASSOCIATIONS

The National Soccer Coaches Association of America hired Craig Bohnert as assistant executive director for communications.

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CORRECTIONS

New York City Technical College was incorrectly identified in the September 11 issue of The NCAA News. The school is a provisional member in Division III.

A Division I Championships/Competition Cabinet action was reported inaccurately in the September 25 issue of The NCAA News. The cabinet supported a recommendation from the Men's and Women's Basketball Rules Committees that Division I institutions have a shot clock and red indicator light mounted on each backboard by the beginning of the 2001-02 season. In addition, each Division I institution must have a game clock that shows tenths of a second.

--Compiled by Leilana McKindra