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Crowley announces retirement plans

Joseph N. Crowley, president at Nevada, has announced plans to retire, effective December 31. From 1993 to 1995, Crowley served as president of the NCAA and is the only person to fulfill concurrent terms on the NCAA Council and Presidents Commission.

Crowley joined Nevada as a political science instructor for a one-semester temporary term in 1966. He went on to complete stints as an assistant, associate and full professor and chairman of the faculty senate before being selected as acting president in 1978. Crowley became full-time president March 23, 1979.

A 1959 graduate of Iowa, where he obtained a degree in political science, Crowley earned his master's degree in social science in 1963 from Fresno State and his doctorate in political science in 1967 from Washington.

GENERAL

CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICERS

Mitchell M. Zais was appointed president at Newberry, effective in August. Zais has been chief of staff of the U.S. Army Reserve Command in Atlanta ... Pace President Patricia O'Donnell Ewers announced retirement plans, effective July 15 ... Donald W. Harward announced his retirement as president at Bates, effective in 2002 ... Midwestern State selected Henry Moon as president, effective September 1. Moon has been provost and vice-president for undergraduate and graduate education at Toledo ... Central Michigan chose Michael Rao as president, effective August 1.

DIRECTORS OF ATHLETICS

Willamette athletics director Bill Trenbeath announced retirement plans, effective upon the selection of a successor. Trenbeath has been with the athletics program since 1973 and has served as athletics director since 1988 ... Joy Richman was hired as athletics director at East Stroudsburg, effective July 3, to replace Earl W. Edwards. Most recently, Richman has been director of sport management, physical education and athletics at Allentown ... Florida Southern chose Mike Roberts as director of athletics, succeeding the retiring Hal Smeltzly. Roberts has been assistant athletics director and head baseball coach at North Carolina-Asheville ... Val Belmonte was appointed director of athletics at Union, effective July 10. Succeeding Dick Sakala, Belmonte joins the athletics department from USA Hockey, where he has been director of the coaching program since 1991 ... Maryland Eastern Shore appointed Vivian L. Fuller as director of athletics. From 1997 to 1999, Fuller served as director of intercollegiate athletics at Tennessee State and formerly held the same position at Northeastern Illinois ... Scott Burnam succeeds Steve Clark as athletics director at Wesley, effective July 1. Clark will become the school's director of international programs ... Tom Bowen resigned after two months as acting athletics director at Saint Mary's (California) to become a member of the athletics development department at California. Bowen has been associate athletics director for three years ... Rick Mello was appointed as director of athletics at Florida International. Mello, who succeeds Orville M. Henry, has been athletics director at Arkansas-Little Rock for five years ... Lon Boike was appointed as athletics director at Minnesota-Crookston to succeed Brad Kerr, who resigned. Boike has served as athletics director at Clarke since 1993 ... Central Arkansas selected William E. Lide as athletics director ... Paul R. Moyer was hired as athletics director at Moravian, effective July 17. For the past six years, Moyer has been director of athletics and recreation at St. Mary's (Maryland) ... Springfield appointed Cathie Schweitzer as director of athletics, effective July 17 ... Kevin Grimmer was appointed interim director of athletics at Utica/Rome to replace James Klein, who retired. Grimmer has been assistant athletics director at the school since 1985.

SENIOR WOMAN ADMINISTRATORS

Birmingham Southern promoted Leslie Claybrook to senior woman administrator/
associate athletics director. Claybrook will continue as compliance officer and assume assistant coaching duties with the school's new air rifle program ... Carmen Nelon was hired as assistant athletics director for compliance and student-athlete services and senior woman administrator. From 1995 to 1999, Nelon was head women's basketball coach and senior woman administrator at South Carolina-Spartanburg ... Texas-San Antonio awarded Elizabeth Dalton the position of associate athletics director/senior woman administrator. Dalton has been football administrator at Notre Dame since 1997.

FACULTY ATHLETICS REPRESENTATIVE

Evansville named Davies Bellamy as faculty athletics representative to succeed J. Robert Knott, who retired from the position after 23 years.

ASSOCIATE DIRECTORS OF ATHLETICS

Judy Devine, associate athletics director at Kent, announced retirement plans, effective June 30. Devine has been with the athletics department for 31 years and has completed stints as women's basketball and field hockey coach, assistant athletics director and associate athletics director ... South Carolina selected Craig Curry as associate athletics director and interim NCAA compliance coordinator ... Loyola Marymount's Pam Wettig resigned as associate athletics director ... Quinnipiac elevated Amanda Long-Backus to associate athletics director for compliance and student services. Long-Backus, who also is senior woman administrator, has been assistant director of athletics for compliance and student services since January 1999 ... Massachusetts-Boston promoted Pat Burns to associate athletics director. Burns, who joined the athletics department as athletics business manager in 1988, has been assistant athletics director for business and operations since 1991 ... Cathy O'Donnell was chosen to replace Judy Devine as associate athletics director at Kent. O'Donnell has been assistant athletics director for academic services for the past two years.

ASSISTANT DIRECTORS OF ATHLETICS

Butler selected Angela Joy as assistant athletics director for compliance to succeed Liz Turner. Joy most recently was a compliance assistant at Indiana ... Ron Ogrodowicz was appointed as assistant athletics director for athletic training at Quinnipiac ... Fred Battenfield resigned after four years as assistant athletics director of public affairs/sports information director at Barry to pursue a doctoral degree in sports administration at Florida State ... Chestnut Hill hired Natalie Gozzard as assistant athletics director and head women's field hockey and lacrosse coach. For the past two years, Gozzard has been an assistant field hockey and lacrosse coach at La Salle ... Southern Methodist named David Miller as assistant athletics director ... Montana State-Billings named Craig Carse as assistant athletics director ... Paul Paynter was hired as assistant athletics director, head men's and women's track and field and cross country coach at Concordia (Wisconsin).

COACHES

Baseball -- Army named Joe Sottolano as head coach ... Dave Anderson was chosen as head coach at Memphis ... Otterbein awarded head coaching duties to George Powell, who was interim coach last season ... North Carolina-Asheville promoted Matt Myers to interim head coach for the 2000-01 season. Myers, who replaces Mike Roberts, spent last season as the program's pitching coach ... Buena Vista selected Steve Eddie as head coach ... Gary Rundles was chosen as head coach at West Alabama.

Baseball assistants -- Scott Lawler accepted assistant coaching duties at North Carolina State ... Jason Harris was added as an assistant coach at Lander ... Bernard Baruch added Neil Barbella as an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator.

Men's basketball -- William and Mary hired Rick Boyages as head coach. For the past three seasons, Boyages has been an assistant at Ohio State ... Bill Self was appointed as head coach at Illinois to succeed Lon Kruger. Self has been head coach at Tulsa for the past three seasons ... Troy State signed head coach Don Maestri to a three-year contract extension ... Thomas Trotter was hired as head coach at Maryland Eastern Shore. For the past two seasons, Trotter has been first assistant at New Mexico State ... Missouri-Kansas City hired Dean Demopoulos as head coach. Demopoulos has been an assistant coach at Temple for the past 17 years ... Buzz Peterson was awarded head coaching duties at Tulsa, succeeding Bill Self. Peterson has been head coach at Appalachian State for four years ... Houston Fancher, associate head coach at Appalachian State, was elevated to head coach, succeeding Buzz Peterson ... Houston Fancher, associate head coach at Appalachian State, was elevated to head coach, succeeding Buzz Peterson.

Men's basketball assistants --Joseph Conefry was chosen as an assistant coach at Merchant Marine. Last season, Conefry was a graduate assistant at Hofstra ... Pepperdine added Benjy Taylor and Sean Farnham as assistant coaches ... New Mexico State named Elmer Chavez as an assistant coach ... Gabe Warner was added as administrative assistant for basketball at Arkansas ... Andy Johnston was selected as an assistant coach at Youngstown State ... Todd Skrivseth was added as an assistant at Upper Iowa. Skrivseth has been an assistant at Wisconsin-Stevens Point for the past two seasons ... College of Charleston selected Jon Coffman as an administrative assistant ... Jason Holmes was appointed as an assistant at Southern Illinois. Holmes spent last season serving as a graduate assistant with the program ... John Carroll added Shaun Kearney as an assistant men's basketball and assistant men's soccer coach. Kearney succeeds Bob Straub ... Jason Levy and Rob Orellana were chosen as assistants at Cal State Fullerton. Levy has been an assistant at Portland for three seasons and Orellana served as an assistant at Fairleigh Dickinson for the past two seasons.

Women's basketball -- Paula Buscher accepted head coaching duties at Bradley. For the past two seasons, Buscher has led the women's program at Nebraska-Omaha ... Robert Morris awarded its head coaching post to Lynn Roman. Roman, who succeeds Kim Basick, was an assistant with the program last season ... Chris Denker accepted responsibilities as head coach at Santa Clara, replacing Caren Horstmeyer. Denker most recently served as interim head coach after spending seven years as an assistant with the program ... Arkansas State first assistant coach Sarina Dixon was added as head coach at Maryland Eastern Shore. Dixon replaces Trina Patterson ... Kathy Warner was hired as head coach at Olgethorpe to succeed Angie Milford. Warner has been first assistant coach at Wright State ... Concordia-St. Paul's Crystal Flint-Holloman resigned as head coach ... Southampton head coach Tony Bozella resigned to assume the same position at Long Island ... Tonja Englund was chosen as head coach at Wisconsin-Eau Claire to replace Lisa Stone. For the past season, Englund has been head girls' coach at Roseville (Minnesota) High School ... Misericordia chose Christine Lardon as head coach and coordinator of athletics facilities ... Chicago appointed Jennifer Kroll as head coach. Kroll spent the 1999-00 season as head coach at Ithaca ... North Carolina-Wilmington appointed Ann Hancock as head coach to replace Bernie Flax. Hancock has worked as an assistant at North Carolina for the last eight years ... Drexel hired Candance Crabtree as head coach to succeed Kevin Murphy. For the past seven years, Crabtree has led the program at Rowan.

Women's basketball assistants -- Jim Cartisser was hired as an assistant at Chicago State after most recently coaching at Treasure Valley Community College ... Miami (Ohio) named Jill Dunn as an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator. Dunn has served as head coach at Western Carolina for the past two seasons ... Nicole Andres resigned as an assistant coach at Vermont. The school selected Christie Lauzon as an assistant ... Bobbie Kelsey was added as an assistant at Evansville. Kelsey has been an assistant at Florida ... Jason Tuggle was selected as interim second assistant coach at North Carolina-Greensboro. Tuggle, who has been third assistant coach with the squad, succeeds Angie Polk-Jones ... Fordham added Marcel Arribi, Angela Jackson and Kristin Donahoe as assistant coaches. Arribi was head boys' coach at Cathedral Prep in Erie, Pennsylvania, from 1987 to 1999, and Jackson most recently competed with the Women's National Basketball Association's Washington Mystics. Donahoe served as an assistant at Oakland ... Renee Ladner was appointed as an assistant coach at Florida ... Hofstra selected Elizabeth O'Brien as an assistant coach ... John Ishee resigned as an assistant coach at Mississippi ... UC Irvine named Molly Tuter-Koral as an assistant. Tuter-Koral has been an assistant coach at UCLA for two years ... Todd Clark was added as an assistant at Texas-San Antonio. Since 1997, Clark has been an assistant at Cowley County (Kansas) Community College ... Jody Bennett and Dana Smith were added as assistants at Maine ... Southwest Texas appointed Donyale Canada as coordinator of women's basketball operations ... Jennifer Mitchell was named as an assistant coach at James Madison. Mitchell has been an assistant at East Carolina for two years ... Syracuse selected Darren Bennett as an assistant coach ... Jenna Lehmann was named as an assistant coach at Charleston Southern ... New Mexico chose Yvonne Sanchez as an assistant coach ... Monica Thomas resigned as assistant women's basketball and assistant women's tennis coach at Marywood to become head women's basketball coach at Keystone College.

Men's and women's cross country -- Texas Lutheran added Connie Hand-Widenor as head women's cross country and track and field coach. Hand-Widenor replaces Kari Nethery-Kluckhohn, who became head men's and women's cross country and track and field coach at North Park ... Jim Sanchez was named head coach at Wyoming ... Wisconsin-Stout announced the resignation of Carlene Hochhalter as head women's cross country and track coach ... Richard Dudzic was named as head women's coach at Hilbert ... Peace chose Rob King as head women's coach.

Field hockey -- Muhlenberg awarded head field hockey and women's lacrosse coaching responsibilities to Kristen Stuckel to replace Laurie Kerr, who resigned. For the past three years, Stuckel has been a graduate assistant field hockey and women's lacrosse coach at Gettysburg ... Christy Morgan resigned as head coach at James Madison ... Dartmouth awarded head coaching responsibilities to Amy Fowler. Fowler has been head coach at James Madison ... MaryKate Madden was selected as head field hockey and head women's lacrosse coach at Misericordia.

Football -- John Bland accepted responsibilities as head coach at Southern Arkansas ... Steve Roberts was selected as head coach at Northwestern State. Roberts, who has been head coach at Southern Arkansas for three years, succeeds Sam Goodwin ... Minnesota head coach Glen Mason agreed to a seven-year contract extension ... West Alabama head coach Bobby Johns announced plans to resign after the 2000 season.

Football assistants -- Williams added George McCormack as assistant football and assistant men's lacrosse coach. McCormack has been defensive coordinator and head men's lacrosse coach at Union ... Aaron Brock was hired as defensive line coach and admissions athletics coordinator at Alma. Last season, Brock coached at Cheney ... California selected Shawn Kraft as tight ends coach ... Willie Totten was appointed as offensive coordinator at Mississippi Valley State ... Jon Bostick was chosen as defensive coordinator at Nebraska Wesleyan ... Ron Calcagni accepted the graduate assistant coaching position at Oklahoma ... Corey Goff was named as offensive line coach and special teams coordinator at Muhlenberg. Goff, who succeeds Jon McLaughlin, has been head football and head baseball coach at Wyoming Seminary ... Robert Morris added Matt Raich and Dave Zeiler as assistants. Raich, who replaces Bob Babish, will serve as linebackers coach, special teams coach and recruiting coordinator. Zeiler, who succeeds Ryan Haglan, will be defensive backfield coach. Babish will continue as an assistant coach working with the quarterbacks ... Kelly Cummings was hired as defensive coordinator at Wittenberg ... Fairleigh Dickinson named Rich Mosca as offensive coordinator ... Darrin Foreman was appointed as an offensive assistant coach at Upper Iowa after most recently serving as an assistant at Los Medanos Community College in Pittsburg, California ... South Dakota State added Tim Steinbach as an assistant coach to succeed Curt Bohn. For the past two seasons, Steinbach has been offensive coordinator and offensive line coach at Minnesota-Morris ... Hank McClung was added as offensive line coach at Drake ... Southern Mississippi promoted defensive coordinator Dave Wommack to assistant head coach ... Heidelberg hired Mark Johnston as assistant coach and equipment manager, effective July 1. Johnston has been a graduate assistant at Ohio for two years.

Men's and women's golf -- North Dakota State's Marilyn Barge resigned after four seasons as women's head coach to concentrate on her work with the Women's TransNational Tournament ... Charlie Braun and Mary Pat Boarman were selected as co-head coaches at Evansville to replace retiring head men's coach Larry Lawrence ... Edgewood awarded head men's coaching responsibilities to Gary Oftedahl. Oftedahl served as the school's head women's basketball coach during the 1999-00 season and has coached golf at McFarland (Wisconsin) High School for 31 years ... Sam Bedrosian was chosen as head women's coach at Hope. Most recently, Bedrosian was athletics director at Central (Iowa) from 1994 to 1997 and formerly was head softball and men's golf coach and athletics director at Aurora ... Chicago State appointed Toby Bolton as head women's coach to replace Greg Elliott ... Bucknell added Kevin Jamieson as head women's coach. Succeeding Brad Tufts, Jamieson was an assistant with the program last year ... Chris Brauner was promoted to head men's golf coach at North Carolina-Greensboro, effective July 1. Brauner, who replaces Bud Hall, has been interim head coach and served as an assistant from 1997 to 1999 ... Paul Hjulberg was awarded responsibilities as director of men's and women's golf at UC Riverside. The program is scheduled to begin play during the 2001-02 academic year. Hjulberg has been a golf professional at Canyon Crest Country Club since 1980 ... Southern Mississippi appointed Steve Johnson as head men's coach ... Dennis Coscina, assistant women's coach at Central Connecticut State, was promoted to head women's coach. The school also selected Ed Batogowski as head men's coach ... Oklahoma appointed Jim Ragan as head men's coach.

Men's and women's ice hockey -- Jim Hunt was selected as head men's coach at Fairfield ... Wisconsin-Eau Claire appointed Mike Collins as head women's coach. The program will assume varsity status for the 2000-01 academic year. Collins spent the past year as head coach of the San Angelo Outlaws of the Western Professional Hockey League.

Men's and women's ice hockey assistant -- Mark Strobel accepted duties as men's assistant coach at Minnesota-Duluth.

Men's and women's lacrosse -- Cornell promoted Jeff Tambroni to head men's coach to replace Dave Pietramala. Tambroni has been with the program as an assistant for the past three years ... Aaron Koproski resigned after one season as head men's coach at Wentworth Institute. Koproski joined the program as top assistant in 1998 ... Widener selected Jamie Steele as head men's coach. Steele has been an assistant coach at Gettysburg since 1996 and defensive coordinator with the program since 1997.

Rowing -- Joan O'Hara was hired as head women's coach at Wellesley. The former member of the United States Rowing National Team has been head coach of the ZLAC Master's Rowing Club in San Diego.

Men's soccer -- Hunter appointed John Benintendo as head coach to succeed Cesar Markovic. Since the fall of 1999, Benintendo has been an assistant with the school ... Stephen Starr was added as head coach at Nichols. Starr replaces Mark Wagner, who will continue as an assistant with the squad ... Alma chose Jeff Bateson as interim head coach. Bateson, who succeeds Scott Frey, has been an assistant with the school for two years ... Skidmore selected Ron McEachen as head coach ... Elmira hired Brandon Bowman as head coach to replace Steve McCall. Bowman has been an assistant men's and women's coach at Miami (Ohio).

Women's soccer -- Southern Oregon appointed Jose Chavez as head coach ... Leigh Sears accepted the position of head coach at Hope. Sears has led the women's soccer program at Marietta since 1994 ... Jeff Mitchell was hired as head coach at Bemidji State ... Misericordia added Mark Stauffer as head coach and intramural director.

Women's soccer assistant -- David Coulter was awarded duties as an assistant coach at Hilbert.

Softball -- Missouri Southern added Ron Faubion as head coach ... James Gravelle was named as head coach at Southern Oregon ... St. Thomas (Minnesota) appointed John Tschida as head coach to replace interim head coach Wendy Miller. Tschida, who has been assistant baseball coach for four years and head softball coach for six years at St. Mary's (Minnesota), led St. Mary's to the 2000 Division III Softball Championship ... Melissa McCaughey succeeds Cindy Manley as head coach at Texas Lutheran. McCaughey has been head softball coach since 1998 and senior woman administrator at MacMurray ... Lu Harris resigned as head coach at Southern Mississippi to become head coach at Georgia. Harris has led the squad since January 1998 ... Tom Creola accepted head coaching duties at Erskine ... Findlay's Lesa Bickley resigned as head coach after three seasons ... Angel Brown resigned as head coach at Heidelberg ... Julie Crisco accepted responsibilities as head coach and assistant volleyball coach at Monmouth. Crisco most recently has been an admissions representative at the school for four years.

Men's and women's swimming -- Pittsburgh named Bill Weaver as an assistant men's coach ... Fresno State named Matt Brown as head men's coach ... Wisconsin-Eau Claire appointed Rob Welcher as head swimming and diving coach to succeed Tom Prior and interim head coach Andy Hanson ... Christine Peppiatt was hired as aquatics director and head men's and women's swimming coach at Skidmore.

Men's and women's tennis -- Jeff Trivette was appointed as head men's and women's coach at North Carolina-Greensboro, effective July 1. Trivette replaces Paul Lubbers ... Mercer's Alex Khoury resigned as head coach ... Brian Surface was hired as head men's and women's coach. Most recently, Surface, who replaces Kathy Horan, has been a graduate assistant coach at Northwest Missouri State ... Jane Calvani was hired as head women's coach at Chestnut Hill ... Natalie Butler accepted head men's and women's coaching responsibilities at Chicago. Butler has been head women's tennis coach at Bryn Mawr since 1996 ... Chip McElroy resigned after one season as head men's coach at Marywood ... Tricia Udicious resigned as head men's and women's coach at College of New Jersey. Udicious guided the men's program for seven years and led the women's squad for four years.

Men's and women's tennis assistant -- Jason Kinder was elevated to men's and women's assistant coach at North Carolina-Greensboro, effective July 1, replacing Jeff Trivette.

Men's and women's track and field -- Dallas awarded additional duties as head men's and women's coach to Julie Felderhoff, who also is head women's basketball coach at the school. Felderhoff succeeds Harry Hall, who will continue as head cross country coach and as an assistant during the 2001 track season ... Geoff Masanet was selected as head track and field coach at Missouri-Kansas City. Since January of 1997, Masanet has been head cross country and assistant track coach at the school and has been interim head track coach since January ... Wyoming chose Don Yentes as head coach ... Boise State awarded head coaching responsibilities to Mike Maynard ... Matt Henry was chosen as head coach at New Mexico ... Cornell College named Cindy Jennings to replace Mark Dutro as head women's coach ... North Carolina-Wilmington added Kevin Ankrom as head coach.

Men's and women's track and field assistants -- Joe Walker was added as an assistant track and cross country coach at Alabama ... Long Beach State appointed Dana Colligan Gutierrez as an assistant coach ... Tim Beach accepted assistant track and field and cross country coaching duties at Columbia.

Men's and women's volleyball -- Heidi Cartisser was hired as head women's coach at Chicago State ... John Jay appointed Colleen Norman as head women's coach ... Dale Bless was announced as head women's coach at Hilbert ... Wentworth Tech head men's coach Phuong Luong resigned. Luong has guided the program since November 1998 ... Texas A&M-Kingsville chose Jane Atzenhoffer as head coach to succeed Donna Benotti ... Diana Felker accepted the position of head coach at Widener after fulfilling assistant coaching duties at North Carolina for the past two years ... Rick McLaughlin resigned as head men's coach at Loyola Marymount ... Nicholls State selected Mary Engstrom as head coach ... Montana State-Billings selected Pa'ulasi Mastavao as head women's coach ... Katie McFarland Loyer joined Southern Indiana as head coach. From 1997 to 1999, Loyer was head varsity and junior varsity volleyball coach at Kings (Ohio) High School.

Men's and women's volleyball assistants -- Iowa State added Jennifer McCall as women's assistant coach ... Dominic Yoder became an assistant women's coach at Ferris State, succeeding J.J. O'Connell. Yoder has spent the 1999 season as a volunteer assistant women's coach at Michigan State ... Missouri-Kansas City added Carrie O'Connell as an assistant. Most recently, O'Connell has been head girls' coach at Joliet Township (Illinois) High School ... Evansville hired Corey Carlin as an assistant women's coach ... Sarah Mikla accepted assistant coaching responsibilities at Dayton ... John Schmidt III was added as an assistant coach. For the past four years, Schmidt has been an assistant coach, sports information director and director of club sports at St. Edward's.

Wrestling -- Bucknell named Tim Wittman as interim head coach. Wittman, an assistant last year, succeeds John Hangey ... Cornell College elevated four-year assistant Curt Heideman to head coach. Heideman succeeds Steve DeVries, who will continue as an assistant coach with the program ... Dock Kelly accepted the head coaching post at Anderson (South Carolina). For the past four years, Kelly has been an assistant at North Carolina-Greensboro ... Northern Iowa named Brad Penrith as head coach.

Wrestling assistant -- Upper Iowa chose Nate Skaar as an assistant. For three years, Skaar has been head wrestling coach at the Newport-Mesa Unified School District in Costa Mesa, California.

STAFF

Academic services -- Harold White retired as athletics department academic support administrator at South Carolina. The school selected Tom Perry as White's successor.

Athletics communications -- Bucknell chose Ryan Erb as athletics communications intern ... Patrick Gillespie resigned as director of athletics communications at Cornell to accept a position as sports producer for the northeast region for ihigh.com. Gillespie has been with Cornell since 1992 ... Purdue chose Jay Cooperider as athletics communications and information services director ... Leeann Parker was awarded responsibilities as assistant director of athletics communications at Ohio State.

Athletic trainers -- George McDowell resigned as athletic trainer at Chattanooga ... Amy Virden resigned as head women's athletic trainer at Heidelberg ... Curry awarded Dan Morgan with responsibilities as head trainer.

Athletic training assistants -- Bates added Nancy Fournier and Matt Todd as assistant athletic trainers.

Development -- Michelle McBride was elevated to associate director and Cynthia Oxley and Steve Moeller were appointed as assistant directors of University of Cincinnati Athletic Team Scholarships ... Northern Illinois hired Joe Coots as director of development. For the past year, Coots has been associate director of development at William and Mary.

Marketing assistants -- Wendy Best and Ben Chulick were added as marketing assistants at UNLV.

Media relations -- Texas Christian chose Steve Fink as director of athletics media relations.

Sports information -- West Texas A&M sports information director Bill Kauffman resigned to become director of communications at the American Volleyball Coaches Association. Kauffman has been sports information director with the school for the past six years ... Bob Casey accepted sports information director and assistant football coaching responsibilities at Wesley. Casey fulfilled similar duties at Huron University in South Dakota ... Tom Schott was promoted to sports information director at Purdue. Schott has been associate sports information director ... Concordia (Wisconsin) added Chuck Oliver as sports information director ... Alan Wickstrom was added as sports information director at Massachusetts-Boston. For the past two years, Wickstrom has been manager of publications at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum.

Sports information assistants -- David O'Brian was chosen as assistant sports information director at Binghamton. For the past five years, O'Brian has been a member of the athletics media relations office at Maryland ... Cincinnati named Jill Warren as assistant sports information director. Most recently, Warren was associate sports information director at Southern Illinois ... Purdue associate sports information director Andrew Punzal resigned to become a senior account manager with Campbell and Company. The school announced the hiring of Anthony Greco and Laura Schwenk as sports information assistants ... Jason Shay accepted additional duties as assistant sports information director at Mercyhurst, effective July 1. Shay will continue to work as an assistant men's basketball coach at the school ... UNLV hired Kevin Force as assistant sports information director ... Texas A&M-Kingsville announced the selection of Craig Merriman as assistant sports information director. Merriman has served in the same position at Texas-San Antonio for the last two years.

Ticket operations -- Robert Norton was hired as athletics ticket manager at Appalachian State ... Meredith Breen was chosen as ticketing coordinator at UNLV ... Tracy Spencer was appointed as athletics ticket manager at San Jose State. During the 1999-00 school year, Spencer served as assistant ticket manager at Tulsa.

CONFERENCES

The Mid-Continent Conference added Tony Hamilton as assistant director of media relations, effective July 3. For the past two years, Hamilton has been assistant sports information director at Butler. The conference also announced that Gerald Bepko, chancellor at Indiana/Purdue-Indianapolis, has been elected as chair of the Mid-Continent Conference Presidents Council, succeeding Donald Spencer, president at Western Illinois. Mike Moore, athletics director at Indiana/Purdue-Indianapolis, will serve as chair of the conference's Directors Council and William Kulsrud, faculty athletics representative at the school, will chair the Faculty Athletics Representatives Council for the 2000-01 academic year.

The West Coast Conference elevated Don Ott and Teresa Kuehn to associate commissioners and promoted Valerie Richardson to assistant commissioner. The conference also added Brad Walker as director of communications and selected Kim Hay as championships and marketing assistant. In addition, the following conference officers were elected: Lane Bove, Loyola Marymount, president; Ken Anderson, Gonzaga, vice-president; Carmen Jordan-Cox, San Francisco, treasurer.

The State University of New York Athletic Conference chose Jim Zalacca as president. Zalacca, athletics director at New Paltz State, has been president-elect and chair of the finance committee for the past year.

Jeffrey L. Ligney assumed duties as director of media relations at the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference. Ligney most recently has been a student assistant sports information director at Saginaw Valley State.

The following officers have been elected to the Lone Star Conference executive committee for 2000-01: Don Davis, Cameron, chair; James Hindman, Angelo State, vice-chair; Joe Anna Hibler, Southwestern Oklahoma State, second vice-chair; Keith McFarland, Texas A&M-Commerce, third vice-chair.

The American Southwest Conference announced the election of the following individuals to the 2000-01 executive committee: Rick Niece, Ozarks (Arkansas), president; Oscar Page, Austin, vice-president; Howell Todd, Mississippi College, past president.

The Trans America Athletic Conference named the following as officers for 2000-01: Presidents Council -- chair: John C. Hitt, president at Central Florida; vice-chair: Anthony Catanese, president at Florida Atlantic. Executive Committee -- president: John C. Hitt, president at Central Florida; vice-president: Bobby Pope, athletics director at Mercer; secretary: Debbie Richardson, senior woman administrator at Campbell; faculty athletics representative: Chris Metress, Samford; past president: Carl Patton, president at Georgia State.

ASSOCIATIONS

The National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics elected the following individuals as officers: Debbie Yow, director of athletics at Maryland, president; Bill Bradshaw, director of athletics at DePaul, first vice-president; Joe Castiglione, director of athletics at Oklahoma, second vice-president; Judy Rose, director of athletics at North Carolina-Charlotte, third vice-president; Tim Gleason, Ohio Athletic Conference commissioner, secretary (second year of a five-year term).

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CORRECTION

The race results for the National Collegiate Women's Rowing Championship were listed incorrectly in the June 5 issue of The NCAA News. The correct results are listed below. In addition, the caption for the photo accompanying the story contained incorrect information. Brown's team in the fours competition placed second in the race with a time of 7:53.10.

I Eights: 1. Brown 6:37.20 [Portia Johnson, Rachel Anderson, Anda Adams, Kellie Walker, Jessica Lanning, Liane Malcos, Erin Kelley, Caroline Grogan (coxswain)]; 2. Washington, 6:41.10; 3. Virginia, 6:42.79; 4. California, 6:46.50; 5. Michigan, 6:49.29; 6. Princeton, 6:50.20.

II Eights: 1. Brown [Annie Carter, Mariah Raymond, Rosie Branson-Gill, Lucy Luedens-Booth, Kelly Egan, Caanora Glick, Hadley Hoseas, Nina Freeman and Eleanor D'Ambrosio (coxswain)], 6:48.39; 2. Washington, 6:58.79; 3. Virginia, 7:00.89; 4. Michigan, 7:02.60; 5. Princeton, 7:06.00; 6. California, 7:07.70.

Fours: 1. Washington [Adrienne Hunter, Heidi Hurn, Carrie Stasiak, Lauren Estevenin and Anne Hessburg (coxswain)], 7:49.00; 2. Brown, 7:53.10; 3. Virginia, 7:55.10; 4. California, 7:57.39; 5. Boston U., 8:02.50; 6. Princeton, 8:17.60.

NOTABLES

The National Association of Athletic Development Directors (NAADD) selected the following individuals as award recipients for 1999-00: Harold Alfond (retired), Maine, University Division donor of the year; Bronce Henderson, CEO and principal shareholder, D.C.T., Inc., Michigan Tech, College Division donor of the year; Kay Kustanbauter, executive director, Nittany Lion Club, Penn State, University Division fund-raiser of the year; Owsley Brown Frazier, vice-chair, Brown-Forman Corporation (University of Louisville), University Division volunteer of the year; and Brian Thompson, Team AGGIE Board, UC Davis, College Division volunteer of the year.

The National Association of Collegiate Marketing Administrators selected Pizza Hut as winner of the Corporate Award for Significant Contributions to Intercollegiate Marketing award. The organization also chose Deena Diboll, assistant athletics director for marketing at Fresno State, as Outstanding Individual Achievement Award winner.

The National Association of Collegiate Marketing Administrators selected the following as inaugural recipients of the NACMA/Host Communications Marketer of the Year Awards: Division I-A -- Mary Zeigler, Iowa State; Divisions I-AA/I-AAA -- Andy Solomon, Citadel; Divisions II/III -- Cliff Dochterman, UC Riverside; Other -- Zoran Rajcic, University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.

The National Association of Collegiate Marketing Administrators chose the following individuals as recipients of the NACMA Postgraduate Scholarship Awards for 1999-00: Sara Atalla, Missouri-Kansas City; Stefanie Kelly, North Dakota State; Mark Muhlhauser, Washington; Eric Olsavsky, Ohio State; and Jeffrey Simon, Central Michigan. Each student will be awarded a $1,000 grant to pursue a graduate degree in athletics administration with the intention of pursuing a career in sports marketing.

Jenna Daniels and Charles Howell were named as Rolex College Golfers of the Month for May. Daniels, a senior at Arizona, won the individual title at the Division I women's national championship. Howell, a junior at Oklahoma State, captured the Division I individual men's national championship.

The College Golf Foundation and Rolex Watch U.S.A. chose William B. Greene Jr. and Joan Garety as winners of the Rolex Achievement award presented to former varsity collegiate golfers who have achieved excellence in their careers. Greene, who competed on the varsity golf team at Wake Forest for three years, is cofounder of the Bank of Tennessee in Kingsport, Tennessee, and Paragon Bank in Raleigh, North Carolina. Garety, who currently works at the privately held retailer Meijer, Inc., playing a significant role in obtaining long-term debt financing, was a four-year letterwinner and two time co-captain at Michigan State.

The National Collegiate Collegiate Licensing Association chose the Collegiate Licensing Company as winner of the corporate Service award and chose Arizona as winner of the Synergy award for collegiate licensing program of the year. The organization also elected Bill Battle with the Collegiate Licensing Company and Alabama's Finus Gaston to the NCLA Hall of Fame.

Lew Perkins, athletics director at Connecticut, was chosen as the inaugural winner of the Street and Smith's SportsBusiness Journal National Athletics Director of the Year award. Perkins has led the athletics programs at Connecticut since July 1990.

Mitch Hanson, head softball coach at North Dakota State, and assistant coaches Darren Mueller and Mike McLeod have been named the 2000 Speedline/NFCA Division II National Coaching Staff of the Year in softball. North Dakota State captured its first Division II championship this year. Roanoke head softball coach Allen Bayse and assistant coaches Mike Walthall and Patti Sheedy were selected as coaching staff of the year in Division III. The trio guided the team to the Old Dominion Athletic Conference championship and a fifth-place finish in the Division III tournament.

DEATHS

Appalachian State basketball student-athlete Rufus Leach drowned while boating in Tennessee. He was 22. Last season, as a senior, Leach led the squad in scoring and set a school record with 100 three-point baskets.

Former Arkansas basketball player Larry Marks died of an apparent heart attack. He was 33. Marks started 52 games for Arkansas from 1987 to 1990.

Former Tennessee football player Charles A. "Chan" Caldwell, died June 14 of kidney failure. Caldwell played freshman football at Tennessee in 1941, joined the Navy during World War II and returned to the school in 1945 to letter three seasons. He also served as an assistant coach with the team from 1949 to 1954 in addition to spending one season as head coach of the Canadian Football League's Ottawa Rough Riders.

Sandy Stephens, the first black all-America quarterback, died June 6 at the age of 59. Stephens led Minnesota to the national championship in 1960 and a Rose Bowl victory the following season.

Former Grambling assistant football coach Fred Collins died June 6. He was 60.

Thomas H. McGrath, former president at Sonoma State, died May 26 at the age of 82.

Former Wisconsin-Stout President and Chancellor William J. Micheels died June 9.

Arthur E. Reichle Jr., former head baseball coach at UCLA, died May 23. Reichle was 86.

S. Walter Martin, former president at Valdosta State and Emory, died June 2. Martin was 89.

Clayton Brooks, a former coach and athletic trainer at Redlands, died June 19. Brooks coached track and field, cross country and was an assistant football coach. He also worked as a physical education professor and athletic trainer throughout his tenure with the school.

--Compiled by Leilana McKindra