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Lisella accepts head coaching post at Rowan

Rowan has appointed Gabrielle Lisella as head women's basketball coach. Lisella succeeds Candace Crabtree.

For the past five seasons, Lisella has guided the women's basketball program and served as assistant athletics director at Oswego State. During the 1999 season, Lisella's team established a school record for wins in a season with a 14-11 mark, earning Lisella recognition as the State University of New York Athletic Conference Coach of the Year.

Before coming to Oswego State, Lisella was head women's basketball, assistant softball and assistant soccer coach at Sewanee (University of the South) from 1991 to 1995. She also worked as head volleyball coach and interim head women's basketball coach at St. Lawrence and served as junior varsity women's basketball and assistant lacrosse coach at Cortland State in 1989-90.

Lisella is a 1985 graduate of East Stroudsburg, where she earned a bachelor's degree in health and physical education. She also competed in basketball and volleyball. Lisella earned a master's degree in physical education from Cortland State.

GENERAL

CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICERS

Fletcher M. Lamkin was appointed president at Westminster (Missouri). Lamkin, who has been dean of the academic board at Army, succeeds Jim Traer ... Ottawa President Harold D. Germer announced retirement plans, effective no later than December 31 ... Julius Chambers announced his retirement as chancellor at North Carolina Central, effective June 2001 ... Judith L. Kuipers, president at Wisconsin-La Crosse, was named president at the Fielding Institute ... Missouri-Rolla selected Gary Thomas as chancellor. Thomas formerly was provost and professor of electrical engineering at New Jersey Tech ... Robert Welch, vice-president and academic dean, was named acting president at Goucher.

DIRECTOR OF ATHLETICS

Stevens Tech selected Russell Rogers as director of athletics ... Scott Coval was chosen as athletics director at Allentown ... Arizona State appointed Gene Smith as athletics director ... Fayetteville State named William Carver as athletics director ... Patricia Canterino accepted responsibilities as athletics director and head women's basketball coach at Immaculata ... Central Washington appointed Jack Bishop as athletics director ... Michigan awarded athletics director duties to Bill Martin, who has most recently served as interim athletics director ... Maine-Farmington selected Julie Davis as director of athletics. Most recently, Davis served as assistant department head for personal training at Life Time Fitness left in Columbus, Ohio ... Cheryl L. Levick was hired as athletics director at Santa Clara. Levick has been senior associate athletics director and senior woman administrator at Stanford for the past 12 years.

SENIOR WOMAN ADMINISTRATORS

Iona selected Kara Brennan as senior woman administrator ... Kim Culligan resigned as associate director of athletics and senior woman administrator at St. Peter's to accept a similar position at Kean ... Sonoma State added Catherine Dougherty as senior woman administrator and compliance coordinator ... Heather Lewis was promoted to associate athletics director/senior woman administrator at Bucknell. Lewis has been assistant athletics director and director of compliance services for a year and head field hockey coach for eight years ... Robin Reynolds accepted the position of associate athletics director and senior woman administrator at Santa Clara.

FACUTY ATHLETICS REPRESENTATIVE

William Bailey was appointed as faculty athletics representative at Belmont. Bailey has been a professor of psychology at the school since 1986.

ASSOCIATE DIRECTORS OF ATHLETICS

Bucknell hired Tim Pavlechko as associate director of athletics for sports management and administration. For the past three years, Pavlechko has been an assistant director of championships at the NCAA national office ... Rannah Gray was promoted to senior associate athletics director at LSU. Gray has been associate athletics director for marketing and promotions ... San Diego State chose Joe Moeller as associate athletics director of development. Since 1995, Moeller has been director of development at Arizona State ... Michael Cross was appointed as associate director of athletics at Princeton ... Texas named Cleve Bryant as associate athletics director for football operations ... Matt Bassett was elevated to senior associate athletics director at Binghamton and was awarded a five-year contract extension through 2005. Bassett has been associate athletics director ... Mark Harriman succeeds Wendell Jack as associate director of athletics at Cal Tech. Harriman has been director of campus recreation at Santa Clara ... Wright State promoted Laurel Wartluft to associate athletics director/senior woman administrator. Wartluft has been assistant athletics director and senior woman administrator.

ASSISTANT DIRECTORS OF ATHLETICS

Iona selected Patrick Lyons as assistant athletics director for compliance ... Donna Turner was appointed as assistant athletics director for media relations at Tulane ... Princeton awarded Jim McLaughlin with the position of assistant director of athletics ... Jamie Beaudoin accepted the position of assistant athletics director and head women's basketball coach at Maine-Farmington. Beaudoin served as interim head women's basketball coach during the 1999-00 season in addition to working as associate men's soccer and assistant men's basketball coach for the past two years ... Ray Harrington resigned as assistant athletics director, head swimming coach and aquatics director at Regis. Harrington posted a 240-85 record in 19 years as head coach of the swimming and diving team ... Southern Colorado assistant athletics director Les Morken resigned, effective July 21. Morken has been with the athletics department since 1994 ... Donna Turner was selected as assistant athletics director for media relations at Tulane ... Central Connecticut State chose Gene Gumbs to replace Brent Rutkowski as assistant athletics director/sports information director. Gumbs has been sports information director at Western New England for 14 years ... Rod Perry was named as an assistant athletics director for academic and support services at Wright State. Perry has been an academic advisor with the school ... Toledo awarded Sean Briner with duties as an assistant athletics director for marketing and promoted Dave Nottke to assistant athletics director for development and major projects. Briner has been assistant director for marketing and development at Air Force for three years, and Nottke has served as athletics development officer at Toledo since 1997 ... Santa Clara promoted Jonathan Clough to assistant athletics director of intercollegiate athletics. Clough has been the athletics business manager for the past year. The school also selected Kevin Price as assistant athletics director of compliance and student services and hired Sharon Purcell as assistant athletics director of marketing and media relations ... Carla Williams was named as assistant director of athletics for future revenue sports at Vanderbilt.

COACHES

Baseball -- Franklin and Marshall added Brett Boretti as head baseball coach and assistant director of athletics facilities and events. Boretti has been an assistant coach at Brown since 1998 ... Doug Radziewicz was hired as head coach at Fairleigh Dickinson-Madison ... Clarkson chose Jim Kane as head coach. Kane has been an assistant coach at Brockport State since 1995 ... Dave Beccaria, assistant coach at Haverford for the past two years, was elevated to head coach to replace Ed Molush, who will continue with the program as the pitching coach ... Rhode Island College head coach Scott Perry resigned after four seasons ... Francis Marion added Art Inabinet as head coach. Inabinet replaces the retired Gerald Griffin.

Baseball assistants -- Shane Faucheaux and Stuart Landreneau were chosen as assistants at McNeese State ... Citadel elevated Chris Lemonis to top assistant coach, succeeding Dan McDonnell. Lemonis has worked as an assistant coach with the program for six seasons ... Chris Finwood was added as an assistant coach at Auburn ... West Alabama appointed Neal Holliman as an assistant coach ... Santa Clara selected Chris Zavatsky as an assistant coach.

Men's basketball -- Scott Beeten accepted head coaching duties at Albany (New York) to succeed Scott Hicks, who became head coach at Loyola (Maryland). For the past three years, Beeten has served as associate head coach at California ... Delaware hired David Henderson as head coach. Henderson has been an assistant at Duke ... Bill Self, head coach at Illinois, was signed to a five-year contract ... Francis Marion promoted John Schweitz to head coach. Schweitz, who replaces Ed Conroy, has been an assistant since the 1999-00 season ... Adam Nelson was hired as head coach at Becker ... South Carolina State awarded head coach Cy Alexander with a contract extenstion through 2004.

Men's basketball assistants -- Bruce Parkhill was hired as an assistant at Ohio State, replacing Rick Boyages ... Clemson assistant coach Anthony Solomon resigned to accept the same position at Notre Dame ... David Dumars was added as an assistant coach at McNeese State ... Rutgers' Tod Kowalczyk resigned as an assistant coach to become an assistant at Marquette ... Chris Collins accepted the assistant coaching post at Duke ... Mississippi State selected Phil Cunningham as an assistant coach ... Jesse Balcer accepted assistant coaching responsibilities at Philadelphia ... Stetson named Rod Popp as an assistant coach ... Matt McMahon was selected as an assistant coach at Appalachian State ... Kennesaw State added Jeff Jones and Stace Tedford as assistants. For the past two seasons, Jones has been assistant coach and director of student activities at St. Johns River Community College. Tedford has fulfilled graduate assistant coaching duties at Alabama-Huntsville for the past two seasons ... Kenya Crandell was tabbed as an assistant coach at Northern Colorado. Crandell has been an assistant coach at Nebraska-Kearney for two seasons ... Charleston (West Virginia) elevated assistant J. J. Searls to associate head coach ... Missouri-Kansas City added Rich Zvosec as associate head coach, Jason Ivey as an assistant coach and Jay Byland as director of basketball operations. Zvosec most recently was an assistant at American from 1999 to 2000, and Byland has been a graduate assistant coach with the program for two seasons ... Michael Burden was appointed as an assistant coach at Maine. Burden, who replaces Mike Mennenga, spent last season as an assistant coach at Delaware State ... Transylvania hired Toby Carrigan as an assistant. Carrigan, who coached at Hanover last season, succeeds Craig Nelson ... Aaron Niven was appointed as successor to Doug Peak as head coach at Southern Arkansas. Niven has been an assistant at Westark College for two years ... Bobby Kennan was appointed as an assistant coach at Jacksonville, replacing Clayton Bates ... Bridgeport selected William Khan as an assistant coach ... Tod Kowalczyk accepted an assistant coaching post at Marquette ... Eric Liebler was chosen as men's basketball administrative assistant at Seton Hall ... Valparaiso added Ryan Hoover as an assistant coach.

Women's basketball -- Karen Byrne was appointed head coach at Quinnipiac ... Hilbert appointed Gina Collora as head coach ... Jim Meyer accepted head coaching duties at Southampton ... Northeastern selected Willete White as head coach ... Julie Beck resigned as head coach at Southern Illinois, effective August 31. Beck has led the squad since 1998. The school chose assistant coach Lori Opp as interim head coach ... American announced the appointment of Shann Hart as head coach. For the past four seasons, Hart has been head coach and associate athletics director at St. Mary's (Maryland) ... John Sloop assumed duties as head coach at Truman, replacing Karin Nicholls. For the past five seasons, Sloop has served as assistant men's coach at the school ... Scott Lewis resigned as head coach at Kentucky Wesleyan.

Women's basketball assistants -- Brown named Dean Mendes as an assistant coach ... John Bartleson was awarded responsibilities as an assistant at Cal State Fullerton. For the past three years, Bartleson has coached girls' basketball at Park City (Utah) High School ... Evergreen State hired Renee Kuehner as an assistant coach ... Pechone Stepps was added as an assistant coach at St. John's (New York) ... San Diego State named Tricia Sears as an assistant ... Auburn appointed Craig Kennedy as director of women's basketball operations ... Leigh Jones was named as an assistant coach at Appalachian State ... Ashland chose Kelly Stutz as an assistant. Since 1998, Stutz has been an assistant coach at West Virginia Wesleyan ... Christine Koren was hired as an assistant coach at Delaware ... Haverford awarded assistant coaching duties to Charles Baltimore and promoted volunteer assistant Wana Saadzoi to part-time assistant coach... Joy Taylor was named as an assistant coach at Muskingum ... West Alabama chose Betsy Harris as an assistant coach ... Yolanda Laney was appointed as an assistant at Monmouth ... Longwood named Krista Jay as an assistant to succeed Craig Woods ... Kelly Bond was awarded duties as an assistant coach at Arkansas. Bonds, who served as an assistant at Providence from 1998 to 2000, replaces Trenia Tillis ... Angie Potthoff was hired as an assistant at Robert Morris. Currently, Potthoff is competing in her second season as a forward with the Minnesota Lynx of the Women's National Basketball Association ... Jacksonville added Ernest Rozier as an assistant. Rozier succeeds Justin Van Orman ... Kim Yancey was appointed as an assistant coach at Brown. For the past five years, Yancey has worked as an assistant coach at Central Missouri State ... Georgia Tech tabbed Karen Copeland as director of women's basketball operations ... Julie Rousseau accepted responsibilities as an assistant coach at Stanford ... Virginia Tech named Katie O'Connor as administrative assistant.

Men's and women's cross country -- Johnson State added James Roy as head men's and women's coach ... Andrew Ronan was chosen as head men's and women's cross country and track and field coach at Stony Brook ... Eastern Connecticut State selected Clint Bowman as interim head men's and women's cross country and track coach ... Binghamton selected Annette Acuff as head men's and women's cross country coach and elevated Mike Thompson to director of track and cross country ... Amy Laughlin was named as head men's and women's cross country and track and field coach at Bryant. For the past two seasons, Laughlin has been head men's cross country coach at St. Michael's ... Franklin and Marshall selected Jennifer Jacobsen as head men's and women's cross country and track and field coach. Since August 1997, Jacobsen has led the program at Methodist ... Suzanne Ray was appointed as head women's cross country and women's track and field coach at Bethel (Minnesota), effective August 15. Ray succeeds Jason Boatman ... Texas-Pan American promoted Dan Laufer to head men's and women's cross country and track and field coach. Laufer was an assistant coach with the programs during the 1999-00 season ... Jose Fernandez accepted men's and women's cross country coaching duties at Jacksonville.

Men's and women's cross country assistant -- Jason Dunn was appointed as a men's and women's assistant cross country and track and field coach at Virginia. Dunn has been an assistant men's and women's cross country and track and field coach at Arizona State for three years.

Field hockey -- Indiana (Pennsylvania) chose Noelle Bowman as head field hockey and lacrosse coach ... Irene Horvat was hired as head coach at James Madison to succeed Christy Morgan. For the past five years, Horvat has been an assistant at Connecticut ... Transylvania added Alyssa Gates as head coach and assistant to the athletics director. Most recently, Gates was assistant to the athletics director at Mansfield ... Andrea Zurlo was selected as head coach at Brockport State ... Denison appointed Susan B. Crammer as head field hockey and women's lacrosse coach, replacing Alix Rorke. Crammer has been coaching girls' lacrosse, gymnastics, swimming and diving at Morristown (New Jersey) High School ... Beth Beglin resigned as head coach at Iowa. The school chose Tracey Grisebaum as Beglin's successor.

Field hockey assistants -- Connecticut added Meredith Kirkpatrick as an assistant coach ... Jon O'Haire was named as an assistant coach at Penn State. O'Haire most recently has been an assistant at Ohio State ... Lisa Cellucci assumed responsibilities as assistant coach at Iowa.

Football -- South Carolina State head coach Willie Jeffries signed a contract extenstion through 2001.

Football assistants -- Florida Atlantic appointed Mark Sander as an assistant coach and Fred O'Connor as wide receivers coach ... Shawn Trent accepted duties as defensive line coach at Jacksonville ... Southwest Texas named Jason Simpson as receivers coach and recruiting coordinator ... Indiana (Pennsylvania) selected Darrius Smith as running backs coach ... Marc Johannes was awarded responsibilities as offensive line coach at Southwest State ... Maine named Torrian Gray as defensive secondary coach. Gray most recently retired due to injury after competing with the National Football League's Minnesota Vikings for three seasons ... Greg Davis Jr. was chosen as running backs coach at Tulane ... Trinity (Connecticut) hired Jeff Behrman, an assistant at Blackburn, as offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach. The school also selected Andy McPhee as graduate assistant running backs coach and Greg O'Neill as graduate assistant outside linebackers coach. Secondary coach Mike Darr moved to wide receivers coach, and outside linebackers coach Shawn Daigneault shifted to secondary and special teams coach. Additionally, offensive coordinator and running backs coach Sean Spencer accepted defensive line coaching duties.

Men's and women's golf -- Tulane added Tom Shaw as head men's coach. For the past two seasons, Shaw has been an assistant coach at South Carolina ... Southern Mississippi chose Julie Brand Gallup as head women's coach ... Chris Donielson accepted the position of head coach at Texas-San Antonio ... Vanderbilt selected Press McPhaul as head men's coach ... Jennifer Volkerding was chosen as head women's coach at North Dakota State, replacing Marilyn Barge ... Jacksonville hired Mike Flemming as head men's and women's coach ... Polly Schulze was named as head women's coach at Santa Clara ... College of New Jersey added Gary Roberts as head men's coach.

Men's and women's gymnastics -- Rhode Island College added Nicole Follett as head women's coach. Follett, who succeeds Kim Zeiner-Daigle, has been an gymnastics coach at Rita Beaulieu Dance and Gymnastics left since December 1994 and assistant gymnastics coach at the high-school level since November 1997.

Men's and women's ice hockey -- David Venditti was hired as head women's coach at Southern Maine.

Men's and women's lacrosse -- Lafayette head women's coach Jill Redfern resigned ... Ron Miller was appointed as head men's coach at Susquehanna ... Tara Caminiti-Raggett accepted the head women's coaching post at Guilford. Caminiti-Raggett, who replaces interim head coach Forrest Collier, has been girls' soccer coach at Orange (North Carolina) High School for four years ... Villanova added Shannon O'Neil as head women's coach.

Men's and women's lacrosse assistant -- Ed Stephenson was selected as men's assistant coach at Hobart.

Men's and women's rowing -- Clark appointed Jim Looney as head rowing coach. During the 1999-00 season, Looney led the novice rowing team.

Men's and women's rowing assistant -- Mark Davis accepted the women's assistant rowing coach position at Texas, effective August 18. Davis, who replaces Rachel McCallie, spent the last four years as head men's and women's rowing coach and assistant men's and women's swimming coach at Colby.

Men's and women's skiing assistant -- Utah hired Ryan Forsyth as an assistant coach for Alpine events.

Men's soccer -- Todd Bramble accepted the head coaching post at Butler. Bramble has been head assistant coach at Clemson for five seasons ... Maine promoted Travers Evans to head coach. Evans, who succeeds Scott Atherley, has been an assistant with the program since 1996. Atherley will continue at the school as director of soccer and head women's soccer coach ... Tony Pierce accepted the head men's and women's coaching post at Concordia (Illinois) ... Mike Johnson was named as head men's and women's coach at Jacksonville, replacing Aleks Mihailovic ... Eastern Illinois chose Adam Howarth as head coach.

Men's soccer assistants -- Furman named Ryan Higginbotham as an assistant coach ... Mike Velasquez was tabbed as an assistant coach at Evergreen State ... Southern Methodist named Tim McClements as an assistant coach ... Chad Flanders was hired as an assistant coach at Akron. Flanders takes over for Herb Haller after four seasons as an assistant at Bradley ... Wisconsin-Platteville awarded assistant coaching responsibilities to Rich Anderegg.

Women's soccer -- Scott Ginn resigned as head coach at Barton to become head coach at Middle Tennessee State ... DePaul's Laure Schingen resigned as head coach ... Ryan Livengood was chosen as head coach at McNeese State ... Johnson State selected Jennifer Marriott as head coach ... Azure Davey was appointed as head women's soccer and lacrosse coach. Davey succeeds Kate Stoehr ... Bethel (Minnesota) hired Scott Krohn as head coach. Krohn replaces Joel Johnson ... Emily Johnson was named as head women's soccer and head women's lacrosse coach at Ferrum. Johnson has been interim head women's coach at Bentley for one year ... Wisconsin-Platteville chose Craig Smith as head coach, succeeding Pam Connolly ... Raymond Joseph was selected as head coach at King's (Pennsylvania).

Women's soccer assistants -- Beth Leaver assumed responsibilities as an assistant coach at Southern Mississippi ... Wisconsin-Platteville appointed Jason Odorizzi as an assistant ... Nikki Smith accepted the position of assistant coach at Alabama.

Softball -- Bucknell appointed Janelle Breneman as head coach to replace Terrie Grieb. Since 1995, Breneman has been head coach at East Stroudsburg ... Northwestern State's Gay McNutt resigned as head coach to take the same position at Southern Mississippi ... Jim Webb was added as head coach at Culver-Stockton ... Belmont hired Ricky Sanders as head coach to succeed Charlie Gunter. From 1996 to 2000, Sanders led the North Georgia College and State University program ... Brenda Meyers accepted the appointment of head coach at Hunter. For the past year, Meyers has been an assistant coach at Nightingale-Bamford School and formerly was head coach at Hunter in 1989 and 1990 ... Northern Colorado added Linda Witt as head coach. For the past 20 years, Witt has served stints as head girls' gymnastics coach and boys' and girls' track and field coach ... Maureen Davies was chosen to succeed Cindy Cohen as head coach at Princeton. Davies spent the 2000 season as an assistant with the program ... Mount St. Joseph named John Zoellner as head coach.

Softball assistants -- Gary Grimes assumed assistant coaching duties at Drake ... Alabama chose Vann Stuedeman as an assistant. Stuedeman replaces Karen Johns ... Erika Blanco was hired as an assistant coach at Cal State Fullerton. Blanco has been head coach and physical education teacher at Bullard (California) High School ... Houston added Howard Dobson as an assistant coach. For the past two years, Dobson has been an assistant at Southeastern Louisiana ... Rus Mayes was appointed as full-time assistant coach at Tarleton State. Mayes has been a student assistant and graduate assistant coach with the school during the past four years ... Baylor hired Mark Lumley, Brandi Landry and Chris Kuhlmeyer as assistant coaches. Lumley, Landry and Kuhlmeyer most recently were assistant coaches at LSU ... Minnesota State-Mankato chose Christina Ruff as an assistant. For the past three years, Ruff has been an assistant at Arizona State.

Men's and women's swimming and diving -- Duquesne selected Jamie Cona as head women's coach. Cona spent last season as a men's and women's graduate assistant coach at the school ... Mike Westphal resigned as head swimming and diving coach at Evergreen State ... Indiana (Pennsylvania) named David Caldwell as head men's and women's swimming coach ... Greg Triefenbach was appointed as head diving coach at Missouri ... Kelly Peters was chosen as head women's coach at Wells. Most recently, Peters has served as an assistant at Sewanee (University of the South).

Men's and women's swimming and diving assistants -- Wright State awarded Sion Brinn with assistant men's and women's coaching responsibilities ... Christie Shefchunas was added as an assistant swimming coach at Michigan State ... UC Irvine appointed Cory Hillis as assistant men's and women's coach. For the past two seasons, Hillis has been an assistant at Pittsburgh ... Sarah Duttera was hired as an assistant women's coach at Penn State, succeeding Fran McDermid. Duttera has been an assistant men's and women's coach at Brown for two years ... Georgia Tech appointed Sharon Krueger as assistant head women's coach.

Men's and women's tennis -- Mercer awarded head men's and women's coaching responsibilities to Nick Stutsman ... Peter Angarola was appointed as head women's coach at Marist ... Texas selected Michael left as head men's coach ... Richard Bashaw accepted the head women's coaching post at Johnson State ... Ashland chose Joel Terman as head women's coach ... Jody Law was hired as head tennis coach at Bryn Mawr ... Jacksonville appointed Andre Herke as head men's and women's coach. Herke replaces Bill Macom ... Hilary Nichols resigned as head women's coach at Canisius.

Men's and women's track and field -- Drake named Natasha Brown as head women's coach ... Western Illinois elevated Michael Stevenson as head track and field and cross country coach. Stevenson, who succeeds the retired Dave Miller, served as an assistant coach at the school for 10 years ... Lonnie Speidel was named as head men's coach and assistant cross country coach at Cornell, effective August 1. Speidel has been an assistant coach at Illinois State for three years ... Heidelberg's Larry Brown resigned as head men's and women's track and field and men's cross country coach ... Tyler Wingard was appointed as head coach at Valparaiso.

Men's and women's track and field assistants -- Michigan State added Nancy Wenzel as a women's assistant coach ... Joan Arabie resigned as an assistant at McNeese State. The school named Michael Bartolina as Arabie's replacement ... Texas A&M-Kingsville hired Brent Ericksen as assistant men's and women's track and field and cross country coach. Most recently, Ericksen, who replaces A.J. Moore, has worked in the same capacity at Cal State Stanislaus.

Men's and women's volleyball -- Adelphi appointed Jeffrey Lipton as head women's coach ... Kevin Russell assumed head men's coaching responsibilities at Wentworth Institute, succeeding Phuong Luong ... New York University selected Tim Cowie as head women's coach ... Blaine Tendler resigned as head coach at Drake ... Iona hired Bob Weiner as head coach ... Alan Edwards was appointed as head women's coach at Mercer ... Providence named Margot Royer as head women's coach ... Brent Reger was hired as head women's coach at Cal Tech. Reger has been assistant women's coach at Butte (California) Community College for two seasons ... Manhattanville appointed Dongping Fang as head women's coach ... Jason Jones was promoted as head women's coach at Misericordia after serving as an assistant for two seasons ... West Alabama tabbed Phillip Bryant as head women's coach.

Men's and women's volleyball assistants -- Jill Simmons was chosen as an assistant coach at Belmont ... Central Michigan added Kathy Jewell as an assistant coach ... Mary Tendler resigned as associate coach at Drake ... Merrimack appointed Deborah Finnigan as an assistant women's coach ... Aiko Beltran accepted duties as an assistant women's coach at Jacksonville. Beltran, who worked as a student assistant during the 1999 season, replaces Robin Mignerey, who became head coach of the program ... Northern Colorado chose Ron Alexander as an assistant. For the past 12 years, Alexander has coached at Fort Morgan (Colorado) High School ... Ed Caesar was promoted to full-time assistant men's coach at New York University.

Wrestling -- Eastern Michigan selected Charles Branch as head coach ... Cody Bickley was hired as head coach at Fort Hays State. Bickley, who replaces Bob Smith, has been an assistant coach with the program since 1998.

STAFF

Academic services -- Loyola Marymount named Maureen Schaukowitch as student-athlete academic coordinator. Most recently, Schaukowitch has been an academic advisor to student-athletes at Portland.

Administrative -- Arizona State appointed Frank Kush as special assistant to the athletics director ... Susan Guarino was elevated to coordinator for office services at Villanova ... Haverford tabbed Leanne Cole as multicultural recruiting-administrative intern.

Athletic trainer -- Kyle Nelson was selected as an athletic trainer at Evergreen State ... Belmont chose Mitch Bellamy to succeed Mike Gerlach as head athletic trainer. For the past three years, Bellamy has been working with the Virginia Tech football program ... Brian Curless assumed duties as head athletic trainer at Central Missouri State. Curless replaces Ron VanDam, who retired ... Saint Joseph's (Indiana) hired Jared Hall as head athletic trainer. Hall has been head athletic trainer at the high-school level since 1994 ... Peter Hoyt was selected as head athletic trainer at Utica. Most recently, Hoyt has served as head athletic trainer at Cayuga Community College and at the high-school level.

Assistant athletic trainers -- Villanova added Joanna Franklin-Range as an assistant athletic trainer ... East Texas Baptist added Eugene Kirkpatrick as an assistant athletic trainer ... Eric Day was chosen as an assistant athletic trainer at Haverford ... St. John's (New York) awarded assistant athletic trainer duties to Diane Torres and Craig Vesci ... Chris Smith was named as an assistant athletic trainer at VMI ... Elaine Guyer was appointed as an assistant athletic trainer at Saint Joseph's (Indiana) ... Bradley added Karol Bennett as an assistant athletic trainer. Bennett, who succeeds Jennifer Stumpf, has been a graduate assistant at the school for two seasons ... Bryan Rogers was named as assistant athletic trainer at Tennessee Tech. Rogers replaces Mike Gross ... Longwood added Jennifer Fichera as assistant athletic trainer. For the past two years, Fichera has been an assistant athletic trainer at Elmira ... Frank R. Amadio Jr. was selected as an assistant athletic trainer at Manhattanville. Most recently, Amadio was a graduate assistant athletic trainer at Southern Illinois ... Doug Frye was named as assistant athletic trainer at Jacksonville ... Santa Clara appointed Heather Bristol as an assistant athletic trainer.

Broadcasting -- Mike Chisholm was chosen as director of broadcasting and sales at San Jose State.

Communications -- Bowling Green hired J.D. Campbell as director of athletics communications. For the past year, Campbell has been director of university public affairs and marketing at Emporia State.

Communications assistants -- Ball State appointed Tim Fitzharris as assistant director of athletics communications ... Chris Lakos and Mike Mobley were promoted to associate sports communications directors at Georgia. Lakos has been with the athletics department since 1992 and Mobley has served since 1995.

Compliance -- Northern Iowa elevated women's assistant basketball coach Colleen Heimstead to athletics department compliance-Life Skills coordinator ... Brad Barnes was selected as director of compliance at Midwestern State ... Jacksonville appointed Donna Kirk as director of compliance. Kirk, who has been ticket manager at the school, replaces Eric Baumgartner.

Compliance assistant -- Nicole Green was hired as assistant director of compliance at Kansas State. For the past two years, Green has been an administrative assistant in the school's compliance office.

Event manager -- Northern Colorado awarded the event and athletics facility manager post to Jay Ellis. From 1997 to 1999, Ellis was events and operations manager at Texas-Arlington.

Equipment manager -- Matt Inskeep accepted responsibilities as equipment manager at Drake.

Fund-raising -- Illinois State named Pad McMeel as director of athletics annual giving and special events.

Marketing -- Rebecca Grefe was selected as director of marketing at James Madison ... Villanova added Patrick McGowan as coordinator of marketing, promotions and special events ... Kim Grant was appointed as marketing director at Wright State ... San Jose State awarded director of marketing responsibilities to Joshua Francois ... Jacksonville chose Karen Lapinski as marketing director.

Marketing assistant -- Nathan Taylor was chosen as marketing intern at VMI.

Media relations -- North Dakota appointed Dan Benson as athletics media relations director. Benson has been working in the Augsburg athletics department for six years, serving most recently as news service/media relations director.

Media relations assistants -- North Carolina named Kevin Best as assistant director of media relations ... Washington promoted Dan Lepse to associate media relations director. Lepse most recently has been assistant media relations director. The school also announced the hiring of Peggy Curtin as an assistant media relations director and Wendy Broker as media relations assistant. For the last two years, Curtin has been a media relations intern at Notre Dame, and Broker spent two years as a student assistant in sports information at Northeast Missouri State ... John Hayden was elevated to assistant director of media relations at Alabama. During the past year, Hayden has worked as an intern at the school ... Vince Frieden was promoted to publications coordinator/assistant media relations director and Burt Lauten was elevated to assistant media relations director at Miami (Ohio) ... Jacksonville named Richie Weaver as assistant director of athletics media relations. The school also announced the selection of Stacy Manheimer as media relations assistant ... Santa Clara chose Lisa Eskey as associate director of athletics media relations.

Recreation -- Kellie Cookus was appointed as coordinator for intramurals and recreation at Villanova.

Sports information -- Upper Iowa chose Brian Thiessen as sports information director ... LSU promoted Michael Bonnette to sports information director. Bonnette has been working as associate sports information director ... Kevin Trainor was appointed as sports information director at Arkansas ... Westminster (Missouri) selected Sean Wright as sports information director. For the past three and a half years, Wright has worked in the school's sports information office ... Kevin Graber accepted the position of sports information director at Amherst. Graber, who has been sports information director at West Alabama since March 1999, replaces Sara Lukaska ... Mount St. Joseph selected Dane Neumeister as coordinator of sports information and coordinator of intramural sports and recreation.

Sports information assistants -- Duke chose Elliot Bloom as assistant sports information director and Chris Mitchell as sports information staff assistant ... Matt Sullivan was awarded the position of assistant sports information director at Southeastern Louisiana ... Kansas State named Shawn Nestor as assistant sports information director ... Andy Krauss was added as an assistant sports information director at VMI ... Belmont hired Matt Fairchild as assistant sports information director. Last year, Fairchild fulfilled duties as an athletics department intern at Tampa ... Scott Wilson was named as assistant sports information director at Tennessee Tech. Wilson, who has been sports information director at Taylor University, replaces Buddy Pearson ... Bryn Mawr chose Nairem Moran as sports information intern. Moran served as an intern at Middlebury during the 1999-00 year ... Tracy King was appointed as assistant sports information director at Seton Hall ... Toledo named Brian DeBenedictis as assistant sports information director.

Sports medicine assistants -- Johanna Jacobsen was added to the athletics medicine staff at Belmont after most recently serving as a graduate assistant athletic trainer at Michigan State ... Santa Clara named Scott Heinrichson as assistant director of sports medicine.

Strength and conditioning -- Drake selected Mike Cotterman as strength and conditioning coach ... Corey Crane was added as strength and conditioning and fitness coordinator at Manhattanville ... Rich Pendleton accepted responsibilities as head strength and conditioning coach at Jacksonville.

Ticket operations -- Washington appointed Joe Sharpe as ticket director. For the past three years, Sharpe has been ticket director at Oregon State ... Michael Szul accepted duties as ticket manager at VMI ... Jim Taketa assumed duties as ticket manager at Jacksonville. Taketa replaces Donna Kirk, who became director of compliance at the school ... Iowa named David Sandstrum as ticket manager.

Video operations assistant -- Mike Ortiz was chosen as assistant director of video operations at Washington. He has held the same position at Colorado for the last two years.

CONFERENCES

The Old Dominion Athletic Conference appointed Stacy Weston as sports information director.

Jim Naumovich was named as commissioner of the Great Lakes Valley Conference. Naumovich, who has served as athletics director at Quincy since 1992, succeeds Carl McAloose.

The Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference selected Samuel F. Hulbert, president at Rose-Hulman, as chairman of the conference's board of directors for the 2000-01 academic year. The conference also chose John R. Brazil, president at Trinity (Texas) and William E. Trout, president at Rhodes, as members of the executive committee. Gregory K. Ruark, athletics director and head soccer coach at Rose-Hulman, was named as chairman of the conference's athletics directors council. D. Dwayne Hanberry was promoted to assistant commissioner for communications after serving as sports information director since 1995.

The Sun Belt Conference selected Phyllis Mohrman as director of marketing. The conference also has announced the following individuals as officers for the 2000-01 academic year: Gregory St. L. O'Brien, chancellor at New Orleans, president; Alfred Hurley, chancellor at North Texas, vice-president; Gary Ransdell, president at Western Kentucky, past president; Nelson Schexnayder, athletics director at Louisiana-Lafayette, chair of the athletics directors; Julie Berg, head athletic trainer at Florida International, chair of the senior woman administrators; Dale Adams, faculty representative at South Alabama, chair of the faculty representatives; Dan Ritchie, chancellor at Denver, treasurer; Charles Hathaway, chancellor at Arkansas-Little Rock, at-large; Wright Waters, commissioner of the Sun Belt Conference, ex-officio.

The California Collegiate Athletic Association Commissioner Robert J. Hiegert was awarded a one-year contract extension through the 2002-03 academic year, and Bill White was reappointed as coordinator of officiating for 2000-01. Hiegert is entering his fourth year as commissioner. Additionally, Joe Lang was elevated to assistant commissioner for the 2000-01 academic year. Monica Heuer also was appointed as the conference's first full-time coordinator of compliance and internal operations.

NATIONAL OFFICE

Rick Kindhart was hired as statistics coordinator at the national office. Kindhart has been communications director for the Missouri State High School Activities Association.

Frank Losquadro resigned as assistant director of broadcast services at the NCAA national office.

Liz Muir, a membership services representative II, resigned.

Kevin Pearson resigned as an enforcement representative with the NCAA.

ASSOCIATIONS

The National Association of Academic Advisors chose Curt Fludd, senior assistant athletics director for student life at Texas, as president-elect. Fludd has been a member of the organization for 21 years, including serving as national vice-president.

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ADDRESS CHANGES

The Missouri Valley Conference has moved to the following address: 1818 Chouteau Avenue, Saint Louis, Missouri 63103; phone: 314/421-0339; fax: 314/421-3505.

CORRECTIONS

One of the student-athlete summaries in the postgraduate scholarship story in the July 31 issue of The NCAA News contained incorrect information. The summary for Michael G. Berner should have stated that he was a member of St. Lawrence University's 1999 Division III Men's Soccer Championship team.

Illinois Wesleyan University basketball player Korey Coon's last name was misspelled in the headline and caption of the GTE Team Member of the Year story in the July 31 issue of The NCAA News. Coon and Marshall University's Chad Pennington were named Team Members of the Year, GTE's highest academic honor.

REPRIMANDS

The NCAA Division II Men's Basketball Committee has reprimanded Missouri Southern State College assistant coaches Chris Lowery and Paul Lusk for inappropriate behavior during the 2000 NCAA Division II Men's Basketball Championship.

Specifically, Lowery and Lusk confronted the game officials in an unprofessional manner following the semifinal contest held in Louisville, Kentucky.

The committee has issued a public reprimand of Lowery and Lusk. Additionally, the committee will withhold both coaches' per diem.

NOTABLES

Carolijn van Rossum and Tom Hand were named as winners of the 2000 Tennis Magazine/Arthur Ashe Jr. Leadership and Sportsmanship Award. Van Rossum competed at William and Mary and Hand played at LSU.

DEATHS

Anthony Bates, a football player at Kansas State, was killed in an automobile accident July 31. He was 20. Bates, a management information systems major, redshirted last season.

--Compiled by Leilana McKindra