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Edwards to retire after 2000 football season

LaVell Edwards, head football coach at Brigham Young, has announced plans to retire at the end of the 2000 season.

Edwards came to Brigham Young as an assistant coach in 1962. He was elevated from defensive coordinator to head coach in 1972. In 28 seasons, Edwards, who has had only one losing season, has captured 20 conference championships and has made 22 bowl game appearances. Brigham Young completed a 13-0 season in 1984 to earn a national championship. That same season, Edwards was recognized as national coach of the year. The seven-time Western Athletic Conference coach of the year is seventh among the winningest head coaches in college football history, with a 251-96-3 record.

Edwards was an all-conference football player at Utah State before graduating in 1952.

GENERAL

DIRECTORS OF ATHLETICS

Clarke appointed Curt Long as director of athletics ... Herman Frazier was chosen as athletics director at Alabama-Birmingham ... Alcorn State announced the appointment of Marino H. Casem as interim athletics director, to replace the retired Lloyd Hill. Casem, who retired as athletics director at Southern in 1999, served as director of athletics at Alcorn from 1966 to 1986 ... Huntingdon appointed Matt Walker as athletics director ... Dee Outlaw, athletics director at West Alabama, announced retirement plans, effective July 1, 2001 ... Wayne State (Michigan) chose Robert Fournier as director of athletics ... Jim Zalacca was hired as athletics director at Potsdam State. For the past seven years, Zalacca has been athletics director at New Paltz State ... Wisconsin-Superior's Steve Nelson resigned as athletics director and head men's hockey coach, effective September 12, to become commissioner at the America West Hockey League.

SENIOR WOMAN ADMINISTRATORS

Kansas State hired Laura Tietjen as senior woman administrator ... North Carolina A&T named Holly Trexler as senior woman administrator and assistant athletics director for eligibility ... Mansfield chose Kristen Falk as senior woman administrator and assistant athletics director. Falk has been senior woman administrator at Wisconsin-Superior.

ASSOCIATE DIRECTORS OF ATHLETICS

Kara Brennan was elevated to associate athletics director at Iona ... Tulane named Scott Sidwell as associate athletics director for corporate development ... Carolyn O'Connell and Tom Hitcho were appointed as senior associate athletics directors at Loyola (Illinois). O'Connell has been with the school for 21 years and also serves as senior woman administrator. Hitcho has been with the school for 24 years and also works as head athletic trainer ... Rosemary Shea was elevated to associate athletics director for administration of men's sports and compliance at Holy Cross. Shea has been with the school for 14 years and has worked as an assistant athletics director for compliance since 1995 ... Michigan State chose Richard Bader as associate athletics director and men's assistant basketball coach ... Marvin Mitchell was elevated to associate athletics director for academic services at Louisville. Mitchell has been director of academic services since 1999 ... Macalester promoted Vanessa Seljeskog to associate athletics director. For the past 14 years, Seljeskog has been head women's cross country and track and field coach.

ASSISTANT DIRECTORS OF ATHLETICS

Smith named Kelly Hart as interim assistant athletics director ... Julio Freire was selected as assistant athletics director for facilities and operations at Ohio ... Bentley named Kevin Loftus as assistant athletics director ... New Mexico State appointed Tim Evans as assistant athletics director for marketing and promotions ... Earl Hilton was hired as assistant athletics director for compliance at North Carolina A&T. For the past three years, Hilton has been assistant athletics director for internal affairs at Buffalo State ... Dominican (New York) named Laura Cannon as assistant athletics director ... Joseph Biggs was selected as assistant athletics director for development and external affairs at Emporia State ... Kevin Loftus was hired as assistant athletics director at Bentley. Loftus has been with the school since September 1994 ... Clifford A. Wiley was hired as assistant director of athletics for compliance at Maryland-Eastern Shore. Wiley served as lead attorney at Wiley and Antonio Law Offices in Kansas City, Kansas, from 1997 to 2000 ... Brad Bross was appointed as assistant athletics director for external affairs at Drake ... Iona named Jamie Fogarty as assistant athletics director for student-athlete academic services.

Baseball -- Jay Grenier was chosen as head coach at Rhode Island College, succeeding Scott Perry. Since 1993, Grenier has been head coach at the Community College of Rhode Island ... St. Joseph's (New York) added Randy Caden as head coach ... Tom Randolph was hired as head coach at Wentworth Institute. Randolph, who replaces Mark Woodworth, spent the 1999 season as shortstop and assistant coach for the Sokol Krc Baseball Club in the Czech Republic ... Maryland selected Terry Rupp as head coach. For the past five years, Rupp has guided the program at Tampa to a 215-80 record and a Division II national championship in 1998 ... La Verne appointed Scott Winterburn as head coach ... Chris Calciano was awarded head coaching responsibilities at West Chester. Since 1995, Calciano has worked as an assistant at Drexel.

Baseball assistants -- Tim Evans was named as an assistant coach at Iowa State ... Memphis selected George Holt as an assistant ... Jason Crews and Zeke Mitchem assumed duties as assistant coaches at Drexel ... Utica hired Fiore DeCosty as an assistant ... Stephen Foster was chosen as an assistant coach at Michigan ... Mount Olive selected Tim Manning and John Gourley as assistant coaches ... John McNamara was named as an assistant coach at Dominican (New York) ... Felician added John Murray and Matt Ramagli as pitching coaches, Steve Villareale as outfield coach and Frank DiLiberto as catching and infield coach ... Bobby Moranda was appointed as associate head coach at Wake Forest, and Jamie Mabe and Brad Bohannon were appointed as assistant coaches ... Jason Eller was hired as an assistant coach at Wofford. Eller has been an assistant at Martin Methodist College in Pulaski, Tennessee ... Miami (Ohio) chose Scott Googins as an assistant coach to replace Ty Neal. Googins has served as an assistant at Indiana since 1992 ... Jason Marshall and Scott Malone were added as assistant coaches at Texas-San Antonio.

Men's basketball -- Lycoming's Joe Bressi announced plans to retire after six years as head coach ... Cazenovia named Todd Widrick as head men's basketball coach, head men's soccer coach and sports information director ... CCNY's Dan Nigro resigned as head coach.

Men's basketball assistants -- Patrick Weller was added as an assistant coach at Bridgewater (Virginia) ... Clemson named Bobby Hussey as an assistant coach ... Chris Highfield accepted assistant coaching duties at St. Joseph's (Indiana). Highfield was a student assistant and team manager at Michigan ... Jarrett Durham and James Stafford were hired as assistant coaches at Duquesne ... Vermont appointed Tom Crowley as an assistant coach ... Bill Comar was promoted to assistant coach and Josh Postorino was named as coordinator of basketball operations at Dayton. Comar has most recently been coordinator of basketball operations, and Postorino worked in private business last year ... Florida State added Stephen Giles as an assistant coach. For the past eight years, Giles has been with the NBA's Orlando Magic, most recently serving as scouting coordinator ... Armstrong Atlantic hired John Marhefka as an assistant coach ... Duval Simmonds and Percy White were chosen as assistant coaches at Bloomfield ... Coastal Carolina named Don Burgess as an assistant ... Bruce Evans and Robert Dooley were added as assistant coaches at Gardner-Webb ... Missouri selected Lane Odom as an assistant coach and promoted Tony Harvey to associate head coach ... Tennessee-Martin awarded assistant coaching duties to David James ... Wade O'Connor, Alvin Williamson and Jeff Reynolds were named as assistants at Tulane ... Winthrop selected Zack Spiker as men's basketball administrative assistant ... Travis Boruff was appointed as an assistant coach at Mount Olive ... Gregory Ray was chosen as an assistant coach at Belmont Abbey ... Florida International hired Lonnie Williams as an assistant coach. Williams has been head coach at Maryland-Eastern Shore for the past four seasons ... West Chester elevated Roy Blumenthal to full-time assistant coach. For the past 11 seasons, Blumenthal has been a volunteer assistant coach ... Seth Peloso was selected as an assistant coach and strength and conditioning coach at Stevens Institute ... Rhode Island's Tom Abatemarco resigned as an assistant coach ... Billy Martin, Josh Oppenheimer and Tyrone Perry were selected as assistant coaches at Delaware ... Rus Bradburd resigned as associate coach at New Mexico State ... Northern Iowa added Johnny Brown as an assistant coach ... Albany (New York) named Mike Gatley and Carlton Owens as assistant coaches. Gatley has coached with four different professional teams during the last five years, and Owens spent last year as an assistant at St. Peter's ... Dominican (New York) added Pat Buckley as an assistant ... Hobart chose Izzi Metz as an assistant coach ... Benny Moss was selected as an assistant coach at North Carolina-Charlotte. Moss, who replaces Rob Moxley, has been an assistant at Henderson State for two years ... Stonehill named Joe Loughran, David McLaughlin and David Olivieri as assistant coaches.

Women's basketball -- Liz Feeley was chosen as interim head coach at Smith. Feeley has been head coach at Princeton for five seasons ... Mount Olive tabbed Wendy Lawrence as head coach ... Concordia (Minnesota) hired Paul Fessler as interim head coach. Fessler, who succeeds Crystal Flint-Holloman, captured National Junior College Athletic Association Division III national championships in 1997, 1998 and 1999 as head coach at Anoka-Ramsey Community College ... Le Moyne hired Jeanne Dupree as head coach to succeed Tom Cooney, who retired after 17 years as head coach. Dupree has been head coach at Misericordia for two seasons.

Women's basketball assistants -- Clemson selected Mike Hodge as an assistant ... Lou DiFeo was chosen as an assistant at Birmingham Southern. For the past three years, DiFeo has been an assistant coach at the high-school level ... Portland State assistant coach Lisa Fisher resigned to assume a similar position at Northeastern. Portland State chose Shannon Randles as Fisher's successor ... Ramapo hired Todd Lizzo as women's assistant basketball coach, assistant softball coach and assistant intramural director/strength and conditioning director ... Maria Cleveland accepted assistant coaching duties at Akron ... Sylvia Crawley was added as an assistant at North Carolina ... Northern Iowa named Brad Nelson as an assistant coach ... Heather Mohrman was selected as an assistant coach at Scranton ... Penn State-Behrend added Shannon Keller as an assistant coach ... Savonte Walker accepted an assistant coaching post at Canisius. For the past three seasons, Walker has been a graduate assistant coach at Wisconsin-Stevens Point ... Mount Olive selected Amanda Ramfjord as an assistant ... Michelle Helfrey, Maegan Prickett and Reed Caouette were added as assistants at Concordia (Minnesota) ... Tarleton State added Laura Walker as an assistant coach ... Marla Cleveland was named as an assistant at Akron. Cleveland most recently was an assistant at Ashland and succeeds Deana Bahhur ... Amy Champion was elevated to associate head coach at Alabama-Birmingham ... Bradley added Bridget Setter as administrative assistant for the program ... Providence chose Carla Berube as an assistant coach ... Laurie Lopes resigned as an assistant coach at Dartmouth ... LaMonica Filer was hired as an assistant coach at Norfolk State ... Catawba appointed Heather Macy as an assistant ... Krisha Green was awarded duties as an assistant coach at Dayton, succeeding Tasha McDowell ... Stonehill selected Jackie Desmarais as an assistant coach ... Kari Meyers was added as an assistant at Missouri-Kansas City. Meyers has been assistant equipment manager at Wisconsin for three years.

Men's and women's cross country -- Heidelberg selected Bret Kimple as head men's coach. For the past seven seasons, Kimple has been an assistant cross country and track and field coach at UC Davis ... John Izzo was appointed as head cross country and track and field coach at Rochester ... Brent Ericksen was hired as head men's and women's cross country and track and field coach at Texas A&M-Kingsville. Ericksen most recently has been an assistant men's and women's cross country and track and field coach at Cal State Stanislaus ... Karla Sanford was awarded head men's and women's coaching duties at Mount Olive ... Brian Gawne was named as head men's and women's cross country and track and field coach at Brockport State ... Hiram appointed Mark FitzPatrick as head cross country and track and field coach ... Jordan Cushing was chosen as head women's coach and Steve Pasche was chosen as head men's coach at Macalester to replace Martin Peper, who accepted head women's track and field coaching duties at the school. Cushing, who also will serve as a sports information assistant, was an assistant women's cross country and track and field coach at the school for four years. Pasche has been an assistant track coach at the school for the past year.

Men's and women's cross country assistants -- Scranton added Joe Dorohevich as assistant men's and women's coach ... Laurie McElroy was named as an assistant coach at Western Illinois. McElroy has been men's and women's high jump coach at Southwest Texas State ... Heather Porch was appointed as assistant men's and women's coach at Eastern Connecticut State ... Karri Pendergast accepted the assistant men's and women's coaching post at Knox.

Field hockey -- Plymouth State chose Bonnie Lord as interim head coach to succeed Abby Burbank, who accepted the head coaching position at Denver. Lord was head coach at Kingswood Regional (New Hampshire) High School from 1980 to 1999 and closed her tenure there with a 244-52-34 mark ... Massachusetts-Lowell chose Anne Perriello as head coach ... Sandra Hemming was added as head coach at Siena ... St. Francis (Pennsylvania) named Martin Romeril as head women's field hockey and lacrosse coach.

Field hockey assistants -- Robyn Fedor accepted the assistant coaching post at Misericordia ... Bucknell named Malina Anderson as a graduate assistant coach ... Christina Mitchell and Donna Polito have been selected as assistant coaches at West Chester ... James Madison named Erica Hebert and Julie Clark as assistant coaches ... Wheaton (Massachusetts) added Phoebe duPont as an assistant field hockey and women's lacrosse coach. DuPont also will work as equipment manager ... Utica chose Erica Leach as a graduate assistant field hockey and women's lacrosse coach ... Kathryn Tabor was added as a part-time assistant coach at Eastern Connecticut State ... Rachel Barger accepted responsibilities as a volunteer assistant coach at Delaware.

Football assistants -- Utica added Tim Myslinski as defensive coordinator, Frank Palmisano as tight ends coach, Carvon Brazier as running backs coach, Vin Sorce as defensive assistant and William Berry as defensive line coach ... Mike Santella was named as tight ends coach at Pennsylvania ... Western Connecticut State promoted Robert Grammer to offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach. The school also selected Mike Aronson as tight ends coach, Winston Huggins as defensive backs coach and Adam Kennett as kickers and punters coach ... Ohio Northern tabbed Tim Hibbs as an assistant coach. An assistant coach for three seasons at Gettysburg, Hibbs coached the defensive line and linebackers in addition to serving as defensive coordinator for the past two seasons ... Tom Doddy was hired as offensive coordinator at Rowan. Since 1996, Doddy has been an assistant coach at the high-school level, including working as offensive coordinator for two seasons and defensive coordinator for two years ... Randolph-Macon added Trevor Andrews, Tom Hess and Temple Musser as assistants. Andrews has been a graduate assistant at Illinois Wesleyan for two years, Hess has been competing in the Indoor Football League for two years and Musser was an assistant coach/intern at Richmond last spring ... East Stroudsburg appointed Marshall Roberts as an assistant ... Anthony Frey was chosen as an assistant coach at Muhlenberg ... Shenandoah added Ed Scott, Kevin Copley, Kevin Jackson and Roger Forsythe as assistants and added Dan Elliott as assistant football equipment manager ... Albany (New York) hired Kevin Van Derzee as an assistant coach ... Delaware Valley selected Junior Hyman as running backs coach, Jason Langdon as offensive line coach, Justin McEwen as defensive line coach, Damon Perry as quarterbacks and receivers coach, David Russell as defensive coordinator and defensive line coach, Joe Sincovich as linebackers coach and Thomas Siver as secondary coach ... John Browning, Idris Coleman, Aaron Denton, Jason Gottlieb and David Heggie were named as assistant coaches at Guilford ... Hartwick added Trent Patterson as offensive line coach, Kirk Aikens as wide receivers coach and Jason Hilton as defensive line coach ... Bentley awarded assistant coaching responsibilities to Rod Holder. Last year, Holder was running backs and tight ends coach at Northeastern ... Northern Arizona selected Mike Orthmann as tight ends coach ... Knox added Andy Kupsak, Reed Allison and Craig MacFarland as assistants. Kupsak will assist with linebackers and special teams, Allison will work as tight ends coach and MacFarland will serve as assistant offensive line coach ... Denny Bowers, John Bush and Casey Goff were chosen as assistant coaches at Susquehanna ... Akron hired Mark Elder as a graduate assistant coach to work with defensive backs.

Men's and women's golf -- New Orleans promoted Jimmy Headrick to director of golf and tabbed Paul Crespo as head men's coach and John Muller as head women's coach. Headrick has been head women's coach at the school since January 1999. Muller and Crespo have been working as assistant professionals at the Golf Club of New Orleans at Eastover ... Christopher Newport appointed Rob Lussenhop as head coach ... Bryce Wallor was selected as head coach at Connecticut ... Ohio Northern chose Eric Westerfield as head women's golf coach and football defensive line coach. Westerfield fulfilled duties as defensive line coach, special teams coordinator and strength and conditioning coach at Methodist from 1992 to 1999 ... Patrick Mashuda accepted responsibilities as head men's and women's golf coach and assistant men's basketball coach at Penn State-Behrend. Succeeding Karl Radday, Mashuda has been an assistant men's basketball coach at La Roche for seven seasons and assistant golf coach for three seasons ... Roger Kollmansberger was chosen as head golf coach and assistant facilities manager for the physical education building at St. Andrews Presbyterian. Kollmansberger, who succeeds Chip Wells, has been head basketball coach at Faith Christian Academy in Pennsylvania ... College of New Jersey chose Gary Roberts as head men's coach. Roberts succeeds Fred Oshel, who led the program for 26 seasons. Roberts most recently has coached at the high-school level ... Reggie Grant was selected as head coach at Southern Maine ... UC Irvine appointed Kelly Crawford as head women's coach.

Men's and women's golf assistants -- David Horne was appointed as an assistant coach at Greensboro ... Bradley hired John Ehrgott as an assistant. Ehrgott replaces Jeff Roche ... Charles T. Gallagher was selected as an assistant coach at College of New Jersey ... Knox named George Burgland as assistant women's coach.

Men's and women's gymnastics -- Jill Hirsch resigned as head coach at Centenary.

Men's and women's ice hockey -- Wisconsin's Julie Sasner resigned as head women's coach to become an assistant coach for the women's Olympic and National Teams. The school chose Trina Bourget as interim head coach.

Men's and women's ice hockey assistants -- Jaime Totten was awarded responsibilities as women's assistant coach at Connecticut ... Ryan Stone was selected as an assistant women's coach at Brown. Stone has been head women's coach at Rensselaer Polytechnic for five years ... Norm McCauley was hired as an assistant at Miami (Ohio). McCauley, who replaces Joe Bonnet, most recently was a consultant with the Ontario Hockey League ... Jonathan Deptula assumed duties as assistant men's coach at Wentworth Institute.

Men's and women's lacrosse -- Boston College named Shari Krasnoo as head women's coach ... Dave Carty was appointed as head men's coach at Fairleigh Dickinson ... Saint Anselm's Shannon O'Neil resigned as head women's coach to become head women's coach at Villanova ... Scott Marr was selected as head men's coach at Albany (New York). For the past six years, Marr has been men's assistant coach and offensive coordinator at Maryland ... Stanford hired Michele Uhlfelder as head women's coach. Uhlfelder, a member of the U.S. Lacrosse National Team since 1991, spent 1999 and 2000 as associate head coach at Duke.

Men's and women's lacrosse assistants -- Mike Spinner resigned as an assistant men's coach at Manhattanville to assume a similar post at Salisbury State ... Dan Campbell was selected as part-time assistant men's coach at Eastern Connecticut State ... Brown appointed Liz Robertshaw as an assistant women's coach. For the past two seasons, Robertshaw has been an assistant women's coach at George Mason ... Pfeiffer added Brian Anken and Brian McKee as assistant coaches and Ben Esposito as volunteer assistant coach ... Christin Mastro was appointed as an assistant women's coach at Brown ... Catawba named Bud Wye as an assistant men's coach ... Jennifer Johnson was added as an assistant women's coach and Scott Urick was added as a part-time assistant men's coach at Cornell. Johnson was a volunteer assistant coach at Penn State last year. Urick is a 2000 graduate of Georgetown, where he also played lacrosse for four years.

Men's and women's rowing -- Charity Uman was selected as novice rowing coach at Smith ... Vassar chose Michael Alton as head men's and women's coach.

Men's and women's rowing assistants -- Cincinnati chose Tracy Stanley as an assistant coach. Stanley has been an assistant at UC Davis ... Christine DeLalio was appointed as an assistant women's coach at Delaware.

Men's and women's sailing -- Southern Maine appointed Robert Haile as head coach.

Men's soccer -- UC Riverside hired Nat Gonzalez as head coach. The program is scheduled to begin competition during the 2001-02 academic year. Gonzalez has been an assistant at Washington since 1996 ... Mark Johnson was chosen as head coach at Huntingdon ... Dominican (New York) named Michael Swanwick as men's soccer coach ... Rudy Pompert accepted duties as head coach at Buffalo State. Pompert was head women's coach at the school for three seasons ... Graham Stafford was hired as head coach at Emerson.

Men's soccer assistants -- Misericordia added Doug Albertson as an assistant coach ... Steve Pokorny accepted the volunteer assistant coaching post at Bucknell ... Jesse Roberts was selected as an assistant coach at Clemson ... Ramapo named P.J. Bartolotto as assistant soccer coach and athletics facility supervisor/assistant resource administrator ... Hobart hired Danny Gilbertson as an assistant coach ... Robin Rameker was appointed as an assistant at Wisconsin-Whitewater. Rameker worked with the program on an ad hoc basis during the 1999 season ... Le Moyne appointed Chip Warner as an assistant coach ... Phil Hindson was selected as an assistant coach at Winthrop ... Gregg MacAllister was chosen as an assistant coach at Belmont Abbey ... Albany (New York) named Adam Clinton and Bernie Watt as assistant coaches ... Matt Barber was hired as an interim assistant coach at Bradley ... Caldwell added Steve O'Neal as an assistant coach ... Dominican (New York) selected Patrick Parenti as an assistant coach ... Guilford added Dax Baker as an undergraduate assistant coach ... Ed Ackerley was added as an assistant coach at Knox ... Southern Maine named Alan Curtis as an assistant coach ... Joe Spagnola was selected as an assistant coach at St. Francis (Pennsylvania) ... Susquehanna chose Sean Noonan as men's and women's assistant coach ... Frank Ross was named as a graduate assistant coach at Akron.

Women's soccer -- New York Tech selected Joe Zydor as head coach to succeed Tessa Payne ... Phil Nielsen was named as interim head coach at Smith. For the past two seasons, Nielsen has guided the program at Kalamazoo ... Buffalo State selected Courtney Longua to replace Rudy Pompert as head coach. Longua was an assistant at Minnesota State-Makato for one season ... Laurence Piturro, assistant coach at Concordia (New York), was elevated to head coach ... Jennifer Clark was hired as head coach at Claremont-Mudd-Scripps, succeeding Maxanne Retzlaff, who will continue as head women's tennis coach at the school. For the past two seasons, Clark has served as head coach at Christopher Newport.

Women's soccer assistants -- Ted Malampy was awarded an assistant coaching position at Misericordia ... Bucknell added Meghan Lynch as a graduate assistant coach ... John Cox and Janice Jabido were selected as assistant coaches at Southeastern Louisiana ... Saint Leo hired Steve Boyle as an assistant ... Lisa Tomaselli was appointed as an assistant at Texas-Dallas ... Wisconsin-Whitewater chose Erin Leinweber as an assistant. Last season, Leinweber was head women's coach at Ripon ... Tony Martin was chosen as an assistant coach at Wheaton (Massachusetts). Martin has been head boys' soccer coach at Dighton-Rehoboth (Massachusetts) High School for the past four years ... Ossie Hamrick assumed duties as an assistant coach at Belmont Abbey ... Sara Suitor was chosen as part-time assistant coach at Eastern Connecticut State ... Amanda Tsetsi was added as a graduate assistant coach at Utica ... Erin Vrysen accepted duties as an assistant coach at Stonehill ... Guilford appointed Mark Johnston as an assistant coach. For the past three seasons, Johnston has served as an assistant women's coach at Greensboro ... Keve Akpore was awarded an assistant coaching post at Knox ... Southern Maine chose Melissa Dateuil as an assistant coach ... Jessica Celi accepted the assistant women's coaching post and Eric Hymowitz was named men's and women's goalkeepers coach at Delaware ... St. Francis (Pennsylvania) selected Michael Coll as an assistant coach.

Softball -- Northwestern State tabbed Ty Singleton as head coach ... Kipp Keenan resigned as head coach at Tusculum. Keenan has led the program for three years ... Montana State-Billings chose Jeff Aumend as head coach. Aumend spent 11 years as sports information director and seven years as softball coach at Queens (North Carolina) ... Hartwick named Jennifer Barnett as head coach. Barnett graduated from Norwich in May ... Kristie Betancur assumed responsibilities as head coach at Huntingdon ... Debbie Raysin was appointed as head coach at Belmont Abbey ... Ursinus selected Terry McGowan as head coach ... Eastern Connecticut State elevated assistant coach Rich Page to the position of temporary, one-year, part-time head coach. Page, who has been an assistant with the program since 1996, succeeds Tom York ... Carla Marchetti was hired as head coach at Missouri-Kansas City. Most recently, Marchetti has served as interim head coach at Texas Tech ... Maryland-Eastern Shore selected Barbara S. Hicks as head coach. For the past six seasons, Hicks has been head coach at Hartwick ... East Stroudsburg chose Jeanine Gunther as head coach ... Chris Ake was selected as head coach and athletics foundation clerk at Norfolk State ... Andrea Kenney was hired as head coach at Claremont-Mudd-Scripps. Kenney has been head coach at New Mexico Highlands for three years.

Softball assistants -- Aaron Clopton was chosen as an assistant coach at Kansas ... Jason Salz was named as an assistant coach at Utah State ... Winthrop appointed Ginny May as an assistant coach ... Randi Carine was hired as a full-time assistant softball coach and facilities manager at Wheaton (Massachusetts). The school also tabbed Stephanie DeLucia as an assistant coach ... Diana Pepin was named as part-time assistant coach at Eastern Connecticut State ... Norfolk State added Sarah Putnam as an assistant ... Christie McCoy accepted responsibilities as an assistant at Texas-San Antonio ... Akron selected Kelli Metzger as a graduate assistant coach.

Men's and women's swimming and diving -- St. Cloud State hired Derek Chaput as head men's and women's coach to replace Diane Heydt. Chaput has been aquatics director and instructor of health and professional studies at Georgia Southern ... Catawba chose Stephanie Gray as head women's coach ... Ron Farina was appointed as head men's and women's swimming and diving coach/aquatics coordinator at Seton Hall ... Austin hired Robin Dyer as head men's and women's swimming and diving coach. Dyer replaces Steve Jungbluth.

Men's and women's swimming assistant -- Lindy Chelf was hired as an assistant coach at Akron. Most recently, Chelf has been an elementary school teacher in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Men's and women's tennis -- Colby Sawyer named Marty Perry as head men's and women's coach ... James Dunwoody was hired as head men's and women's coach at North Carolina A&T ... Eastern Kentucky appointed Tom Higgins as interim head men's and women's coach for the 2000-01 season. Higgins had led the school's men's squad for 28 seasons and the women's team for seven seasons until his retirement this past June ... Dhirenh Rathod was selected as head women's coach at Belmont Abbey ... Greg Stipa, head men's coach at West Chester, accepted additional duties as interim head women's coach at the school. Stipa, who replaces Harold Wales, has led the men's squad for the past two seasons ... College of New Jersey selected Scott Dicheck as head men's and women's coach, succeeding Tricia Udicious. Since 1996, Dicheck has worked as head men's and women's coach at Allentown ... Denise Albrecht was awarded responsibilities as head women's coach at Montana State ... Franklin and Marshall chose Alan Koth as head men's coach. Koth, who replaces James Phipps, has been assistant women's coach at the school and will retain assistant coaching duties ... James Jones was appointed as head women's coach at Molloy ... North Carolina-Charlotte hired Terry Ann Zawacki-Woods as head women's coach. Zawacki-Woods, who succeeds Penny Brawley, has been an assistant at Michigan for three years ... Jennifer Kolins was hired as head men's and women's coach at Western New England ... Claremont-Mudd-Scripps added Michael Morgan as head men's coach. Morgan has worked as an assistant men's coach at Notre Dame for three years.

Men's and women's tennis assistants -- Penn State chose Ben Gabler as assistant women's coach ... John Taylor was appointed as an assistant coach and Jamey Sellars was chosen as graduate assistant coach at Eastern Kentucky ... Michael Spletter was chosen as an assistant men's and women's coach at Colgate.

Men's and women's track and field -- Steve Rainbolt was selected as head men's and women's track and field and cross country coach at Wichita State. Rainbolt, who replaces John Kornelson, has been head men's and women's track and field and cross country coach at Kent State ... Kent State elevated Wendel McRaven to head track and field and cross country coach ... Martin Peper accepted duties as head women's coach at Macalester, succeeding Vanessa Seljeskog. Peper will relinquish responsibilities as head men's track and field and cross country coach at the school.

Men's and women's track and field assistants -- Ed Narkiewicz was appointed as an assistant men's and women's coach at Misericordia ... Southeastern Louisiana added Agapius Amo as a men's and women's assistant coach. Amo most recently has worked in the same capacity at Lamar ... Alonzo Webb was promoted to associate head coach at Kent State. Webb has been an assistant with the program for one season ... Akron tabbed Allison Gray as an assistant coach ... Tasha Ansley was added as an assistant at Winthrop.

Men's and women's volleyball -- Evergreen State selected Bill Lash as head women's coach ... John Wyatt Greenlee was tabbed as head men's and women's coach at East Stroudsburg ... Kathy Ziegler was appointed as head women's volleyball and head softball coach at Randolph-Macon ... Bloomfield hired Tony Fontanelle as head women's coach ... Angela Cook assumed duties as head coach at Huntingdon ... Shenandoah hired Vanessa Eddinger as interim head women's coach ... Maryland-Eastern Shore hired Eric Carlson as head women's coach. Carlson has been head coach and intramural director at Embry Riddle ... Kim Happold was hired as head women's coach at West Chester, replacing Tina Creason, who resigned. Happold spent the 1999 season as an assistant at Philadelphia ... Karen Ann Sweet was promoted to the position of temporary, one-year, part-time head women's coach at Eastern Connecticut State. Sweet, who has been an assistant with the program since 1998, succeeds Tom York ... Rich Harrington was hired as head women's coach at Becker to replace Christian Franklin, who assumed head women's coaching duties at Assumption ... Stevens Tech chose Maria del Mar Castro-Alvarez as head women's coach. Castro-Alvarez succeeds Patrick Dorywalski, who will continue as athletics business manager and head men's volleyball coach ... Susan Costello was hired as head women's coach at Emerson.

Men's and women's volleyball assistants -- Misericordia chose Prateek Gupta as an assistant women's coach ... Anne McGovern was named as women's assistant coach at Scranton ... Wentworth Institute hired David Hyde as women's assistant coach. Hyde, a recent graduate of the school, competed on the men's squad for four seasons ... Bloomfield added Teresa Dewera as an assistant women's coach ... Beth Olney was selected as an assistant women's coach at West Chester ... Coastal Carolina named Doneva Bays as an assistant women's coach ... Mary Tendler was awarded the assistant women's coaching slot at James Madison ... Eastern Connecticut State hired Mary Chalupsky as part-time volunteer assistant women's coach ... Knox named Vince Annel as a women's assistant coach ... Melissa McLinden and Andrew Capone were added as assistant women's coaches at Delaware.

Men's and women's water polo -- Katie Dolan was chosen as head women's coach at Wagner. The program is scheduled to begin competition in 2002.

Wrestling -- Tod Giles resigned as head coach at Army.

Wrestling assistants -- Bucknell appointed Greg Haladay as an assistant coach ... Northern Iowa named Randy Pugh as an assistant coach.

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Academic services -- Kent State chose Jennifer Kulics as academic counselor. Kulics has been director of athletics, intramurals and recreational sports, in addition to head softball and assistant men's basketball coach, at Penn State University-Beaver ... Shirelle Jackson was chosen as part-time academic counselor and Becky Taylor was hired as an academic counselor intern at Eastern Connecticut State ... Norfolk State hired Joseph Green as academics coordinator. Green has been director of the Ronald E. McNair Post Baccalaureate program at Bowie State.

Administrative -- Randal Ridenour was chosen as administrative coordinator at Cincinnati. Ridenour served as an intern with the school during the 1999-00 school year.

Athletic trainers -- St. Joseph's (New York) added John LaFalce as an athletic trainer ... Lance Munksgard was named as an athletic trainer at Belmont Abbey ... Meghan Kline was chosen as head athletic trainer at Notre Dame (Maryland). Kline, who has been head athletic trainer at Laurel Highlands (Pennsylvania) High School, replaces Trish Keller ... Ernie Hallbach was named as head athletic trainer at Trinity (Connecticut). Hallbach has been head athletic trainer at St. Joseph (Connecticut) since 1993 ... Pittsburgh-Johnstown hired Jason Honeck as head athletic trainer and instructor of sports medicine. Honeck has been an assistant athletic trainer and adjunct professor of athletic training at Alfred.

Assistant athletic trainers -- Luzita Vela was named as assistant athletic trainer and instructor of kinesiology at Hope ... Cornell College selected Karin Foster as an assistant athletic trainer ... Allison Moderson accepted responsibilities as top assistant athletic trainer at Rockford. Moderson has been a graduate assistant with the school for the past year ... Smith tabbed Andrew Perreault as interim assistant athletic trainer ... Muhlenberg hired Kelly Smith as interim athletic training assistant ... Danny Milano accepted assistant athletic trainer duties at Belmont Abbey ... Kent State selected Michael Heichel as interim assistant athletic trainer, succeeding Lynn Aula. Heichel has been an athletic training graduate assistant at the school for the past two years ... Marc Wysocki accepted duties as assistant athletic trainer at Merchant Marine ... Peter Krysko and Susan Lincoln were added as assistant athletic trainers at Stonehill ... Sharon Price and Brian Crowell were chosen as assistant athletic trainers at Dartmouth ... Texas A&M-Corpus Christi hired Jenna Deacon as an assistant athletic trainer. For the past two years, Deacon has been staff athletic trainer at Army ... Eastern Kentucky hired Alice Wilcoxson as assistant athletic trainer, assistant professor and director of the athletic training education program. The school also hired Marc Bramlage as assistant athletic trainer and instructor in exercise sport science ... Kathy Reed was hired as assistant athletic trainer at Cincinnati. Reed spent the 1999-00 school year interning with the school ... Catawba named Ashley Noble as an assistant athletic trainer ... Shelley Christoff was appointed as a graduate assistant athletic trainer at Akron.

Business manager -- Sam Beidleman retired as athletics business manager at Muhlenberg. The school chose Tony Quagliata as Beidleman's successor.

Communications -- Carla Shultzberg was appointed as director of athletics communications at Pennsylvania ... Cornell chose Eric McDowell as director of athletics communications. McDowell, who replaces Pat Gillespie, has been working with the Lowell Lock Monsters, a minor league hockey team, for the past year and formerly was director of media relations at Massachusetts-Lowell.

Communications assistant -- Michelle Manning was named as athletics communications intern at Arkon.

Compliance -- Robert Smitheran was tabbed as director of compliance at UC Irvine.

Corporate sales -- La Salle selected Kale Beers as director of corporate sales and broadcast relations.

Development assistant -- Martha Ring was added as development associate for athletics advancement at Kent State.

Equipment managers -- Albany (New York) appointed Kevin Galuski as equipment manager ... Jim Lackner was named as equipment manager at Hunter.

Facilities assistant -- Shingo Imoto was hired as a facilities intern at Arkon. Most recently, Imoto has been building supervisor/event manager at Yost Ice Arena on the Michigan campus.

Marketing and promotions -- Southern Methodist chose Shawn Heilbron as director of marketing. Since June 1999, Heilbron has been director of the Southwestern Bell-SMU Athletic Forum and Doak Walker Award ... Rebecca Grefe was named as director of marketing at James Madison ... Akron chose Cara Hrabusa as athletics marketing manager. For the past four years, Hrabusa has been mail order marketing and sales manager for Major League Baseball's Cleveland Indians.

Marketing and promotions assistants -- Massachusetts-Lowell tabbed Lynn Dungey as marketing and promotions assistant ... Miami (Ohio) selected Brad Wands as a sports marketing assistant. Wands was an athletics marketing intern at Eastern Kentucky.

Media relations -- Chad Moller accepted duties as director of media relations at Missouri.

Media relations assistant -- Josh Tenisci was added as a media relations intern at Miami (Ohio). Tenisci is a May 2000 graduate of Evansville.

Outreach -- La Salle appointed Steve Black as director of youth outreach and community service.

Sports information -- Ann Marie Schlottman was chosen as sports information director at Randolph-Macon. For the past three years, Schlottman has been sports information director at Washington (Maryland) ... Bemidji State selected Mark Johnson as sports information director ... Scott Dietz was promoted to full-time sports information director at Wheaton (Massachusetts). For the past year, Dietz has served as the assistant sports information director ... St. Andrews Presbyterian hired Marilynn Oliver as sports information director to replace Bobby Simmons ... Dan Drutz was named as sports information director at Molloy ... Michael Levin assumed the director of sports information position at Vassar.

Sports information assistants -- Paul Lyon was named as sports information intern at Longwood. Lyon served as a media relations intern with the NFL's Carolina Panthers during the 1998 and 1999 seasons ... Glenn Princen was hired as sports information intern at Loyola (Illinois) ... Scott Melesky was announced as assistant sports information director at Quinnipiac. Melesky was assistant sports information director at Marquette from 1999 to 2000 ... Winthrop named Brett Redden as assistant sports information director ... Ferris State appointed Rob Bentley as assistant sports information director. For the past three years, Bentley has been an assistant men's basketball coach and sports information assistant at Nebraska-Kearney ... Dartmouth selected Darin Ramsey as sports information assistant ... Greg Jordan was appointed as sports information assistant at Southern Maine ... Valparaiso added Ryan Wronkowicz as assistant sports information director.

Strength and conditioning -- Steve Brown was named as strength and conditioning coach at Wisconsin-Whitewater. From 1995 to 2000, Brown served as head strength and conditioning coach at San Diego.

Strength and conditioning assistants -- Kent State chose Kerri Ariens as assistant strength and conditioning coach and assistant field house manager. From 1998 to 2000, Ariens was a strength and conditioning graduate assistant at Purdue ... Todd Smith was added as assistant strength and conditioning coach at San Jose State. For the past two years, Smith has been assistant director of athletics performance at Pacific (California).

CONFERENCES

The Peach Belt Conference selected Rosemary DePaolo, president at GC & SU, as president for the 2000-01 academic year. The conference also chose Anne H. Hopkins, president at North Florida, as president-elect and Frank D. Brown, president at Columbus State, as vice-president.

David Youngers was appointed as media relations assistant at the Mid-American Conference. Youngers is a May 2000 graduate of John Carroll.

Conference USA hired Roscelle Bullock as information services assistant.

The Big 12 Conference selected Lori Ebihara as assistant commissioner for compliance and Kim Anderson as assistant commissioner for basketball operations.

Traci Hay was chosen as publicist for the State University of New York Athletic Conference.

The Mountain West Conference named Bob Burda as assistant commissioner for communications, effective September 18. Burda has been assistant athletics director for communications at Miami (Florida).

ASSOCIATIONS

Willis Wilson was appointed to the board of directors of the National Association of Basketball Coaches.

The United States Olympic Committee promoted Jeff Howard to associate director, media and public relations. Howard, who replaces Darryl Seibel, has been with the organization since November 1999.

ETC.

The date of the National Letter of Intent (NLI) early signing period for women's volleyball was listed incorrectly in the Legislative assistance column of the August 28 issue of The NCAA News. The NLI early signing period for women's volleyball will be November 8 through November 15, and the late period will be April 11, 2001, through August 1, 2001.

Two stories regarding the Ethnic Minority and Women's Enhancement Program postgraduate scholarship winners that were published in the August 14 and August 28 issues of The NCAA News contained incorrect information. There were 12 scholarship winners in each category and three alternates instead of 15 winners as stated in the stories. The alternates for the Ethnic Minority Enhancement Program scholarships are Gerard Coles of Springfield College, Shellyann Hamilton of the State University of New York at Buffalo and Tanya Bolden of the University of Mississippi. The Women's Enhancement Program alternates are Caroline Townsend of Northern Illinois University, Taryn Brackin of Ursinus College and Lauren Mackey of Morehead State University.

DEATHS

Former Case Western Reserve head men's basketball coach Bill Sudeck died of cancer August 23. Sudeck, 74, coached 29 years at Case Western Reserve and eight years at Case Institute of Technology. He also coached track and cross country.

Former Northern Illinois basketball player Benny Westlake died August 17 at the age of 87. Westlake played forward from 1931 to 1935 and was inducted into the school's hall of fame as an individual in 1978. He also was inducted in 1984 as a member of the 1933-34 Little 19 Conference championship team.

--Compiled by Leilana McKindra