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Marchionda chosen as head wrestling coach

Wisconsin-Oshkosh has appointed Larry Marchionda as head wrestling coach. He succeeds Phil Du Bois, who has led the program for the past three years.

Marchionda served as head wrestling coach and physical education teacher at Fond du Lac (Wisconsin) High School from 1968 until his retirement in 1999. During his tenure there, he captured a state championship in 1991 and won nine conference titles. The three-time state coach of the year has an overall 362-61 dual-meet record as a high-school head wrestling coach. Marchionda, an inductee into the Wisconsin Wrestling Coaches Association Hall of Fame, formerly was an assistant coach at Winona State for one year.

A graduate of Winona State, where he earned a bachelor's degree in 1966 and a master's degree in 1970, Marchionda was a two-time qualifier for the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics wrestling championships.

GENERAL

CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICERS

Eugene Hotchkiss was named as interim president at Eckerd. Hotchkiss formerly served as president at Lake Forest ... Sam Houston State President Bobby K. Marks announced retirement plans, effective August 31, 2001 ... Michael Aiken, chancellor at Illinois, announced his retirement, effective August 20, 2001.

DIRECTORS OF ATHLETICS

Michael Cancilla was appointed as athletics director at Montevallo. Cancilla has been associate athletics director at Iona since 1994 ... Evansville named Bob Gallman as interim director of athletics, replacing Laura Tietjen. Gallman has been vice-president for fiscal affairs and administration at the school for the past 14 years ... Hawaii-Hilo chose Edgar Torigoe as interim athletics director ... Lewis and Clark chose Richard Hanna as interim athletics director ... Tom Burman was named as athletics director at Portland State ... American hired Dan Radakovich as athletics director, effective October 1. Radakovich, who replaces Lee McElroy, has been associate athletics director at South Carolina since 1994.

SENIOR WOMAN ADMINISTRATORS

Utica/Rome appointed Kelly Moore as senior woman administrator and head athletic trainer. Moore has been an athletic trainer at Herkimer County (New York) Community College ... Ginger Fulton was promoted to senior associate athletics director for administration/programs and senior woman administrator at Seton Hall. Fulton, who is entering her third year at the school, has been associate athletics director.

ASSOCIATE DIRECTORS OF ATHLETICS

Manhattan promoted assistant athletics director Sandra Sapone to associate athletics director. Sapone will continue to work as senior woman administrator and compliance officer ... Ed Stoner was elevated to associate athletics director for business affairs at Massachusetts-Lowell. Stoner has been assistant athletics director for external affairs ... Cal Poly promoted Mike LaPlante to associate athletics director for advancement ... Todd Wyant accepted responsibilities as associate athletics director for student-athlete support services at Syracuse ... Seton Hall promoted Jimmy O'Donnell to associate athletics director for team operations, Patrick Elliott to associate athletics director for finance/operations and Keith Meyers to senior associate athletics director for marketing/operations. O'Donnell has been with the school for 12 years and Elliott has been with the school for 10 years, including the past five as assistant athletics director. Meyers has been with the school for 13 years and most recently was an associate athletics director.

ASSISTANT DIRECTORS OF ATHLETICS

John Secord assumed responsibilities as assistant athletics director for compliance at Coppin State. Secord has spent the past two years as director of compliance and education services at Towson ... Kevin Edick was elevated to assistant director of athletics at Utica/Rome. Edick has been a staff assistant at the school since 1988 and will retain head baseball coaching duties, which he has fulfilled since 1992 ... Drew Fraser was appointed as assistant athletics director for marketing at Brown ... Saint Leo's Tom O'Brien resigned as assistant athletics director for sports information/marketing to become sports information director at Merrimack. O'Brien has been with Saint Leo for five years ... Eric Sieger resigned as assistant athletics director and sports information director at Alma to assume similar duties at Carleton ... Cal Poly elevated Chris Baker to assistant athletics director for marketing/promotions and elevated Jason Sullivan to assistant athletics director for media relations ... Hawaii-Hilo changed Jim DeMello's title to assistant athletics director. DeMello's former title was assistant to the athletics director ... Duquesne appointed Phil Racicot as assistant athletics director for student services ... Jacksonville State appointed Mike Galloway as assistant athletics director for external affairs. For the past year, Galloway has been director of marketing for the Alabama High School Athletic Association ... Kevin Sponzo was elevated to assistant athletics director for facilities at Seton Hall. Sponzo, who is in his third year at the school, was an assistant to the director. The school also promoted Chris Colleary to assistant athletics director for tickets/marketing. Colleary has been been with the school for three years and was coordinator of ticket marketing ... Holy Cross promoted Frank Mastrandrea as assistant athletics director for marketing and media relations. Since 1993, Mastrandrea has been director of athletics media relations ... Tom Boylan assumed responsibilities as assistant athletics director for external affairs at Cleveland State.

Baseball -- Saint Joseph's (Indiana) hired Rick O'Dette as head coach. O'Dette has been pitching coach at Andrean (Indiana) High School for the past year and replaces Mike Moyzis, who became general manager for baseball operations of MLB's Chicago White Sox training centers ... Dan Palumbo resigned as head coach and intramural director at Ramapo ... Mark Salter accepted the interim head coaching job at Jackson State ... Christopher Newport selected John Harvell as head baseball coach and director of intramurals ... Guy Murray, head coach at Nebraska-Kearney, announced plans to retire after the 2001 season. Murray has guided the program since 1971.

Baseball assistants -- Ramapo's Rob Fisher, Derek Rosenfield and Jorge Hernandez resigned as assistants ... South Florida chose Nelson North as an assistant coach ... Austin Peay added Seth Kenny as an assistant coach ... Sam Russ was selected as an assistant coach and John Mullen was chosen as a volunteer assistant coach at Manhattan ... Mercyhurst named Jeff Benedict as an assistant. Benedict, who succeeds Matt Kirchoff, has been an assistant at the high-school level for the past two seasons ... Brad Bustin was hired as pitching coach and Marc Pantazis was hired as hitting and catchers coach at Rhode Island College. Bustin has been pitching coach at the Community College of Rhode Island and Pantazis has been an assistant at Maine ... Caldwell chose Robert Kearns as an assistant coach ... Adam Taylor was added as an assistant at Guilford. During the 1999-00 academic year, Taylor served as an assistant baseball coach and strength and conditioning coach at Greensboro ... Tony Murray was promoted to head assistant coach at Nebraska-Kearney.

Men's basketball -- Cornell hired Steve Donahue as head coach to replace Scott Thompson, who resigned. Donahue has been an assistant coach at Pennsylvania for 10 years ... Kevin O'Neill, head coach at Northwestern, stepped down to become an assistant with the NBA's New York Knicks. Northwestern selected Princeton head coach Bill Carmody as O'Neill's successor. Carmody has led Princeton's program for four years. John Thompson III was chosen as Carmody's replacement at Princeton. Thompson has served as an assistant at the school for five years ... Bob Knight was released as head coach at Indiana. In 29 seasons, Knight has captured three national championships and 11 Big Ten Conference titles ... Wingate hired Parker Laketa as head coach. Laketa, formerly an assistant coach at Notre Dame for seven seasons, has been executive director of the Illinois High School Athletic Hall of Fame ... Mike Davis was elevated to interim head coach at Indiana.

Men's basketball assistants -- Jon Wheeler was named as an assistant coach at California ... Gary Kasmer was added as an assistant at Philadelphia ... J. Hank Morano announced plans to retire as an assistant coach at Ramapo ... Indiana selected Les Fertig as basketball administrative assistant ... Southeast Missouri State added Chris Lowery as an assistant coach ... Fred Rike was hired as an assistant coach and Lance Von Vogt was appointed as administrative assistant coach at Georgia State. Rike has been associate head coach at Memphis. Von Vogt has been working in the marketing department and with basketball schools and camps at Georgia Tech ... Bernard Baruch chose Kenyatta Pious as an assistant coach ... Keith LeGree assumed assistant coaching duties at Cincinnati ... Hartford selected Chris Pompey as an assistant coach. Most recently, Pompey has served as an AAU coach in Washington, D.C. ... St. Francis (Pennsylvania) named Jacob Morton as an assistant ... Jason Shelton was promoted to assistant and Eric Jackson was added as film coordinator at Utah. Shelton has been an administrative assistant/video coordinator for the past year ... New York Tech hired Dave Rubin as an assistant coach ... Jason Leone was tabbed as an assistant coach at Clarkson. During the 1999-00 year, Leone worked as an assistant at Potsdam State ... Indiana promoted John Treloar to interim associate coach ... Steve Malley assumed duties as an assistant coach at New York University ... Cornell appointed Michael Burden as an assistant coach and promoted part-time assistant Neil Berkman to full-time assistant coach. Last season, Burden was an assistant at Delaware State ... LeMoyne added Chris Jacobs as an assistant coach ... Washington chose Al Hairston as an assistant coach ... Chris Leazier was appointed as an assistant coach at Dartmouth ... Nebraska-Kearney named Shawn Huse as a graduate assistant coach. Huse, who succeeds Kenya Crandell, has been a player and coach at Montana Tech University, an NAIA school, during the past eight years.

Women's basketball -- Gustavus Adolphus elevated Madeline Haller to head coach to replace Peg Moline, who assumed an assistant coaching slot at Wisconsin-Eau Claire. For the past two years, Haller has been an assistant at Gustavus Adolphus ... Shawn Lincoln was hired as head women's basketball and head women's soccer coach at Utica/Rome. Lincoln has been working in the Patriot League office ... Michael Eineker resigned as head coach at Bloomfield ... Michelle Collins was hired as head coach at Oswego State ... Tom Trefilek was hired as head coach at Dominican. Trefilek formerly guided the women's program at the school from 1987 to 1993.

Women's basketball assistants -- Southampton appointed Ken Moyers and Kelly Nelmes as assistant coaches ... North Carolina A&T added Angela Wells and Rodney Westmoreland as assistant coaches ... Kathy Lynch resigned after two seasons as an assistant coach at Canisius ... Anthony Staffiere was appointed as an assistant at LeMoyne ... Ramapo added Kathleen Finnegan as an assistant coach ... Dana McGraw was added as an assistant coach at San Diego State and Anthony Turner was hired as director of women's basketball operations at the school. McGraw has been an assistant at Chicago State and Turner most recently was a student assistant with the women's basketball program at Colorado ... Alli Bills was appointed as an assistant coach at Utah. Bills was an assistant coach at Brigham Young last year ... Clarkson appointed Ann Parks as an assistant women's basketball and head women's tennis coach. Parks has been an assistant at Potsdam State for one year ... Bill Thomas was selected as an assistant at Indiana/
Purdue-Indianapolis. A student assistant coach at the school from 1997 to 1999, Thomas spent last season as co-head varsity girls' basketball coach at St. Thomas Aquinas (Florida) High School ... Jacksonville State chose Dave D'Agostino as an assistant coach ... Dan Boyle was added as an assistant coach at Dartmouth.

Men's and women's cross country -- Scott Jerome was hired as head men's and women's cross country and head men's and women's Nordic ski coach at Gustavus Adolphus. Jerome, who has been a graduate assistant women's cross country and men's and women's Nordic ski coach at Northern Michigan for the past three years, succeeds Karen Moeller as cross country coach and Larry Zelenz as ski coach. Zelenz will become an assistant with the team ... St. Michael's selected Zach Kramer as head men's coach ... Ramapo awarded interim cross country and track and field coaching duties to James McCuskers ... Jacksonville State chose Aimee Dawson as head women's cross country and track coach. Dawson has been men's and women's assistant track and field and cross country coach at Indiana State since 1998.

Men's and women's cross country assistants -- Candace Lebo was tabbed as an assistant coach at Lebanon Valley ... Coppin State hired Patrick Simms as an assistant cross country and track and field coach ... Dennis Sullivan was named as an assistant coach at Ramapo ... Leslie Mourmouras was chosen as men's and women's assistant coach at New England ... Wake Forest added Jennifer Hoppe as assistant women's cross country and track and field coach.

Equestrian -- Beth Horvath-Palmer accepted the interim head coaching post at Colby-Sawyer.

Field hockey -- Anne Perriello was chosen as head coach at Massachusetts-Lowell. Perriello, who replaces Amy Hassick, spent last season as an assistant and also will be the athletics department's director of purchasing.

Field hockey assistants -- St. Joseph's added Carolyn Meakim and Aislinn Richards as assistant coaches ... Wellesley hired Alexa Wilder as assistant field hockey and lacrosse coach. For the past year, Wilder has been school coaching officer at the English Lacrosse Association and the Royal High School in Bath, England ... Allison Blixt was named as an assistant at Hartwick.

Football -- Tom Holmoe, head coach at California, signed a one-year contract extension through 2002 ... Oklahoma extended the contract of head coach Bob Stoops through the 2005 season ... Don Strock was chosen as head coach at Florida International. The program is scheduled to begin competition in 2002. Strock, director of football operations at the school since 1999, played professionally in the NFL and coached in the Arena Football League, World League and the NFL.

Football assistants -- Lafayette named Keita Molloy as receivers coach ... Patrick Murphy was elevated to associate head coach at Massachusetts-Lowell. Murphy serves as recruiting coordinator, defensive coordinator and linebackers coach. The school also chose Skip Bandini as defensive line coach, Matt Adamo as defensive backs coach, Bill Manchester as quarterbacks coach and Scott Richardson as outside linebackers coach ... Franklin and Marshall appointed Jack Neal, Jake Kolen and Pat Hruz as assistants ... Lee Leslie was chosen as graduate assistant coach for the defense and John Keller was chosen as graduate assistant coach for the offense at Utah ... Westminster (Missouri) selected Scott Pingel as an assistant coach.

Men's and women's golf -- Dennis Shea was elevated to director of golf and Bryan Carey was chosen as head women's coach at Monmouth ... Rich Mueller assumed head men's coaching duties at New York University, succeeding Bruce Haberli. Mueller also teaches recreational golf and volleyball courses at the school ... Lynchburg hired Dan Houtchens as head men's coach. Houtchens is a former professor at Tennessee ... Paula Floyd was named as head men's and women's coach at Montevallo ... Jim Pinto was selected as head men's coach and Sandra Czunas was selected as head women's coach at Hartford ... Mike Whitson was appointed as head women's coach at Transylvania. Whitson has been serving as an assistant pro at Marriott Marco Island Resort ... Wayne State (Michigan) selected Mike Horn as head coach ... John Donofrio was named as head men's and women's coach at Dominican. The program is in its first year. Donofrio currently is an adjunct faculty member of the schools of business at Joliet Junior College and University of St. Francis ... Kalamazoo added Henry Williams as head women's coach ... Greg Martin was named as head men's coach at Mississippi State ... Rob Lussenhop was hired as head coach at Christopher Newport ... Mark Brosamle was selected as head women's coach at Nebraska-Kearney, succeeding Trisha Simonson. Brosamle was an assistant football coach at the school from 1988 to 1999.

Men's and women's golf assistants -- Northern Illinois named Tim Countryman as assistant men's coach and appointed Kara Giannetto as assistant women's coach ... Duquesne hired Jim Curti as an assistant coach ... Jacksonville State hired Scott Arndt and Jason Callan as assistants.

Men's and women's gymnastics -- Kris Glidden accepted the head women's coaching post at Gustavus Adolphus. Glidden, who succeeds Jerry Connolly, has worked as an assistant with the program for the past two years ... Oklahoma appointed Steve Nunno as co-head women's coach. Nunno will become head coach after the 2000-01 season.

Men's and women's gymnastics assistant -- Kris Buchheister accepted duties as associate women's coach at Northern Illinois.

Men's and women's ice hockey assistants -- Massachusetts-Lowell added Pertti Hasanen as an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator to succeed Mark Taylor. The former Boston U. assistant coach most recently has been serving as head coach of SSI Vipiteno, an Italian Series A hockey team ... Ivan Moore was appointed as interim assistant men's coach at Rensselaer ... Maria Lewis assumed volunteer assistant women's coaching responsibilities at Mercyhurst. Lewis spent last year as an assistant at Maine ... Bradley Willner assumed assistant men's coaching responsibilities at St. Cloud State. Willner has served as an assistant men's coach at Providence since 1996.

Men's and women's lacrosse -- Limestone head men's coach Mike Cerino resigned. The school named Bill Milone as head men's coach ... Vinne Lang resigned after three seasons as head men's coach at Mercyhurst to accept a similar position at Wittenberg. Mercyhurst appointed two-year men's assistant coach Chris Ryan as Lang's successor ... Wentworth Institute added Paul Murphy as head men's coach. Murphy, who succeeds Aaron Koproski, teaches physical education at the middle-school level and formerly was head men's coach at Merrimack from 1988 to 1992 ... Jen Goff was promoted to head women's coach at Fredonia State. Goff, who replaces Sandy Jemison, will continue as head women's soccer coach at the school ... Cortland State hired Lelan Rogers as head men's coach. Rogers, who succeeds Mike Pounds, spent from 1990 to 1999 as head men's coach at Ohio Wesleyan and closed his tenure there with a 109-33 record ... Dickinson chose Tennille Foster as head women's lacrosse and assistant field hockey coach. Foster spent last season as an assistant women's lacrosse and assistant field hockey coach at Hamilton ... Nazareth named Rob Randall as head men's coach. Replacing Scott Nelson, Randall has been head coach at Geneseo State ... Kim Christos was hired as head women's coach at Drew to replace Suzanne Weinberg.

Men's and women's lacrosse assistants -- Kinsley O'Garrow was tabbed as women's assistant and Jarred Testa was added as men's assistant coach at UMBC. O'Garrow is a recent graduate of George Mason and Testa has been an assistant coach at Merchant Marine for two years ... Matt Rienzo was appointed as an assistant men's coach at Notre Dame ... Brian Brecht was appointed as an assistant men's coach at Rutgers ... Patrick Haley was awarded assistant men's coaching duties at Wentworth Institute.

Rifle -- Alaska Fairbanks hired David Johnson to succeed the retired Randy Pitney. Johnson, a former Olympian, has been an infantry captain with the United States Army. Pitney will continue as athletics director at the school.

Men's and women's rowing -- Craig Amerkhanian was chosen as head men's crew coach at Stanford. Since 1991, Amerkhanian has worked as associate head men's crew coach at California.

Men's and women's rowing assistant -- Veronika Platzer was awarded responsibilities as an assistant coach at Mercyhurst.

Men's and women's skiing -- Ryan Forsyth was elevated to first assistant/head men's and women's Alpine coach at Utah. Last year, Forsyth served as an assistant Alpine coach.

Men's soccer -- Fredonia State selected Patrick Gondek as head coach. Gondek has been an assistant at Plattsburgh State ... Utica/Rome named Robert Leary as head coach. Leary will continue as head men's lacrosse coach at the school and will assume additional responsibilities in sports information.

Men's soccer assistants -- Stephen Pickman was chosen as an assistant coach. Pickman succeeds David DeMello, who accepted assistant coaching duties at Providence ... Heidelberg appointed Andy Wheeler as an assistant coach. For the past six years, Wheeler has been director of operations for the Great Britain Buckeye Soccer Camp ... Fredonia State named James Hesch as an assistant coach ... Ramapo named D.J. Pinton as an assistant men's soccer coach and assistant volleyball coach ... Dan Dowling assumed assistant coaching duties at Misericordia ... St. Joseph's (Pennsylvania) appointed Chris Branscome and Jack Ruggero as assistant coaches ... New York Tech added Carlos Del Cid as an assistant ... Stanley Wright was chosen as an assistant at Caltech. Wright has been coaching in youth and parks and recreational leagues in Los Angeles for 15 years ... New York University chose Altomont Butler as an assistant men's coach.

Women's soccer -- Jeff Parker was hired as head coach at Stevens Tech. Parker currently owns and directs Match Fit Academy, a progressive soccer training academy ... Kalamazoo chose Matt Filner as head coach ... Bailey Woods was hired as head coach at Anderson (South Carolina). Most recently, Woods has served as head men's and women's soccer coach at North Greenville College.

Women's soccer assistants -- Jill Young was selected as an assistant coach at San Diego State ... Hector Cardona was hired as an assistant coach at Rhode Island College. Most recently, Cardona has been an assistant boys' varsity soccer coach at the high-school level ... Edwin Schieferstein assumed responsibilities as an assistant coach at Caldwell ... Hartwick named Catherine McEnroe as an assistant coach ... Marisa Karl was awarded duties as an assistant coach at New York Tech ... Wellesley hired Sharon Glick as an assistant. Glick, who currently is working as a freelance artist, competed at Williams and was NCAA Woman of the Year for Massachusetts in 1993.

Softball -- St. Michael's chose Robyn Newton as head coach ... Michelle DeCoursey assumed duties as head softball and head volleyball coach at Utica/Rome. Most recently, DeCoursey has served as a fitness and recreation specialist with the General Electric Power Systems fitness center in Schenectady, New York ... St. Francis (Pennsylvania) appointed Brock Radaker as head coach ... Kim Worden was named as head coach at Kalamazoo.

Softball assistants -- Liza Brown assumed assistant coaching duties at DePaul ... Melissa Gentile was awarded the position of graduate assistant coach at Central Michigan ... New York Tech chose Keri-Anne Boller as an assistant coach ... Robert Wagner and Jenny Monson were hired as assistants at Utah ... California (Pennsylvania) named Justin Kloczko as an assistant coach ... Jill Matyuch was chosen as an assistant at Texas.

Men's and women's swimming and diving -- Army hired Vivian Alberty as diving coach ... Mark Daum was appointed as head women's coach at Millersville ... Rose-Hulman selected Melissa Thompson as head men's and women's coach ... Millersville named Mark Daum as head women's swimming coach ... Davidson chose Jim Conlon as head men's and women's swimming and diving coach ... Mike Litzinger was added as head men's and women's swimming and diving coach at Utah. For the past three years, Litzinger has been assistant men's coach at Ohio State ... Ryan Frost was hired as head men's swimming coach at James Madison ... LSU's Rick Meador resigned as head men's and women's swimming and diving coach ... James Lutz was chosen as head men's and women's swimming and diving coach at Michigan State.

Men's and women's swimming and diving assistants -- UMBC appointed Mary Anne Gerzanick as an assistant swimming and diving coach ... Beth Jerome was selected as assistant women's coach and Darin Mai was selected as assistant men's coach at Utah. Jerome was an assistant at Wisconsin-Whitewater last year and Mai has spent the past two years as an assistant men's coach at Texas. The school also appointed Carrie Ziebarth as diving coach. Ziebarth recently concluded her diving career at Ohio State ... Wellesley chose Melissa Patterson as an assistant swimming coach. Patterson has been an assistant coach for the Weston Red Waves, a winter suburban swim league, from 1996 to 2000.

Men's and women's tennis -- Chuck McBreen was chosen as head women's coach at Ramapo ... Middle Tennessee State named Randy Holden as head women's coach ... David Zeutas-Broer was added as head men's and women's coach. Zeutas-Broer, who has spent the past 17 years as a teaching professional and coach, succeeds Jim Hayes ... Melvin Foreman was hired as head men's coach at Wayne State (Michigan) ... Ramapo selected Salma Goldstein as head men's coach ... Colby-Sawyer added Marty Perry as head men's and women's coach to succeed Jill Firstbrook. For the past two years, Perry has been an assistant men's coach at William and Mary ... Kula Oda stepped down as head men's and women's coach at Hawaii-Hilo. The school chose Randy Kunimoto as head men's coach and Ryan Ideta as head women's coach ... Citadel selected Steve Brooks as head men's coach.

Men's and women's tennis assistants -- Sitinee Rangsithienchai was hired as an assistant women's coach at Minnesota ... Texas added David Roditi as assistant men's coach. Roditi has been competing on the ATP doubles circuit since 1996 ... Ramapo named Marc Cameron as an assistant women's coach ... Christine Franek was awarded duties as assistant coach at Wellesley. Franek has been head varsity girls' tennis coach, full-time teacher and club advisor at the high-school level ... Tiffany Gates resigned as an assistant coach at Pennsylvania.

Men's and women's track and field -- Deborah Rutkowski-Murphy resigned as head women's coach at DePaul. The school appointed Gordon Thomason as Rutkowski-Murphy's successor ... Dickinson selected John Hartpence as head men's and women's coach. Most recently, Hartpence has been assistant cross country and track and field coach at Hamilton ... Stephen F. Austin head men's coach Phil Olson accepted additional duties as head women's coach.

Men's and women's track and field assistants -- Brown named Michelle Eisenreich as an assistant coach. Eisenreich has served as an assistant track and field and cross country coach at Colgate for two years ... Derek Furry was appointed as an assistant women's coach at Mansfield ... Layne Richards was added as an assistant women's track and field and cross country coach at Miami (Ohio). For the past three years, Richards has been an assistant track and field and cross country coach at Southern Utah ... Matt Zimmerman was chosen as an assistant coach at Ramapo ... John Hetzendorf was awarded an assistant coaching post at Wichita State ... Shannon Gallagher was named as an assistant coach at Kent State ... Cathrine Erickson accepted the assistant women's coaching slot at Clemson ... Akron hired Dennis Mitchell as an assistant coach. Since 1997, Mitchell has been an assistant coach at LaSalle.

Men's and women's volleyball -- Stevens Tech hired Maria Castro as head women's coach ... James B. Strotmeyer was chosen as head men's and women's coach at Merchant Marine. Strotmeyer has been head soccer coach and science teacher at Buckley Country Day School in Roslyn, New York, for the past three years.

Men's and women's volleyball assistants -- Roger Williams hired Melissa Bouvet as an assistant women's coach ... Frederico Santos was appointed as an assistant coach at North Carolina-Asheville, succeeding Jenni Reynolds ... Leticia Madry was chosen as an assistant at Coppin State ... Aileen Gerhardt was added as an assistant women's coach at Hartwick ... Utah named Zuzana Zikova as an assistant coach ... Caltech hired Donny Harris as assistant women's coach. For the past two years, Harris has played professionally in Italy, Spain, Belgium and Puerto Rico.

Men's and women's water polo -- Pam Tanase assumed head women's coaching duties at UC Santa Barbara.

Wrestling -- Columbia selected Brendan Buckley as head coach.

Wrestling assistant -- Robert Carradine was appointed as an assistant coach at Coppin State.

STAFF

Academic services -- Chris Reilly was chosen as coordinator of academic services at Utah. Reilly has been an assistant in Utah's academics department for the past two years. The school also announced Sandra Kinoshita as an academic coordinator and Laura Ray as academic services intern ... Duquesne tabbed Sue Zidanic as academic coordinator.

Administrative -- Hartford appointed K.C. Jones as special assistant to the director of athletics. Jones formerly played and coached professionally in the NBA, appearing in eight national championships as a player and two as an assistant coach ... John Sanchez, head women's soccer coach at Manhattan, assumed additional duties as athletics coordinator at the school ... Misericordia announced Brian Kelly as athletics department intern for the 2000-01 academic year.

Athletic trainer -- India Lovett was chosen as head athletic trainer and program director at Alma. Lovett formerly was head athletic trainer at Wisconsin-Platteville.

Assistant athletic trainers -- Liz D'Elia was chosen as an assistant trainer at St. Michael's ... Seton Hall appointed R.J. Boergers as an assistant athletic trainer ... Rob Woodall was hired as an assistant athletic trainer at Guilford. Woodall has been head athletic trainer at University (Louisiana) High School and head athletic trainer for LSU's department of recreational sports ... Salve Regina chose Kevin Avilla as an assistant athletic trainer and director of the school's fitness center ... Bob Toth was selected as half-time athletic trainer for athletics and half-time clinical education coordinator in the student athletic trainer educational program at Utah. Toth has been head athletic trainer and head of the student athletic trainer education program at Adrian for four years ... Caltech added Tamara Walker as assistant athletic trainer. Most recently, Walker has served as a physical therapy aide ... Andrew Price was tabbed as assistant athletic trainer at New York University ... Tina Keasey was selected as an assistant athletic trainer at Christopher Newport ... Laurie Jensen was chosen as assistant athletic trainer at Carthage.

Communications -- Christopher Newport elevated Francis Tommasino to director of athletics communications.

Communications assistants -- Coppin State hired Kia Mason as assistant director of athletics communications ... Penn added Rich Schepis as associate director of athletics communications and Vanessa Kreckel as associate director of athletics communications/publications ... Fairleigh Dickinson appointed Jennifer Novik as assistant director of athletics communications ... Wayne Block was elevated to assistant to the athletics director for communications at Christopher Newport.

Compliance -- Duquesne named Rick Christensen as compliance coordinator.

Compliance assistant -- Genna Gitlin has been hired as a compliance assistant at Utah.

Business manager -- Debbie Gregory was elevated to athletics business coordinator at Manhattan.

Development -- Utah promoted Terry Preston to director of athletics development. Preston has been director of major gifts for the school's Crimson Club for the past year and a half.

Equipment manager -- Christopher Newport promoted Lou Serio to equipment manager.

Assistant equipment manager -- Dan White was named assistant equipment manager at Utah.

Event management assistant -- Doug Haslam was selected as assistant for athletics grounds and event management at Utah.

Marketing and promotions -- Donny Coryell was hired as director of marketing at Lamar. Coryell has been a marketing intern at the school ... Holy Cross elevated Devin Crosby to director of athletics marketing and promotions. Crosby, who has been manager of events and promotions for the past year, replaces Chris Janush.

Marketing and promotions assistants -- Lynn Dungey was hired as assistant for marketing and promotions at Massachusetts-Lowell. Dungey is a 2000 graduate of Ana Maria College ... Utah added Kris Bosman Schmehl and Kim Sorrentino Raap as marketing assistants.

Media relations -- Matt Smith was selected as interim director of athletics media relations at South Alabama.

Media relations assistants -- Massachusetts-Lowell tabbed Jorge Rocha as assistant director of athletics media relations. Rocha is a 2000 graduate of Franklin Pierce ... Michelle Chini and George Nieman were selected as coordinators of media relations at Duquesne.

Operations -- Drexel chose Jay Oxenberg as operations coordinator-recreation.

Sports information -- Montevallo named Alfred Kojima as sports information director. Kojima has been an assistant at Saint Leo ... Capital appointed Leonard Reich as sports information director. For the past year, Reich has served as sports information director at Marian ... Matthew Bucci was awarded sports information director responsibilities at Manhattanville. For the past three years, Bucci has fulfilled duties in the sports information department at Sacred Heart ... Oswego State added Lyle Fulton as sports information director ... Don Harris was tabbed as women's sports information officer at Chattanooga ... Sunny Eighmy was named as sports information director at William Penn.

Sports information assistants -- Brian Deitz was named as assistant sports information director at Kent State. Deitz has spent the past year as sports information director at Marietta ... West Virginia appointed Bryan Messerly as associate sports information director and Joe Swan as sports publications director. Messerly has been assistant sports information director at Virginia Tech since 1997 and Swan has been managing editor for the National Association for Sport and Physical Education. The school also announced the selection of Phil Caskey and Camille Currie as sports information graduate assistants ... Jeff Andriesse was promoted to associate sports information director at Seton Hall. Andriesse, who was assistant sports information director, is in his third year at the school ... Penn State-Behrend added Jill Yamma as a sports information intern.

Strength and conditioning -- Donna Kauchak was appointed as strength and conditioning professional for women's basketball at New York University.

Strength and conditioning assistants -- Miami (Ohio) chose Jason Barber as a strength and conditioning intern ... Utah hired Jon Webster as strength and conditioning intern.

NATIONAL OFFICE

Randy Buhr, a membership services representative at the national office, was chosen as assistant director of championships with the NCAA.

Membership services representative Jennifer Henderson resigned.

CONFERENCES

The Northeast Conference hired Matthew DeSantis as director of marketing and elevated Andrew Alia to director of operations.

John Guthrie was named as head of the newly formed Atlantic Coast Conference/
Southeastern Conference Regional Officiating Program.

The Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference named David Bierwirth as general manager of MAAC Properties.

ASSOCIATIONS

The American Volleyball Coaches Association named Lindy A. Binns as executive director. Binns, who succeeds Sandra Vivas, has most recently been tournament director for the Chrysler-Plymouth Tournament of Champions and a project associate with the Sports Management Group.

Host Communications promoted Marc Kidd to president and chief operating officer, effective immediately. The organization also announced the promotion of Sam Dunn to executive vice-president. W. James Host will continue as chief executive officer.

ETC.

ADDRESS CHANGE

The Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference has a new address, phone and fax numbers, effective immediately: 1900 West Big Beaver, Suite 200, Troy, Michigan 48084-3521; phone: 248/649-2036; fax: 248/649-6847.

CORRECTIONS

A graphic on page 2 of the August 30 issue of The NCAA News contained incorrect information about football playing surfaces in Division I-A football. For the 2000 season, the University of Nevada has switched from grass to an artificial surface.

Olympic distance runner Frank Shorter's college affiliation was incorrectly identified in a caption in the September 11 issue of The NCAA News. Shorter is a graduate of Yale University.

NOTABLES

Cheryl Levick, athletics director at Santa Clara since May, was chosen as NCAA Division I-A Administrator of the Year by the National Association of Collegiate Women Athletic Administrators. The NCAA Management Council member is being honored for accomplishments made during a 12-year stint as senior woman administrator and senior associate athletics director at Stanford. During her tenure there, the school captured 39 national championships, six Sears Cups and added three sports. Levick also chairs the NCAA Committee on Women's Athletics.

Cedric Dempsey was selected as winner of the Outstanding College Football Executive award presented by the All-American Football Foundation. Dempsey's wife, June Dempsey, was chosen as recipient of the foundation's First Lady of Football award.

DEATHS

George Washington head volleyball coach Yvette Moorehead died August 16. Moorehead was 30.

Paul Pearson, former president at Miami (Ohio), died August 12. Pearson was 73.

Brenda Reilly, associate athletics director and former head women's basketball coach at Central Connecticut State, died August 5. Reilly was 62.

Former Harvard athletics director Robert B. Watson died August 12 at the age of 86. Watson also served as dean of students.

Jorge Heemsen, a junior member of the Rollins swimming team, was killed in a boating accident in Venezuela August 6. Heemsen posted a school record in the 50-meter freestyle and was a member of four record-setting relay teams.

Former Southern California football player Willard "Bubba" Scott died of cancer September 1. He was 53. Scott was a member of the 1968 national championship team that went 10-1 and the 1969 squad that completed the season with a 10-0-1 mark and won the Rose Bowl.

Lou McCullough, former Trans America Athletic Conference commissioner, died September 8. McCullough, who led the conference from 1983 to 1991, coached football at Wofford, Wyoming, Indiana, Iowa State and Ohio State. He also was athletics director at Iowa State for 12 years.

--Compiled by Leilana McKindra