Bothof named to athletics director post

Wisconsin-Green Bay has selected Kenneth R. Bothof as director of intercollegiate athletics, effective January 1, 2002. Bothof succeeds Dennis "Otis" Chambers , who stepped down August 30.

Bothof has been associate athletics director for external operations at Saint Louis. Before joining the athletics department at Saint Louis, Bothof served as senior associate director of athletics at Idaho State. He also worked as assistant athletics director for ticket operations at San Jose State for four years. Bothof formerly taught and coached at Denison (Iowa) Community Schools and Storm Lake (Iowa) Community Schools.

The 1980 Buena Vista graduate earned a bachelor of arts degree in education and competed on the baseball and men's basketball squads. In addition to being a four-year letter-winner and a 1980 all-Iowa Conference selection in baseball, he also earned two letters in basketball. Bothof has finished coursework for a degree in athletics administration at San Jose State.

GENERAL

CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICERS

Oswald P. Bronson announced plans to retire as president at Bethune-Cookman, effective in 2004 ... New Paltz State chose Steven G. Poskanzer as interim president. Poskanzer has been vice-provost for academic affairs for the State University of New York System ... Donald L. Tuski was named as president at Olivet. Tuski has been vice-president for academic affairs at the school.

DIRECTORS OF ATHLETICS

Scott Musa was elevated to interim athletics director at Shenandoah to succeed the late Dave Dutton. Musa has been head women's lacrosse coach, assistant athletics director and athletics communications director ... Eckerd named George Meese as acting athletics director, effective February 14, 2002, succeeding Jim Harley. Meese, who earned a doctorate in English language and literature from Chicago, joined Eckerd in 1987 to design the school's Writing Excellence program.

SENIOR WOMAN ADMINISTRATOR

Army chose Debra Dalton as senior woman administrator.

ASSOCIATE ATHLETICS DIRECTOR

Sam Houston State named John Lumley as associate athletics director.

ASSISTANT DIRECTORS
OF ATHLETICS

Mike Tuberosa was chosen as assistant athletics director for communications and sports information director at Drexel ... New England appointed Carrah Fisk as assistant director of athletics and head softball coach ... Western New England selected Cyndi Costanzo as assistant director of athletics.

COACHES

Men's basketball -- Tommy Amaker, head coach at Michigan, signed a five-year contract ... Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski agreed to a contract extension through at least 2011. Krzyzewski has guided the program to a 533-164 record and earned national titles in 1991, 1992 and 2001 since assuming head coaching duties in 1981 ... Steve McClain signed a four-year contract extension through the 2008-09 season as head coach at Wyoming.

Men's basketball assistant -- Roy Beekman assumed responsibilities as an assistant coach at Long Island.

Women's basketball -- Renssalear named John Greene as head coach.

Women's basketball assistant -- Lesley Morgan was named as an assistant coach at Western New England.

Football -- Joe Kimball resigned as head coach at Mercyhurst ... Michigan awarded head coach Lloyd Carr with a two-year contract extension through 2008 ... San Diego State released Ted Tollner as head coach. Tollner will become a special assistant to the athletics director with an emphasis on fund-raising ... Bill Hart, head coach at Lenoir-Rhyne, will not be retained next season ... Texas Lutheran's Bryan Marmion resigned as head coach. Marmion has guided the program since 1997 ... Steve Miller resigned as head coach at Cornell College ... Cheyney's John Parker resigned as head coach ... Dave Jaumotte resigned as head coach at St. Francis (Pennsylvania) ... Southern Methodist released Mike Cavan as head coach, effective at the end of the season. Cavan has guided the program to a 21-33 record since assuming head coaching responsibilities in 1997.

Men's and women's golf assistant -- Michael Henry was named as an assistant women's coach at Northwestern, replacing Kevin Lynch.

Men's and women's ice hockey assistant -- Western New England selected Dave McKenna as an assistant men's coach.

Men's and women's lacrosse -- Todd Sharp assumed responsibilities as head men's lacrosse and alpine skiing coach at New England.

Men's and women's lacrosse assistants -- Pfeiffer named Russ McDonald as assistant men's coach ... Dartmouth chose A.J. Stevens as an assistant men's coach ... Meghan McNamara was appointed as an assistant women's coach at Stony Brook.

Men's soccer -- Chris Gnehm resigned as head coach at Ferrum ... Pfeiffer appointed Steve Brdarski as head coach ... DePaul named Craig Blazer as head coach ... Nick Mykulak resigned as head coach at Stevens Tech. The school appointed Tim O'Donohue as Mykulak's successor.

Softball -- Hiram hired Susan Woodford as head coach. Woodford has been head softball coach at Atlantic Shores Christian School in Virginia since 1993 and formerly was head field hockey coach at Hiram from 1984 to 1986.

Men's and women's swimming and diving -- Western Illinois chose Kelly Byrne as interim head coach for the 2001-02 season. Byrne has been a men's and women's graduate assistant coach with the program for two seasons.

Men's and women's tennis -- Mike Roberts was appointed head men's coach at Methodist, succeeding Christina Mullin. Roberts has been head varsity tennis coach at Lumberton (North Carolina) High School.

Men's and women's volleyball -- Cora Thompson was elevated to head coach at Tufts ... Rhode Island College's Kristen Norberg announced plans to retire as head women's coach ... Cheryl Carlson stepped down as head coach at Virginia Commonwealth to accept duties as assistant director of compliance services at the school. Carlson, who has served as head coach since 1995, has worked in the compliance office since the summer.

Wrestling assistant -- Western New England appointed Rodney Smith as an assistant coach.

STAFF

Athletic trainers -- Kim O'Leary was named as head athletic trainer and Mike Vallee was added as an athletic trainer at Western New England.

Sports information -- B.J. Sohn was hired as sports information director at North Florida. Sohn has been a media services coordinator with the NBA's San Antonio Spurs.

Strength and conditioning -- Bradley chose Ron Wright as head strength and conditioning coordinator, replacing Jeff Macy and interim coordinator John Davis. Davis will return to responsibilities as assistant strength and conditioning coordinator. Since 1997, Wright has worked as an assistant strength and conditioning coordinator at Wichita State.

CONFERENCES

Danny Morrison assumed responsibilities as commissioner at the Southern Conference.

NATIONAL OFFICE

The national office hired Scott Fosler as assistant director of promotions. Fosler has been assistant marketing director for intercollegiate athletics at Arizona.

Arthur Hightower was named as a professional development program coordinator at the NCAA. Most recently, Hightower has been an academic counselor at Houston.

Bo Kerin was chosen as a membership services representative at the national office. Kerin has been a compliance coordinator at Mississippi State.

ETC.

AGREEMENTS

The National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics announced the continued financial support of its John McLendon Memorial Minority Postgraduate Scholarship Awards by Sears, Roebuck and Co. Since 1999, Sears has contributed a total of $80,000, including this year's donation of $40,000. Five awards of $10,000 each are presented annually to senior minority students who intend to pursue graduate degrees in athletics administration. John McLendon, the scholarship's namesake, was the first black basketball coach hired by a predominantly white school. He guided Cleveland State from 1966 to 1969. McLendon, who also coached at North Carolina Central, Hampton, Tennessee State and Kentucky State, served as an athletics administrator as well.

CORRECTIONS

Three Division I legislative proposals that had been listed as having been initially approved by the Division I Management Council in the November 5 issue of The NCAA News were in fact defeated. The proposals, listed incorrectly in the Legislative Actions chart on pages 12-13, are No. 01-3 (Recruiting -- Tryouts -- Women's Volleyball); No. 01-81 (Recruiting -- Evaluations -- Softball); and No. 01-82 (Recruiting -- Precollege Expenses -- Learning Disability Testing). Also, the effective date of Proposal No. 01-55-1 is April 1, 2002.

A graphic accompanying a wrestling feature in the November 19 issue of The NCAA News contained incorrect information. The graphic regarding television viewership for the 2001 Division I Wrestling Championships incorrectly listed the number of households as the number of viewers. Since there are about 2.48 people per household, about 791,120 people watched the event.

NOTABLES

Tara VanDerveer, Marianne Stanley, Cindy Brogdon and Kamie Ethridge are among the eight 2002 inductees into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame. VanDerveer, head coach at Stanford, guided the program to two NCAA Division I national championships and led the United States Olympic women's team to a gold medal in 1996. Stanley captured three national championships at Old Dominion and currently works as an assistant coach in the WNBA. Brogdon competed at Mercer and Tennessee and was a member of the 1976 silver-medal Olympic team. Ethridge helped Texas complete a 34-0 season and win a national championship in 1986 in addition to being a member of the 1988 gold-medal Olympic team.

Roger Staubach, former quarterback at Navy and with the NFL's Dallas Cowboys, was chosen as the 2002 winner of the Tuss McLaughry Award, presented by the American Football Coaches Association. The award is the organization's highest honor and is given to a distinguished American in recognition of service to others. Staubach, a 1964 Heisman Trophy winner and member of the NFL Hall of Fame, is a board member for American Airlines, the Children's Scholarship Fund and the Children's Cancer Fund and formerly was a board member for the United Way of America and the Salvation Army National Board of Advisors. DeOrmond "Tuss" McLaughry, the award's namesake, served as head coach at Westminster (Pennsylvania), Amherst (1922-25), Brown (1926-40) and Dartmouth (1941-55) before eventually assuming duties as the AFCA's first full-time secretary-treasurer in 1960.

DEATHS

Former athletics director Tom Kinder died October 22. Kinder, 59, was athletics director and chairman of health and physical education at Bridgewater (Virginia).

Davis Paschall, former president at William and Mary, died October 25.

Hofstra baseball player Gennaro "Jerry" Gambardella died November 14 after collapsing during a touch football game. Gambardella, 19, hit .293 and drove in 11 runs during the 2001 season.

Former Western Kentucky basketball player Oran McKinney died November 16 after a battle with cancer. McKinney was a four-year letter-winner with the program and captured recognition as an all-American in 1943.

--Compiled by Leilana McKindra