Tommasi takes Texas Lutheran soccer post

Before joining Texas Lutheran, Tommasi served as assistant director and full-time athletic trainer for the Classics Soccer Club in San Antonio. In addition, Tommasi worked as a volunteer assistant women's soccer coach at Trinity (Texas). In 1999, Tommasi fulfilled responsibilities as an assistant women's coach at Mississippi State and assumed head coaching duties with the program from September 1999 through the 2000 spring season. Tommasi also has coached at the high-school level and served as director of girls' training with the Richmond Capitals Soccer Club from 1993 to 1997.

Tommasi competed collegiately as a striker with the men's soccer team at Richmond, where he earned a bachelor's degree in economics.

CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICERS

Daniel A. Felicetti resigned as president at Capital, effective May 20 ... Olivet President Frederico J. Talley resigned, effective July 1. Talley will continue with the school as a professor of education.

DIRECTORS OF ATHLETICS

SENIOR WOMAN ADMINISTRATOR

Julie Soriero, head women's basketball coach at Colorado College for the past two seasons, was elevated to senior woman administrator and senior associate athletics director. Soriero, who spent much of the academic year serving as interim athletics director, relinquished head coaching responsibilities.

ASSISTANT DIRECTORS OF ATHLETICS

Carol Anne Beach resigned after two years as assistant athletics director at Mount Holyoke to become the athletics director at Concord Academy in Concord, Massachusetts ... Greensboro's Scott Rash resigned as assistant athletics director for recruitment and marketing to become assistant director for development at Randolph-Macon. Rash also has served as head baseball coach at the school for the past nine years ... Mark Pray was appointed as assistant athletics director for communications at Miami (Florida). Pray has spent the past four years as director of media relations for the WNBA and most recently has served as director of communication projects for the NBA.

COACHES

Baseball -- Jim Case was named as head coach at Jacksonville State to replace Rudy Abbott. Case has been an assistant coach at Mississippi State for the past four years ... Brian Gillogly was selected as head coach at Luther. Gillogly has been associate head coach at Ripon ... Canisius hired Mark Notaro as head coach. Notaro succeeds Don Colpoys, who will relinquish responsibilities at the end of the 2001 season.

Men's basketball -- Pepperdine hired Paul Westphal as head coach. Westphal, who succeeds Jan van Breda Kolff, formerly coached in the NBA with the Phoenix Suns and Seattle SuperSonics ... Johnny Jones was appointed as head coach at North Texas replacing Vic Trilli ... McNeese State hired Tic Price as head coach. Price, who replaces Ron Everhart, was associate head coach with the program last season ... Georgia extended the contract of head coach Jim Harrick for two years, through 2005 ... Stan Heath was hired as head coach at Kent State to replace Gary Waters. Heath has been an assistant at Michigan State for the past five seasons ... Rob Lanier was selected as head coach at Siena. Lanier, who succeeds Louis Orr, has been an assistant at Texas for the past two seasons ... Chris Carideo was promoted to head coach at Merchant Marine to replace Bill Lange. Carideo has been an an assistant with the program since the summer of 2000 ... Utah State extended the contract of Stew Morrill for 10 years through 2011. Morrill has guided the program to a 71-25 mark in three seasons ... Tom Penders resigned as head coach at George Washington, effective June 30. Penders coached for three seasons at the school ... Hardin-Simmons appointed Dylan Howard as head coach ... Skip Prosser was hired as head coach at Wake Forest, succeeding Dave Odom. For the past seven years, Prosser has led the program at Xavier ... Quincy chose Mike Foster as head coach. For the past nine years, Foster has worked as an assistant with the program ... Central Michigan extended the contract of head coach Jay Smith through 2005.

Women's basketball -- Carol Sensley assumed head coaching duties at McNeese State. Sensley, who succeeds Bridget Martin, has served as an assistant at Mississippi ... Haverford selected James P. Osborne as head coach to succeed interim head coach Jim Haney. Osborne has spent the past two seasons as head women's coach at Trinity College in Vermont. Haney will continue as head volleyball coach at the school ... Central (Iowa) appointed Mick Angel as head coach to replace Gary Boeyink. Angel has been coaching at the high-school level ... Sherry Winn resigned as head coach at Southern Colorado to become head coach at Charleston (West Virginia). Winn led the Southern Colorado program for five seasons ... Texas Tech awarded head coach Marsha Sharp a five-year contract extension ... Lee Ann Riley was hired as head coach at Stephen F. Austin ... Matthew Donohue was chosen as head coach at Bloomfield ... Brigham Young head coach Trent Shippen resigned, then accepted an assistant coaching post with the program. Shippen guided the squad for four seasons. Assistant coach Jeff Judkins was elevated to head coach ... Air Force released head coach Sue Darling after three years ... St. Joseph's (Pennsylvania) named Cindy Anderson as head coach. Anderson, who succeeds Stephanie Gaitley, has been head coach at Loyola (Maryland) for the past two and a half seasons ... Steve Marcil was awarded responsibilities as head coach at Westfield State. For the past five years, Marcil has been an assistant coach at American International.

Men's and women's cross country -- Curry chose Mary Kate O'Brien as head women's coach.

Football -- UNLV extended the contract of head coach John Robinson through the 2005 season. Robinson was named the 2000 Mountain West Conference coach of the year and enters his third season as head coach of the program.

Men's and women's ice hockey -- Rick Gotkin and Michael Sisti signed three-year contract extensions as head men's and women's coaches, respectively, at Mercyhurst. Gotkin has served as head men's coach since 1988, and Sisti joined the women's program in March 1999 ... Alaska Anchorage selected John Hill as head coach.

Men's and women's lacrosse -- Craig Camp was chosen as head men's coach at St. John Fisher. The program will start competition next year. Camp currently serves as head coach at Monroe Community College in Rochester, New York.

Men's soccer -- Massachusetts-Dartmouth's Niall O'Donnell resigned as head coach ... Rochester hired Christopher Apple as head coach to succeed Mike Pilger, who was appointed head coach of the Cleveland Crunch of the National Professional Soccer League. Apple was an assistant coach at Notre Dame from 1996 to 2000 and was interim head coach at the school from March to December 2000.

Women's soccer -- Kwame Lloyd resigned as director of soccer and women's lacrosse at Whittier, effective April 30, to assume responsibilities as head women's soccer coach and assistant director of support services at Christopher Newport.

Women's soccer assistant -- Edwin Schieferstein resigned as an assistant coach at Caldwell.

Softball -- Regis (Colorado) head coach John Horan resigned.

Men's and women's volleyball -- Redlands hired Becky Schmidt as head coach. Schmidt currently works as a volunteer assistant coach at Miami (Ohio) while working toward a master of science degree in sport behavior and performance ... Jerritt Elliott was chosen as head coach at Texas to succeed Jim Moore. Elliott has coached at Southern California for the past six years, serving four as an assistant and the past two as interim head coach ... Colgate head women's coach Dorinda von Tersch resigned ... Allison Keeley was hired as head women's coach at Villanova ... Portland State selected Jeff Mozzochi as head women's coach ... Iradge Ahrabi-Fard retired as head women's coach at Northern Iowa. The school appointed Bobbi Petersen as head coach.

Men's and women's volleyball assistant -- Fairfield hired Paul Cantrell as an assistant women's coach. Cantrell has served as head women's coach at Valdosta State for the past six seasons.

STAFF

Marketing and promotions -- Cicely Johnson was chosen as director of athletics marketing and promotions at Georgia Southern. Johnson, who has been an athletics administration, marketing and promotions assistant at Michigan State, succeeds Matt Brown.

Sports information assistants -- Bo Ryan relinquished responsibilities as associate sports information director at Bradley to focus full-time on the position of head men's and women's golf coach. Ryan, a member of the sports information staff for 14 years, has guided the men's team for 12 years and has led the women's squad since 1997 ... West Virginia added Phil Caskey as assistant sports information director. For the past two years, Caskey has served as a graduate assistant in the school's sports communications office.

Strength and conditioning -- Shigeru Sano was added as director of strength and conditioning at Ohio. For the past five years, Sano has fulfilled duties as assistant director of strength and conditioning at Virginia Tech ... Bowling Green appointed Aaron Hillmann as strength and conditioning coach. Since 1998, Hillmann has been assistant coordinator of strength and conditioning at Notre Dame.

CONFERENCES

Nancy Smith resigned as director of media relations at the Mid-Continent Conference to become director of athletics marketing and promotions at Judson College.

NATIONAL OFFICE

Nathan Mallison was promoted to network administrator at the national office. Mallison most recently has been a technical specialist/desk-support person.

AGREEMENTS

The GMAC Bowl, previously the Mobile Alabama Bowl, and the Mid-American Conference signed an agreement to match the top pick from the Mid-American Conference and the second choice from Conference USA in the postseason game scheduled to air on ESPN2 at 7 p.m., Wednesday, December 19.

ETC.

CORRECTIONS

A reference to the winner of the USA Hockey women's ice hockey national championship in 2000 was incorrect in the Women's Frozen Four results story in the April 9 issue of The NCAA News. The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, women's ice hockey team won the final non-NCAA championship in 2000.

Three items regarding championships dates and sites were listed incorrectly in the spring sports championships previews in the April 23 issue of The NCAA News. The correct dates for the Division II Women's Lacrosse Championship are May 12-13, and the correct dates for the National Collegiate Women's Rowing Championship are May 24-26. Also, the host of the Division II Baseball Championship was inadvertently omitted. Valdosta State University will host the event in Montgomery, Alabama, May 26-June 2.

The calendar of approaching NCAA committee meetings listed the incorrect dates and site for the Division II Women's Lacrosse Committee meeting. The meeting will be June 12-14 in Avalon, New Jersey.

NOTABLES

Dean Blais, head men's hockey coach at North Dakota since 1994, was chosen as recipient of the Spencer Penrose award as the top collegiate hockey coach in the nation. The honor is presented by the American Hockey Coaches Association. Blais, who also captured the award after the 1997 season, guided this year's squad to the Western Collegiate Hockey Association regular-season title and an appearance in the championship game of the 2001 Men's Frozen Four.

Jackie Stiles, senior basketball player at Southwest Missouri State, was named as the Honda Award winner as the top woman athlete in her sport for 2000-01. Stiles, who this season became the leading scorer in Division I women's basketball with 3,398 points, helped her squad to an appearance in the 2001 Women's Final Four. She also captured Missouri Valley Conference player of the year recognition for the fourth straight season in addition to being selected to the conference's scholar-athlete first team.

DEATHS

Former Baylor student-athlete and coach Jack Wilson died April 11. As a student-athlete, Wilson competed in track, basketball and football. In 1940, he was chosen as a football all-American and went on to play professionally in the NFL. Wilson guided the track and field program at Baylor in the 1950s and also served as an assistant football coach at the school.

Former Georgia football player Sean Hummings died of a heart attack April 21. Hummings, 31, led Georgia with 25 receptions as a senior in 1990 and captured 60 receptions for 943 yards and four touchdowns in his career.

Charlie O'Hearn, former Yale football player, died April 19 at the age of 99. O'Hearn was the oldest living former Yale football player. The 1924 graduate of the school served as captain of the hockey and baseball teams and was a kicker for the football squad.

--Compiled by Leilana McKindra