Murray takes top football post at Benedictine

Murray has guided the football program at Dubuque for the last four seasons, in addition to serving as assistant baseball coach from 1999 to 2000. Before joining Dubuque, Murray spent 10 seasons as defensive coordinator at Illinois Wesleyan, where he also was head men's and women's track coach, golf coach and recruiting coordinator. In 1986-87, Murray worked as athletics recruiting coordinator and assistant football coach at MacMurray.

A two-sport student-athlete at Illinois Wesleyan, Murray was a starting tight end for two seasons and a baseball infielder for four years. He earned a bachelor's degree in business administration from Illinois Wesleyan in 1984 and currently is working toward a master's degree in athletics administration at Illinois State.

CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

Roy J. Nirschel was appointed as president at Roger Williams. Nirschel has been president at Newbury ... Heidelberg announced Kenneth J. Porada as interim president. Porada has been vice-president for academic affairs and dean of the college at the school since 1990 and a member of the faculty since 1978.

DIRECTORS OF ATHLETICS

Don Lemish, athletics director at Longwood since April 2000, announced plans to retire, effective January 1, 2002 ... Howard Payne chose Steve Rhodes as athletics director ... Tim Van Alstine was named as athletics director at Western Illinois to succeed the retired Helen Smiley ... Benedictine (Illinois) selected John Ostrowski as acting athletics director, replacing John Stachniak. Ostrowski has been assistant athletics director for three years and head baseball coach for 29 seasons.

SENIOR WOMAN
ADMINISTRATOR

Long Island named Jayne Ciarlante as senior woman administrator.

ASSOCIATE DIRECTORS
OF ATHLETICS

John Heisler was named as associate athletics director for media relations, broadcast properties and contest scheduling at Notre Dame ... Rick Goeb resigned as senior associate athletics director at Alaska Fairbanks to become athletics director at Bemidji State. Alaska Fairbanks appointed Kevin Rapp as Goeb's successor for the 2001-02 season ... Towson chose Margie Tversky as associate athletics director for compliance and student services ... Union (New York) named Charles E. McClinton Jr. as associate director of athletics. Most recently, McClinton has been with USA Hockey, Inc. ... Tim O'Connell was elevated to associate athletics director/director of the University of Dayton Arena. O'Connell has worked as assistant athletics director and director of the arena since July 1998 ... Texas Tech selected Steve Downing as associate athletics director for sports programs.

ASSISTANT DIRECTORS
OF ATHLETICS

COACHES

Baseball -- Chad Donsbach was selected as head coach at Defiance ... Western Illinois named Stan Hyman as head coach ... Steve Kittrell, head coach at South Alabama, signed a four-year contract extension.

Baseball assistants -- Brent Achord assumed duties as an assistant coach at Carson-Newman ... Manhattan promoted assistant Tom Sowinski to associate head coach.

Men's basketball -- Stan Joplin, head coach at Toledo, signed a five-year contract extension through the 2005-06 season ... Missouri awarded head coach Quin Snyder with a contract extension through the 2005-06 season. Synder has guided the program to a 38-26 mark in two seasons.

Men's basketball assistants -- Andy Kennedy was selected as an assistant coach at Cincinnati ... Pat Price resigned as an assistant coach at Connecticut College ... Minnesota State-Mankato chose Mike Schott as an assistant coach ... Hobart named Carl Wenzel as an assistant coach ... Tom Sorboro was added as an assistant coach at James Madison ... Appalachian State chose John Braswell as an assistant coach ... New Hampshire selected Jim Woods as an assistant coach ... Eric Hanna was named as an assistant coach at Vassar. For the past three seasons, Hanna has served as an assistant at Capital ... Dedrique Taylor was hired as an assistant at Loyola Marymount. Taylor spent last season as an assistant at UC Davis ... Jamie Harless and Aundrey Wright were added as assistants at California (Pennsylvania). Harless has been head men's basketball coach, assistant baseball coach and a golf instructor at Kenyon. Wright served as an assistant at Erskine during the past year ... Matt Allen was awarded duties as an assistant coach at Campbell ... Queens added Josh Schertz as top assistant coach. Schertz, who succeeds Nate Dixon, has been an assistant at Lynn.

Women's basketball -- Bluffton named Cathy Bonner as head coach ... Maggie Lonergan assumed responsibilities as head coach at Catholic ... Colorado College appointed Kelly Mahlum as head coach to succeed Julie Soriero. Mahlum has spent the past two years as head coach at Greensboro ... Benedictine (Illinois) chose Jennifer Murphy as head coach. For the past two seasons, Murphy has been an assistant at Winthrop ... Julia Yeater resigned after 11 years as head coach at Wisconsin-Whitewater ... Laura Vanderbeck was chosen as head coach and sports information director at Agnes Scott to succeed Laura LeDuc. For the past two years, Vanderbeck has been an assistant women's basketball and volleyball coach at Grinnell ... Toledo's Mark Ehlen signed a five-year contract as head coach ... Missouri's head coach Cindy Stein signed a contract extension through 2005-2006.

Women's basketball assistants -- Valdosta State appointed Jennifer Head as an assistant coach ... Centenary chose Melissa Erickson as an assistant coach ... Steve Cassity was selected as an assistant at Wichita State ... New Jersey Institute of Technology added Kim Bowen and Tammy Millsaps as full-time assistants and Sue Phillips as a part-time assistant ... Craig Kennedy was elevated to an assistant coach and Carolyn Jones-Young was selected as an assistant coach at Auburn ... Carson-Newman appointed Matt Acton as an assistant coach ... Amy McKellar was awarded assistant coaching responsibilities at Iona ... Mike Wagstaff was named as an assistant coach at Pfeiffer ... Augustana (South Dakota) hired Travis Traphagen as an assistant coach. Traphagen, who has been an assistant coach at Wayne State (Nebraska) for the past two seasons, replaces Mike Jewett ... Flora Willie was hired as an assistant at North Alabama. Willie spent last season as an assistant at Armstrong Atlantic State.

Cheerleading -- Catawba appointed Sheila Pace as head coach.

Men's and women's cross country -- Joan Hansen-Lester was named as head women's cross country coach and assistant women's track coach at Iowa ... Bucknell chose Kevin Donner as head men's and women's cross country and track and field coach ... Greg Ryan was appointed as head men's and women's coach at Cal State Hayward. For the past six years, Ryan has coached cross country and track distance runners at Sacramento State ... David Hall resigned as head cross country and track and field coach at Charlotte ... Longwood appointed Jason Hamm as head men's and women's coach. The program is scheduled to begin competition in the fall. Hamm, who also will serve as assistant men's basketball coach, has been assistant boys' basketball coach at Ryan (Texas) High School ... Southern New Hampshire hired Kevin Beck as head men's coach. Since 1999, Beck, who replaces Paul Dutton, has served as a head boys' and girls' cross country and track coach at the high-school level.

Men's and women's cross country assistants -- Brian Beil was hired as assistant men's and women's coach at George Washington. For the past year, Beil has been an assistant cross country and track coach at East Carolina ... Iona chose Jason Saretsky as assistant men's and women's cross country and track coach ... Joseph Dorohovech was hired as assistant men's and women's coach at Marywood. During the 2000 season, Dorohovech worked as an assistant at Scranton.

Fencing assistant -- Aaron Kandlik was chosen as an assistant men's and women's coach at Vassar. Kandlik most recently has been an assistant at UC San Diego.

Field hockey -- Nichole Fureman was selected as head coach at Catawba ... Sarah Sobon was hired as head coach at Randolph-Macon. The former assistant coach at Washington (Maryland) most recently has been head varsity field hockey and head junior varsity lacrosse coach at The Hun School of Princeton (New Jersey).

Field hockey assistant -- Brown promoted assistant coach Tara Harrington to associate head coach. Harrington has worked as an assistant with the program for the past three seasons.

Men's and women's golf -- North Dakota State tabbed Steve Zarr as head women's coach to replace Jennifer Volkerding. Zarr has been an assistant golf professional at the Fargo Country Club since 1997 ... Keith Whittenmore was awarded duties as head men's and women's coach at Limestone ... Shawn Durocher was appointed as head women's coach at Mount Holyoke. Durocher has been assistant golf professional for the past three years at Delray Dunes Golf Club in Florida ... Manhattan awarded head swimming coach Walter Olsewski with additional duties as head golf coach. Olsewski will retain head swimming coach responsibilities ... Steve Richards was chosen as head women's coach at Franklin, replacing Tracy Chapman. From 1998 to 2000, Richards was dean of admissions and financial aid at the school.

Men's and women's golf assistant -- Arkansas named John Sadie as an assistant coach.

Men's and women's gymnastics -- West Chester's Jen Teneza resigned as head women's coach ... Brown selected Tom Miller as head women's coach.

Men's and women's gymnastics assistant -- Paul Scardina accepted duties as an assistant women's coach at Missouri.

Men's and women's ice hockey -- Salve Regina hired Christopher MacPherson as head men's coach. For the past five seasons, MacPherson has worked as an assistant at Skidmore.

Men's and women's ice hockey assistants -- Lebanon Valley hired Ted Russell as an assistant coach ... Jack Sweeney and Jason Fairman were added as assistant men's coaches at Iona.

Men's and women's lacrosse -- T.W. Johnson was chosen as head men's coach at Limestone ... UC Davis added Elaine Jones as head women's coach ... William J. Gorrow Jr. was hired as head men's coach at Franklin & Marshall, succeeding Dave Webster. For the past nine years, Gorrow has been head coach at Anne Arundel (Maryland) Community College ... Marc Van Arsdale resigned as head men's coach at Pennsylvania to become an assistant men's coach at Virginia ... J. David Zazzaro was hired as head coach at Colorado College. Zazzaro has been head men's coach at Colby.

Men's and women's lacrosse assistants -- Ohio State named Michael Scerbo as an assistant women's coach ... Penn State hired Greg Jackson as assistant men's coach and Andrea Hanley as assistant women's coach.

Men's and women's rowing -- Tessa Spillane was tabbed as head men's and women's coach at Lewis and Clark. Spillane was a novice coach at Mount Holyoke.

Men's and women's rowing assistants -- Carrie Hagen and Katie Summy were added as assistants at Sacramento State ... George Washington selected Samantha Byrd as assistant women's coach to replace Angela Hart, who resigned.

Men's soccer -- Kosmas Mouratidis was promoted to head coach at Bethany (West Virginia) to replace John Cunningham. Mouratidis has spent the past season as assistant head coach with the program ... Canisius added Jim Hesch as head coach. Hesch has served as an assistant at Fredonia State for the past year ... John Krohe was hired as head coach at Illinois College. Krohe replaces John Mansholt ... Benedictine (Illinois) chose David Linenberger as head coach. Linenberger has worked the past two years as the Region II national staff coach for the United States Soccer Federation and will retain his responsibilities with the USSF ... Montevallo appointed Ryan Pratt as head coach.

Men's soccer assistants -- Dartmouth named Greg Vogel as an assistant coach ... Erik Washington assumed responsibilities as an assistant coach at Towson. Washington, who replaces Peter Medd, retired from playing professional soccer at the end of the 2001 season and coached at the high-school level last fall ... St. Joseph's (Indiana) hired Matt Norton as an assistant coach. Norton is a 2001 graduate of the school ... Brandon Bowman was chosen as assistant men's and women's coach at Transylvania. Bowman was head men's coach at Elmira last season.

Women's soccer -- Patricia Hughes was appointed as head coach at Montevallo ... Nichols named Matthew Okoh as head coach. Okoh, who succeeds Felicity Smith, currently competes professionally with MLS's New England Revolution.

Women's soccer assistants -- Heather Orman was hired as full-time assistant coach at Campbell. For the past two years, Orman has worked as assistant varsity and head junior varsity coach at Elmira ... Scott Gloden was chosen as an assistant coach at St. Joseph's (Indiana). Since 1999, Gloden has been a member of the sports marketing and promotions department at Michigan.

Softball -- Cal State Hayward named Cara Hoyt as head coach. Hoyt has been head coach at Highline (Washington) Community College for seven years ... Brent Kuker accepted responsibilities as head softball and head women's tennis coach at Upper Iowa ... Manhattanville chose Melissa Curley as head coach ... Brown hired Pam McCreesh as head coach ... Bob Brock was appointed as head coach at Sam Houston State ... DeSales named Rachel Turosey as head coach, succeeding Suzanne Feigley. Turosey has been head coach at Cedar Crest since 1997 ... Heather Rakosik was tabbed as head softball and assistant women's basketball coach at Ohio Wesleyan. Rakosik, who succeeds Eileen Reading, spent the 2001 season as head softball and assistant women's basketball coach at Hiram ... Dylan Hammons was hired as head coach at Kentucky Wesleyan. For the past three years, Hammons has been manager of softball training at the Players SportsPlex in Owensboro, Kentucky ... Kalamazoo selected Tracy Ciucci as head coach ... Dave Pyles was named as head coach at Rio Grande ... Lewis and Clark's Missy Smith resigned as head coach. Smith will continue as head women's basketball coach at the school ... Lees-McRae announced Barb Russo as head coach to replace Casey Bates. Russo also will work as sports information director.

Softball assistant -- Jennifer Cline was named as an assistant coach at Nebraska.

Men's and women's swimming and diving assistants -- South Carolina appointed Dan Phillips as an assistant coach ... Dawn Gerken was awarded duties as an assistant men's and women's coach. Gerken has been an assistant at Smith.

Synchronized swimming -- Heather Olson was named as head women's coach at Stanford. Olson, who was a volunteer assistant coach with the program last year, currently is working as director of the U.S. Synchronized Swimming National Team.

Men's and women's tennis -- St. Joseph's (Indiana) hired Donn Gobbie as head men's and women's coach and director of compliance. Gobbie, who replaces Ken Carrillo, has most recently served as head boys' tennis coach at Gary Roosevelt (Indiana) High School and as head girls' tennis coach at Hammond (Indiana) High School ... Jen Callen was appointed as head women's coach at North Carolina ... George Washington named Helen B. Andrews as head women's coach. Most recently, Andrews has been assistant tennis professional at the Columbia Country Club ... Michael Coleman was selected as head women's coach at George Mason, succeeding Gary Quam, who will continue as head men's tennis coach. Coleman has guided the men's and women's programs at Western Maryland for the past two seasons ... Alejandro Pino assumed duties as head men's and women's coach at Loras ... Ohio State named Chuck Merzbacher as head women's coach ... Stevan Kuzman was hired as head men's and women's coach at Union (New York) ... Michelle Walker was appointed as head women's tennis and assistant women's basketball coach at Randolph-Macon. Walker served as an assistant women's basketball coach from 1995 to 2000 and as recruiting/scouting assistant during the 2000-01 season at Mount Union ... Illinois-Chicago selected Hans Neufeld as head men's coach. Neufeld succeeds the retired Chuck Cunningham ... Brian Boland was hired as head men's coach at Virginia. Boland has been head coach at Indiana State since 1996-97 ... DePaul's head men's coach Mike Benson resigned.

Men's and women's tennis assistants -- LSU's Sally Calongne resigned as assistant women's coach ... Frank Polito Jr. was appointed as assistant women's coach at Ohio State ... Union (New York) added Joseph McMahon as an assistant.

Men's and women's track and field -- Virginia Commonwealth's Mia Pollard resigned as head women's track and field and cross country coach. Pollard has guided the programs since 1999. The school chose assistant Todd Morgan as interim head coach ... Ricky Vaughn was hired as head men's and women's track and field and cross country coach at Texas-Pan American. For the past three years, Vaughn has served as an assistant at LSU.

Men's and women's track and field assistants -- Jacksonville selected Ron Grigg as associate head coach ... LSU chose Kent Pagel as throws coach ... John Rembao resigned after four years as an assistant women's track and field coach and cross country coach at Texas. The school appointed John Hayes as Rembao's successor. Hayes has spent the past three seasons as head cross country coach at Morehouse.

Men's and women's volleyball -- West Chester appointed Sharon Bonaventure as full-time head women's coach ... Sarah Watters assumed head women's coaching duties at Marist ... Winthrop announced Joel McCartney as head women's coach ... Andrew Jay Joseph was hired as head women's coach and intramural and event coordinator at Agnes Scott. For the past year, Joseph has been head girls' and boys' volleyball coach and physics teacher at Fountain Valley School in Colorado ... Jim McLaughlin was chosen as head women's coach at Washington. For the past four seasons, McLaughlin has worked as head coach at Kansas State.

Men's and women's volleyball assistants -- Erin Meyers was awarded assistant women's coaching duties at Drake ... Candice O'Brien was chosen as an assistant women's coach at Lamar. O'Brien has been head coach at Niagara Community College for one season ... Adams State added Jamie Ivers and Katie Moskowitz as assistants. Ivers is a 2000 graduate of Cal State Fullerton. Moskowitz has been a head coach at the high-school level for two seasons ... Mary Jo Peppler assumed responsibilities as an assistant coach at Macalester. Peppler formerly was head coach at Utah State, Kentucky and Florida ... Santa Clara hired Katy Eldridge to succeed Dave Hollaway as top assistant coach. Eldridge, who has competed professionally for the past eight seasons, also spent the past season as an assistant junior varsity coach at the high-school level ... Christy Cochran and Robert Pulliza were added as assistant women's coaches at Texas. Cochran has been competing professionally in Europe and the United States for the past two years, and Pulliza has served as an assistant coach at Wisconsin for the past two seasons.

Wrestling -- Mark Holdern was named as head coach at Olivet. Holdern replaces the retired Jare Klein.

STAFF

Academic services assistant -- Jennifer L. Hayman was chosen as academic support assistant at George Washington. Hayman has been coaching junior varsity field hockey and middle school lacrosse at The Rivers School in Massachusetts.

Administrative -- Scott Nunez assumed duties as assistant to the director of athletics for internal operations at Southeastern Louisiana ... Cal State Fullerton selected Robert Scialdone as chief financial officer for athletics ... Roger Shultz was appointed director of corporate sales at Troy State. Shultz, who has served as co-host of a morning sports call-in radio show in Montgomery, Alabama, for the past three years, also will work with the Troy State Radio Network.

Assistant athletic trainers -- C.W. Post named Fred DeNisco as an assistant trainer ... Jennifer Pipkin was chosen as assistant athletic trainer at Westminster (Missouri). Pipkin fulfilled athletic training duties at Ball State, where she earned a master of science degree in sports management ... Lafayette promoted Dawn Schleiden to associate athletic trainer ... Tracye Rawls-Martin accepted responsibilities as assistant trainer at Long Island ... Lees-McRae hired Ed Livingston as assistant athletic trainer. Livingston has been a graduate assistant athletic trainer at Mississippi.

Broadcast -- Mike Legg was tabbed as director of broadcasting and sales at Western Kentucky. Legg, who also will fulfill play-by-play duties for football and basketball, has been the primary announcer for football and basketball at Southeast Missouri State.

Communications -- Katie Hull was selected as director of athletics public relations at Western Michigan.

Equipment manager -- Bob Sugar was named as equipment manager at C. W. Post ... Alaska Fairbanks hired Randy Pommenville as equipment manager and ice arena manager for the men's ice hockey squad.

Facilities -- Andrew Coughlin was selected as coordinator of athletics and recreational facilities at Rhode Island College ... Jacksonville appointed Scott Ditmer as facilities director. Last year, Ditmer was an assistant rowing coach at the school ... Fairfield named Phil Palumbo as director of the recreational complex and aquatics.

Marketing/promotions -- Troy State tabbed Hugh Phillips as director of promotions, operations and event management ... Elliot Darkatsh accepted duties as marketing director at Jacksonville.

Media relations -- Kenny Mossman was selected as director of athletics media relations at Oklahoma. Mossman has been been assistant athletics director for media relations at Illinois State ... East Carolina named Craig Wells as director of media relations. Wells was a product manager at Total Sports College Network for two years.

Recreation -- Joe Santorine was awarded responsibilities as coordinator of recreation services at Bucknell.

Sports information -- Centenary appointed David Pratt as sports information director ... St. Leo selected Walter Riddle Jr. as sports information director ... Michael MacEachern stepped down as sports information director at Lenoir-Rhyne, effective August 15, to become sports information director at Savannah A&D ... Yakik Rumley was hired as director of sports information at Manhattanville. Rumley has been assistant athletics director/director of sports information at Brooklyn ... Bobby Lee was named as sports information director at Albion, succeeding Robin Hartman. Lee has spent the past four years as sports information director at Muskingum ... Jason Eichelberger was hired as sports information director at Thomas More. Most recently, Eichelberger has worked as sports information director at Randolph-Macon.

Sports information assistants -- Stephen F. Austin chose James Dixon as an assistant sports information director. Dixon has been with the Northern Arizona sports information office for five years ... Jason Gill and Kelly Harrison were added as sports information interns at Rollins for the 2001-02 athletics season ... Muhlenberg hired Mike Huber as assistant sports information director. For the past two years, Huber has been a student intern in the DeSales sports information office ... Nicholas Mirkovich was named as assistant sports information director at San Diego ... Manhattan appointed Margaret Ellis as sports information graduate assistant.

Strength and conditioning -- Portland State named Jim Jacobson as strength and conditioning coach ... Todd Gilkey was released as head strength and conditioning coach at Eastern Michigan.

CONFERENCES

The Eastern College Athletic Conference named Bill Fortin as director of soccer training and development.

Kerry Van Malderghem resigned as assistant director of media relations at the Northeast-10 Conference to become assistant director of athletics communications at Colgate. The Northeast-10 Conference selected Ken Belbin as Van Malderghem's successor.

Shane Lyons was hired as assistant commissioner for compliance and governance at the Atlantic Coast Conference.

The Southwestern Athletic Conference hired Wallace Dooley, Jr. as media relations director to replace Lonza Hardy, Jr., who became athletics director at Mississippi Valley State. Dooley has been sports information coordinator at Tennessee State.

Gregg Kaye was added as an assistant commissioner at the Sunshine State Conference. Kaye, who has worked in private business for the last four years, replaces Walter Riddle.

The Atlantic Sun selected Devlin Pierce as assistant commissioner for championships and media relations, succeeding Tom Snyder. Pierce has spent the past four years as director of media relations at Georgia State.

The Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference named Ellen Zavian as commissioner, succeeding Rich McGlynn. Zavian, who has worked as a sports attorney and agent, will serve as interim chair of the sport management department at George Washington's School of International Institute of Tourism Studies.

Darryl Matus was chosen as administrative assistant for the Sunshine State Conference, succeeding Shawn Chapman. For the past two years, Matus has served as assistant sports information director at Lynn.

DEATHS

Former Villanova basketball player Roscoe Harris died recently of a stab wound to the heart. Harris, who was 28, competed at Villanova from 1992 through 1995 before transferring to Rowan and participating on a Division III national championship team there.

J.J. Jewel, a former Western Kentucky football quarterback, died in an automobile accident July 24. He was 29. Jewel played at Middle Tennessee State then transferred to Western Kentucky where he established a school mark for total offense in a game.

Florida freshman Eraste Autin collapsed and died July 25 after experiencing heat stroke. Autin, slated to play fullback, was 18.

--Compiled by Leilana McKindra