Greensboro selects Payne for basketball post

Greensboro has chosen Ann Payne as head women's basketball coach. Payne's husband, Eddie Payne, is head men's basketball coach at the school.

Although Ann Payne has been out of the college coaching ranks for the past 14 years raising the couple's son, she has spent the time volunteering as a youth coach for her son's teams.

Payne began her collegiate coaching career in 1975 at Tift College, where she also served as coordinator of women's athletics. After two seasons there, she moved to Berry College, where she coached for three years. In 1981, Payne assumed the top post at Alabama. In her only season at the school, she guided the squad to a 21-12 record. Payne also has been head coach at North Carolina-Charlotte and Belmont Abbey.

Payne earned a bachelor's degree in elementary education from West Georgia College and a master's degree in physical education from North Georgia College. In addition to taking responsibility for the women's basketball program, Payne also will serve as assistant women's tennis coach at Greensboro.

CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICERS

Alabama State appointed Joe A. Lee as president. Lee has been president at Tougaloo College ... Richard E. McDowell resigned as president at Pittsburgh-Bradford, effective June 30, 2002. McDowell will continue as a professor of biology at the school ... Colorado School of Mines chose John U. Trefny as president. Trefny has been acting president ... John K. Waddell was named as president at Saint Paul's. Waddell has been president at Allen University ... Ronald M. Zaccari announced retirement plans as president at West Liberty State, effective August 15 ... Horace W. Fleming Jr. resigned as president at Southern Mississippi ... Mississippi University for Women named Lenore Prather as interim president. Prather formerly was chief justice of the Mississippi Supreme Court.

DIRECTORS OF ATHLETICS

Mark Devine, assistant athletics director at Providence, was selected as interim athletics director at the school. Devine has been with the athletics department since 1993 ... Scot Reisinger was promoted to director of athletics at Notre Dame (Maryland). For the past two years, Reisinger has served as assistant athletics director, sports information director and head basketball coach ... Jim Middleton was selected as athletics director at Southwest Baptist. Middleton has been head women's basketball coach at the school ... Winthrop's Tom Hickman was awarded a three-year contract extension through the 2004-05 academic year. Hickman has been athletics director since 1996, and is a member of the NCAA Division I Management Council and the Minority Opportunities and Interests Committee ... Plymouth State chose John P. Clark as athletics director. Clark has been interim athletics director at the school ... Percy L. Caldwell assumed responsibilities as director of athletics at Winston-Salem. Caldwell, who replaces Anne Little, has been director of planning and development and dean of instruction of arts and science at Iowa Valley Community College District ... UNLV appointed John Robinson as athletics director. Robinson also serves as head football coach ... John Griffith was named as athletics director at Daniel Webster. Griffith, who has been an associate athletics director with the school for five years, has fulfilled athletics director duties on an interim basis since the summer ... Colorado State hired Jeffrey Hathaway as director of athletics. Most recently, Hathaway has been executive associate athletics director at Connecticut.

SENIOR WOMAN ADMINISTRATORS

Daniel Webster appointed Danielle Miller as senior woman administrator and athletic trainer. Miller has been with the school for five years ... Juli Peterson was named as senior woman administrator and assistant athletics director for NCAA compliance at St Peter's. Peterson has been administrative assistant to the commissioner at the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference.

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COACHES

Baseball assistants -- Andrew Checketts was chosen as pitching coach at UC Riverside. Checketts, who replaces Rich Kleckner, has been pitching coach at Riverside (California) Community College ... Nevada chose Jay Uhlman as an assistant coach. Uhlman has spent the past two seasons as head coach at Los Angeles Harbor College ... Charles Spano was hired as an assistant at Mercyhurst ... Emory chose Bill Walkenbach as an assistant coach ... Pace appointed Jerry DeFabbia as an assistant coach. DeFabbia has served as an assistant at Iona for the past two years ... Terry Rooney was awarded duties as an assistant coach at Stetson ... Saint Joseph's (Indiana) hired John Russo III as an assistant coach. During the past year, Russo has fulfilled responsibilities as an assistant varsity coach at Antioch (Illinois) High School.

Men's basketball -- Ozarks (Arkansas) appointed Matt O'Connor as head coach ... Matt Dean was named head coach at Denison. For the past 10 seasons, Dean has worked as an assistant at Rhodes.

Men's basketball assistants -- Kentucky's Gregg Polinsky resigned as director of basketball operations to become assistant to the director of scouting for the NBA's New Jersey Nets ... Quinn Strander was elevated to assistant head coach at Nicholls State. Strander had been an assistant with the program since 1994 ... North Carolina-Asheville chose Nicholas McDevitt as an assistant coach ... Kentucky Wesleyan added Adam Burgess as second assistant coach to replace Kevin Brown. Burgess spent last season as a graduate assistant at Delta State ... Mercyhurst announced Todd Baxter as an assistant ... Austin Peay chose Jay Bowen as an assistant coach ... Terry Evans was hired as director of basketball operations at Oklahoma ... Tom Griffith was selected as an assistant coach at College Misericordia ... Indiana/Purdue-Indianapolis elevated Todd Howard to associate head coach. Howard has been an assistant for six seasons ... Kobie Baker was tabbed as an assistant coach at Troy State ... Indiana/Purdue-Indianapolis named Carlos Knox as an assistant coach ... Emory chose James Paulis as an assistant coach ... Sheldon Jones was hired as a full-time assistant and Chris Oney was hired as part-time assistant coach at Nicholls State ... Austin Peay State selected Jay Bowen as an assistant. Bowen, who has been head coach at East Central Community College for five seasons, succeeds Marty Gillespie.

Women's basketball -- Charleston Southern appointed Stephanie Lawrence Yelton as head coach ... Karen Barefoot was hired as head coach at Lenoir-Rhyne to succeed Karen Ruffo. For the past six seasons, Barefoot has worked as head women's coach at The Apprentice School in Newport News, Virginia ... South Carolina-Spartanburg tabbed Laura Timmons as head coach ... Maine Maritime added Craig D. Dagan as head women's basketball and soccer coach ... Whitman named Michelle Ferenz as head coach. Ferenz, who succeeds Lori Napier, has coached at the high-school and junior-high levels for the past 10 seasons ... Hope Semper was chosen as head women's basketball and tennis coach at Elmhurst. For the past six years, Semper has been head women's basketball coach, event left coordinator and compliance officer at Elgin Community College.

Women's basketball assistants -- Brooke Renkens was appointed as an assistant coach at St. John's (New York) ... Idaho State named Lynn Kennedy as an assistant coach ... Northwestern selected Sheila McMillan as an assistant ... Rachael McGrath assumed duties as an assistant coach at Quinnipiac. McGrath most recently worked as an assistant at Western Connecticut State ... Beth Connealy-Wandyes was named as an assistant coach at South Carolina-Aiken ... Meredith Pine was elevated to full-time assistant coach at Hofstra ... Cal State Northridge appointed Ken Turner as an assistant. Turner has guided the program at West Los Angeles College to a 63-32 record in three years ... Francis Marion named Stacy Bertrand as an assistant to succeed Mandy Decker. For the past three seasons, Bertrand has been senior team manager for the women's basketball program at Kansas State ... Lake Forest appointed Jacquie Vinje as an assistant. Last season, Vinje served as an assistant women's basketball and assistant volleyball coach at Viterbo University ... Cathy Pearson was selected as an assistant at Lawrence ... Mercyhurst added Karin Salem, Regina Ely and Emily Cline as assistants ... La'Tocshia Campfield was named as an assistant at Lander. For the past two years, Campfield has worked as an assistant coach at Columbus State ... Emory named Jeremy Martin as an assistant coach ... Fred Francello was chosen as an assistant coach at Army ... Penn State appointed Cara Consuegra as coordinator of women's basketball operations ... T.J. Weller was selected as an assistant coach at College Misericordia.

Men's and women's cross country -- Steve Keith was named as head women's cross country coach and assistant women's track and field coach at Alabama ... Carnegie Mellon awarded Drew M. Dershimer responsibilities as head women's cross country and assistant men's and women's track and field coach. Deshimer has been head men's and women's cross country and assistant track and field coach at Robert Morris for the past five years ... Kelly Lycan was chosen as head women's cross country and track coach at Western Michigan to replace Diane Russo. Lycan has been an assistant women's cross country and track assistant at Ball State for seven seasons ... Redlands added Sean Nixon as head coach. Nixon, who has been executive director of the Boys and Girls Club of Redlands, succeeds Matt Belfield ... Tina McDonie was promoted to head men's and women's coach at Lake Forest. McDonie, who has been an assistant coach for the past two seasons, also will serve as assistant men's and women's swimming coach ... Salve Regina awarded head women's coaching duties to Pam St. Martin.

Men's and women's cross country assistants -- Chicago added Maggie Zdziarska as an assistant men's and women's cross country and track and field coach. Zdziarska has been fulfilling the position on a part-time basis for two years ... Franklin & Marshall appointed Dan Kratzer as an assistant men's and women's coach for the 2001-02 academic year ... Southwest Baptist added Nathan Rucker as graduate assistant cross country and track coach ... Kevin Graham was awarded responsibilities as an assistant cross country and track and field coach at Emory ... Lynchburg named Matt Hayes as a graduate assistant men's and women's cross country and track and field coach ... Danny Laufer was appointed as an assistant cross country and track and field coach at Loyola (Illinois). Laufer has coached at Texas-Pan American.

Field hockey -- Davidson selected Christy Morgan as head coach ... Lynda Laeau was tabbed as head coach at Siena ... Connecticut College chose Debbie Humpage as head coach ... Heidi Poland resigned as head coach at Thomas. Poland guided the program for two seasons ... Frostburg State hired Nicole Bonvouloir as head coach. Bonvouloir is a 2001 graduate of Mercyhurst, where she competed in field hockey and lacrosse.

Football -- Western Kentucky agreed to a four-year contract extension with head coach Jack Harbaugh through December 31, 2005.

Football assistants -- Idaho State appointed Johnny Nansen as cornerbacks coach ... Montana State selected Jeff Alexander as running backs coach. Alexander has been linebackers coach at Montana State University-Northern for three seasons ... Mike Lazusky assumed responsibilities as offensive line coach at Defiance ... Fordham chose Chris Boden as quarterbacks coach, Marwan Maalouf as assistant offensive line coach, John Norton as linebackers coach and Shawn West as tight ends coach ... Todd Rucci was tabbed as a volunteer assistant offensive line coach at Franklin & Marshall. Rucci played eight seasons with the NFL's New England Patriots ... Emmanuel Burt was named as defensive line coach and Dawud Shabazz was named as a student assistant at Saint Joseph's (Indiana) ... Northern Iowa hired Theodore Gill as an assistant. This past season, Gill was defensive line coach for the XFL's LA Xtreme ... Altarik White was added as an assistant coach/running backs coach and Kevin Smith was added as an assistant coach/administrative assistant at New Jersey City ... Randolph-Macon tabbed Greg Carlson as an assistant coach. For the past 18 years, Carlson has led the program at Wabash to a 112-57-2 mark ... Doug Green was named as interim director of football operations at Illinois ... Rose-Hulman selected Marques Clayton as defensive line coach ... Craig Cummings, Mike Stamile and Dante Bari were added as assistant coaches at Merchant Marine ... John Fassel was chosen as receivers coach at Bucknell ... Merrimack chose David Fleming as linebackers coach ... Lloyd Spotted Wolf was tabbed as an assistant coach at Wisconsin-Eau Claire to replace Jeff Lutz. The school also added part-time assistants Tony Jennison and Ben Dallman as well as graduate assistant Ron Planz II ... Shenandoah named Mike Barton, Joe Burton, Jared Neal and Chris Tibbs as assistant coaches ... Dominic Morelli was named as director of football business operations at North Carolina. The school also announced Corey Holliday was named as director of development for football student-athletes ... Joe Lesesne was awarded volunteer tight ends and offensive tackles coach at Wofford. Lesesne retired last year after 28 years as president at the school ... Texas Southern added Donovan Miller as offensive line coach, Dearrion Snead as outside linebackers coach, Marcus Dowdell as running backs coach and Lonnie Phillips as graduate assistant coach.

Men's and women's golf -- San Diego State named Neale Stoner as interim head women's coach. Stoner formerly was head men's golf coach at the school ... Mitch Orser was appointed as head coach at Thomas ... Jim Cotner was chosen as head men's coach at Bucknell ... Notre Dame appointed John Jasinski as head men's coach. Jasinski has been head men's coach at Toledo ... Terrance Stewart was hired as head men's coach at North Carolina-Greensboro. For the past five seasons, Stewart has been head men's and women's coach at Lenoir-Rhyne.

Men's and women's golf assistant -- Felicia Brown was added as an assistant women's coach at San Diego State. For the past nine years, Brown has served in various capacities at the Lake San Marcos Resort and Country Club.

Men's and women's gymnastics -- San Jose State's Jackie Walker resigned after 17 seasons as head women's coach.

Men's and women's ice hockey -- Boston College's Jerry York signed a five-year contract as head men's coach.

Men's and women's lacrosse -- Ed Stephenson was hired as head men's and women's coach at Binghamton. The programs are scheduled to begin competition in 2002. Last season, Stephenson was an assistant at Hobart ... St. Bonaventure awarded Tony Zostant with responsibilities as head women's coach ... Jason Caulder was awarded duties as assistant men's coach at Colgate. Caulder served as head assistant men's coach at Roanoke for three years ... Anne Crosby was selected as head women's coach at Connecticut College ... Oneonta State added Stewart Moan as head men's coach and Laura Moan as head women's coach and assistant field hockey coach. Stewart Moan, who replaces Jim Nagle, has been head coach at Marymount for three seasons. Laura Moan, who has been head coach at Marymount for two seasons, replaces Michele Dombrowski as head women's lacrosse coach. Dombrowski will continue as full-time head field hockey coach at the school ... Quinnipiac hired Michael Spinner as head women's coach to succeed Shayna Luciani. Spinner spent last season as assistant men's coach and head women's club coach at Salisbury State.

Men's and women's lacrosse assistants -- Kris Heller was chosen as an assistant men's coach at Lees-McRae. Heller is a 2001 graduate of Pfieffer ... New Hampshire appointed Amanda Mazzarella as an assistant women's coach ... Caitlin McLean was selected as an assistant at William Smith. McLean is a recent graduate of Georgetown ... Hofstra named Kory Miller as an assistant women's coach ... Kendra King assumed duties as an assistant women's coach at Towson.

Men's soccer assistants -- Erik Ronning and Craig Schroeder were added as assistants at Northwestern ... Rob McCourt was named as an assistant coach at New Jersey City ... Thomas added Brad Pelletier as an assistant ... South Carolina appointed Donn Heikkila as an assistant ... Robin Joska was tabbed as assistant men's and women's coach at Kentucky Wesleyan. Joska is a 2001 graduate of the school ... Manhattanville added Blas Cardozo as an assistant coach ... Nick Bressler was hired as an assistant coach at Misericordia.

Men's and women's swimming and diving -- Binghamton chose Chris Zoltoski as head men's and women's diving coach. Zoltoski has most recently been coaching diving at Ithaca ... Johanna Doecke accepted responsibilities as head diving coach at Indiana/Purdue-Indianapolis. Doecke currently serves as head of the aquatic specialization-generalists degree program for the Indiana School of Physical Education at Indiana/Purdue-Indianapolis ... John Ames was selected as a diving coach at Georgia Tech.

Men's and women's swimming and diving assistants -- Heather Frazer was added as diving coach and Sandy Baldwin was added as an assistant swimming coach at William Smith ... Indiana hired Ron Turner as an assistant women's coach ... Paige Cull accepted responsibilities as graduate assistant swimming and water polo coach at Utica.

Men's and women's track and field -- Southern Maine tabbed Bruce Bickford as head men's track and field and cross country head coach ... Kevin Donner was selected as head men's and women's track and field and cross country coach at Bucknell. Donner has been the head coach at St. Francis (Pennsylvania) for the last six years ... Washington (Missouri) named Steve Rubin as head men's and women's coach ... Frank Kinkead was chosen as head men's and women's track and field and cross country coach at College Misericordia ... John Kropke assumed additional duties as head men's and women's coach at Eureka. Kropke enters his second year as an assistant football coach.

Men's and women's volleyball -- Ben Stroud, head men's coach at Southern Idaho, has taken a professional leave of absence. The school chose Jason Hou as interim head men's coach ... Olivet named Paul Evansen as head coach, replacing Dennis Richardson ... Russell Frey was elevated to head coach at Albion to succeed Darrell Sedersten. Frey was head junior varsity coach last season ... Connecticut College named Susan Kelly as interim head women's coach for the 2001 season ... David Breen was hired as head women's coach at Regis (Massachusetts) ... Mark Pryor was added as head coach at Southwest Baptist ... Frostburg State added Jeff Billington as head women's coach. For the past four years, Billington has guided the program at Paul VI (Virginia) High School to a 73-21 record ... Heather Oxley was appointed as head coach at Kentucky Wesleyan. Oxley, who was top assistant at Oakland City University, replaces Kelly Bennett.

STAFF

Academic services -- Illinois selected Andrew Prince as academic counselor for football and selected Anthoney Kinney as an academic counselor ... UC Riverside named David Spencer as academic coordinator.

Athletic trainers -- Walt McCurry assumed responsibilities as head athletic trainer at Anderson (South Carolina). McCurry replaces Tim Ellis ... Regis (Massachusetts) selected Devin Cashman as head athletic trainer ... Jeff Bright was hired as men's athletic trainer and athletic training instructor at Heidelberg. Bright, who has been head football trainer at Fordham for the past two years, replaces Jay Jonas ... UC Riverside named Tammy Gaw and Carolyn DiChiara as athletic trainers ... Mark Badurak, Richard Cercone and Ellise Spaulding were appointed as athletic trainers at Maine. Badurak was an assistant athletic trainer at Union (New York), Cercone was a graduate assistant athletic trainer at Sacred Heart and Spaulding has been an athletic trainer at the high-school level ... Deanna Bennett was hired as head athletic trainer at Missouri-Kansas City. Since 1998, Bennett has worked as assistant athletic trainer at Drake.

Assistant athletic trainers -- Wellesley named Amy Costa as assistant athletic trainer ... Lisa Himmelspach and Randy Ballard were appointed as assistant athletic trainers at Illinois ... Merchant Marine named Rob Alfheim as athletic training intern. The 2001 Sacred Heart graduate served as a student athletic trainer there for two years ... Utica hired Deena Albert as an assistant athletic trainer ... Todd John was selected as an assistant athletic trainer at Southwest Baptist ... Pennsylvania added Dawn Purington as assistant athletic trainer ... Fordham tabbed Mark Stoddart as assistant athletic trainer and Jillian Clyburn as an athletic training intern ... John Dunham was selected as an assistant athletic trainer at Emory ... Delaware added John Smith as an assistant athletic trainer to replace Jennifer Grunzweig. Smith has been an assistant athletic trainer at Penn State since 1995.

Broadcasting -- Army appointed Casey Kahler as director of broadcasting ... Jim Turpin announced plans to retire after 42 years as football and basketball play-by-play announcer at Illinois, effective at the end of the 2001-02 school year.

Communications -- Kerry Van Malderghem was hired as assistant director of athletics communications at Colgate. Van Malderghem has been assistant director of media relations at the Northeast-10 Conference.

Communications assistants -- Cornell appointed Jeremy Hartigan as assistant director of athletics communications ... Braden Snyder was named athletics communications assistant at Bucknell.

Compliance -- Curt Woodin was hired as athletics compliance coordinator at Angelo State. Most recently, Woodin has been compliance coordinator/academic advisor and assistant director of athletics events at Wayne State (Nebraska).

Development -- Kansas' Scott McMichael resigned as director of the Williams Educational Fund and the K-Club. McMichael has been an athletics administrator with the school for 14 years ... Jeff Connors was chosen as coordinator of athletics development at North Carolina.

Equipment manager -- Eric Fromentin was named as equipment manager at Manhattanville.

Facilities -- Lenny Willis was tabbed as director of athletics facilities at Illinois ... North Carolina selected Mike Bunting as director of the Kenan Stadium facilities and Barry Joyce as director of the Eddie Smith Fieldhouse.

Intramurals -- Rollins named Stephen Frew as director of intramurals.

Marketing/promotions -- Todd Garzarelli was elevated to director of marketing at Army ... William Miley was appointed as sports marketing coordinator at Emory.

Marketing/promotions assistant -- Bucknell hired Michael Woytowich as marketing, promotions and fund-raising intern.

Media relations assistant -- Army named Jennifer Battagliotti as assistant director of media relations.

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

Sports information -- Jeffrey T. Wyshner, sports information director and head women's tennis coach at Manhattan, resigned ... Earlham announced Jonathon Mires as sports information director ... Pamela Jenkins was hired as sports information director and compliance coordinator at North Carolina-Pembroke to replace Matthew Sullivan ... Adelphi tabbed Suzette Thweatt as director of sports information ... Grand Canyon appointed Rebecca Brutlag as sports information director. Brutlag has been sports information director at Virginia Wesleyan ... Mike Wajerski was chosen to replace Scott Rucker as sports information director at Lake Forest. Wajerski has been head cross country coach at the school for the past three years ... Marist chose Chris O'Connor as sports information director ... Greg Andruskevich was named as sports information director at Daniel Webster. Andruskevich, who has been at the school for the past seven years, retired last year as head women's basketball coach at the school and also formerly guided the softball and volleyball programs.

Sports information assistants -- Traci Hay assumed responsibilities as assistant sports information director at Brockport State ... Old Dominion named Kimberly Zivkovich as assistant sports information director ... Hung P. Tsai resigned after two years as assistant sports information director at Humboldt State to become sports information director at Cal State Stanislaus. Tsai succeeds Will Keener at Cal State Stanislaus ... San Diego chose Nicholas Mirkovich as assistant sports information director ... Aaron Chimenti was hired as assistant sports information director at Mercyhurst ... Jeremy Copeland assumed duties as graduate assistant sports information director at Southwest Baptist ... Loyola (Illinois) added Michelle Matanich as a sports information intern. The 2001 Ball State graduate formerly was an intern with the Indiana Sports Corporation and the Midwestern Collegiate Conference ... UC Riverside selected assistant softball coach Lisa James as assistant sports information director ... Matt Brendich was chosen as full-time sports information assistant at Illinois-Chicago. Brendich has been a sports information intern with the school.

Sports medicine assistant -- Northern Iowa hired Megan Brady as assistant director of sports medicine to replace Nancy Bowers. Since last September, Brady has worked as assistant athletic trainer and physical education instructor at Morningside.

Strength and conditioning assistants -- James Goins was named as assistant strength and conditioning coach at San Diego ... Illinois selected Kerry Harbor as assistant strength and conditioning coach.

Ticketing services assistant -- Clint Gwaltney was chosen as assistant to the athletics director for ticket operations.

CONFERENCES

The Southern Conference chose Geoff Cabe, associate commissioner for external affairs, as acting commissioner, succeeding Alfred White ... Helen Grant was named as associate commissioner for compliance at the Sun Belt Conference, effective September 1. Grant has been a membership services representative at the NCAA national office since 1999 ... Dustin Bozwell resigned after two years as assistant commissioner for external affairs at the Mid-Continent Conference ... The Colonial Athletic Association named Rob Washburn as assistant commissioner for communications. For the past nine years, Washburn has worked at the Ohio Valley Conference, most recently serving as assistant commissioner for information and championships ... The Empire 8 selected Chuck Mitrano as commissioner to replace Mike Gentile. Mitrano most recently has worked as assistant athletics director at Rensselaer ... Carmine Calzonetti was named as commissioner at the New York Collegiate Athletic Conference.

NATIONAL OFFICE

Jenifer Scheibler resigned as statistics coordinator at the national office to become director of operations and assistant director for communications at the American Volleyball Coaches Association ... Pete Oliszczak, membership services representative at the national office, assumed responsibilities in championships.

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CORRECTION

A Division I Baseball Committee story in the August 13 issue of The NCAA News contained an incorrect photo of the committee chair. Wally Groff, the director of athletics at Texas A&M University, College Station, chairs the baseball committee and is pictured at left.

NOTABLES

Patricia Acheson and Gerald E. Rosen were named as winners of the 2001 Rolex Achievement Awards presented by Rolex and the Intercollegiate Tennis Association. The award is given to past participants of collegiate tennis who have achieve excellence in their careers. In 1974, Acheson became the seventh female to join the U.S. Secret Service and the first female assigned to the vice-presidential protection division. Acheson, who retired from the Secret Service in 1994, was captain of the women's team at Queens. Rosen has been a federal judge since 1990. He competed on the men's team at Kalamazoo for three years.

DEATHS

Rashidi Wheeler, a football player at Northwestern, collapsed and died after having an asthma attack during a conditioning drill. Wheeler was 22.

Rev. Paul C. Reinert, chancellor emeritus and former president at Saint Louis, died July 22. Reinert was 90.

Former Indiana/Purdue-Indianapolis softball student-athlete Christy Adamson died in an automobile accident August 8. Adamson, 23, established the school record for stolen bases and stolen base attempts. She also was first team all-conference and Newcomer of the Year in 1999 for the Mid-Continent Conference.

Joseph C. Duff, former head baseball coach at Navy, passed away July 30. Duff was 78.

John Murphy, former president at Thomas More, died August 1. Murphy was 78.

--Compiled by Leilana McKindra