Longtime Kentucky sports broadcaster dies

Cawood Ledford, longtime sports broadcaster for the University of Kentucky, died recently from cancer at the age of 75.

Ledford launched his broadcasting career in 1951, when he began doing sports broadcasts and selling advertising for WHLN in Harlan, Kentucky. He did his first broadcast for the university -- a football game between Kentucky and Texas A&M -- in 1953.

During a career that eventually spanned four decades, Ledford called Kentucky football and basketball games, 18 Men's Final Fours, 22 Kentucky Derbys, the World Series, The Masters, professional basketball games, Little League events and boxing matches. The Basketball Hall of Famer also was the first person to earn entry into both the Kentucky Journalism Hall of Fame and the Kentucky Athletic Hall of Fame. He was chosen as sportscaster of the year 21 times between 1967 and 1990 and was the first person who wasn't a player or coach to have a jersey retired in Rupp Arena.

GENERAL

CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICERS

W. Bruce Shepard was chosen as president at Wisconsin-Green Bay, effective November 1. Shepard has been provost at Eastern Oregon ... Dene Kay Thomas was named as president at Lewis-Clark. Most recently, Thomas has served as vice-provost for academic affairs at Idaho ... Castleton State appointed David Wolk as president, effective January 1. Wolk has been commissioner of education in Vermont ... Coker President James D. Daniels announced retirement plans, effective in June 2002 ... Thomas M. Law resigned as president at Saint Paul's ... Aubrey Lucas assumed duties as interim president at Southern Mississippi. Lucas is president emeritus at the school ... Alistair W. McCrone announced plans to retire as president at Humboldt State, effective June 2002 ... Roger W. Bowen resigned as president at New Paltz State ... New Mexico Highlands chose James Fries as interim president. Fries formerly was president at College of Santa Fe ... Eastern Kentucky named Joanne E. Glasser as president, effective October 29. Glasser has been executive vice-president for institutional advancement at Towson ... Joe A. Lee was appointed as president at Alabama State. Lee has been president at Tougaloo College ... Midwestern State released Henry Moon as president.

DIRECTORS OF ATHLETICS

Houston named Larry Leckonby as interim athletics director ... Chet Gladchuk was chosen as athletics director at Navy. For the past five years, Gladchuk has served as director of athletics at Houston ... Lindsay Arnold, an assistant athletics director at Molloy for the past eight months, was elevated to director of athletics. Arnold succeeds Robert Houlihan, who was promoted to vice-president of student affairs ... Minnesota signed Chris Voelz, women's athletics director, and Tom Moe, men's athletics director, to one-year contracts ... Eve Atkinson was hired as athletics director at Cheney. Atkinson was released as athletics director at Lafayette in May after fulfilling responsibilities there since 1990 ... Mesa State chose Clarence E. Ross as athletics director to replace Douglas Schakel.

SENIOR WOMAN ADMINISTRATOR

Janiece Holder was chosen as senior woman administrator and coordinator of academic support at Stetson. Holder, who succeeds the retired Elizabeth Schumaker, spent from 1988 through 2000 as head volleyball coach at the school and also led the softball program from 1989 to 1993.

ASSOCIATE DIRECTORS
OF ATHLETICS

New York University promoted Janice Quinn to associate athletics director. Quinn has been head women's basketball coach and assistant athletics director for 15 years ... Roxanne Levenson and Michael Zapolski were promoted to associate directors of athletics at Pepperdine. Levenson, who has been with the school for 15 years, most recently has been an assistant athletics director. She will continue as senior woman administrator. Zapolski, who has served the school for 19 years, has been sports information director and an assistant athletics director.

ASSISTANT DIRECTORS
OF ATHLETICS

COACHES

Baseball -- Transylvania named Shayne Stock as head coach. Stock, who most recently has served as an assistant at Hanover, replaces Brett Mann ... Mark Rizzi was awarded responsibilities as head coach at Rutgers-Newark ...Savannah A&D appointed Doug Wollenburg as head coach. Wollenburg has been an assistant coach and academic enhancement coordinator at Embry-Riddle for two seasons.

Baseball assistants -- Darrell Richardson resigned as pitching coach at Dallas. Richardson has been with the program since 1997 ... Ed Ward was hired as an assistant coach at New Jersey Institute of Technology. For the past two seasons, Ward has guided the program at Felician ... Michael Joseph was hired as an assistant baseball and assistant football coach at Upper Iowa ... Army chose Victor Solis as an assistant coach ... Delaware named Greg Mamula as an assistant coach. For the past three seasons, Mamula, who replaces Brian August, has been a graduate assistant at Shippensburg ... Jason Stein was selected as an assistant coach at Belmont to succeed Chris Moddlemog, who assumed duties as head coach at Rend Lake Community College ... UC Irvine selected Joe DeMarco as a volunteer assistant coach. DeMarco has been a volunteer assistant at Kansas for two seasons ... John Seaman assumed duties as an assistant coach at St. Andrews Presbyterian ... Loyola Marymount hired Chris Zavatsky as an assistant coach. Zavatsky served as an assistant at Santa Clara last season ... Campbell named Scott Jackson as an assistant coach ... Curtis Scott was chosen as a volunteer assistant at Pepperdine ... Loren Torres was awarded assistant coaching duties at Savannah A&D. For the past year, Torres has been athletics director and head baseball coach at Northwest Christian Academy in Miami, Florida.

Men's basketball -- Al Skinner, head coach at Boston College, signed a four-year contract extension through the 2007-08 season ... Pryor Orser was appointed as head coach at Colorado School of Mines ... J.P. Andrejko was chosen as head coach at King's (Pennsylvania) to succeed Jim Casciano. Since 1996, Andrejko has worked as an assistant coach at Scranton.

Men's basketball assistants -- Louisiana-Lafayette chose Eddie Vaughn and Paul Johnson as assistant coaches ... Rodney Belcher was awarded responsibilities as an assistant coach at New Mexico ... Vermont named Jeff Rush as a part-time assistant coach ... Mike Johnson was appointed as an assistant coach at Upper Iowa. Johnson replaces Todd Skrivseth, who assumed similar duties at Wisconsin-Whitewater ... Luke Vogel was named as assistant varsity and head junior varsity coach at Elmira ... Marcell Fisher was added as an assistant at Binghamton. Fisher was head assistant coach at Elizabeth City State last season ... Texas A&M-Kingsville added Daryl Vincent Sr. as an assistant coach. Vincent, who succeeds Chris Coker, has been lead assistant coach at Mount San Antonio (California) College ... Maine chose Randy Lee as an assistant coach. Formerly, Lee has been an assistant coach at Centenary (Louisiana) and Delaware State ... James Farr was hired as an assistant coach at Loyola (Illinois) to replace Lance Irvin. For the past three seasons, Farr has been an assistant at Chicago State ... Gordon tabbed Ryan Borowicz as an assistant coach. Borowicz spent last year competing with the Lakeside Lightning of the Skywest Basketball League of Western Australia ... Barton hired Adam Walsh as an assistant coach to replace Chad Reynolds, who resigned ... Jeff Caron was hired as an assistant coach at Rhode Island College. Caron spent the 1999-00 season as an assistant at Plymouth State.

Women's basketball assistants -- Krista Jay was selected as an assistant coach at Duquesne ... Maggie McDevitt was added as a graduate assistant coach at Fairleigh Dickinson ... Western Michigan chose Ryan Bragdon as an assistant coach ... Jackie Daigneault was tabbed as a graduate assistant coach at Stony Brook ... Upper Iowa selected Michael Schrock as assistant women's basketball and assistant softball coach. Schrock succeeds Brent Kuker ... Sally Spooner was chosen as an assistant coach at Central Florida ... Texas Tech appointed Melinda Pharies as director of women's basketball operations ... Jessica Vlertlboeck was added as a graduate assistant coach at Central Michigan. For the past two years, Vlertlboeck has been seventh grade girls' basketball coach at Buckeye Valley (Ohio) Middle School, in addition to coaching an AAU 17-and under girls' basketball team last season ... Savannah A&D elevated Sarah Jurewicz to assistant coach. Jurewicz was a graduate assistant last season.

Men's and women's cross country -- Frank Poulin was chosen as head cross country and track and field coach at Eastern Connecticut State. Poulin, who has been head coach at Regis (Massachusetts) for the past four years, replaces interim coach Clint Bowman ... Chad Reynolds resigned as head men's and women's cross country coach and assistant men's basketball coach at Barton to become an assistant basketball coach at East Carolina. Sheryl Neff succeeds Reynolds as head men's and women's cross country coach at Barton.

Field hockey -- Bernadette Macca was named as head field hockey coach and head women's lacrosse coach at Elmira. Macca has served as Wells' head softball coach, assistant field hockey coach and sports information director for two seasons.

Field hockey assistant -- Mercyhurst hired Stacey Gaudette as an assistant field hockey coach and assistant women's lacrosse coach. Gaudette has been head field hockey coach at Susquehanna (Pennsylvania) High School for the last five years.

Fencing assistant -- Jasen Boyle was named as an assistant coach at Wellesley.

Football -- Washington signed head football coach Rick Neuheisel to a new contract.

Men's and women's golf assistants -- Jill Faircloth was appointed as an assistant women's coach at UNLV ... James Madison selected Dawn Berry as an assistant coach.

Men's and women's gymnastics -- Adrienne Carver accepted responsibilities as head women's coach at West Chester. Carver has served as an assistant at Ursinus for the past two seasons.

Men's and women's ice hockey assistants -- Jamie Jewers was named as an assistant women's varsity coach and head junior varsity coach at Elmira ... Maine tabbed Tim Whitehead as an assistant men's coach. Whitehead has spent the past five seasons as head men's coach at Massachusetts-Lowell.

Men's and women's lacrosse -- St. Andrews Presbyterian chose John Brubaker as head men's coach ... Christina Gant was awarded additional duties as head women's coach at Savannah A&D. Gant will continue to serve as assistant to the athletics director at the school.

Men's and women's lacrosse assistant -- Keith Cromwell assumed duties as an assistant men's coach at Yale.

Men's and women's rowing assistants -- Wellesley added James Lister as an assistant novice crew coach and tabbed Amy Westenfeld as an assistant crew coach ... Savannah A&D named A.J. Certo as an assistant crew coach. Certo was a graduate assistant coach at the school last season.

Men's soccer -- Matthew Tantalo accepted responsibilities as head coach at Elmira. For the past three seasons, Tantalo has been an assistant coach at Nazareth ... Bryan Thorp was chosen as head coach at Savannah A&D. For the past year, Thorp has been a technical advisor and trainer for Team Alliance Soccer Club in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

Men's soccer assistants -- Rutgers chose Ian Hennessy as an assistant coach ... Corey Nickles assumed duties as assistant varsity coach and head junior varsity coach at Elmira ... Kevin Varnado was selected as an assistant coach at St. Andrews Presbyterian.

Women's soccer assistants -- Elmira hired Meghan Dougherty as assistant varsity coach and head junior varsity coach ... Mark A. Clemente was named as an assistant coach at Roger Williams ... Ken Goodale was appointed as a part-time assistant coach at Eastern Connecticut State.

Softball -- Cal State Northridge added Barbara Jordan as head coach to replace Janet Sherman. For the past three years, Jordan has worked as an assistant with the program ... Presbyterian added Barbara Dearing as head coach ... Brent Kuker was promoted to head coach at Upper Iowa.

Softball assistants -- Erin Layton was tabbed as an assistant coach at Furman ... UC Santa Barbara named Becky Newbry as an assistant ... Monica Armendarez was selected as an assistant coach at Stephen F. Austin. Armendarez has been playing softball professionally with the Women's Professional Softball League ... St. Andrews Presbyterian added Ginger Miller as an assistant coach.

Men's and women's swimming and diving -- St. Francis (Pennsylvania) chose Cindy Rumbaugh as head women's coach ... Butch Jordan was tabbed as head men's and women's coach at Centenary (Louisiana). The program is scheduled to begin competition in 2002-03. Jordan will continue as head coach of the City of Shreveport Swim Team ... Saint Louis added Jim Halliburton as head men's and women's coach. Halliburton replaces Dave Estes ... California (Pennsylvania) named Edward Denny as head women's coach ... Lisa McAndless was selected as diving coach at Wellesley.

Men's and women's swimming and diving assistants -- Oregon State appointed Magda Modelska as an assistant women's swimming coach ... Wellesley added Devon Bernier as an assistant swimming coach.

Men's and women's tennis -- Jonathan Zych was named as director and head men's and women's coach at Saint Louis. Zych succeeds Derek Mills ... Savannah A&D hired Ray Goto as head women's coach. Goto has been tennis professional at the Semiahmoo Golf and Country Club in Blaine, Washington ... Rich Levenson was named as interim head women's coach at Suffolk.

Men's and women's tennis assistant -- Ryan Bauer was added as an assistant men's coach at Furman.

Men's and women's track and field -- Dayton named D'Andre Hill as head women's coach ... St. Francis (Pennsylvania) appointed Scott Catone as head men's and women's track and field and cross country coach ... Kevin Jackson assumed responsibilities as coordinator of men's and women's indoor and outdoor track and field at Rhode Island College.

Men's and women's track and field assistants -- Philip Alicea was chosen as an assistant coach at North Carolina. Alicea has been an assistant coach at Jacksonville for two years ... Gwen Wentland was hired as an assistant men's and women's coach at UC Irvine ... Virginia Tech named Greg Jack as field throws coach.

Men's and women's volleyball -- Belmont's Traci Corey resigned as head coach. The school appointed Jill Simmons as interim head coach ... Katherine Fink was hired as head women's volleyball coach and assistant softball coach at Centenary (New Jersey). Fink most recently has been head softball and cross country coach at MacMurray.

Men's and women's volleyball assistants -- John Krammes was hired as an assistant men's and women's coach at Wentworth Institute ... Sarah Deuel was added as an assistant varsity coach and head junior varsity coach at Elmira ... St. Andrews Presbyterian tabbed Liza Gibbs as an assistant women's coach ... Beth Craig was named as part-time assistant women's coach at Eastern Connecticut State.

Wrestling -- Centenary (New Jersey) appointed Douglas Fink as head men's coach. Fink has spent the past three seasons as head coach at MacMurray.

Wrestling assistants -- Todd Beckerman was awarded duties as a graduate assistant coach at Penn State ... John Pozniak was selected as an assistant at Columbia.

STAFF

Athletic trainers -- Rosemont chose Kathleen Farhan as an athletic trainer ... James Zegers was named as head athletic trainer at Molloy. Most recently, Zegers has worked at Adelphi ... Steven Condon was appointed as athletic trainer at Marquette ... Upper Iowa promoted Brooke Kerns to athletic training program director, replacing Don Bishop, who became head athletic trainer at Northern Iowa. Also, Brian Collette was promoted to head men's athletic trainer and Kelli Blum was promoted to head women's athletic trainer at Upper Iowa.

Assistant athletic trainers -- Jamie Slegel assumed duties as an assistant athletic trainer at Seton Hall ... Elmira added Kevin Joyce and Nicholas Camp as assistant athletic trainers ... Marcine Holzer was chosen as assistant athletic trainer at Cornell College.

Development -- Marija Neubauer was elevated to executive director of the Badger Fund at Wisconsin. Neubauer has been associate director at the fund since January of 2000.

Intramural -- Savannah A&D awarded Gabi Hauck with additional responsibilities as intramural director. Hauck will continue to serve as head men's and women's cross country coach at the school.

Media relations assistant -- Rhode Island College hired Leslie Crofton as athletics media relations intern. Crofton is a 2001 graduate of Tufts.

Sports medicine -- John Perrine announced plans to retire after more than 30 years as Kentucky's team physician. Perrine also has been chief of athletics medicine for the University Health Service for 10 years. Kentucky announced James Jagger will succeed Perrine as primary medical physician for all varsity teams at the school. Additionally, David Caborn resigned as team physician for orthopedic sports medicine to assume responsibilities at Louisville, Kim Clawson resigned as consultant in primary care to the athletics department and Kurt Volk was named as a consultant in internal medicine for athletics.

Strength and conditioning -- Phil Dyer resigned as strength and conditioning coordinator at Seton Hall ... Sam Carter was chosen as strength and conditioning coach at Savannah A&D.

CONFERENCES

The State University of New York Athletic Conference appointed Kristy Johnson as publicist for the 2001-02 academic year ... The Big South Conference selected Ed Henry as public relations assistant. Henry is completing a bachelor's degree at South Carolina. He also works as a public relations/promotions intern with the West Michigan Whitecaps, a minor league affiliate of MLB's Detroit Tigers ... The Atlantic 10 Conference's Mickey Crowley announced plans to leave his position as supervisor of men's basketball officials, effective July 1, 2002.

ASSOCIATIONS

The Sun Bowl Association hired Bernie Olivas as executive director. Olivas, who replaces Joyce Feinberg, has been a volunteer with the bowl for nearly 20 years and was the 2000 Sun Bowl Association president.

NATIONAL OFFICE

Brenda Reimer was elevated to coordinator for the Division I women's basketball championship. Reimer has been the executive assistant for the Division I women's basketball championship.

Sarah MacInnis was elevated to education outreach program coordinator at the national office. MacInnis has been an administrative assistant for education outreach.

John Painter resigned as a communications coordinator at the national office to assume responsibilities at Tennessee.

ETC.

CORRECTION

CORRECTION

The women's championships timeline in the women's championships insert in the September 10 issue of The NCAA News incorrectly listed Rochester Institute of Technology as having won the first Division III Women's Soccer Championship. Actually, coach Terry Gurnett's University of Rochester squad won the 1986 event with a 1-0 win over Plymouth State.

DEATHS

Wright State softball player Valerie Cute was accidentally shot and killed recently. Cute, 19, started all 50 games during her freshman season last spring.

Former Georgia Tech football player Pete Brown died September 4 from complications from brain cancer. He was 70. The all-American center competed on two undefeated teams at Georgia Tech in 1951 and 1952.

David Hayes, a former swimmer at St. Mary's (Maryland), died in a car accident August 25. Hayes, 25, served as captain of the men's swimming team during the 1997-98 season. From 1999 through the 2000-01 school year, Hayes worked as an assistant coach at the school.

--Compiled by Leilana McKindra