Several new appointments have been made to the Division I Board of Directors and the Division I Management Council to fill vacancies that occurred at the end of the 2002 Convention.

Three appointments were made on the Board, including the re-appointment of University of Cincinnati President Joseph Steger, whose new term extends through January 2006. The two new appointments to the Board are G. Wayne Clough, president of the Georgia Institute of Technology, and Walter Harrison, president of the University of Hartford. Both Clough's and Harrison's terms extend through January 2006.

On the Management Council, Chris Monasch, commissioner of the America East Conference; Chris Plonsky, associate director of athletics at the University of Texas at Austin; Alison Sexton, senior woman administrator at Fairfield University; Eugene Smith, director of athletics at Arizona State University; and Ron Wellman, director of athletics at Wake Forest University were reselected to terms that extend through January 2006.

New appointments to the Council were Gene Bleymaier, director of athletics at Boise State University; Ellen Ferris, assistant commissioner of the Big Sky Conference; Herman Frazier, director of athletics at the University of Alabama, Birmingham; Regina S. Markland, assistant director of athletics at Coastal Carolina University; Mike McGee, director of athletics at the University of South Carolina, Columbia; and Kathleen Zerrlaut, associate director of athletics at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

Following are biographical sketches of the new members:

Clough

Georgia Tech President Clough joins the Board and replaces fellow Atlantic Coast Conference representative John Casteen of the University of Virginia.

He is Georgia Tech's 10th president and the first alumnus to serve in that capacity. He earned his bachelor's and master's degrees in civil engineering at Georgia Tech in 1964 and 1965, respectively, and then went on to earn his doctorate in the same discipline at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1969.

Clough engineered a recent drive that raised a record $712 million in five years for 54 endowed faculty chairs, 233 endowed scholarships, 11 new buildings and a host of research, academic and athletics programs at Georgia Tech. Clough also implemented a required computer initiative for all Georgia Tech students and oversaw the revision of the curriculum to include Web-based enhancements.

Before coming to Georgia Tech, Clough was provost and vice-provost for academic affairs at the University of Washington. He also spent a decade at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, first as head of the department of civil engineering and then as the dean of the college of engineering.

He is a specialist in geotechnical and earthquake engineering, and has twice received the Norman Medal, civil engineering's highest honor. President Bush appointed Clough to his Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, and Clough will chair the panel on federal research and development.

Harrison

Harrison, who replaces South Carolina State University President Leroy Davis on the Board, became Hartford's fifth president in July 1998. Harrison's appointment brought him back to the city where his career began three decades earlier as an undergraduate at Hartford's Trinity College.

He received a degree in English there, then a master's in English from the University of Michigan and a doctorate in English from the University of California, Davis.

Before taking the helm at Hartford, Harrison served as vice-president for university relations and secretary of the university at Michigan, where he also was a professor of English. Before that, he was president of Gehrung Associates, a national media relations consulting firm for colleges and universities. He also has served as director of college relations at Colorado College.

Harrison has held faculty positions at Michigan, Colorado College, Iowa State University, and Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany. He also was a captain in the U.S. Air Force from 1969 to 1972.

Bleymaier

The Boise State director of athletics takes over as the Western Athletic Conference representative on the Management Council, replacing WAC Commissioner Karl Benson.

Bleymaier is in his 21st year at Boise State. During his tenure, Boise State has been a preliminary-round site for the Division I Men's Basketball Championship six times.

Bleymaier began his duties as athletics director in 1982. He served as an assistant athletics director at the University of California, Los Angeles, for five years before coming to Boise State.

A member of the California Bar Association and a graduate of the Loyola Law School, Bleymaier received his bachelor's degree from UCLA in 1975. He was a three-year football letter-winner for the Bruins and was named to the all-Pacific-8 team in 1974 as a tight end.

He currently serves on the executive committee of the Division I-AA Athletic Directors Association and is chair of the National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame Honors Court, which is the selection committee for the hall of fame. Bleymaier also serves as the vice-chair of the Humanitarian Bowl, which is played annually in Boise.

Ferris

Ferris, the assistant commissioner of compliance at the Big Sky Conference, replaces Kelly Woodward from Northern Arizona University.

Ferris is the liaison between the NCAA and the Big Sky's nine member institutions to ensure the understanding of and compliance with NCAA and Big Sky Code bylaws.

She came to the Big Sky from the Southland Conference, where she served for two years as an intern under the assistant commissioner for compliance and legal counsel. Before that, Ferris worked at Southern Methodist University, where she was the associate director of the undergraduate program for the Edwin L. Cox School of Business. She served with the university for 11 years, with experience in the athletics academic support office and the provost's office.

Ferris earned her bachelor's degree in education from Southwest Texas State University in 1986, then earned her master's degree in sport management from the United States Sports Academy in 1987. She also received her juris doctorate from the SMU School of Law in December 1998.

Frazier

Fresh from being honored as an NCAA Silver Anniversary Award winner at the 2002 NCAA Convention, UAB's athletics director begins a term on the Council and replaces Conference USA Commissioner Mike Slive.

A gold medalist in the 1,600-meter relay in the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal and a member of the former world- and American-record relay teams in the 800-meter and distance medley teams, Frazier also won a bronze medal in the 400 meters in the 1976 Olympics. He is a former world-record-holder for the indoor 500 meters and former American record-holder for the indoor 400 meters.

As a collegiate student-athlete, Frazier helped lead Arizona State University to its only track and field team championship in 1977 by winning the 400 meters. The eight-time all-American helped set the Penn Relays 1,600-meter record in 1977. A three-time all-Western Athletic Conference selection, he also served as team captain in 1977.

Frazier attained his current position after a long administrative career at his alma mater, where he started as assistant athletics director in 1979. As senior associate athletics director for business and operations at the school, he managed a $24 million budget and oversaw a $30 million facilities improvement project from 1996 to 2000.

Frazier is an NCAA peer-review team member and has served as chair of the NCAA Men's and Women's Track and Field Committee.

Markland, assistant director of athletics at Coastal Carolina, becomes the Big South representative on the Council, replacing Winthrop University's Thomas N. Hickman.

Markland is in her 16th year as part of Coastal Carolina's athletics staff, including 11 as the head coach of the women's basketball team. She currently is the school's senior woman administrator.

As assistant director of athletics, Markland oversees the academic progress of all student-athletes, as well as the school's athletics study hall and fifth-year programs.

She is a 1979 graduate of Appalachian State University, where she earned her bachelor's degree in physical education. Markland also has a master's degree in education from the University of North Carolina, Greensboro.

McGee

The South Carolina athletics director replaces fellow AD Jeremy Foley at the University of Florida as a Southeastern Conference representative to the Management Council.

McGee is in his eighth year at South Carolina and has overseen more than $40 million in facility improvements and has helped the Gamecocks athletics programs climb in the Sears Directors' Cup standings.

McGee is a 1960 graduate of Duke University, where he was a first-team all-American tackle in football. He later earned his master's and doctoral degrees from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

McGee won the 1959 Outland Trophy as the nation's most outstanding lineman and was drafted in the second round of the 1960 NFL draft by the St. Louis Cardinals. He began his coaching career as an assistant at Duke in 1963 and then became an assistant at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in 1966, and at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, in 1967. He took the head coaching position at East Carolina University in 1970 before returning to Duke as the Blue Devils' head coach from 1971 to 1978.

He joined North Carolina's athletics administration in 1979 as a special assistant to the athletics director. He then became athletics director at the University of Cincinnati (1980-84) and at the University of Southern California (1984-92).

Zerrlaut

Zerrlaut, associate director of athletics at UMBC, replaces Monmouth University Athletics Director Marilyn McNeil as the Northeast Conference representative on the Council.

Zerrlaut has been serving as UMBC's senior woman administrator since UMBC attained Division I status in 1986-87. Since then, she has earned promotions to assistant, then her current title as associate athletics director for compliance. She also chairs the Northeast Conference's senior woman administrators committee and is a member of the NCAA Women's Lacrosse Committee.

The Baltimore native has had a distinguished coaching career in both lacrosse and volleyball. She compiled a record of 152-140-5 in 24 seasons as UMBC's head women's lacrosse coach. Her 1985 and 1986 squads were ranked No. 1 nationally among Division II schools, and she was honored as USWLA Coach of the Year on both occasions. Zerrlaut also coached the UMBC volleyball team from 1973 through 1989.

She came to UMBC in 1973 after earning a master's degree in physical education from Frostburg State University. She earned four letters there in lacrosse and two apiece in field hockey and basketball.