Two athletics administrators, one institutional chief executive and one student-athlete have been appointed to fill vacancies on the Division III Management Council.

The new members are Dewayne Barnes, former student-athlete at Whittier College; Douglas Hastad, chancellor of the University of Wisconsin, La Crosse; Joyce Wong, director of athletics at Eastern Connecticut State University; and John "Chad" Yowell, executive director of athletics at Wheaton College (Massachusetts).

All began their terms at the conclusion of the NCAA Convention in January.

Below are brief biographies, along with term-limit information.

Barnes

Barnes, who serves as the Management Council representative from the Division III Student-Athlete Advisory Committee, earned his undergraduate degree in 1999 from Whittier, where he majored in physical education and recreation with an athletic training emphasis. Barnes currently is pursuing a master's degree in education at Whittier, where he also serves as graduate assistant athletic trainer.

Barnes is vice-chair of the Division III Student-Athlete Advisory Committee. He also serves as the Division III student-athlete representative to the NCAA Committee on Competitive Safeguards and Medical Aspects of Sports, where he is a member of the drug education/drug testing subcommittee.

Barnes' term will expire in January 2003.

Hastad

Hastad has served as chancellor at Wisconsin-La Crosse since 2001. Before that, he was interim chancellor, provost and vice-chancellor for academic affairs at the school. Previously, he had been professor of exercise and sport science and dean of human development programs and the College of Health, Physical Education and Recreation at Wisconsin-La Crosse, where he arrived in 1998.

Before that, Hastad was interim dean of the school of education at Texas Christian University, where he also served as associate professor and chair of the physical education department. From 1979 to 1984, he was an assistant professor in the physical education department at Northern Illinois University.

Hastad earned a bachelor of arts in health and physical education and English from Concordia College, Moorhead in 1971; a master of science degree in health and physical education from Washington State University in 1972; and a doctorate in secondary education from Arizona State University in 1980. In 1992, Hastad completed the Harvard Institute for Educational Management.

Hastad's term will expire in January 2006.

Wong

Wong has been the director of athletics at Eastern Connecticut State since December 1999. Before that, she was associate director of athletics and head coach of the women's basketball team at the University of Rochester, a post she had held since 1978. Wong also had been acting director of sports and recreation at Rochester, where she also coached tennis for a time. Before that post, Wong was an assistant professor at Brooklyn College, where she also coached basketball, field hockey, softball and tennis.

Wong earned a bachelor of science degree in health and physical education from Bridgewater State College; a master of science degree in physical education from Indiana University, Bloomington; and a doctorate in biomechanics, with a minor in psychology and computer science, from Indiana.

Wong is a past president of the NACDA Division III Athletics Administrators and is a past vice-president of the New York State Women's Collegiate Athletic Association. She has been vice-president of the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) and currently is a member of the University Athletic Association executive council. From 1979 to 1981, she was New York State president of the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW).

Wong's term will expire in January 2006.

Yowell

Yowell has been the executive director of athletics at Wheaton (Massachusetts) since 1988. While at Wheaton, he has started a men's athletics program of nine sports, added four sports to the women's program and also upgraded eight women's teams, tripling the size of the full-time coaching staff and increasing the operating budget four-fold.

Before that, Yowell was dean of students at Pacific University (Oregon), where he was previously the director of athletics. Yowell was assistant professor in physical education and health at Pacific from 1976 to 1986, where he also coached golf and women's basketball, served as assistant baseball coach and also as athletic trainer.

Yowell earned a bachelor of science degree from Utah State University, where he majored in physical education and minored in geography. He earned a master of science degree from Portland State University.

Yowell has served on the NCAA Student-Athlete Reinstatement Committee, and he was the first male selected as president of the New England Women's Eight Conference.

Yowell's term will expire in January 2006.