Groff announces plan to retire as AD

Wally Groff has announced plans to retire as director of athletics at Texas A&M.

Groff has been with the school since 1966, when he assumed responsibilities as business manager. He was elevated to assistant athletics director for business affairs in 1975 and was named associate director of athletics for finance in 1979. Groff also fulfilled two tenures as interim athletics director -- in 1981-82 and in 1993 -- before being appointed director of athletics August 31, 1993.

Groff graduated from Texas A&M in 1964 with a bachelor's degree in business. He also earned a master's degree from the school in 1965.

GENERAL

CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICERS

Texas A&M-Kingsville selected Rumaldo Z. Juarez as president. Juarez has been dean of the college of health professions at Southwest Texas State ... Albert L. Walker was named as president at Bluefield State. Most recently, Walker has been vice-chancellor for academic affairs at Elizabeth City State ... Loras appointed John E. Kerrigan as president. Kerrigan succeeds Joseph Gower.

DIRECTORS OF ATHLETICS

Morehead State hired Joseph C. Smith Jr. as athletics director. Smith, who replaces the retired Mike Mincey, most recently has been athletics director at Eastern Kentucky ... Kim Tatro was promoted to director of athletics at Lawrence to replace Dave Brown, who will continue as head football coach. Tatro, who has been associate athletics director and head softball coach, will retain head coaching duties ... Hood hired Gilbert Romaine as director of athletics. Romaine has been assistant athletics director for development at Mount St. Mary's ... Eastern Kentucky chose Jack Lengyel as interim athletics director. Lengyel, formerly athletics director at Navy, Missouri and Fresno State, has most recently been interim athletics director at Temple ... Ron Whitson was named as acting athletics director at Transylvania. Whitson, who succeeds Brian Austin, is director of the school's physical education program and formerly was an assistant with the men's basketball program for 27 years before retiring from coaching in 2001.

SENIOR WOMAN ADMINISTRATORS

Stefani Papageorge Webb, head women's soccer coach at Dallas, was promoted to senior woman administrator to replace Patricia Danko. Webb also will serve as head women's lacrosse coach ... Christian Brothers awarded additional responsibilities to Donna Crone as senior woman administrator. Crone, who will continue as head softball coach, succeeds Cheri Devault.

FACULTY ATHLETICS
REPRESENTATIVES

Southern Utah chose Deborah Hill as faculty athletics representative ... Morehead State appointed Peggy Osborne as faculty athletics representative. Osborne, who succeeds the retired W. Michael Brown, serves as an associate professor of marketing and has been with the school since 1979.

ASSOCIATE DIRECTORS
OF ATHLETICS

Karen McConnell was promoted to associate director of athletics at Heidelberg. McConnell has been senior woman administrator ... Lawrence elevated John Tharp to associate athletics director. Tharp will continue as head men's basketball coach, a position he has held since 1994, and as head men's golf coach ... Northern Kentucky promoted Cris Stickley to associate athletics director for athletic training and risk management. Since 1999, Stickley has worked as an assistant athletic trainer ... Jean Lojko, an assistant athletics director, senior woman administrator and head volleyball coach at Greensboro, was elevated to associate athletics director. Lojko, who has been with the school for 22 years, was an assistant athletics director and will continue as senior woman administrator and head volleyball coach ... LSU named Herb Vincent as associate athletics director for external affairs ... Bill Gorman was elevated to associate athletics director at Wentworth Institute. Gorman has served as sports information director since October 1995. ... Dartmouth hired Brian Austin as senior associate athletics director. Austin has spent the past six years as athletics director at Transylvania.

ASSISTANT DIRECTORS
OF ATHLETICS

Yakik Rumley was chosen as an assistant athletics director at Mount St. Vincent. Rumley has been assistant athletics director and director of sports information at Brooklyn for two years ... Cincinnati appointed Joel Barnhill as an assistant athletics director for ticket sales and promotions ... Sean Morrison was named as assistant athletics director for development and marketing at Fairleigh Dickinson. For the past six years, Morrison has worked in various capacities at Marist, most recently as director of alumni affairs ... Myndee Larsen was named as assistant athletics director for student services at Southern Utah ... Venera Flores was promoted to assistant athletics director at Dallas. Flores has been head women's volleyball coach and will retain head coaching responsibilities ... Pepperdine chose Eric Foote as assistant athletics director for marketing and promotions.

COACHES

Archery -- Columbia named Larry Brown as head coach.

Archery assistant -- David Ontell was selected as assistant coach at Columbia.

Baseball -- Kelly Dampeer resigned after one season as head coach at Roanoke ... Chris Blum was appointed as interim head coach at Kutztown. Blum, an assistant coach with the program for the past eight seasons, succeeds Matt Royer ... Spanky McFarland, head coach at James Madison, signed a four-year contract extension through the 2006 season ... Val Innocente retired as head coach at Roger Williams. Innocente has been head coach for the past seven years and led the program to its first Commonwealth Coast Conference championship last season ... Fredonia State named Matt Palisin as head baseball coach and sports information assistant.

Baseball assistants -- Gardner-Webb selected Dan Roszel as pitching coach and recruiting coordinator, and Todd Interdonato as a graduate assistant coach ... Eastern Illinois named Matthew Husted as an assistant ... Scott Jackson was chosen as an assistant coach at North Carolina-Wilmington ... Virginia Wesleyan tabbed Chris Francis as an assistant ... Henry Heil resigned as an assistant coach at Greensboro to become athletics director and head baseball coach at Oak Ridge Military Academy ... James Madison elevated Chuck Bartlett to associate head coach. Bartlett has been an assistant coach ... Belhaven tabbed Clay Smith as an assistant coach ... Mark Hayes was named as an assistant at Pfeiffer ... Wofford chose Scott Brickman as an assistant coach ... Charleston appointed Stuart Lake as an assistant coach ... Campbell appointed Kent Cox as an assistant coach.

Men's basketball -- Sam Hanger was elevated to interim head coach at Fayetteville State, succeeding Mike Bernard, who was released. Hanger is an associate athletics director and has been associate head coach for four seasons ... Tom Curle was hired as head coach at Utica/Rome. For the past five seasons, Curle has worked as head coach at Teikyo Post.

Men's basketball assistants -- Quincy Lewis was awarded duties as an assistant coach at Southern Utah ... Army selected Ben Wierzba as director of men's basketball operations ... Jason Wright was appointed as an assistant coach at Huntingdon ... Dave Shepherd resigned as an assistant coach at Fort Hays State to accept similar responsibilities at Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College ... Wayne State (Michigan) named Lorenzo Neely as an assistant coach. For the past two seasons, Neely has worked as an assistant at Western Michigan ... Oral Roberts appointed Steve Upshaw as director of men's basketball operations. Upshaw has served as head coach at Cleveland (Oklahoma) High School for nine years ... Dee Tolliver was hired as director of basketball operations at Charlotte. Tolliver, who replaces Dan Peterson, has been an assistant coach at Oak Hill Academy in Virginia ... Navy hired Brad Enright as an assistant coach to succeed Jimmy Allen. For the past two seasons, Enright has been top assistant coach at Cal State Dominguez Hills ... Southwest Missouri State added Troy Collier as an assistant and Kevin Morrissey as administrative assistant. Collier, who replaces Tommy Deffebaugh, has been an assistant at Eastern Illinois for three years. Morrissey, who succeeds Dale Ribble, most recently has fulfilled similar responsibilities at Texas-Pan American ... Mike McElroy was hired as an assistant at Roanoke to replace Mike McGuire. For the past two seasons, McElroy has served as an assistant coach at Eastern Mennonite ... Robbie O'Bryan was selected as an assistant coach at Winthrop ... Duquesne hired Ron Wuotila as coordinator of men's basketball operations ... Paul Biancardi was elevated to associate head men's coach, Monte Mathis was promoted to assistant coach and Andy Murphy was elevated to video coordinator at Ohio State ... Toby Madison was chosen as an assistant coach at Appalachian State. The school also promoted Matt McMahon to recruiting coordinator ... Northern Arizona selected Jeff Theiler as an assistant. Since 1999, Theiler has been an assistant at Oxnard College ... New Paltz State added Matt Monette and Anthony Peppe as assistant coaches ... Jody May was elevated to associate head coach at Albion ... Armstrong Atlantic hired Travis Priddy as second assistant. Priddy was an assistant at Hastings last season ... Rich Lyons was named as an assistant at Shepherd. Most recently, Lyons has been coaching at the high-school level ... Aaron Thompson was tabbed as an assistant at Minnesota-Morris. Thompson has been an assistant at Mayville State University.

Women's basketball -- Texas-Pan American chose Tracy Anderson as interim head coach to replace Carol Russell, who resigned to become head coach at Nebraska-Kearney. Anderson has been head coach at Bethel College (Kansas) for the last three seasons ... John Jay named Robb Smith as head coach. Smith succeeds John LoSasso ... Todd Huffman was tabbed as head women's basketball and golf coach at Dubuque ... Leon Barmore retired as head coach at Louisiana Tech. Barmore completes his second tenure as head coach at the school. He also guided the program as co-head coach from 1981 to 1985 and as sole head coach from 1985 to 2002.

Women's basketball assistants -- Pennsylvania named Erin Ladley as an assistant coach ... Chad Filley was tabbed as a graduate assistant at North Dakota State ... Nebraska chose John Filar as an assistant coach ... Rachael Poland was hired as an assistant coach at Heidelberg ... Missouri-Kansas City added Erin Olson as an assistant coach. Most recently, Olson has been competing with the Sparta Praha Basketball Club in Prague in the Czech Republic ... Robert Robinson was awarded assistant coaching duties at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi. Robinson has been head girls' coach at Hempstead (Texas) High School ... South Alabama hired Everett Jackson as an assistant coach. For the past four years, Jackson has been head varsity girls' basketball coach at Deerfield Beach (Florida) High School ... Lisa Diefenthaler and Mollie Kahn were added as assistant coaches at Jacksonville ... Eastern Kentucky appointed Laphelia Doss as an assistant coach ... Jim Karcz was named as an assistant coach at Pfeiffer ... Louisville tabbed Greg Collins as an assistant ... John Jay awarded assistant coaching duties to Pat Malia and Shelvy Thomas. Malia will continue as head softball coach, and Thomas formerly was a member of the school's women's basketball squad ... Fairleigh Dickinson's Kia Damon resigned as an assistant ... Kendra Robbins was added as an assistant at Virginia Wesleyan ... Nicole Beauregard was chosen as an assistant coach at New Paltz State ... Toledo named Jennifer Johnston as an assistant ... Kathleen Cronin and Stephanie Tobey were appointed as assistant coaches at Brown ... Austin Peay hired Tavares Jackson as an assistant ... Mandy Kinder was selected as top assistant coach at Armstrong Atlantic to replace Andy Bloodworth. Kinder is a 2002 graduate of Charleston (West Virginia), where she was a four-year member of the women's basketball squad ... Long Island chose Ruari Sullivan as an assistant.

Men's and women's cross country -- Keith Moore was appointed as head men's and women's coach at Virginia Wesleyan ... John Crawford was selected as interim head men's and women's coach at Cortland State. From 1999 to 2002, Crawford was assistant men's and women's track and field coach at VMI ... Brian Borski accepted additional duties as head men's and women's cross country coach at Dallas to replace Lon Rork, who resigned. Borski will continue as director of student activities ... Oklahoma appointed Rodney Rothoff as head men's and women's coach ... Muskingum hired Keith Whitman as head cross country and track coach. Whitman has been head men's and women's cross country and assistant men's and women's track and field coach at Nebraska-Kearney ... Jerry Monner was hired as head women's cross country and track and field coach at Minnesota-Morris. Monner has been a graduate assistant track and field coach at Loras for the past two seasons ... Nova Southeastern appointed Bruce McCrea as head coach. Most recently, McCrea has been head girls' and boys' cross country and track and field coach at the high-school level.

Men's and women's cross country assistants -- Franklin & Marshall chose Keith Dieterle as an assistant men's and women's coach. For the past three seasons, Dieterle has worked as an assistant cross country coach at Lancaster Catholic (Pennsylvania) High School ... Craig Franzman was chosen as an assistant at Virginia Wesleyan ... Ellen Strickler and Cassandra Quackenbush were added as assistant cross country and track and field coaches at New Paltz State.

Field hockey assistants -- Steph Sarin was hired as an assistant coach at Philadelphia ... La Salle named Colleen Cech as an assistant coach ... Virginia Wesleyan hired Robyn Kenney as an assistant field hockey and assistant lacrosse coach ... Kristen Schmidt was awarded assistant coaching duties at Harvard. Since 2001, Schmidt has been a strength and conditioning intern at the school ... Columbia named Silvina Corvalan as an assistant coach ... Julie Clark accepted responsibilities as assistant field hockey and assistant women's lacrosse coach at New Paltz State ... Gwynedd-Mercy chose Gabija Radzius as an assistant coach.

Football -- David Cutcliffe, head coach at Mississippi, signed a contract extension through January 2006 ... Michael Barthelmess was promoted to head coach at Principia. Barthelmess, who replaces Rod Humenuik, was an assistant last year.

Football assistants -- Millsaps added John Bond as quarterbacks coach ... Tufts tabbed Mike Daly as offensive coordinator and named Brian Carroll, Joe Gaff and Ed Frye as assistants ... Southern Utah appointed Bernie Busken as an assistant coach ... Heidelberg added Mitchell Oparnico as defensive line coach and special teams coordinator and B.J. Hammer and Eric Slosser as graduate assistants. Oparnico, who replaces Brian Cochran, spent last season as a football intern at Indiana (Pennsylvania) ... Brian Partlow was hired as a part-time assistant coach and Howard Copley was hired as outside linebackers coach at Shenandoah. Partlow serves as offensive coordinator with Arena Football League's Indiana Firebirds and Copley was head track and assistant football coach at Ravenswood (West Virginia) High School from 1967 until retiring last year ... Michael D'Andraia was selected as split receivers coach at Pace. D'Andraia has worked as receivers and defensive ends coach at Yonkers (New York) High School for two seasons ... Kutztown added Rod Plummer as linebackers coach. Plummer, who formerly was an assistant at the school from 1994-95, spent last season as linebackers coach and special teams coordinator at Wayne State (Michigan) ... Jim Ryan was appointed as defensive coordinator at Colorado College to succeed Neal Mitchell. Ryan, who also will serve as assistant strength and conditioning coach, was a graduate assistant defensive ends coach at North Alabama in spring 2002 ... Wesleyan (Connecticut) chose Lou Brunelli as interim defensive linemen coach. Brunelli has been an assistant at Fairleigh Dickinson ... Belhaven selected Don Lee as defensive line coach and Derrick Guinn as wide receivers coach ... Moravian elevated Jeff Pukszyn to assistant head coach and added Gordy Frack as general defensive and special teams assistant, Fran Meagher as wide receivers, tight ends and assistant offensive line coach and Adam Stauffer as inside linebackers and special teams coach. Pukszyn enters his sixth season with the program and will continue as defensive coordinator and outside linebackers coach ... Wartburg promoted Tim Morrison to full-time offensive line coach, awarded Matt Mitchell additional duties as defensive coordinator, moved Chris Reade to defensive line coach and hired Jeff Beck as defensive backs coach and Brad Taphorn as wide receivers coach. Morrison also will work as recruiting coordinator. Mitchell has been linebackers coach and Reade has spent the past four years as tight ends coach. Beck served as an assistant at Grand Valley State last year and Taphorn is a former four-year member of the Wabash football team ... Randolph-Macon added Jason Thomas as a volunteer offensive assistant coach ... Pace promoted Mike Iezzi to associate head coach and Anthony Gazzillo to offensive coordinator and added Now-Allah James as offensive line coach and Chris Tropiano as running backs coach. Iezzi has been defensive coordinator for four seasons and Gazzillo has spent the past two seasons as quarterbacks coach. James and Tropiano formerly were football student-athletes at the school ... Beau Eckert was chosen as quarterbacks and passing coach and Domenick Rozzi was tabbed as defensive tackles coach at Franklin & Marshall ... Minnesota-Morris added Jeff Remington as offensive line coach. Since 1997, Remington has served as head coach at Henry M. Gunn (California) High School.

Men's and women's golf -- Jim Meyer was selected as head women's golf and assistant women's basketball coach at Baldwin-Wallace ... Jim Hamilton was tabbed as head men's coach at Evansville. Hamilton has been a PGA pro for 22 years ... John Bermel accepted additional responsibilities as head women's coach at Northern Iowa. Bermel will continue as head men's golf coach ... Johnson and Wales named Mike Lurgio as head coach ... Mark Murphy was selected as head men's and women's golf coach and assistant men's basketball coach at Penn State-Behrend ... St. Andrews appointed Jason Hughes as head men's golf and assistant men's basketball coach. Since August 2000, Hughes has worked as head golf coach at Dubuque and also served as an assistant men's basketball coach for three years and as sports information director for one year at the school ... Duke Donahue was selected as head men's and women's coach at Nova Southeastern.

Men's and women's golf assistants -- Jenny Bruun was chosen as an assistant women's coach at Campbell.

Men's and women's gymnastics assistants -- William Lorenz was hired as an assistant women's coach at Penn State ... Southern Utah named Amber Trapp as an assistant coach.

Men's and women's ice hockey assistants -- Brown named Danny Brooks as an assistant men's coach ... Bob Prier was appointed as an assistant men's coach at St. Lawrence.

Men's and women's lacrosse -- J.P. Stewart was selected as head men's coach at Virginia Wesleyan. Stewart formerly was an assistant at North Carolina ... Dickinson hired Kasey Ryan as head women's lacrosse and assistant field hockey coach. Ryan most recently has been with Brandeis ... Laura Brand was appointed as head women's coach at Rutgers ... Shenandoah added Lois Bowers as head women's lacrosse and head field hockey coach. The field hockey program will compete at the club level in the fall of 2002 and begin varsity competition in 2003. Bowers formerly guided the lacrosse and field hockey programs at Gettysburg from 1978 to 1992, earning a national championship in field hockey in 1980 ... Brian Voelker was hired as head men's coach at Pennsylvania. For the past two years, Voelker has worked as head coach and assistant general manager of Major League Lacrosse's Baltimore Bayhawks ... Fran Meagher was hired as head men's lacrosse coach and assistant football coach at Moravian.

Men's and women's lacrosse assistants -- Jen Mikulec was chosen as an assistant women's coach at Western New England ... New Paltz State selected Lillian Staab as an assistant women's coach.

Women's rowing -- Trinity (Connecticut) named Lou O'Brien Berl as head women's coach ... Amber van Heel was hired as head women's coach at Saint Mary's (California). Last year, van Heel worked as head juniors coach and fulfilled administrative duties at North Bay Rowing Club.

Women's rowing assistants -- Kansas State added James Rawson and Paula Donald as assistant coaches ... Marc DeRose was tabbed as lightweight rowing coach at Columbia.

Men's soccer -- Curt Lewis was named as head coach at Cornell to succeed Patrick Bourgeacq. From 1999-01, Lewis was head women's coach at Mount St. Clare ... Michael Linenberger was promoted to full-time head coach at Sacramento State. Linenberger, the 2001 Mountain Pacific Sports Federation soccer coach of the year, has been the school's sole head coach since 1992 ... Curry's Brendan Donahue resigned as head coach. The school appointed Morten Jorgensen as Donahue's successor ... Adam Clinton accepted responsibilities as head coach at Rensselaer ... Dan Wagner was hired as head coach at Franklin & Marshall. Since 1999, Wagner has served as head boys' soccer coach at Penn Manor (Pennsylvania) High School.

Men's soccer assistants -- Eastern Illinois added Kyle Mittendorf as an assistant coach ... Virginia Wesleyan tabbed David Raich as an assistant ... Western New England named Steve Dunbusky as an assistant coach ... Matt Crist was named as an assistant at Franklin & Marshall. Crist is a 2002 graduate of Messiah, where he helped the men's soccer team earn four conference titles, make four NCAA Division III national championship appearances and capture the 2000 national championship.

Women's soccer -- Sacramento State tabbed Karen Hanks as head coach to replace Sandra Asimos. For the past seven seasons, Hanks has been head coach at Cal State Dominguez Hills ... Tom Condone was awarded duties as head coach at Rutgers-Newark. Most recently, Condone has been head coach at Tennessee Wesleyan College ... Laura Ray was awarded interim head coaching duties at Cortland State. During the 2001 season, Ray served as an assistant coach at Akron ... Jim Woodcock accepted additional duties as head coach at Randolph-Macon. Woodcock, who will continue as head men's lacrosse coach, has spent the last six years as an assistant soccer coach ... Chris Case was tabbed as head coach at Fredonia State ... Rensselaer chose Leslie Khachadourian as head women's soccer and lacrosse coach.

Women's soccer assistants -- Kristin Boeker assumed duties as an assistant coach at Eastern Illinois ... Mercer chose Stefanie Kraay as an assistant coach ... Morehead State added Doris Sullivan as an assistant coach. Sullivan replaces Jennifer Gordon ... North Dakota State chose Matt Howe as a graduate assistant coach ... Mike Dias was selected as an assistant coach at Western New England ... Gwynedd-Mercy selected Art Mathesian and Katherine Kensey as assistant coaches ... Tony Mohammed assumed duties as an assistant coach at New Paltz State ... Franklin & Marshall added Daniel Puertas as an assistant coach. Most recently, Puertas has been a graduate assistant women's soccer and track and field coach at John Carroll.

Softball -- Lois Kahl was appointed as head coach at Manhattan ... Dallas promoted assistant coach Marie Thomas to head coach to succeed Venera Flores, who was elevated to assistant athletics director ... Al Fecso was selected as head coach at Rutgers-Newark to succeed Celia Mosier. Fecso has been assistant manager and coach of the New Jersey Divas since 1998.

Softball assistants -- Brooke Adams-Franquet was named as an assistant coach and Kimmy Carter was named as a volunteer assistant coach at Jacksonville ... East Carolina chose Natalie Kozlowski as an assistant ... Christine Hornak was named as pitching coach at Campbell ... Armstrong Atlantic hired Ansley Paschal as a graduate assistant coach. Paschal is a 2002 graduate of the school and was a four-year starter for the softball team.

Men's and women's swimming and diving -- Evansville hired Rickey Perkins as head men's and women's swimming and diving coach to succeed Clark Campbell. Perkins has spent the past three years as head assistant coach, recruiting coordinator and academic coach at Washington ... Brian Striker was named as head men's and women's swimming and diving coach at Alfred ... Western New England appointed Andrea Daley as head women's coach ... UC Irvine promoted Brian Pajer to head men's and women's coach to succeed Charlie Schober, who became director of aquatics at the school. Pajer has served as an assistant coach since 1999.

Men's and women's swimming and diving assistants -- Chris Gage assumed responsibilities as an assistant coach at Xavier ... Arthur Albiero was promoted to associate head swimming and diving coach at Alabama ... New Paltz State selected Dan Talleyrand, Mark Otto and Christine Foster as assistant swimming and diving coaches ... Andrew Girman was appointed as assistant swimming and assistant director of aquatics at Franklin & Marshall.

Men's and women's tennis -- Tomas Johansson was hired as head men's coach at Evansville ... Southern Mississippi named Randy Rowley as head women's coach ... Kevin Brandalik was chosen to succeed Paul Marcum as head men's coach at Ferris State ... Chris Hill was hired as head men's and women's tennis coach and assistant men's basketball coach at Dallas. Hill succeeds Lon Rork, who resigned ... Georgia State hired Andy Smith as head women's coach. Since 1995, Smith has served as head men's and women's coach at Gardner-Webb ... Ken Birkett takes over for the retired Alan Koth as head men's coach at Franklin & Marshall. Birkett, who formerly led the program for seven seasons beginning in 1985, has most recently been instructor of tennis and badminton at Harrisburg Area (Pennsylvania) Community College and director of tennis at the Lancaster (Pennsylvania) Country Club.

Men's and women's tennis assistant -- Eric Gullickson was awarded responsibilities as an assistant coach at New Paltz State.

Men's and women's track and field -- Morningside added Scott Munsen as head men's and women's track and cross country coach ... Hampton hired Maurice Pierce as head women's coach ... Washington hired Greg Metcalf as head track and field and cross country coach to succeed Orin Richburg. For the past five seasons, Metcalf has served as an assistant coach at the school ... Ron Grigg was named as head coach at Jacksonville ... Austin Peay added Yvonne Lowe as head women's track and field and men's and women's cross country coach.

Men's and women's track and field assistants -- Mario Wilson was selected as an assistant coach at Bucknell ... Lance Deal became a volunteer assistant at Oregon for the 2002-03 season. Deal, a four-time Olympian and a 1996 silver medalist in the hammer throw, captured the U.S. Outdoor hammer title for the ninth time in June ... Hampton chose James Carter as a volunteer assistant. Carter is the 2002 U.S. outdoor 400-meter hurdles champion ... Alabama tabbed Sidney Cartwright as an assistant women's coach ... Karen Rademeyer was tabbed as an assistant at Jacksonville ... Jeff Petersmeyer was chosen as an assistant coach at Columbia ... Ohio Northern selected Jason Maus as an assistant track and cross country coach.

Men's and women's volleyball -- Virginia Wesleyan named Jennifer Strauss as head women's coach ... Gary Lee assumed responsibilities as head women's coach at Millersville ... Alfred appointed Stacey Brzesinski as head women's coach ... Scranton added Jud Holdredge as head coach ... Steve Humm was selected as interim head coach at Alma to replace Penny Allen-Cook. For the past two seasons, Humm has served as head coach at Alma (Michigan) High School and will retain those duties ... Kentucky Wesleyan awarded head coaching responsibilities to Karie Jarrett, who is set to graduate from the school in December. Jarrett, a three-year starter for the women's volleyball squad and record holder for the most assists in a game (55) and in a season (786), succeeds Heather Oxley ... Ryan Dehnel resigned as head coach at Augsburg. The school appointed Jason Meszaros as interim head coach ... Randolph-Macon hired Bill Rogers as head women's coach. Since 1995, Rogers has been head girls' coach at Patrick Henry (Virginia) High School ... Johnson and Wales chose Neil Nachbar as head men's coach ... Ann Clements was awarded responsibilities as head women's coach at Susquehanna.

Men's and women's volleyball assistants -- Jamie Holmes was named as an assistant women's coach at Ohio State ... La Salle selected Abby Thatcher as a graduate assistant coach ... Johnson and Wales named Marcie Monaco as an assistant women's coach ... Kate Nash and Deanna Zwarich were added as assistants at Harvard. Nash has spent the past two years coaching at the Starlings Volleyball Club in New York. Zwarich has been an English teacher and head varsity volleyball coach at The Dwight School in New York City ... Ian Walker was tabbed as an assistant women's coach at New Paltz State ... Jen Michael assumed duties as a graduate assistant coach at Armstrong Atlantic. The 2002 Francis Marion graduate was a four-year member of the women's volleyball squad ... Central Oklahoma hired Jeff Boyland as an assistant volleyball coach and media relations assistant. For the past two years, Boyland has worked as head coach at Mid-America Bible College, where he led the 2001 team to the National Christian Collegiate Athletic Association Division II national championship.

Wrestling assistants -- Penn State hired Josh Koscheck as an administrative assistant for wrestling ... Columbia named David Esposito and Yero Washington as assistant coaches ... Brad Gibson was hired as an assistant coach at Minnesota-Morris. Gibson has been head coach at Morris Area (Minnesota) High School since 1999.

STAFF

Academic services -- Nova Southeastern named Nino Berticelli as coordinator of athletics academic services. Berticelli formerly was an intern with Major League Soccer's Miami Fusion and also formerly served as an assistant men's soccer coach at Notre Dame.

Administrative -- Dan Cetrone accepted additional responsibilities as supervisor of athletics recruitment services at Greensboro. Cetrone will continue to serve as head men's lacrosse coach ... Merchant Marine appointed Nicole Procaccio as events coordinator and operations assistant. For the past year and a half, Procaccio has been assistant sport coordinator for the directors of lacrosse and soccer at the United Sports Training Center.

Athletic trainers -- Leslie Parker was chosen as women's athletic trainer at Heidelberg. Most recently, Parker has been a graduate assistant at Massachusetts ... Tampa named Scott Brickett as head athletic trainer. Brickett has been assistant athletic trainer at Hillsborough Community College from 1996 to 2002. He also worked with the Arena Football League's Tampa Bay Storm in 2001 and with National Football League Europe's Scottish Claymores in 2002 ... Mount St. Vincent hired Michael Reddington as head athletic trainer. Most recently, Reddington has worked as an assistant athletic trainer at Manhattanville ... Chris Hart was added as head athletic trainer at Randolph-Macon. Hart has been a graduate assistant athletic trainer at Virginia.

Assistant athletic trainers -- La Salle named Kerrie Eisenhauer as an assistant athletic trainer ... Lindsay Childers was hired as an assistant athletic trainer at Dallas ... Sarah Kelly was appointed as an assistant trainer/fitness coordinator at Western New England ... Dondi Boyd was selected as an assistant trainer at William Paterson. Boyd was an assistant athletic trainer at Rutgers-Newark ... Gwynedd-Mercy added Patty Edinger as an assistant trainer.

Compliance -- Les Goodall was selected as director of compliance and special projects at Charlotte. Goodall has been a compliance intern for two years and a graduate assistant in compliance for two years at Memphis.

Development -- Towson appointed Matt Gentil as executive director of the Tiger Athletic Fund. Gentil has been director of sales and marketing at Navy for three years.

Equipment manager -- New Jersey City's Ed Roesch retired as equipment supervisor, a position he has held since 1979-80.

Marketing/promotions -- Tami Melton was chosen as director of marketing and promotions at Southern Utah ... John Fitzgerald resigned after two years as director of marketing and promotions and radio and television play-by-play announcer at Loyola (Illinois) to become sports director at WJBC radio in Bloomington, Illinois, and to fulfill play-by-play duties for Illinois State basketball and football ... Tom Bruya was named as director of marketing and corporate partnerships at Santa Clara. Bruya takes over for George Husack, who was named as head men's tennis coach at the school.

Media relations assistants -- Ricky Ray was named as assistant athletics media relations director at Georgia Southern. Most recently, Ray has been a staff assistant in the school's athletics media relations office ... Tabitha Hitchcock was added as an athletics media relations assistant at Towson ... Ian Hofler was selected as athletics media relations assistant at Jacksonville.

Operations -- Greensboro awarded Ben Guiliano with additional duties as supervisor of athletics operations. Guiliano has been head softball coach at the school since 1998.

Sports information -- Mark Katarski accepted additional responsiblities as sports information director at Pittsburgh-Greensburg. Katarski, who replaces Karl Radday, also serves as assistant baseball and assistant women's basketball coach ... Shawna L. Johnson-Coleman was hired as sports information director at Dallas. Johnson-Coleman takes over for Patricia Danko ... Fredonia State appointed Jerry Reilly as sports information director.

Sports information assistants -- Franklin & Marshall named Tod Gross as assistant sports information director. Gross is a 2002 graduate of Shenandoah, where he worked in the athletics communications office ... Nicole DeSantis accepted responsibilities as athletics communications assistant at Bucknell ... Mount St. Vincent chose Chris Hodgson as a sports information intern ... Bill Steinman retired as senior associate director of athletics communications at Columbia ... Keuka appointed Michael Damon as sports information coordinator ... Ryan Perreault was selected as a graduate assistant for sports information at North Dakota State ... Meredith Rieder was chosen as a sports information assistant at Hobart/Willliam Smith. Rieder is a May 2002 graduate of Denison where she competed on the women's soccer team.

Sports medicine -- Southern Utah tabbed Ricky Mendini as director of sports medicine ... Wesley Mallicone was chosen as director of sports medicine at Shippensburg. During the past season, Mallicone served as an assistant athletic trainer for National Football League Europe's F.C. Barcelona Dragons.

Strength and conditioning -- Tulsa appointed Patrick Ivey as director of strength and conditioning.

Strength and conditioning assistant -- Todd Forcier accepted duties as an assistant strength and conditioning coach at Syracuse.

CONFERENCES

America East selected Michael Antonaccio as assistant director for communications and Julie Raynor as director of operations. The league also elevated Daniel Riester to administrative assistant. Antonaccio has been assistant sports information director at Hartford since May 2001 and Raynor has been at Connecticut since 1993, most recently serving as assistant director of athletics for personnel and administrative services. Reister spent the 2001-02 academic year as an administrative intern with the conference ... The Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference hired Elizabeth Kelleher as assistant to the commissioner. Kelleher is a 2002 graduate of Ithaca ... The Mid-Continent Conference hired Angie Torain as assistant commissioner for institutional services. For the past three years, Torain has served as an enforcement representative with the NCAA national office ... The Sunshine State Conference hired Kelly Harrison as membership services liaison. During the 2001-02 academic year, Harrison worked as an assistant sports information director at Rollins ... Cathy Wenzka was hired as publicist for the State University of New York Athletic Conference ... The Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference named the following as officers for the 2002-03 academic year: Larry D. Large, president at Oglethorpe, chair; William E. Troutt, president at Rhodes; and Frances Lucas-Tauchar, Millsaps. The league also announced Bob Unger will be chair of the conference's athletics directors council for 2002-03.

NATIONAL OFFICE

David Hill resigned as a membership services representative at the national office ... Jess Rigler was hired as an assistant membership services representative at the national office. Most recently, Rigler has worked as a compliance assistant at Central Michigan ... Rich McGlynn was named as a membership services representative at the NCAA. McGlynn transferred from duties as a student-athlete reinstatement representative at the national office ... Kelly Groddy, Corey Jackson and Michael Mangarelli were hired as student-athlete reinstatement representatives at the NCAA national office. Groddy has been an assistant athletics director at Ball State, Jackson was counsel/legislative assistant to Rep. Steny H. Hoyer in Washington, D.C., and Mangarelli has been an associate attorney at Loveall & Woods ... Kay Hawes, assistant director of The NCAA News, assumed additional responsibilities as Division III governance liaison at the NCAA ... Julie Nash was reclassified to human resources coordinator at the national office.

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CORRECTIONS

The name of the school where Kevin Varnado accepted coaching and equipment management duties was omitted in the August 19 edition of The NCAA Record. Varnado was named as assistant men's and women's soccer coach and athletics equipment manager at Francis Marion.

REPRIMAND

The NCAA Division III Wrestling Committee has reprimanded Montclair State University head wrestling coach Steve Strellner for unsportsmanlike conduct. The incident occurred in March during the 2002 NCAA Division III Wrestling Championships in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Specifically, Strellner made profane and disrespectful comments to a student-athlete from an opposing team. Those comments seriously violated the NCAA's sportsmanship and ethical conduct principles. The committee decided to issue a public reprimand of Strellner and withhold transportation and per diem expenses for the Montclair State coach involved in the competition. Strellner also was disqualified from further participation in the 2002 championships. The match official also issued a one-point team deduction for unsportsmanlike conduct.

NOTABLES

The National Fastpitch Coaches Association announced its Diamond Sports Catcher of the Year awardees. The honor, which is presented by the NFCA and sponsored by Diamond Sports, the NFCA's official protective equipment, recognizes players in 10 divisions including the following NCAA divisional winners: NCAA Division I -- Stacey Nuveman, senior, UCLA; NCAA Division II -- Tracie Schioppi, junior, Cal State San Bernardino; NCAA Division III -- Shannon Fritzke, senior, Pacific Lutheran.

Jessyca Arthur and Daniel Klemetz were named as winners of the Intercollegiate Tennis Association/Arthur Ashe, Jr. Leadership and Sportsmanship award. Honorees are chosen based on tennis accomplishments, scholastic and extracurricular achievements, sportsmanship, leadership, character and humanitarian concern and accomplishments. Arthur, a senior at William & Mary, helped the school to an 18th place finish nationally and was chairperson of the campus Student-Athlete Advisory Board. Klemetz, a junior at Middle Tennessee State, is a two-time member of the dean's list, and was an ITA all-America selection during the past season.

DEATHS

Former Texas-Arlington football coach Claude Gilstrap died August 9. He was 88. Gilstrap coached at the school, then known as Arlington State, from 1953 to 1965 and also worked as athletics director there for 22 years.

Former Purdue men's basketball player Gary McQuay died of leukemia on August 15. McQuay, 24, competed with the program from 1997 to 1999 and made 94 career appearances, including seven starts.

--Compiled by Leilana McKindra