Wingate hires Burns as head women's coach

Most recently, Burns has served as a graduate assistant golf coach. Although she assisted both the men's and women's teams, her focus primarily was on the women's side. The squad captured the 2002 South Atlantic Conference championship and finished the 2001-02 season ranked 15th in the nation.

Burns was a four-year member of the Tusculum women's team, where she is the only player in school history to compete in every event during her playing career. A two-time all-South Atlantic Conference honoree, she helped Tusculum earn conference championships in 2000 and 2001.

Burns earned a bachelor of arts degree in business management and accounting from Tusculum in May 2001. She currently is completing coursework for a master's in business administration at Wingate in addition to serving as a PGA apprentice and assistant golf professional at Eagle Chase Golf Club.

GENERAL

CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICERS

Robert Bruininks was chosen as president at Minnesota. Bruininks has been interim president ... Mount St. Mary's named Thomas H. Powell president of the college and the seminary, effective July 1. Powell has been president at Glenville State ... Former Tri-State president R. John Reynolds was appointed as interim president at Millikin ... Iowa named David Skorton, vice-president of external relations, as president, effective March 1 ... Florida State selected T. K. Wetherell as president. Wetherell formerly was president at Tallahassee Community College ... Donald R. Haragan was appointed as interim president at Texas Tech. Haragan formerly was president at the school.

DIRECTORS OF ATHLETICS

Mitch Barnhart, athletics director at Kentucky since August, signed a seven-year contract ... David Langford was chosen as athletics director at Fairleigh Dickinson to replace associate athletics director Ann Gulino, who served as interim athletics director. Langford has spent the past 14 years at UMBC where he most recently was associate athletics director ... Pfeiffer's Jeff Childress resigned as athletics director, effective May 31 ... Gannon chose Richard Sukitsch as acting director of athletics ... Dave Mullins, head men's tennis coach at East Tennessee State, was chosen as interim athletics director at the school ... Central Oklahoma's John "Skip" Wagnon announced plans to retire, effective June 30. Wagnon, who has been with the school since 1971, has been athletics director since 1986 ... Tony DeCarlo announced his retirement as athletics director at John Carroll, effective February 1, but will continue as director of athletics development. DeCarlo, who has been with the school since 1964, was head wrestling coach from 1964 to 1987 and also was assistant and head football coach at the school. Gretchen Weitbrecht, an assistant athletics director, was appointed as interim athletics director ... St. Paul's named Jerry P. Seale as interim athletics director. Seale will continue as head men's basketball coach.

SENIOR WOMAN
ADMINISTRATORS

Laura Mincy was named as senior woman administrator and assistant athletics director at Chattanooga ... Barbie Breedlove was named as senior woman administrator/associate director of athletics at East Tennessee State.

FACULTY ATHLETICS
REPRESENTATIVE

St. Mary's (Maryland) chose Jeffrey Byrd as faculty athletics representative to succeed Don Stabile.

ASSOCIATE DIRECTORS
OF ATHLETICS

Chattanooga chose Matthew Pope as associate athletics director for internal operations and finance ... Hawaii hired Thomas Sadler as associate athletics director. Sadler, who replaces Jim Donovan, has been assistant athletics director for constituent relations at Arizona State.

ASSISTANT DIRECTORS
OF ATHLETICS

Chattanooga appointed Nancy Noblit as assistant athletics director for development and Jeff Romero as assistant athletics director for media relations ... Lyla Aguirre was hired as assistant athletics director for compliance at Northern Arizona. Aguirre has been an assistant compliance coordinator at Oregon State for three years ... Army chose Mike Pirolo as assistant athletics director for marketing, sales and broadcasting ... Jonathan Evans was selected as assistant director of athletics for the Bison Club at Bucknell. Evans has spent the past two years as assistant director of athletics for ticket operations and donor relations at California ... Tiffani Sykes was awarded additional responsibilities as assistant athletics director for women's sports at St. Paul's. Sykes also serves as senior woman administrator and sports information director.

COACHES

Baseball -- Chris Blum was promoted to head coach at Kutztown. Blum, who takes over for Matt Royer, has been an assistant for eight seasons ... Seton Hall selected Marc Marizzaldi as head coach and sports information director ... Mercer's Barry Myers announced plans to retire as head coach, effective at the end of the 2003 season.

Baseball assistant -- J.R. Richard was announced as a volunteer pitching coach at Texas Southern. Richard competed professionally with MLB's Houston Astros from 1976 to 1980.

Men's basketball -- Central Arkansas reassigned head coach Charles Hervey and announced David James as interim head coach ... Chicago State released Bo Ellis as head coach and appointed assistant coach Kevin Jones as interim head coach. Ellis has guided the program for five years. Jones joined the squad this year after formerly serving as associate head coach at Indiana/Purdue-Indianapolis ... Joe Mondragon was released as head coach at Western New Mexico.

Women's basketball -- David Glass resigned as head coach at Virginia Commonwealth, effective at the end of the season. Glass, who has been head coach since the 1996-97 season, formerly was an assistant coach from 1983 to 1988. The school announced Beth Cunningham, associate head coach, as Glass' successor.

Women's basketball assistant -- Natalia Isaac, an assistant at Southern, was reassigned to administrative duty in the athletics department at the school.

Field hockey assistant -- Kelly McCollum was elevated to associate head coach at Northwestern. McCollum has been an assistant coach with the program since 2000.

Football -- Norfolk State appointed Willie Gillus as head coach ... George Small was awarded responsibilities as head coach at North Carolina A&T ... Steve Mooshagian was hired as head coach at Sacramento State. From 1999 to 2002, Mooshagian served as wide receivers coach with the NFL's Cincinnati Bengals ... North Carolina Central hired Roderick C. Broadway as head coach. Broadway has been an assistant at North Carolina, Florida and Duke ... Carroll McCray was hired as head coach at Austin Peay to replace Bill Schmitz. McCray has been offensive line coach at Mississippi State since 2001 ... Kentucky Wesleyan named Brent Holsclaw as head coach ... Mike Murray resigned as head coach at Benedictine ... Shawn Halloran was hired as head coach at Franklin & Marshall to succeed the retired Tom Gilburg. For the past six seasons, Halloran has been linebackers and special teams coach at Yale ... Wake Forest head coach Jim Grobe was awarded a 10-year contract extension. Grobe has led the program for two seasons ... Phillip Fulmer, head coach at Tennessee, was awarded a one-year contract extension through December 2009. Fulmer has been head coach since 1992.

Football assistants -- Wayne Bolt was added as defensive coordinator at Alabama-Birmingham ... North Texas tabbed Bruce Bell as an offensive assistant and Eric Wolford as offensive line coach. Bell, who succeeds Bill Michael, has been an assistant athletics director with the Houston (Texas) Independent School District. Wolford, who replaces Spencer Leftwich, has been an assistant coach at Houston for three seasons ... UCLA selected Gary DeLoach as secondary coach. DeLoach has been with North Texas since 1998 and has been defensive coordinator for the past three years ... Shawn Simms was hired as running backs coach at Colorado, replacing Eric Bieniemy. Simms was running backs coach at Pittsburgh ... Noah Brindise assumed offensive coordinator duties at East Carolina. Most recently, Brindise has been quarterbacks coach for the NFL's Washington Redskins ... Washington and Jefferson named Gary Smeck as an assistant ... Arkansas-Pine Bluff hired Monte Coleman as linebackers coach and assistant special teams coach. Coleman formerly competed professionally with the NFL's Washington Redskins where he won three Super Bowls ... Joe Bernard was added as offensive coordinator at Duquesne ... Saint Mary's (California) hired Derek Mason as assistant head coach, defensive coordinator and defensive backs coach; Lance Anderson as defensive line coach; and Frank Robinson as linebackers coach. Jim McDermott, director of football operations for the past year, will retain those responsibilities. Mason has spent the past year as wide receivers coach and special teams coach at Utah. Anderson has been an assistant at Bucknell, where he spent two seasons as tight ends and offensive line coach and the past two seasons as defensive line coach. Robinson has been in the financial services industry for the past six years and formerly played professionally in the NFL ... Eric Price was hired as offensive coordinator and receivers coach at Alabama. Since 2001, Price has worked as quarterbacks assistant with the NFL's New York Jets ... Dave Cecchini was awarded responsibilities as offensive coordinator and quarterbacks and receivers coach at Harvard ... Memphis selected Joe Lee Dunn as defensive coordinator ... Buddy Wyatt accepted responsibilities as defensive line coach at Alabama ... Terrence Graves resigned as defensive coordinator at Southern ... Washington State awarded Robin Pflugrad with additional duties as assistant head coach to replace Kasey Dunn. Pflugrad will continue as tight ends coach and recruiting coordinator ... Wisconsin appointed Ron Lee as defensive backs coach ... Ball State selected Ted Huber as assistant head coach and guards and LEFTs coach, Don Treadwell as offensive coordinator and receivers coach, Jim Boccher as defensive coordinator and safeties coach, Phil Burnett as defensive line coach, Jeff Hecklinski as quarterbacks coach, Eric Lewis as secondary coach, Mark Smith as linebackers coach, and Ed Stults as offensive tackles and tight ends coach ... David Blackwell was hired as defensive ends coach at Clemson. Blackwell, who is set to replace Rodney Allison, has been linebackers coach at Pittsburgh ... Arkansas chose Roy Wittke as quarterbacks coach and passing game coordinator to succeed David Lee. Wittke has worked as assistant head coach, offensive coordinator, quarterbacks coach and wide receivers coach at Eastern Illinois for 13 seasons. The school also announced offensive line coach Mike Markuson accepted additional duties as running game coordinator ... Charlie Williams was selected as wide receivers coach at South Carolina ... Jon Wauford resigned as defensive coordinator at Miami (Ohio) ... Adams State chose Tim Geiser as graduate assistant, weight training supervisor and strength and conditioning coach.

Men's and women's golf assistant -- Jamie Fischer was added as an assistant women's coach at Northwestern. Fischer, who has most recently served as a volunteer assistant at the school, replaces Mike Henry.

Men's and women's ice hockey -- Dan Fridgen, head men's coach at Rensselaer, signed a three-year contract extension.

Men's and women's lacrosse -- Jay Motta was hired as a part-time assistant men's coach at Delaware. Motta will continue as a full-time physical education teacher at the Independence (Delaware) School.

Men's and women's lacrosse assistant -- Hofstra tabbed Christine McPike as graduate assistant coach.

Men's soccer -- Evansville awarded head coaching responsibilities to Dave Golan. Golan, who succeeds the retired Fred Schmalz, served as head coach at Appalachian State for two years ... Jim McElderry was named as head coach at Fordham ... Chuck Schimpf was hired as head coach at Farmingdale State. For the past five years, Schimpf has served as head coach at Suffolk Community College-Western Campus ... Gettysburg tabbed Devin O'Neill as head men's soccer coach and assistant men's and women's tennis coach ... Fernando Barboto was awarded head coaching duties at Iona ... East Carolina named Michael Benn as interim head coach.

Women's soccer -- St. Peter's appointed Elizabeth Roper as head coach ... Barton named Stacey Radford as head coach ... Emma Hayes assumed duties as head coach at Iona ... Tracy Cross was hired as head coach at Northwest Missouri State. Cross has been an assistant at Toledo for two seasons.

Softball -- Scott Coppola was awarded head coaching duties at Hofstra ... Wells appointed Amy Dolan as head softball coach, assistant field hockey coach and sports information director.

Softball assistant -- Delaware tabbed Carolyn Wasilewski as a graudate assistant coach. The 2001 graduate of the school also is currently completing coursework for a master's degree in exercise science and biomechanics.

Men's and women's track and field -- Western Oregon's John Knight announced plans to retire at the end of the 2003 season, but he will continue as a faculty member in the physical education department. In addition to his tenure at Western Oregon, which began in 1980, Knight coached at Concordia University (Nebraska), Linfield, Valparaiso and at the high-school level ... Sylvia Kamp was chosen as interim head men's and women's track and cross country coach at Butler. Kamp takes over for Joe Franklin, who has taken a medical leave of absence.

Men's and women's track and field assistants -- Russ Buller was named as an assistant at McNeese State. Buller, a nationally ranked pole vaulter, is the LSU indoor and outdoor men's pole vaulting record holder and was a seven-time all-America selection ... Albert Perry resigned as an assistant coach at Southern.

Men's and women's volleyball -- Evansville tabbed Mike Swan as head women's coach. The 2001 Ohio Valley Conference coach of the year has been head coach at Morehead State for five years ... Franklin and Marshall appointed Mary Kate Boland as head women's coach ... Missy Gragg assumed responsibilities as head women's coach at Tusculum. Gragg, who replaces Beth Birky, has been head coach at Pikeville (Kentucky) College for five years ... South Alabama selected Nicole Keshock as head coach. Keshock, who succeeds Ginger Mayson, has been senior woman administrator and head coach at West Florida for the past three seasons ... Elon's Sue Leonard resigned as head women's coach ... Northwest Missouri State hired Lori DeJongh-Slight as head coach. For the past four years, DeJongh-Slight has been head coach at Des Monies (Iowa) Area Community College ... Gardner-Webb appointed Cole Tallman as head coach ... Santa Clara extended the contract of head women's coach Jon Wallace through 2007 ... Wayne Sombric resigned as head women's coach at Eastern Connecticut State, effective March 1.

Men's and women's volleyball assistants -- Natasha Anderson resigned as an assistant women's coach at Southern ... Jennifer McCall was elevated to associate head women's coach at Iowa State ... Stephen F. Austin hired Justin Gibert as an assistant women's coach.

STAFF

Compliance -- Andre Roach was named as compliance coordinator at St. Paul's.

Compliance assistant -- Pamela Mason assumed responsibilities as assistant director of compliance at James Madison.

Media relations -- Kyle Coughlin was chosen as interim director of media relations at Minnesota.

CONFERENCES

Dan Beebe was named associate commissioner and chief operating officer of the Big 12 Conference after serving as commissioner at Ohio Valley Conference since 1989 ... The Mountain West Conference selected Ken Rivera as coordinator of football officials to succeed Bill Leavy. Rivera has been a referee with the league since 1999 and has been a Division I referee for 19 years ... Conference USA awarded Gerald Austin, coordinator of football officials, a two-year contract extension ... Ron English was appointed as interim commissioner at the Ohio Valley Conference. English currently is an associate commissioner.

ASSOCIATIONS

Robin Green Harris, former NCAA associate chief of staff for Division I and former governance liaison to the NCAA Executive Committee, joined the collegiate sports practice group for the law firm of Ice Miller.

NATIONAL OFFICE

Elaine Driscol was elevated to coordinator for the Division I Women's Basketball Championship. Driscol has been executive assistant for Division I Women's Basketball.

CORRECTIONS

The photo attributed to the 1973 Division III champion Wittenberg University football team in the Looking Back section of the January 6 NCAA News actually was a photo of the 1975 Wittenberg championship team.

NOTABLES

Logan Tom was chosen as the Honda Award winner as the top female athlete in the sport of volleyball. Tom, a senior outside hitter at Stanford, was the Pacific-10 Conference player of the year. The two-time American Volleyball Coaches Association national player of the year finished her playing career as Stanford's all-time kills leader.

DEATHS

John A. Synodinos, president emeritus at Lebanon Valley, died December 26. He was 68.

Missouri Western State Athletics Director Pete Chapman died of cancer January 13. Chapman, 53, had been at Missouri Western State since April 1999. He formerly was athletics director at Wayne State (Nebraska) from 1988 to 1999 and coached football there from 1983 to 1988. Chapman also coached football and baseball at Yankton College, served as an assistant football coach at South Dakota State and as head football coach at the high-school level.

Eric Kloiber, sports information director at Bernard Baruch, died January 13. He was 35.

Former Dartmouth football all-American Robert MacLeod died January 13 from complications from a stroke. MacLeod competed in football and basketball at the school in the late 1930s, earning all-America recognition and a fourth-place finish in the Heisman Trophy voting in 1938.

Clarence R. Moll, president emeritus at Widener, died December 29. He was 89. Moll was selected as president of Widener, then Pennsylvania Military College, in 1959 and was instrumental in transforming the school from Widener College in 1972 to Widener University in 1979. Moll retired and was named chancellor in 1981. The title of president emeritus was conferred in 1988.

Sean Fenton, Kyle Burnat and Nicholas Grass, Yale student-athletes, died in a recent automobile accident. Fenton, 20, was a junior who competed on the football team as a freshman. Burnat, 19, was a sophomore pitcher on the school's baseball team. He allowed three hits and one run in three appearances as a freshman. Grass, also 19, built a 1-3 record in 21.2 innings and 13 appearances with the baseball team. He was a sophomore.

William T. Cloney, former sports information director at Northeastern, died January 16. He was 91. Cloney served as an English and journalism teacher at Northeastern as well as sports information director from 1947 to 1953. Cloney was race director for the Boston Marathon from 1947 to 1982 and was president of the Boston Athletic Association from 1964 to 1982.

Former Seton Hall student-athlete, coach and administrator Richard J. Regan died December 24. Regan, who as a basketball student-athlete helped the school capture a National Invitation Tournament championship in the early 1950s, spent 10 years as head coach of the men's basketball team and was named athletics director in 1971. In the 1980s, Regan served as the first executive director of the Pirate Blue Athletic Fund and in 1998 he was appointed as special assistant to the vice-president for university affairs.

--Compiled by Leilana McKindra