Rutgers-Newark appoints head soccer coach

Rutgers-Newark has selected Chris Condron as its head men's soccer coach.

For the past two seasons, Condron has served as head coach at Keuka. During his tenure at the school, his teams captured two North Eastern Athletic Conference championships. Before his tenure at Keuka, Condron was an assistant at Clarkson in 2000. He also worked as an assistant at Elizabethtown in 1999, where he led the program to a Middle Atlantic States Collegiate Athletic Corporation championship and a berth in the NCAA tournament.

GENERAL

CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICERS

Nannerl O. Keohane, president at Duke, announced plans to step down in June 2004 ... Southern Connecticut State President Michael Adanti retired. The school announced J. Philip Smith as interim president. Smith serves as vice-president for academic affairs at the school ... Michael J. Mooney resigned as president at Lewis and Clark ... Pennsylvania President Judith Rodin resigned, effective June 2004. Rodin will continue with the school as chancellor.

DIRECTORS OF ATHLETICS

SENIOR WOMAN
ADMINISTRATORS

Roxann Moraza resigned as senior woman administrator and head women's softball coach at Lehman ... Clayton State hired Monique Holland as senior woman administrator and assistant athletics director. For the past two years, Holland has been assistant director of compliance at Georgia Tech ... Sherry Penner was hired as senior woman administrator and assistant athletics director for game management and facilities at North Dakota. Penner has been an associate athletics director at Baker University for three years ... Kathleen Heitzman resigned as senior woman administrator and assistant athletics director for NCAA compliance at New Jersey Institute of Technology to become an associate athletics director at Bloomsburg ... Stetson elevated Jan Usher to senior woman administrator and coordinator of academic support. For the past four years, Usher has worked as administrative assistant to the athletics director.

ASSOCIATE DIRECTORS
OF ATHLETICS

Lauren Anderson was promoted to senior associate athletics director at Rhode Island. Anderson joined the school in 1977 and has been associate athletics director and senior woman administrator since 1992 ... Ilinois promoted Vince Ille to associate director of athletics. Ille was assistant athletics director for compliance.

ASSISTANT DIRECTORS
OF ATHLETICS

Birmingham-Southern promoted Jason Falls to assistant athletics director for media services ... Greg Hinze was appointed as assistant athletics director for marketing and operations at Sam Houston State ... Niagara selected Bill Morris as assistant athletics director for compliance ... Dart Volz was elevated to assistant athletics director for media relations at Southeastern Louisiana. Volz has been sports information director at the school since 1999 ... Clark promoted David Kulik to assistant athletics director. Kulik will continue as head men's soccer coach, a position he has held since 2000 ... Kay Chandler was named as assistant athletics director for administration and compliance at Newberry. Chandler has spent the past 18 years as an academic advisor at South Carolina ... Butler chose Jessica Davis as assistant athletics director for student development ... North Dakota appointed Mark Rudolph as assistant athletics director for the Fighting Sioux Club to replace Rob Bollinger and Jeff Bowen, who were named as development officers with the school's alumni association. Since 2000, Rudolph has been director of parks and recreation for the city of Chisholm, Minnesota ... Timothy Wourinen was chosen as assistant athletics director for NCAA compliance at New Jersey Institute of Technology. During the 2002-03 season, Wourinen was an administrative fellow for compliance with the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference ... Chris Peacock was named assistant athletics director for compliance at Illinois to succeed Vince Ille, who was promoted to associate athletics director. Peacock has been assistant athletics director for compliance and administrative services at Toledo since 1998.

COACHES

Baseball assistant -- Bob Malvagna was tabbed as associate head coach at Adelphi.

Men's basketball -- Georgia Tech awarded head coach Paul Hewitt a contract extension through the 2007-08 season. Hewitt has led the program for three seasons ... Mark Bernsen resigned as head coach at Missouri-St. Louis to become an assistant at Southeast Missouri State ... Mike Doyle resigned as head coach at Arcadia to become head boys' basketball coach at Penncrest (Pennsylvania) High School. The school elevated assistant coach Pat Dorney to head coach ... Charlotte awarded head coach Bobby Lutz a one-year contract extension through the 2008-09 season. In five years, Lutz has guided the program to four postseason appearances and Conference USA tournament championships in 1999 and 2001.

Women's basketball -- Sharon Allen was appointed as head coach at Tennessee State ... Fordham awarded head coach Jim Lewis a two-year contract extension through the 2005-06 season ... Saint Anselm's Bill Vermette resigned as head coach ... Jill Seaman resigned as head coach at Wentworth Institute to become instructional coordinator in the school's department of professional and continuing studies. Seaman led the program for three seasons ... Juniata selected Danny Young as head coach ... Laurie Kelly was selected as head coach at Northern Arizona. For the past five years, Kelly, who takes over for Meg Sanders, has been head coach at Binghamton ... St. Francis (Pennsylvania) named Jill Poe as head coach to replace Myndi Hill. Poe has been an assistant at Duquesne for seven years ... James Hatchell was appointed as head coach at Sam Houston State. Hatchell, who has been an assistant at Rice for 10 seasons, succeeds Erika Ritter ... Dickinson chose Dina Henry as head coach ... Vicki Giffin was promoted to head coach at Marietta to succeed James Stutzman. Giffin has been an assistant with the program for three seasons ... Texas A&M-Corpus Christi awarded Jodi Kest a three-year contract extension through 2005-06. Kest has led the program for one year.

Women's basketball assistants -- Krista Kirkland-Gerlich was added as an assistant at Texas Tech ... Indiana chose Quacy Barnes as an assistant coach ... Nicole Ballou was hired as a first assistant coach at New Jersey Institute of Technology. Ballou, who takes over for Amy Valentino, is a 2003 graduate of the school. As a member of the team, she established all-time school records in games (109), assists (396) and steals (193) ... Michigan Tech chose Kari Kerkhoff as an assistant. Kerkhoff served as a graduate assistant at Wisconsin-Stout during the 2002-03 season ... Kristy Crowley was hired as an assistant at Texas-Pan American. Crowley has been a graduate assistant strength and conditioning coach at Hofstra for the past two years ... Tennessee Tech added Stacie Childress to succeed Rachel Gobble as an assistant. Childress has been an assistant at Columbia State Community College for the past two seasons ... Phil Merlino assumed duties as an assistant coach at St. Francis (New York). For the past 29 years, Merlino has worked as a health and physical education instructor at the Marie H. Katzenbach School for the Deaf in New Jersey, where he also spent 20 seasons as head boys' varsity basketball coach ... Bradley announced Shannon Baugh as an assistant coach to replace LaKale Malone. Baugh coached at North Dakota during the 2002-03 school year ... La Salle appointed Tommica Woods as an assistant coach ... Tulane named Christy Thieler as an assistant coach. For the past six years, Thieler has been head girls' basketball coach at St. Mary's Dominican (Louisiana) High School ... Pam Mahoney accepted duties as an assistant coach at Oakland. Mahoney has been head girls' coach at West Bloomfield (Michigan) High School ... Nadine Morgan was appointed as an assistant at James Madison. Morgan is a May graduate of the school where she was a four-year starter and three-year captain of the women's basketball team ... Towson assistant coach John Ardizone resigned.

Field hockey assistants -- Tara Herrmann accepted duties as an assistant coach at Bucknell. Herrmann is a 2003 graduate of Old Dominion, where she was a field hockey all-American ... Courtney Breen was awarded assistant coaching responsibilities at Stonehill.

Football -- Lane hired Darrin Hayes as head coach.

Football assistants -- Lane tabbed Michael Jackson as offensive coordinator and Ted Bahhur as quarterbacks and wide receivers coach ... John Banaszak was chosen as defensive line coach at Robert Morris ... Lenoir-Rhyne appointed David Elder as director of football operations and high school relations ... Greg Etter accepted assistant coaching duties at Carthage ... Western Illinois tabbed Ronnie Harmon as running backs and fullbacks coach to replace Larry Holton. Harmon formerly played professionally in the NFL and recently has been coaching at the high school level ... Gary Krol was named as football quarterbacks and passing game coordinator and as an assistant baseball coach at Westminster (Pennsylvania). Krol has been an assistant football coach at Millersville for the past six years ... Brian Hodges accepted duties as a graduate assistant for football operations at Illinois ... Tennessee Tech named Billy Blizzard as defensive line coach and Russ Ehrenfeld as offensive line coach succeeding Steve McAdoo and Dewayne Alexander. Blizzard has been a student assistant and graduate assistant coach with the program for the past five years. Ehrenfeld has been offensive line coach, running game coordinator and special teams assistant at Bucknell for two seasons ... Scott Frazier replaced Mark Speir as defensive line coach and recruiting coordinator at Elon. Frazier most recently has been an assistant at North Carolina.

Men's and women's golf -- Binghamton awarded head men's coaching duties to Nick Lasky, who has been an assistant with the school for eight years. He succeeds the retired John Affleck ... Minnesota State Mankato chose Mike Zinni as head men's coach ... Nicole Hollingsworth was hired as head women's coach at Toledo. Hollingsworth formerly was head coach at Kansas and Ohio ... Coker named John Handrigan as head coach to succeed Don Schmotzer, who will continue as head men's basketball coach. Handrigan has been top assistant men's coach at St. Francis (Pennsylvania) for three years ... Mark Gaynor was hired as head men's coach at Francis Marion to succeed Jonathan Burnett. Gaynor has been head men's coach at Texas-Pan American for three years ... Adams State tabbed Cole Wasinger as head coach. Wasinger, who takes over for Bryce Bervig, was an assistant with the program during the 2002-03 season.

Men's and women's gymnastics assistant -- West Virginia named David Kuzara as an assistant coach. From 1993 to 2002, Kuzara was head coach at Massachusetts, where the program captured two Atlantic 10 Conference championships.

Men's and women's ice hockey -- Ohio State signed head men's coach John Markell to a new contract.

Men's and women's lacrosse -- Andrew Towers was selected as head men's coach at Hartford ... Towson appointed Missy Holmes as head women's coach. Holmes has been an assistant coach at Princeton since 2001 ... Andrew Fink was tabbed as head men's coach at Mount Ida ... Loyola (Maryland) named Kerri Johnson as head women's coach ... Wittenberg chose Katherine Haney as head women's coach. Haney, who has been assistant women's lacrosse and women's soccer coach at Utica, replaces Nancy Beck.

Men's soccer assistants -- Mitch Sanford was added as an assistant coach at Goucher ... Ian Clerihew accepted responsibilities as an assistant coach at Northern Illinois ... Rutgers elevated Jeff Zaun to associate head coach. Zaun has been an assistant coach. The school also selected Rob Johnson as an assistant and Jason Higgins as coordinator of soccer operations ... Roanoke added Bryan Green as an assistant.

Women's soccer -- North Carolina Wesleyan head coach Kelly Walters resigned after four years to assume duties as head coach at Kenyon ... Mike Brewer resigned as head coach at Nebraska Wesleyan to become an assistant women's coach at Iowa ... Arcadia hired Richard Brownell as head coach. For the past three seasons, Brownell has led the program at Bucks County (Pennsylvania) Community College ... Lisa Cole assumed responsibilities as head coach at Rhode Island. Cole, who has been an assistant at Connecticut for the past three seasons, succeeds Geoff Bennett.

Softball assistant -- New Jersey City tabbed Michael Orlando as an assistant.

Men's and women's swimming and diving -- Benji DeMotte resigned as head men's and women's coach at Binghamton to become an assistant women's swimming coach at Arkansas. DeMotte has been in charge of the programs for five years. The school promoted Patrice Back, an assistant for the past five years, to replace DeMotte ... Julie Benker O'Brien was chosen as aquatics coordinator and head men's and women's club swimming coach at Roger Williams. O'Brien has been aquatics director and head men's and women's swimming and diving coach at Rochester since 1996.

Men's and women's swimming and diving assistant -- Penn State named John Hargis as an assistant men's and women's coach.

Men's and women's tennis -- Jen Callen resigned as head women's coach at North Carolina ... Tyler Gibson accepted responsibilities as head men's coach and Donna Lisevick assumed duties as head women's coach at Hartford ... UTEP tabbed Jamie Campbell as head women's coach ... Montevallo's Leslie Smith resigned as head women's coach ... Allegheny tabbed Jared Luteran as head men's and women's coach ... Michael Coleman was selected as head women's coach at Nova Southeastern. The program is scheduled to begin competition in the 2003-04 school year. Coleman has been head women's coach at George Mason for two years.

Men's and women's track and field assistant -- Carthage announced Steve Ray as director of track and field operations.

Men's and women's volleyball assistants -- Birmingham-Southern selected Pavlina Steffkova and Justin Dee as assistant coaches ... Tracey Sawvel was chosen as an assistant women's coach at Iona ... Mount Ida hired Mike Chin as an assistant women's coach ... Tim Walenga was tabbed as an assistant coach at Elon. For the past three seasons, Walenga has worked as an assistant coach at Marshall ... Krista Singleton was hired as an assistant at Bradley. During the 2000 and 2001 seasons, Singleton was an assistant at Cleveland State ... Saint Michael's chose Emily Verbridge as an assistant women's coach.

Men's and women's water polo -- UC Irvine will not renew the contract of head women's coach Julie Swail, who has led the program since October 1999.

Wrestling assistant -- North Carolina-Greensboro chose Sam Kline as an assistant coach.

STAFF

Academic services -- Penn State announced the retirement of Don Ferrell, academic-athletics advisor. Ferrell joined the school in 1970 and has been academic-athletics advisor since 1982.

Administrative -- Misericordia hired Erick Hart as an athletics department intern.

Athletic trainers -- Birmingham-Southern elevated Mike Morley to head athletic trainer ... North Carolina-Wilmington's Tom Lemley resigned as director of athletic training services. The school announced Kara Williams as interim director of athletic training services ... Sean Hanrahan was named as head athletic trainer at Mount Ida ... Bradley announced Eric Redman as head athletic trainer. Since 1998, Redman has been head athletic trainer at Tyler (Texas) Junior College.

Assistant athletic trainers -- Birmingham-Southern named Matt Kirkpatrick as an assistant athletic trainer ... Illinois appointed Brian Collette as an assistant athletic trainer. For the last two years, Collette has worked as a graduate assistant at Upper Iowa.

Development assistant -- Elon chose Jennifer Poole as an assistant with the Elon Athletics Foundation. Poole is a 2003 graduate of Appalachian State.

Marketing/promotions -- Southeastern Louisiana chose Tommy Krysan as director of corporate sales and broadcast operations ... Kevin Frattura resigned as director of corporate sales, marketing and ticket operations at Albany (New York) to assume responsibilities with the NBA's Indiana Pacers. Frattura has been with the school since 2001.

Operations assistant -- Ryan Tressel was hired as an operations intern at Bradley to replace Josh Monk. Tressel served as an assistant men's basketball coach at St. Scholastica last season.

Sports information -- Matt Michalec was hired as full-time sports information director at Norfolk State. Michalec has been serving in an interim capacity since January 1 ... Jim Taylor was hired as sports information director at Hamilton. Taylor was an editorial assistant in the prep sports department with the Chicago Tribune ... Indiana/Purdue-Indianapolis promoted Ed Holdaway to sports information specialist. For the past two years, Holdaway served as part-time assistant sports information director at the school ... Northern Michigan selected David Faiella as sports information director to replace Jim Pinar. Faiella joined the school as assistant sports information director in August 2001 and has been interim sports information director since December.

Ticket office assistant -- Jason Coomer was tabbed as assistant director of ticket sales and operations at DePaul.

CONFERENCES

NOTABLES

U.S. Field Hockey selected Beth Anders, head coach at Old Dominion, as head coach of the U.S. Women's National Team. Anders has been interim coach since April and formerly led the national team in 1985 and from 1990 to 1993.

DEATHS

Former Notre Dame football assistant coach Joe Moore died of lung cancer July 3. He was 71. Moore served as offensive line coach at Notre Dame from 1988 to 1996 and also coached at Pittsburgh from 1977 to 1985.

Dave Polansky, former basketball coach at CCNY, died June 16. Polansky was 83.

--Compiled by Leilana McKindra