Nocera promoted to head baseball coach

Westminster (Pennsylvania) has elevated Carmen Nocera to head baseball coach.

Nocera joined the program as an assistant coach in 1999. During the 2000 season, he worked as co-head coach of the squad. Since 2001, Nocera has fulfilled responsibilities as associate head coach.

Before accepting the post at Westminster, Nocera was head baseball coach at New Castle (Pennsylvania) High School from 1993 to 1999. He also served as a scout for MLB's Kansas City Royals and the Florida Marlins.

Nocera, currently the full-time dean of students and assistant principal at New Castle (Pennsylvania) High School, earned a master's degree at Kensington University and earned a doctorate at LaSalle.

GENERAL

Chief executive officers

Richard Wallace announced plans to retire as chancellor at Missouri, effective August 2004 ... Lewis and Clark chose Paul Bragdon as interim president. Bragdon formerly served as president at Reed ... Curt Frye was named as interim president at Wayne State (Nebraska). Frye is vice-president and dean of students at the school ... New Mexico State President Jay Gogue was appointed as chancellor of the University of Houston system and president of the main campus ... James W. Wagner was selected as president at Emory. Wagner has been provost and vice-president at Case Western Reserve.

Directors of athletics

Alabama State's Richard Cosby resigned as athletics director to become athletics director at Stillman ... Keith Levinthal was promoted to director of athletics at Manhattanville. Levinthal will retain responsibilities as head men's ice hockey coach at the school ... Mark Driscoll was hired as director of athletics at Colorado State. Driscoll, who was a color commentator for the school's football broadcasts on the Colorado State Sports Network last year, has been president of First National Bank of Colorado ... Baylor's Tom Stanton resigned after seven years as athletics director, effective immediately. The school announced David Brooks, vice-president for finance and administration, as interim athletics director ... Oswego State hired Timothy G. Hale as director of athletics. Hale worked as associate athletics director at Rochester from 1998 to 2000 ... Colorado State-Pueblo's Chris Gage resigned as athletics director. Gage has guided the athletics department since May 2002. The school chose Joe Folda, head men's basketball coach, as interim athletics director ... Jim Fuller was selected as director of athletics at Jacksonville State, replacing Tom Seitz. Fuller formerly completed tenures as assistant and as head football coach at the school.

Senior woman administrators

Dominican (New York) named Kelly-Ann Di Giulio as senior woman administrator, assistant athletics director and sports information director ... Troy State awarded Sandy Atkins, compliance director, with additional responsibilities as senior woman administrator ... Lori Ceppaglia was hired as senior woman administrator and associate director of athletics at Manhattanville. Ceppaglia has been an assistant athletics director at Elmira.

Associate directors of athletics

Richard Konzem resigned as senior associate athletics director at Kansas ... Wofford chose Mark Line as associate athletics director for internal operations ... Jacksonville elevated Dave Farraday to associate athletics director for finance and also served as director of facilities and operations for four years at the school. For the past two years, Farraday has worked as assistant athletics director for finance ... Eastern Michigan elevated Mike Malach to associate athletics director for administration. Malach has been with the school since September 1998, most recently working as assistant athletics director for business ... Cincinnati named Brian Teter as an associate athletics director ... Buffalo elevated Laura Barnum to associate athletics director for internal operations. Barnum joined the school in 1996 and has been assistant athletics director for business operations since July 2002 ... Milwaukee School of Engineering promoted Brian Good to associate athletics director. Good, who has been an assistant athletics director since 1996, will continue as head men's basketball coach.

Assistant directors of athletics

Temple appointed Larry Dougherty as assistant athletics director for sports media relations ... Ben Shove accepted responsibilities as assistant athletics director for media relations at Wagner ... Oly Hicks was elevated to assistant athletics director and assistant men's ice hockey coach at Manhattanville ... Roger Williams hired Mike Tully as assistant athletics director for academic services. Tully, who has been an academic advisor at the school, will continue as head men's basketball coach ... Jennifer Starek was selected as an assistant athletics director and head softball coach at Mount Ida ... Eastern Michigan promoted Doug Kose to assistant athletics director for marketing and promotions. Kose, a marketing associate for the past four years, succeeds Matt Lucas ... Julie Wooten was chosen as assistant athletics director for compliance and academic affairs at Butler ... Buffalo promoted Andy Hurley to assistant athletics director for development. Hurley has been director of athletics development since September 1998 ... Tom Shoji and Misty Murphy were chosen as interim assistant athletics directors at Colorado State-Pueblo. Shoji will continue as head volleyball coach and Murphy will retain duties as head women's basketball coach.

Coaches

Baseball assistants -- Chris Hayes was hired as an assistant and Les Wright was promoted to pitching coach at Jacksonville. Wright, who coached fielders last season, succeeds associate head coach Bob Shepherd ... Stetson appointed Jeremy Tyson as pitching coach and recruiting coordinator. For the past four years, Tyson has fulfilled similar responsibilities at Southeast Missouri State ... Eric Filipek was awarded duties as an assistant coach at Western Carolina.

Men's basketball -- Hugh Durham, head coach at Jacksonville, signed a contract extension through the 2006-07 season. Durham enters his seventh season as head coach and also serves as athletics director at the school ... Dave Bliss, head coach at Baylor, resigned ... Missouri-St. Louis selected Chris Pilz as head coach ... Ricardo Patton, head coach at Colorado, agreed to a three-year contract extension through the 2007-08 season. Patton has led the program for eight seasons ... Mississippi's Rod Barnes signed a one-year contract extension through the 2006-07 season ... San Diego State signed head coach Steve Fisher to a two-year contract extension through the 2007-08 season. Fisher has been head coach for four seasons ... Dan Costigan resigned as head coach at Southern Maine ... Michael Brown was named as head coach at John Jay. Brown has been an assistant at Fordham for four seasons ... Duggar Baucom was selected as head coach at Tusculum to replace Griff Mills. Baucom has been an assistant coach at Western Carolina for the past three seasons ... Saint Mary's (California) awarded head coach Randy Bennett with a five-year contract through the 2007-08 season. Bennett has led the program since 2001.

Men's basketball assistants -- Indiana added Thad Fitzpatrick as an assistant coach ... Charleston Southern tabbed Brooks Berry as an assistant coach ... Ronnie Dean was appointed as an assistant coach at Jacksonville to replace Doug Durham ... Jacksonville State added Joel VanMeter as an assistant coach. For the past three years, VanMeter has been top assistant at Chipola (Florida) Junior College ... Joel Sobotka and Carl Holmes were tabbed as assistants at Cal State Northridge ... North Texas named Kobie Baker as an assistant coach. Baker, who replaces Alvin Brooks, spent last season as an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator at Nicholls State ... Charlotte hired Dalonte Hill as an assistant coach. Hill replaces Kevin Nickelberry ... Luke Dobrich assumed assistant coaching duties at Niagara ... Wagner chose Jim Meil as associate head coach and added Sean Rivers and Yves Kabore as assistants ... Marvin Menzies was named as an assistant coach at Southern California. Menzies formerly was an assistant at San Diego State for four years ... Stevens Institute of Technology hired Bobby Hurley as an assistant coach ... Darren Kohne assumed assistant coaching duties at Stephen F. Austin. Most recently, Kohne has been an assistant at High Point.

Women's basketball -- Carrie Crawford was elevated to head coach at Wentworth Institute to replace Jill Seaman. For the past two seasons, Crawford has been an assistant women's basketball coach and assistant softball coach ... Kelly Thompson was hired as head women's basketball coach and sports information director at Russell Sage. Thompson, who succeeds interim head coach Jack Dubois, spent the past year as an assistant at Maine Maritime.

Men's and women's cross country assistants -- Catawba tabbed Stacy Mark as an assistant coach ... Julie Collins was added as an assistant men's and women's coach at Wheaton (Massachusetts). Collins formerly guided the cross country team at the school during the 1994 and 1995 seasons.

Field hockey -- Ashley Hohnstine assumed responsibilities as head coach at Notre Dame (Maryland), replacing Susan Mackley. ... Western New England selected Sarah Kelly as head coach ... Manhattanville named Heather-lyn Mennis as head coach ... Megan Block was chosen as head field coach and head women's lacrosse coach at St. Mary's (Maryland) to replace Robert Bray, Jr. ... Colby appointed Marcia Ingraham as interim head coach. Ingraham has been an assistant field hockey and assistant women's lacrosse coach at the school ... Sarah Dunn was selected as head coach at Slippery Rock ... Wilkes hired Todd Broxmeyer as head field hockey coach to take over for Addy Malatesta, who stepped down to focus on responsibilities as athletics director at the school. Broxmeyer has coached at Rutgers, Kent State and Saint Joseph's.

Field hockey assistants -- Felicia Cappabianco accepted duties as an assistant coach at New Hampshire ... Aleisha Bemis was tabbed as an assistant coach at Colby. Bemis is a recent graduate of Northeastern, where she was a member of the field hockey squad ... William Smith named Heather Standring as head coach. Standring was an assistant field hockey coach and assistant softball coach at Worcester Polytechnic ... Elizabeth Howard was awarded duties as an assistant coach at Catawba ... St. Mary's (Maryland) hired Erin Davis as an assistant. This past spring, Davis coached lacrosse at the high-school level.

Football -- DePauw head coach Nick Mourouzis announced plans to retire at the end of the 2003 season. Mourouzis, formerly an assistant at Ball State, Ohio, Indiana and Northwestern, has led the DePauw program since 1981 ... South Florida signed head coach Jim Leavitt to a two-year contract extension through the 2009 season.

Men's and women's golf assistants -- Nicholas James was awarded assistant men's and women's coaching responsibilities at Jacksonville ... St. Andrews Presbyterian hired Josh Nahm as an assistant men's and women's coach. Nahm is a May 2003 graduate of the school, where he was a two-time Carolinas-Virginia Athletic Conference selection as a member of the golf squad.

Men's and women's ice hockey assistants -- John Micheletto was awarded responsibilities as assistant men's coach at Vermont ... Manhattanville chose John Auxier as an assistant men's coach ... Bentley tabbed R.J. Tolan as an assistant coach.

Men's and women's lacrosse -- Tammy Dixon resigned as head women's coach at Greensboro ... Plattsburgh State added Scott DeMonte as head men's coach to succeed John Combs. Since 1999, DeMonte has worked as head men's coach at UC Santa Barbara ... Nancy Billger was hired as head women's lacrosse coach and assistant field hockey coach at Wilkes. Billger, who replaces Kristin DiMarzo, formerly has coached at Davidson, Susquehanna and Christopher Newport ... CCNY selected Frank Romeo as head men's coach ... Bill Wilson accepted responsibilities as head men's coach at Dartmouth ... Moravian appointed Kathleen Miller as head women's lacrosse coach, assistant women's soccer coach and athletics budget manager. Miller has been senior woman administrator, assistant athletics director, head women's lacrosse coach and head women's soccer coach at Bryn Mawr ... Chapel Love assumed responsibilities as head women's coach at Clarkson. Love formerly was an assistant lacrosse coach at Vassar and head field hockey and lacrosse coach at Manhattanville.

Men's and women's lacrosse assistants -- Princeton named Kelly McDonald and Alison Fisher as assistant women's coaches ... Steve Conlan was appointed as an assistant men's coach at Mount Ida ... Army hired Mike Murphy as men's defensive coordinator and recruiting coordinator. Murphy, who has been an assistant lacrosse coach and assistant football coach at Denison for the past two seasons, replaces Jason Miller ... Graham Niemi was tabbed as an assistant men's coach at Yale.

Men's and women's rowing -- Jim Mitchell was hired as head men's and women's coach at Jacksonville. Most recently, Mitchell has worked as an assistant women's coach at West Virginia ... Washington elevated Eleanor McElvaine to head women's coach.

Men's soccer assistants -- Jeremy Kirchner was named as an assistant coach at Franklin & Marshall. For the past four years, Kirchner has been head varsity coach at Pequea Valley (Pennsylvania) High School ... San Francisco chose Josh McKay as an assistant coach ... Jonathan Feinstein was appointed as an assistant at Manhattanville.

Women's soccer -- Kelly M. Walters was hired as head coach at Kenyon. Walters, formerly an assistant at the school during the 1998 season, has been been coaching at North Carolina Wesleyan for four years ... Jenna Szyluk was tabbed as head women's soccer coach and head women's lacrosse coach at Manhattanville ... Ted Flogaites resigned as head coach at New Jersey City to become head coach at Lambuth University ... St. Benedict hired Kate Hand as head coach. Hand, who succeeds Bill Kelly, has been head girls' soccer coach at Cretin-Derham Hall (Minnesota) High School for seven years.

Softball -- Macalester selected Tom Cross as interim head coach to replace Tina Johnson. Cross also will continue as football offensive coordinator at the school, a post he has held for six years ... Tricia Fiut was tabbed as head coach at Hood. Fiut has been head coach at Mount St. Mary's for seven seasons ... North Greenville chose Buster Sturkie as head coach ... Greensboro selected Kama Tucker as head coach ... Christine Yon was named as head coach at Anderson (South Carolina). Yon, who spent the past two seasons as a volunteer assistant coach at the school, succeeds Dana Jenkins ... Saint Mary's (California) awarded head coaching duties to Megumi Takasaki. For the past three years, Takasaki, who succeeds Trisha Dean, has been working at the Spanish Olympic Training Center in Barcelona, Spain, serving as the top assistant coach for the Spanish National Team.

Softball assistant -- Susan Scott was hired as an assistant at Loyola (Illinois). Scott was a four-year member of the school's squad from 2000 to 2003 and a two-time first team all-Horizon League selection.

Men's and women's swimming and diving -- Danielle Herring was appointed as head women's swimming coach and aquatics coordinator at Wells. Herring, an assistant coach at Wright State last season, replaces Michelle Moosbrugger.

Men's and women's tennis -- Arkansas' Kevin Platt resigned as head women's coach ... Cincinnati awarded responsibilities as head women's coach Kimberley Jones ... Michael Morgan was appointed as head men's and women's coach at Colby. Since 2000, Morgan has worked as head men's coach at Claremont-Mudd-Scripps ... William Carter was named as head men's and women's tennis coach and assistant women's basketball coach at St. Andrews Presbyterian. Carter has been head women's tennis coach and head women's basketball coach at Wesleyan ... Katie Somerville was tabbed as head women's coach at Wells. Somerville is a 2003 graduate of the school, where she was a three-year letter-winner on the tennis squad ... Lisa McCoy was named as head men's and women's coach at St. Mary's (Maryland). During the 2001-02 season, McCoy was a volunteer assistant with the program.

Men's and women's tennis assistants -- Kavan Hahn was selected as an assistant coach at Wofford ... San Diego State selected Christy Panter as an assistant women's coach.

Men's and women's track and field assistants -- New Orleans named Jacob Brundage as an assistant men's and women's track and field and cross country coach ... Bambi Carson was hired as an assistant at Jacksonville after coaching at the high-school level for the past two seasons ... Scott Bennett was awarded duties as an assistant men's coach at Minnesota.

Men's and women's volleyball assistants -- North Carolina-Wilmington chose Amy Schreiber as an assistant coach ... Cincinnati appointed Josh Steinbach as an assistant coach ... Brianne Smedley was tabbed as an assistant women's coach at Saint Leo ... Mike Chim assumed duties as assistant women's coach at Mount Ida ... Towson selected Ian Blanchard as an assistant women's coach. During the 2002 season, Blanchard worked as head coach at Catonsville (Maryland) Community College of Baltimore County ... Nathan Baker was tabbed as an assistant coach at Campbell ... Catawba appointed Jerry Hancock as an assistant coach ... Scott Doig was named as an assistant women's coach at Russell Sage. Most recently, Doig was an assistant women's coach at Cortland State.

Wrestling -- Eric Walker was hired as head coach at Elizabethtown. Walker was an assistant at Franklin & Marshall ... Stevens Institute of Technology named Andy Lausier as head coach. The school plans to participate at the club level next year before elevating the program to varsity status the following year. Lausier has spent the past two seasons as an assistant coach at College of New Jersey.

Wrestling assistant -- Glen Lanham was selected as an assistant coach at North Carolina.

Staff

Academic services -- Cricket Lane was named as director of student-athlete development at North Carolina. Lane has fulfilled the same responsibilities at St. Francis (Pennsylvania) for the past four years in addition to serving as director of multicultural affairs.

Administrative -- Oklahoma named Jason Matheson as director of Internet services.

Compliance -- Jeff Schaly was promoted to director of compliance and athletics facilities at Lynn. Schaly was sports information director ... Curtis Jones was appointed as director of compliance at Oklahoma ... Joseph Vignier was tabbed as compliance coordinator at Seton Hall ... Jessica Reo was appointed as director of compliance at Central Florida.

Development -- Lafayette selected Scott Morse as executive director of the Maroon Club.

Development assistant -- Darren Boyd was chosen as assistant director of development at Oklahoma.

Recreation -- Roger Williams chose Jim Cook as club sport director and promoted Mike Gallagher to intramural/recreation coordinator. Cook has been director of intramurals and recreation at the school since June 1996 and will continue as head men's soccer coach, a position he has held for 10 seasons. Since June 1998, Gallagher has worked as intramural/recreation activity coordinator ... Kasey Keenan was named as coordinator of recreational sports at New England.

Sports information -- Ross Blacker was named as sports information director at Lynn to replace Jeff Schaly. Blacker has been director of public relations for the Newark Bears of the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball and formerly was sports information director at Nicholls State ... Michael LaPlaca was hired as sports information director at Manhattanville. LaPlaca has been director of communications with the El Paso Buzzards, a professional hockey team ... Minnesota named Nick Joos as director of media relations. Joos has spent the past three years at Massachusetts and has most recently fulfilled duties as associate athletics director of media relations ... Dan May assumed responsibilities as sports information director at Marietta. May succeeds Nicole Peloquin ... Lafayette chose Philip LaBella as sports information director.

Sports information assistants -- Pepperdine tabbed Tamara Metcalfe as assistant sports information director ... Wagner appointed Bryan Gallagher and Mike Braunstein as sports information assistants ... Jason Jordan was hired as an athletics media relations assistant at Jacksonville. Last year, Jordan was a media relations intern at Marist ... Chris Freet assumed responsibilities as assistant media relations director at Oklahoma ... Pennsylvania named Bob Balut as associate director of athletics communications and chose Tonia Sabino and Heather Palmer as athletics communications assistants ... Julene Fisher accepted responsibilities as assistant director of sports information and administrative assistant at Manhattaville ... Texas selected Thomas Stepp as assistant media relations director. Last year, Stepp worked in the media relations office at Auburn ... Seton Hall appointed John Hogan as a sports information intern ... John Dedman was hired as an assistant sports information director at Butler ... Jenny Allen was tabbed as an assistant sports information director at Brockport State. Allen, a 2003 graduate of Massachusetts, takes over for Traci Hay, who will continue as head women's lacrosse coach and assistant field hockey coach at the school ... Penn State named Stephanie Mociun as assistant sports information director. For the past four years, Mociun has served as assistant director of media relations at Maryland ... Adelphi appointed Adam Siepiola as assistant director of athletics media relations. Siepiola, a May graduate of St. John Fisher, most recently was an intern in the athletics department at Rochester ... Pete DiVito and Austin Calhoun were named as athletics media relations interns at Delaware.

Strength and conditioning -- Chris Hoeller was promoted to strength and conditioning coach at Jacksonville. Hoeller served as an assistant for six months and has been interim head coach since last February ... Keith Burns was added as strength and conditioning specialist at Seton Hall.

Strength and conditioning assistants -- Leslie Look was named as an assistant strength and conditioning coach at Maine. Since August 2001, Look has worked as a graduate assistant at the school ... Jacksonville chose Dominique Myrick as an assistant strength and conditioning coach.

Conferences

The Southern Conference hired Jonathan Caskey and Andrew Christopherson as assistants for public affairs and championships. Caskey is a 2003 graduate of Furman and Christopherson is a 2003 graduate of Davidson ... The State University of New York Athletic Conference announced Chris Gondek as publicist for the 2003-04 year. Gondek has been assistant men's soccer coach and assistant sports information director at New Paltz State for the past two years.

Associations

Rick Covington, athletics media relations director at TCU for the past two years, was chosen as executive director of the Blue-Gray All-Star Football Classic.

National office

Beth Rosenberg was named as an assistant director of The NCAA News. Most recently, Rosenberg has been a reporter for the Indianapolis bureau of the Associated Press.

Corrections

Jacksonville State University was incorrectly identified as a football-playing member of the Southland Conference in the Division I notes section of the August 18 NCAA News. Jacksonville State became an all-sports member of the Ohio Valley Conference in July.

DEATHS

Albany State football student-athlete Jackie F. Blanding collapsed and died August 7. Blanding, 26, was a defensive lineman for the squad who had transferred from Middle Georgia College and formerly played one season at Virginia Union.

Minor Myers Jr., president at Illinois Wesleyan, died July 22. Myers was 60.

Herb Brooks, former head men's ice hockey coach at Minnesota, died in an automobile accident August 11. He was 66. Brooks also served as head coach of the 1980 U.S. men's ice hockey gold medal Olympic team that upset the Soviet Union. At Minnesota, where he played collegiate hockey, Brooks led teams to three national championships during a tenure that spanned from 1972 to 1979. Brooks, a 1990 inductee in the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame, also led the NHL's New York Rangers, Minnesota North Stars, New Jersey Devils and Pittsburgh Penguins.