Georgia State names head men's golf coach

Georgia State has hired Matt Clark as head men's golf coach.

For the past six years, Clark has worked as an assistant coach at Alabama. In addition to fulfilling coaching and recruiting responsibilities, he also served as director of two home tournaments. During the past two seasons, Clark helped Alabama advance to regional competition in the Division I Men's Golf Championships.

From 1994 to 1997, Clark competed on the men's golf team at Alabama. He earned a bachelor's degree from the school in 1997.

Clark replaces Trey Jones, who accepted coaching responsibilities at Florida State.

General

Directors of athletics

Amy Buxbaum was named as athletics director at Chatham to succeed Ronald R. Giles, who will become director of the school's athletics and fitness center. Buxbaum has been senior woman administrator, associate athletics director and head women's basketball coach at Juniata ... South Carolina State appointed Charlene Johnson as interim athletics director.

Senior woman administrator

Lehman selected Kim Santoiemma as senior woman administrator and head softball coach.

Associate directors of athletics

Eric Roedl was chosen as associate athletics director for financial affairs at Temple ... New Jersey City promoted Alice DeFazio to associate athletics director. DeFazio, who was an assistant athletics director, will continue as senior woman administrator and head women's basketball coach ... Paul Schlickmann was announced as senior associate director of athletics at Stony Brook. For the past four years, Schlickmann has been at Yale, most recently serving as associate director of athletics for varsity program administration and football operations.

Assistant directors of athletics

Heath Nielsen was promoted to interim assistant athletics director of media relations at Baylor ... Karen Hern was selected as an assistant athletics director at Molloy ... Clark elevated David Kulik to assistant athletics director. Kulik will continue to serve as head men's soccer coach at the school ... Mars Hill selected Rick Baker as an assistant athletics director. Baker, who has worked as sports information director and assistant baseball coach since May 1994, will continue as sports information director, but will relinquish assistant coaching duties ... Providence appointed Mac Hart as assistant athletics director for business. Hart spent two years as athletics director at Albion ... Dawn Price was hired as assistant athletics director for development at Texas-Pan American. For the past three years, Price has worked as vice-president for external affairs at Planned Parenthood of Greater Iowa ... Sarah Moore was reassigned as an assistant director of athletics and coordinator of intramural and recreational programs at Missouri-Rolla. Moore has been head cross country and track coach at the school, but will continue as senior woman administrator ... Stephen F. Austin appointed Stephanie G. McDonald as assistant athletics director for student services. McDonald, who has served as assistant commissioner for sports programs and women's basketball operations at the Mid-American Conference, takes over for Darren Fort ... Brant Berkstresser was announced as assistant athletics director for sports medicine and head athletic trainer at Georgia Southern. Since October 1997, Berkstresser, who takes over for Dennis Gruber, has been an assistant athletic trainer at Maryland.

Coaches

Baseball -- Douge Schildgen resigned as head coach at Augsburg ... Mike Sheppard retired as head coach at Seton Hall after 31 seasons. During his tenure, Sheppard, a three-time Big East Conference coach of the year, led the school to 15 conference tournament appearances and the 1987 conference tournament championship. The school selected associate head coach Rob Sheppard, a nine-year assistant with the program, as acting head coach ... Albany State (Georgia) selected Edward Taylor as head coach ... Todd DeGraffenreid was hired as head coach at Missouri-Rolla. For the past three seasons, DeGraffenreid has worked as an assistant coach at William Woods University ... Terry Casey was named as head coach at Dominican (Illinois). Casey, an assistant with the program for four years, most recently has been interim head coach and will continue as an admissions counselor and as athletics recruiting coordinator.

Baseball assistants -- New Jersey Institute of Technology chose Jim Carone as pitching coach. Carone is a 2003 graduate of Monmouth, where he was a four-year member of the baseball team ... Mikio Aoki was appointed as an assistant coach at Boston College ... Greg Schaub and Brian Lewis were selected as assistants at Western Illinois ... Keith Chester was named as an assistant at Mars Hill. Formerly an assistant at Tennessee Tech, Chester most recently has been an instructor and owner of a baseball instructional clinic in Tennessee ... UC Irvine tabbed Matt Jones as a volunteer assistant coach. Jones, who succeeds Joe DeMarco, has been head coach at Los Medanos College since 2002 ... James Madison hired Jay Sullenger as an assistant. Sullenger, who has been a volunteer assistant at the school for three years, replaces Ryan Brownlee ... Bradley hired Perry Roth as hitting instructor and recruiting coordinator. Roth, who replaces John Young, has been an assistant coach at Birmingham-Southern.

Men's basketball -- Terry Brown relinquished responsibilities as head men's basketball coach at Bluefield State. Brown, who will continue as director of athletics at the school, guided the program for 22 seasons. The school appointed Charles Puckett, an assistant coach for the past two seasons, as interim head coach ... Southern Maine head coach Dan Costigan resigned after seven seasons ... Kevin Grimmer, athletics director at Utica/Rome, accepted additional responsibilities as head men's basketball coach to replace Thomas Curle. Grimmer formerly spent 18 seasons coaching the men's basketball squad and returns after stepping down as head coach a year ago ... Baylor chose Scott Drew as head coach to replace Dave Bliss. As head coach at Valparaiso for the past year, Drew led the school to the regular-season championship in the Mid-Continent Conference. Valparaiso announced Homer Drew, formerly head coach at the school for 14 seasons before retiring 18 months ago, as Scott Drew's successor ... Florida head coach Billy Donovan agreed to a new six-year contract.

Men's basketball assistants -- Texas-Pan American named J.C. Carter as an administrative assistant for men's basketball, replacing Rob McIlhaney ... Winthrop added Paul Molinari as an assistant coach ... Jeff Daniels was tabbed as an assistant at Valdosta State ... Indiana (Pennsylvania) selected Wes Layton as an assistant coach ... Armando Perez resigned as an assistant coach at Ramapo ... College of Charleston appointed Chad O'Donnell as director of men's basketball operations ... Jared Stephans was awarded assistant coaching duties at Fairleigh Dickinson ... Le Moyne hired Todd Montana as an assistant ... Texas A&M added Lance Irvin as an assistant coach. Irvin, who replaces Tom Billeter, has been an assistant at Iowa State, Loyola (Illinois) and DePaul ... John Moseley resigned after two seasons as an assistant at Delaware ... Stephen F. Austin hired Jaime Boswell as administrative assistant. Boswell most recently has been coaching at the high-school level ... Bill Armstrong was selected as an assistant coach at Birmingham-Southern ... Danny Manning was named as director of student-athlete development and team manager for men's basketball at Kansas. Manning was a member of Kansas' 1988 national championship team and is the school's all-time scoring and rebounding record holder ... Florida Southern tabbed Gene Granger as an assistant coach to replace Willie Tillman. Granger is a 2003 graduate of Charleston Southern, where he was a three-time letter-winner on the men's basketball squad ... Jeff Dunlap was named as an assistant coach at Loyola (Illinois). Dunlap formerly was an assistant with the school in 1998-99 ... Baylor added Mark Morefield as an assistant coach. Morefield most recently was an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator at Valparaiso ... Adam Poletta was hired as an assistant coach at Assumption.

Women's basketball -- Bob Lindsay, head coach at Kent State, agreed to terms on a seven-year contract extension through the 2009-10 season. In 14 seasons, Lindsay has led the program to a win or share of four of the last six regular-season Mid-American Conference championships and earned coach of the year honors in 1996 and 1998 ... Montana State-Billings chose Melissa Slone as head coach to replace Karyn Ridgeway. Slone has been head coach at College of Charleston for five years.

Women's basketball assistants -- Dartmouth tabbed Courtney Banghart as an assistant coach ... Trixie Wolf was appointed as an assistant coach at Duquesne ... Indiana (Pennsylvania) chose Melissa O'Neil as an assistant coach ... Ted Hurwitz was tabbed as associate coach at Lehman ... Washington and Jefferson added Donald O'Meara as an assistant coach ... Becky Tyo was appointed as a graduate assistant coach at Western Illinois ... Rice named Todd Steelman as an assistant to succeed James Hatchell. Steelman has been head girls' basketball coach at Cresset Christian Academy (North Carolina) High School for the past seven seasons in addition to working as athletics director there for the past four years ... Jolette Law was promoted to associate head coach and Cathy Andruzzi was tabbed as an assistant at Rutgers ... East Tennessee State tabbed Kim Dowell as an assistant coach ... Linda Yost was added as an assistant coach at Seton Hall to replace Lori Gear-McBride. For the past five seasons, Yost has worked as head coach at Drew ... Western Carolina elevated Shellie Greenman to associate head coach. Greenman has been with the program for seven years ... Mandy Schafer accepted duties as an assistant at Nova Southeastern. Schafer is an April 2003 graduate of Florida International, where as a member of the basketball squad she established a single-season record for three-point shots made ... Fairleigh Dickinson announced Kelly Ann Charles as a graduate assistant coach. Charles has been an assistant at the high-school level for the past year ... Lindsay Drury was hired as an assistant coach at William Smith. For the past year, Drury has been a sales and marketing associate for ANC Sports Enterprises and also has been an assistant coach at the high-school level ... Stony Brook added Deborah Ayres as an assistant coach. For the past six years, Ayres has been head coach of the girls' basketball team at the California School for the Deaf.

Men's and women's cross country -- Chris Bucknam was chosen as director of running programs and Kyle Kepler assumed responsibilities as head men's and women's cross country coach at Northern Iowa ... St. Thomas Aquinas named Erin Haugh as head women's coach ... Bill Tylutki was tabbed as head coach at Utica/Rome ... Salve Regina selected Scott Hutchinson as head women's cross country and track and field coach and equipment room manager. For the past 16 years, Hutchinson has fulfilled similar responsibilities at Babson ... Lawrence appointed Lee Watson as head men's and women's coach. Watson, who currently is a physical education teacher at the University of Wisconsin-Fox Valley, takes over for Mike Fox, who resigned after seven seasons ... Sterling Martin was hired as head cross country and track and field coach at Missouri-Rolla. Martin was head track and cross country coach at Morningside during the past season ... Dominican (Illinois) named Wes Wheeler as head men's and women's coach. Wheeler formerly was head men's and women's track and cross country coach at Robert Morris and also formerly served as an assistant coach at Benedictine (Illinois).

Men's and women's cross country assistants -- Tony Knapp was hired as an assistant men's and women's coach at Roger Williams ... New England appointed Becky Jacques as an assistant men's and women's coach ... Washington and Jefferson selected Emmalisa Brown as an assistant cross country and track and field coach ... Missouri-Rolla appointed Bryan Schiding as an assistant cross country and track coach. Schiding, who was an assistant at LaSalle for three years, replaces Jason Jaques ... Eric Heins was hired as an assistant cross country and track coach at Southeast Missouri State. Formerly, Heins has worked as an assistant at Indiana and Northern Arizona.

Equestrian -- Elissa Schwartz accepted duties as head coach at Roger Williams.

Field hockey -- Western New England awarded Sarah Kelly with additional duties as head field hockey coach to replace Aimee Klepacki, who will continue as head women's lacrosse coach. Kelly has been head strength and conditioning coach, assistant athletic trainer and wellness coordinator at the school since last September ... Hillary London was named as head field hockey coach, head women's lacrosse coach and recreation director at Salve Regina. Last year, London was interim head field hockey and women's lacrosse coach at Vassar.

Field hockey assistants -- Heather Slesinger was selected as an assistant coach at New England ... Washington and Jefferson chose Michelle Marks as an assistant coach ... Nichols appointed Jodi Cipolla as a graduate assistant field hockey coach and graduate assistant women's lacrosse coach ... Alice Collins was named as an assistant at Randolph-Macon. Collins was an assistant field hockey coach at Kenyon in 2001 and an assistant lacrosse coach at Drew in 2002 and 2003 ... Kim Desto and Kerri Desto were added as assistant coaches at Assumption.

Football -- North Alabama's Mark Hudspeth signed a one-year contract extension through 2005 ... Shaw named Deondri Clark as head coach ... Toledo agreed to terms with head coach Tom Amstutz on a two-year contract extension through 2007. Amstutz has guided teams to two straight bowl appearances and a Mid-American Conference championship since taking over the program in 2001.

Football assistants -- Klea Armstrong was hired as assistant director of football operations and Jim Fortune was hired as audio/video coordinator at Pennsylvania ... Davidson named Ryan Crawford as quarterbacks coach ... Rensselaer Polytechnic tabbed Brian Surace as associate head coach and Evan Cochran, Nate Doyle, Adam Lord and Bob Schoonmaker as assistants ... Mike Gulliford was chosen as an assistant coach at Carthage. Most recently, Gulliford served as an assistant at Indiana State ... Guilford appointed J.J. Edwards as receivers coach, Charlie Griffin as defensive backs coach, Brandon Lockhart as linebackers coach and Mike Stewart as a part-time assistant coach. Edwards was interim head softball coach at the school during the 2003 season. Griffin served as head football coach at Western Guilford (North Carolina) High School from 1989 to 2002 and has been the school's athletics director since 1991. Lockhart was a four-year member of school's football team and is currently finishing a bachelor's degree in sport management. Stewart has been coaching at the high-school level for 30 years ... North Carolina-Greensboro named Raymond James as defensive line coach, Jay Horney as tight ends coach, Gradeigh Lowe as wide receivers coach and Roy Tesh as a student assistant coach ... Mark D'Ambrosio and Matt Chapman were added as assistants and Chris Dubay was tabbed as a graduate assistant coach at Nichols ... Randolph-Macon selected Jimmie Miles, Robbie Jenkins and Matt Gardner as assistants ... Jon Bussey, Bill DeMalia, Jeff Creamer, David Kaizer, Nick Bailey and Cory Bailey were selected as assistant coaches at Assumption.

Men's and women's golf -- Greg Priest was hired as head men's coach at Baylor ... Fairleigh Dickinson tabbed Walter Perog as head men's coach ... George Cangero assumed responsibilities as head men's coach at St. Joseph's (New York) ... Utica/Rome hired Tim Cox as head coach ... Matt Clark was hired as head men's coach at Georgia State. Clark, who takes over for Trey Jones, has been an assistant at Alabama for six years.

Men's and women's golf assistants -- Steve Keasler was selected as an assistant men's coach at Texas ... St. Francis (Pennsylvania) appointed Arthur Wurm as an assistant men's coach.

Men's and women's ice hockey -- Derek Schooley was hired as head men's coach at Robert Morris. The program is scheduled to begin competition during the 2004-05 season. Schooley was an assistant coach at Air Force for four seasons before assuming associate head coaching duties last season.

Men's and women's ice hockey assistants -- Ferris State elevated Drew Famulak to associate men's coach. Famulak has been an assistant men's coach ... Jeff "Goose" Giesen was named as an assistant women's coach at St. Cloud State. Giesen was an assistant at St. John's (Minnesota) from 1992-98 and has been associate head coach at since 1998.

Men's and women's lacrosse -- Brendan McWilliams was named as head men's coach at Kenyon. McWilliams, who succeeds the retired Bill Heiser, was an assistant at Vermont during the 2003 season ... Salve Regina tabbed Patrick Cooney as head men's lacrosse coach and football recruitment coordinator. Cooney formerly was head men's lacrosse coach at Roger Williams. He also was an assistant men's lacrosse coach at Elmira and Bryant ... Iona chose Lauren Rywak as head women's coach ... A.J. Russo was hired as head men's coach at Hood. The program is scheduled to begin competition during the 2004-05 academic year. Russo formerly coached at Rochester Institute of Technology and Mount St. Mary's ... Robert Morris tabbed Kenneth Davis as head men's coach. The program is slated to begin play during the 2004-05 season. Davis has spent the past four seasons as head coach at Wheeling Jesuit.

Men's and women's lacrosse assistants -- New England selected Kendra Maroni as an assistant women's coach ... Andy Bonasera was appointed as an assistant men's coach at Randolph-Macon. Bonasera is a 2003 graduate of Roanoke, where he was a four-time all-American.

Men's and women's rowing -- Clark named Erick Thiemke as head men's and women's coach. During the past year, Thiemke has been an assistant at Amherst ... Steve McKiernan was hired as head men's and women's coach at Assumption.

Men's soccer -- Peterson Jerome was chosen as head coach at Utica/Rome ... Canisius' Jim Hesch signed a three-year contract extension through 2006-07 as head coach. Hesch has been at the school for three years and was promoted to full-time status in July.

Men's soccer assistants -- Washington and Jefferson selected Derrick Ayers as an assistant coach ... Javier Velasco was appointed as an assistant at New Jersey Institute of Technology. Velasco was head coach at Manville (New Jersey) High School for one season and currently is a coach and trainer for the Jersey Knights Soccer Club ... Assumption appointed Christian Battaglia as an assistant coach ... Anders Kelto and Ken Murphy were tabbed as assistant coaches at Brown.

Women's soccer -- Skidmore hired Sarah Cooper as head coach. Cooper, formerly a 10-year member of the Australian Women's National Soccer Team, has been assistant soccer coach and assistant women's lacrosse coach at Long Island for the past two years ... Hope Troman accepted responsibilities as head coach at Wagner ... Meagan Dougherty was awarded a three-year contract extension through 2006-07 as head coach at Canisius. Dougherty, who was recently promoted to full-time status, has guided the program for three years ... New Jersey City named Julian Richens as head coach to succeed Ted Flogaites.

Women's soccer assistants -- New York University named Christine Bowers and Emily Feit as assistant coaches ... Sarah McClellan was chosen as an assistant at Goucher ... Wagner added Mary Jaeger as an assistant coach ... Allison Wade was chosen as an assistant coach at Northern Illinois ... Washington and Jefferson tabbed Jaime Retersdorf as an assistant coach ... Mary Guarino was hired as an assistant coach at William Smith ... Ellen Daly accepted responsibilities as an assistant coach at Assumption.

Softball -- Stonehill's Julie Szala resigned as head coach ... Linda Hendrickson was chosen as head coach at Nichols ... Ryan Anderson was tabbed as head coach at Missouri-Rolla. Anderson, who succeeds Dave Burwell, coached at Minnesota-Crookston last season.

Softball assistants -- Indiana (Pennsylvania) appointed Rikki Snyder as an assistant coach ... Allie Ferrari was named as an assistant coach at St. Francis (Pennsylvania) ... College of Charleston selected Martha McCall as an assistant coach ... Nikki Fielder was named as an assistant at Nova Southeastern. For the past three years, Fielder has served as an assistant at Barry ... Francis Marion chose Sara Vogt as an assistant. Vogt is a graduate of Indiana where she served as a manager of the softball team for two seasons.

Men's and women's swimming and diving -- Clark selected Paul E. Phillips as head men's and women's swimming and diving coach. Phillips has been head boys' and girls' swimming coach at Lincoln (Rhode Island) Senior High School since 1998 ... Arthur Albiero was hired as head coach at Louisville. Most recently, Albiero has been associate head coach at Alabama ... Warren Mann was appointed as head men's and women's diving coach at James Madison ... Rob Harrington assumed responsibilities as head men's and women's swimming and diving coach and director of aquatics at Wooster. Harrington, who succeeds current athletics director Keith D. Beckett, was an assistant with the program from 2000-02 before most recently spending the past season as head coach at Wheaton (Massachusetts).

Men's and women's swimming and diving assistants -- Indiana (Pennsylvania) appointed Bethany Lindberg as assistant men's and women's swimming coach ... Mike Westphal assumed duties as an assistant women's swimming coach at Indiana ... South Carolina chose Matthew McVitte as an assistant men's and women's coach ... Seton Hall hired Chris Kelly as an assistant men's and women's coach.

Men's and women's tennis -- Colby-Sawyer selected Steve MacRae as head women's coach. MacRae most recently spent one season as head coach at Russell Sage ... David Webster was tabbed as head men's coach at Wheaton (Illinois) to succeed Eric Gorman. From 1969 to 2002, Webster was head men's coach at College of DuPage ... Glenn Nathan was appointed as head women's coach at St. Joseph's (New York) ... Dan Nelson was named as head men's and women's coach at Western Illinois ... Wisconsin-Stout elevated Mark Noll to head women's coach. Noll, who filled the post on an interim basis last spring, also will continue as assistant women's basketball coach, a position he has held for three years ... Bernard Walters was selected as head men's and women's coach at Oneonta State, replacing Ed O'Malley. Walters was head girls' coach at Oneonta (New York) High School from 1996 to 2001 and also in 2003 ... Assumption appointed Jordana Ruggeri as head women's coach ... Jeff Borengasser was selected as head men's and women's coach at Westminster (Missouri). Borengasser, who also will serve as a physical education instructor, replaces Dann Nelson ... Dominican (Illinois) hired Rob Neuman as head coach. Neuman currently is a physical education teacher in the Chicago public school system ... Dann Nelson was announced as head men's and women's coach at Western Illinois to succeed the retired Art Peterson. From 2001-03, Nelson served as head coach at Westminster (Missouri) ... Binghampton appointed Michael Stevens as head women's coach to succeed Jamie Campbell. Since 2002, Stevens has been head women's coach at Southeast Missouri State.

Men's and women's tennis assistants -- Texas Pan-American hired Kati Gyulai as an assistant coach. Gyulai takes over for Elizabeth Middleton ... Alida Gallovits was chosen as an assistant coach at Buffalo.

Men's and women's track and field -- Brian Hug was named as head men's and women's coach at Olivet ... Campbell appointed Jim Patchell as head men's and women's coach.

Men's and women's track and field assistants -- Travis Goepfert was added as an assistant men's and women's track coach at Northern Iowa ... Stephen F. Austin named Lou Snelling as assistant men's and women's coach for distance runners ... St. Francis (Pennsylvania) added Jason Church and Ryan Lerner as graduate assistant coaches ... Lisa Morgan resigned after 10 years as an assistant coach at Seton Hall ... Rutgers added Kate Adams and Danielle Hobson as assistants. Adams was an assistant at Cortland State for one year. Hobson is a 2003 graduate of Rutgers, where she was a four-year letter-winner in track and co-captain of the team as a senior ... Ron Davis was hired as an assistant track and field and cross country coach at South Alabama. Davis has worked as head men's and women's track and field and cross country coach at New Orleans for three seasons ... St. John's (New York) named Peter Zinno as an assistant women's coach.

Men's and women's volleyball -- Maggie Smyth accepted responsibilities as head women's coach at Neumann ... Geneseo State selected Maggie Deuel Loncz as interim head women's coach ... John Razsa was appointed as head women's coach at Southern Maine. Razsa, who has been director and head coach for the Portland North Girls Junior Olympic Program for the past three years, takes over for Annette Caldwell ... Mindy Plog was awarded duties as head women's coach at Assumption ... Canisius awarded a three-year contract extension through 2006-07 to head coach Cathy Hummel, who is entering her third season at the school.

Men's and women's volleyball assistants -- Augustana (Illinois) named Brandy Stohl as an assistant women's coach ... Anne Tricomi was chosen as an assistant women's coach at Bentley ... Fordham tabbed Rob Lutz as an assistant women's coach ... James Foo accepted duties as an assistant coach at Fairleigh Dickinson ... Washington and Jefferson selected Emmy Lou Steinfelt as an assistant coach ... Allyson Wolff was chosen as an assistant women's coach at St. Joseph's (New York) ... Central Arkansas hired Jerry Hulla as an assistant women's coach. Most recently, Hulla was head coach at Galveston (Texas) College.

Wrestling -- Southern Maine named Joe Pistone as head coach to succeed Ted Reese. For the past three seasons, Pistone has worked as head coach at Johnston (Rhode Island) High School.

Wrestling assistants -- Josh Henson, Ryan Tobin and Sheldon Thomas were added as assistant coaches at Pennsylvania.

Staff

Academic services -- Loyola Marymount hired Matthew Casana as athletics academic coordinator. Casana, who formerly was head women's tennis coach at Occidental from 1999 to 2001, has been with the extension program at San Francisco for the past two years ... St. Francis (Pennsylvania) named Angela Wyss as director of student-athlete development ... Joe Cross was selected as an academic counselor at Illinois. Cross has been an academic coordinator at Southern Illinois.

Athletic trainers -- Lisa McGlauflin was hired as head athletic trainer at St. Joseph's (New York). McGlauflin formerly served in the same capacity at the school from 1996 to 2000 ... Randolph-Macon appointed Joe Witt as head athletic trainer. Since 2002, Witt has worked as an assistant athletic trainer at Radford.

Assistant athletic trainers -- Jessie Baum was selected as an assistant athletic trainer at Indiana (Pennsylvania) ... Molloy chose Lorrell Partlon as an assistant athletic trainer ... Fairleigh Dickinson awarded assistant trainer duties to Lisa Halfen ... Aaron Newing was appointed as an assistant athletic trainer at St. Joseph's (New York) ... Erica Baptiste and Shinichiro Sugiura were named as assistant athletic trainers at Southern Maine. Baptiste was an interim assistant athletic trainer at the school last year and Sugiura was with Back in Motion Physical Therapy, LLC, in Maine last year ... Illinois added Angie Miller as an assistant athletic trainer. Last season, Miller was a graduate assistant at Minnesota ... Noel Zeh was selected as an assistant athletic trainer at Seton Hall ... Tampa chose Heather Bennett as an assistant athletic trainer. Bennett has been a graduate assistant athletic trainer at Old Dominion ... Assumption added Tim Hay as an assistant trainer ... Jennifer Volberding was chosen as an assistant athletic trainer at Seton Hall ... Penn State-Behrend hired Angela Meserole as an assistant athletic trainer.

Compliance -- Joseph Vignier assumed responsibilities as compliance coordinator at Seton Hall.

Compliance assistant -- Loyola Marymount added Cara Hanelin as a graduate assistant for compliance. Hanelin was a 2003 graduate of Santa Clara, where she was a member of the women's soccer team and worked as a compliance assistant during the spring semester.

Event management -- Illinois tabbed James Morton as visiting coordinator for event management ... Travis Boulware accepted additional duties in event management at Missouri-Rolla. Boulware, who served as head baseball coach for the past 13 seasons, will continue as an assistant football coach.

Equipment manager -- Tom Langan was awarded additional responsibilities as equipment manager at Nichols. Langan will continue as head men's lacrosse coach at the school.

Intramurals assistant -- Ramapo selected Jan Koslowski as assistant director of intramurals.

Marketing/promotions -- Brad Edmondson was chosen as director of marketing at James Madison.

Sports information -- Jason Yaman was appointed as sports information director at Indiana State ... Framingham State's Pete Desmarais resigned as sports information director ... Seth Cole assumed responsibilities as sports information director at St. Michael's, replacing Angela Aja, who became assistant director of alumni and parent relations at the school. Cole has been coordinator of media and public relations for USA Hockey ... Eddie Kenny was tabbed as sports information coordinator at Nova Southeastern. Since September 2002, Kenny has worked as an intern in the school's sports information department ... Chicago State named Ben Greenberg as sports information director to succeed Mark Johnson. For the past 10 months, Greenberg has served as a media relations assistant at Texas State-San Marcos ... Ken Trendel was chosen as sports information director at Dominican (Illinois). Trendel, a 2002 graduate of Benedictine (Illinois), has been serving in the public relations department at Saint Patrick (Illinois) High School.

Sports information assistants -- Nicholas DeRosa was hired as sports information intern at Roger Williams. DeRosa has been a media relations intern for MLB's New York Yankees during spring training ... Loyola Marymount named Alissa Zito as an assistant sports information director. In 2002-03, Zito worked as an assistant in the school's athletics media relations department in addition to serving as sports information director for the Pacific Coast Softball Conference ... Mike Bond assumed responsibilities as assistant sports information director at Texas-Pan American. Bond, who was an assistant at San Francisco State, succeeds Adam Pitterman ... Seton Hall appointed John Hogan as sports information intern ... Emily Feeney was hired as a sports information intern at Loyola (Illinois). Feeney, who most recently served an internship with MLB's Philadelphia Phillies, is a 2003 graduate of Ball State, where she was a four-year member of the women's soccer squad ... Kansas State added Marlene Navor and Kenny Lannou as assistant sports information directors ... Jason Cunningham and Randy Peters were chosen as athletics media services graduate assistants ... Quinnipiac selected Ben Dickie as an assistant sports information director. For the past year, Dickie has been a sports information intern at Northeastern ... Kasheeba Johnson assumed duties as a sports information graduate assistant at New Jersey City. Johnson is a 2003 graduate of the school, where she served as a sports information student assistant during the 2002-03 school year.

Strength and conditioning -- Keith Burns was hired as a strength and conditioning specialist at Seton Hall. Burns has been an assistant strength and conditioning coordinator with MLB's Detroit Tigers.

Strength and conditioning assistant -- Loyola Marymount tabbed Scott Wong as a strength and conditioning graduate assistant. Wong was an assistant with Pepperdine's men's volleyball team during the 2003 season.

Ticket office -- Jim Cordova was named as director of ticket marketing and operations at Long Beach State ... Delaware's Mike Holdren resigned as manager of athletics ticketing to assume duties in the ticket office for MLB's Philadelphia Phillies.

Ticket office assistant -- Illinois named Bethany Foss as assistant ticket manager. Foss has fulfilled similar duties at Illinois State and Iowa in the past two years.

Conferences

Heidi Kravchuk was appointed as assistant commissioner for communications at the Eastern College Athletic Conference. Kravchuk, who replaces Beth Burr, has been an administrative assistant for the football and lacrosse officiating bureaus for the conference since October 1999 ... Conference USA promoted Brenda Weare to deputy commissioner, Russell Anderson to assistant commissioner for media relations, Brad Stricklin to assistant commissioner for financial operations and Kyeshia Brakes to assistant director of sports services. The league also hired Meg Ward as assistant director of media relations and marketing. Weare has been an associate commissioner at the league since 1995 and Anderson has worked as director of media relations since 1998. Stricklin has fulfilled responsibilities as the conference's business manager since 1999 and Brakes has spent the last year as a championships and marketing assistant. Last year, Ward was an graduate intern at DePaul ... Bob Russell was chosen as special assistant to the commissioner of the Eastern College Athletic Conference. For the past five years, Russell has been the conference's coordinator of officials for ice hockey ... Heather Brown was named as media relations assistant at the Ohio Valley Conference. Brown, a 2003 graduate of Bowling Green, has spent the past three months as a sports information intern at Ohio State ... Erico Jones was named as the first intern selected under the Southeastern Conference's newly established minority internship program. Jones is a 2002 graduate of Mississippi State, where he also is currently pursuing a master's degree.

Associations

The American Volleyball Coaches Association appointed Piep van Heuven as director of membership and convention services and Mark McCloskey as manager of membership and convention services. Van Heuven has been assistant athletics director for student services and senior woman administrator at Maine. Last year, McCloskey was head girls' volleyball coach at Fort Lupton (Colorado) High School.

Corrections

In the August 18 edition of The Record, a school at which Irv Cross previously coached was incorrect. Cross was head coach at Cal Baptist from 1997 to 2002 and most recently was head coach at UMKC ... A story in the September 1 NCAA News announcing Southland Conference Associate Commissioner Beth Chapman as a new member of the Division I Management Council incorrectly stated that Chapman was an attorney at a Kansas law firm. Chapman in fact was a compliance assistant at the firm ... The former position of newly appointed Texas A&M-Commerce head volleyball coach Gwen Adams was incorrectly listed in the September 1 issue of The NCAA Record. Adams was head coach at Campbell last season. ... Because of incorrect information received by The NCAA News, the University of Utah infractions case printed in the August 4 issue contained an error. No individuals were released as a result of the NCAA or university investigation.

Reprimands

The NCAA Division I Wrestling Committee reprimanded Army assistant coach Eric Douglas for misconduct displayed before the 2003 Division I Wrestling Championships in Kansas City, Missouri. Douglas was cited for inappropriate behavior at the team's hotel, which resulted in his departure from the hotel property for the remainder of the championships. Because of his actions, the committee reprimanded Douglas and withheld payment for travel to the championships.

The NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Committee reprimanded University of Maryland, College Park, head soccer coach Sasho Cirovski for misconduct displayed during the semifinal contest of the 2002 Men's College Cup in Dallas. Cirovski used foul and abusive language toward an assistant referee. He was red-carded and ejected from the game for his behavior. Because of his actions, the committee issued a public reprimand and required Cirovski to sit out the first game of the 2003 season.

NOTABLES

The National Association of Collegiate Women Athletics Administrators announced the following as administrators of the year award recipients for 2003: Division I-A -- Cary Groth, director of athletics, Northern Illinois; Division I-AA -- Nance Reed, senior associate athletics director for internal operations, Towson; Division I-AAA -- Jean Lenti Ponsetto, director of athletics, DePaul; Division II -- Mary Gardner, director of athletics, Bloomsburg; Division III -- Joy Solomen, director of athletics, Rowan; Conferences/organizations -- Bridget Belgiovine, associate chief of staff for Division III, NCAA.

DEATHS

Clive Charles, head men's and women's coach at Portland, died of prostate cancer August 26. He was 51. Charles guided the 2002 women's team to the NCAA Division I national championship. Under Charles, Portland's men's and women's squads earned 13 conference championships and made seven semifinal appearances. Charles also coached the U.S. National Men's Team in the 2000 Olympics.

Former coach and athletics administrator Jim Wacker died August 26 at the age of 66. Wacker coached at Texas Lutheran, where he earned NAIA national championships in 1974 and 1975, in addition to leading the program at Texas State (formerly Southwest Texas State) to two NCAA Division II championships in 1981 and 1982. He spent nine seasons at TCU and was head coach at Minnesota from 1992 to 1996. Wacker served as athletics director at Texas State from 1998 to 2001 and was special assistant to the president of the university before retiring in 2002.

Ron Whitson, director of athletics at Transylvania, died August 23. He was 58. Whitson was an assistant men's basketball coach at the school from 1974 to 2001 before accepting responsibilities as athletics director in January. He was a 1967 graduate of the school and he competed on the basketball team.

Paul K. Scott, former student-athlete and athletics administrator at Cornell College, died August 22. He was 97. Scott was an all-Midwest Conference quarterback for the school in 1927, the same year he led the team to the conference championship. Scott went on to serve as athletics director at Cornell from 1941 to 1950. He also was head wrestling, track, golf and cross country coach at the school. In 1947, he guided his wrestling squad to the NCAA and NAAU national championships.

Former Wilmington coach, administrator and faculty member Fred Raizk died August 23 at the age of 89. Raizk coached football, basketball, baseball, track, soccer and golf at the school. In addition, he served as athletics director and dean of men from 1946 to 1990.

Patrick William Feeney, a men's basketball student-athlete at New Mexico, died August 28. Feeney, 20, was a sophomore transfer from Portland State, where he had competed for one season.

Brian Ottney, former football student-athlete at Michigan State, died September 1. He was 23. Ottney, a three-year letter-winner and a captain on last year's squad at Michigan State, graduated with a bachelor's degree in building construction management.

--Compiled by Leilana McKindra