Five athletics administrators have recently been added to fill vacancies on the 49-member Division I Management Council.

The new members are Jackie Campbell, assistant commissioner of the Atlantic 10 Conference; Ken Casavant, faculty athletics representative at Washington State University; Peter Fields, director of athletics at Montana State University-Bozeman; Sandra Taylor, associate director of athletics at Manhattan College; and Miechelle Willis, associate director of athletics at Ohio State University.

The new members began their terms with the July Management Council meeting in Baltimore. Management Council terms used to run on a January-to-January cycle, but because of the single annual legislative cycle adopted last year that keys off an April adoption date for legislative proposals, the Council changed the term rotation to begin with the July meeting and end with the April session.

Following are brief biographical sketches of the new members.

Campbell

Campbell is the assistant commissioner for compliance at the Atlantic 10. She is responsible for coordinating legislative and compliance services for league members and serves as the league's senior woman administrator.

Campbell recently returned to the conference after serving as the associate director of athletics for student services at the University of Connecticut and the associate director of athletics for compliance at the University of Maryland, College Park. Campbell previously served as the assistant commissioner for compliance at the Atlantic 10 from 1997 through 2002. Before that, she spent six years at the NCAA national office, first as a legislative assistant, then as assistant chief of staff for Division I.

Campbell has served on several NCAA committees, including the Division I Women's Basketball Committee, the Division I Women's Soccer Committee and the Division I Academics/Eligibility/Compliance Cabinet.

A member of the field hockey and women's basketball teams at the University of Virginia, Campbell graduated with a B.S. in commerce. She earned a master's degree in sports management from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, in 1990.

Her term on the Council ends in April 2005 but she will be eligible for reselection.

Casavant

Casavant has been a member of the department of agricultural and resource economics at Washington State since 1970, will complete the term of University of Washington FAR Rob Aronson, which runs through April 2005. Casavant is then eligible for reappointment to the Council.

Casavant is a 1965 graduate of North Dakota State University, and he has postgraduate degrees from North Dakota State and Washington State.

Casavant, a former chair of the Washington State faculty senate (1992-93), is a member of the Pacific Northwest Regional Economic Conference board of directors and a member of the Washington Department of Transportation Steering Committee. He also is a former president of the Agricultural Chapter of Transportation Research Forum (1982-83) and the Western Agricultural Economics Association (1988-89).

His teaching awards are numerous, including the R.M. Wade Award for Outstanding Teacher in College of Agriculture (1979), and a National Outstanding Teacher Award, American Agricultural Economics Association (1981). Casavant was elected as a Teaching Fellow by the National Association of Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture in 1983.

Fields

Fields is in his second year as director of athletics at Montana State. He came to Bozeman after serving six years as associate athletics director for business operations at the University of Missouri, Columbia, where he oversaw the department's $28.7 million budget.

Before his tenure at Missouri, Fields served as an assistant athletics director for finance at the University of Toledo from 1988 to 1996, and in the same position at Kent State University from 1985 to 1988. At Toledo, Fields supervised all fiscal operations of the athletics department, coordinated event management and other elements of the football and men's and women's basketball programs, and was involved in fund-raising and outreach. At Kent State, he was involved in supervision of football and men's basketball, and he supervised the business, ticket and equipment operations.

Fields is a 1979 graduate of the University of Maine, Presque Isle, where he was a varsity wrestler. He served as assistant wrestling coach at his alma mater in 1983-84 and received his master's degree from The United States Sports Academy in 1987.

His term on the Management Council ends in April 2006 but he will be eligible for reselection.

Taylor

Taylor, now in her eighth year as a member of the Manhattan athletics staff, replaces Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Commissioner Rich Ensor on the Management Council. Taylor's term runs through April 2007.

After two years of serving as a graduate assistant within the athletics department, Taylor began working in the areas of NCAA compliance and men's basketball ticket sales before the 1995-96 academic year. Since then, she added the SWA role, and in summer 2000 was promoted to associate athletics director.

In 1997, Taylor was appointed chair of the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference's women's basketball committee. She also is a member of the MAAC's gender equity and track and field games committee. Her NCAA committee service includes the Initial-Eligibility Waivers Committee and the Women's Lacrosse Committee.

A 1993 Manhattan graduate with a degree in secondary education, Taylor added a master's degree in special education in May 1995. She currently is pursuing a doctoral degree in educational leadership.

Willis

Willis is in her 10th year at Ohio State. Named associate athletics director in 1994, she oversees 12 varsity sports, including men's and women's basketball. She also serves as Ohio State's senior woman administrator.

Before joining the staff at Ohio State, Willis spent seven years at Temple University, where she was the primary administrator for 11 women's varsity sports and was responsible for compliance, drug and alcohol education and student-athlete services.

Her professional experience also includes stints at Montclair State College (1978-87) as the women's track and cross country coach, and as a member of the 69AES United States Air Force Reserves as an aeromedical evacuation technician (1983-89).

As a student-athlete, Willis was a standout pentathlete at Grambling State University, where she graduated cum laude in 1976 with a degree in health and physical education.

Willis earned her master's degree in sports administration from her alma mater in 1978 and had been pursuing her doctorate at Temple before her departure.

Willis, who also is a member of the NCAA Men's Volleyball Committee, will serve on the Management Council through April 2005, at which time she will be eligible for reselection.