Three athletics administrators and two student-athlete representatives have been selected to fill vacancies on the Division III Management Council.

The new members are Valerie Cushman, director of athletics at Randolph-Macon Woman's College; Jone Dowd, associate director of athletics at Catholic University; Travis Feezell, director of athletics at Whitman College; Sarah Forbus, former student-athlete at Denison University; and David Masilunas, student-athlete at Pennsylvania State University Erie, the Behrend Campus.

The three administrators were elected by the Division III membership during the 2004 Convention, and the student-athlete representatives were selected by the Division III Student-Athlete Advisory Committee. All began their terms at the end of the Convention.

The terms of Cushman, Dowd and Feezell will expire in January 2008, Forbus' term will end in January 2005, and Masilunas' term will expire in January 2006.

Following are brief biographies of the new members.

Cushman

Cushman is athletics director and chair of physical education at Randolph-Macon Woman's, where she has served since 1997. She also chairs the college's general education committee.

She previously served for seven years as associate director of athletics at Vassar College.

Cushman earned a bachelor of science degree in physical education at State University College at Cortland, a master's degree in sport management at East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania, and a doctorate in higher education at Syracuse University, where her work resulted in a dissertation titled "Playing Beneath the Rim: A Case Study of an NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Team."

She currently serves as president of the Old Dominion Athletic Conference and is a former chair of the NCAA Division III Nominating Committee.

Dowd

Dowd is senior woman administrator at Catholic, where she joined the staff in 1961 to establish the institution's first physical education classes and intramural sports for women.

She coached the university's women's tennis program through the first 34 years of its existence, leading the teams to more than 300 victories. She also coached gymnastics at the school.

Dowd was inducted into Catholic's Athletic Hall of Fame in 1994 as founder of women's athletics at the school.

She currently serves as a member of the Division III Committee on Infractions.

Feezell

Feezell became full-time athletics director at Whitman in 2002 after serving for six seasons as head baseball coach and for the previous two years as part-time athletics director.

He arrived at Whitman in 1996 after spending three years as an athletics academic advisor at Northwestern University. He also served as an assistant baseball coach at North Park University during his time on the Northwestern staff, and earlier coached at Wayland Baptist University.

Feezell graduated with honors from the University of Wyoming, where he played baseball, then earned a master's degree in medieval studies at the University of Wales in England.

He is a member of the Division III Committee on Interpretations and Legislation and also served on the Division III Convention Planning Committee.

Forbus

Forbus, who will serve on the Management Council as a representative of the Division III Student-Athlete Advisory Committee, earned a bachelor of arts degree in physical education at Denison last spring, where she played basketball for four years.

She currently is employed by adidas at its company headquarters in Oregon.

Forbus was a 2002-03 recipient of an NCAA Women's Enhancement Program Postgraduate Scholarship. She was honored as a 2003 recipient of the Dean's Distinguished Leadership Award at Denison, where her activities included service as chair of the university SAAC and as a program consultant on Denison's CHOICES alcohol-education grant project.

During her term as a Division III SAAC member, Forbus has served on the Division III Research Committee.

Masilunas

Masilunas, who also joins the Management Council as a representative of the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee, is a plastics engineering technology major at Penn State-Behrend and a member of the track and field squad.

His specialty is the hurdles, and he is entering his senior season at Penn State-Behrend after earning honors during his freshman season as Eastern College Athletic Conference "rookie of the year" and qualifying for the championships in subsequent seasons.

Masilunas has been honored on the dean's list every year as a student in the Penn State-Behrend Honors Program. He is a three-time academic all-conference performer and a member of the Lambda Sigma Honors Society and the Omicron Delta Kappa Leadership Society.