Soriero takes AD post at Colorado College

Colorado College has elevated Julie Soriero to director of athletics. Soriero takes over for Joel Nielsen, who became athletics director at South Dakota.

Since November, Soriero has served as interim director of athletics. She joined the school in 1999 as head women's basketball coach, but relinquished those duties two years later to focus full-time on administrative duties. Soriero has been senior associate athletics director since 2001.

In addition, Soriero formerly completed coaching stints at Haverford, Philadelphia College of Textiles and Science, and Pennsylvania.

Soriero earned a bachelor's degree in physical education from Penn State in 1974 and earned a master's degree in sports psychology from Temple in 1982.

GENERAL

Chief executive officers

St. Bonaventure elevated Margaret Carney to president. Carney, who has been dean of Franciscan studies, replaces Robert Wickenheiser, who resigned, and interim president Dominic Monti ... Kalamazoo President James F. Jones Jr. was named as president at Trinity (Connecticut), effective July 1 ... Beverley Pitts was chosen as acting president at Ball State. Pitts has been provost and vice-president for academic affairs at the school ... Edward R. Richardson was selected as interim president at Auburn. Most recently, Richardson has been superintendent of education for Alabama ... Ramapo President Rodney D. Smith stepped down, effective June 30 ... Linda Bevilacqua was appointed as president at Barry, effective May 1. Bevilacqua formerly served as president at Gwynedd-Mercy ... Richard Collings, vice-chancellor for academic affairs and professor of political science and public affairs at Western Carolina, was named as president at Wayne State (Nebraska) in May ... David L. Harlow resigned as president at Jacksonville ... Kentucky State selected Mary Evans Sias as president, effective this spring. Sias has been senior vice-president for student affairs and external relations at Texas-Dallas ... Grand Canyon President Gil Stafford resigned ... Gerard L. Stockhausen, vice-president for academic affairs and provost at Detroit Mercy, was elevated to president ... Al Bowman was named as president at Illinois State. Bowman most recently has been filling the position on an interim basis ... Ohio Wesleyan President Thomas B. Courtice announced plans to retire, effective in the summer of 2004 ... Aloysius P. Kelley, president at Fairfield, announced retirement plans, effective at the end of the 2003-04 academic year ... Anne B. Kerr was chosen as president at Florida Southern, effective June 1. Kerr has been vice-president for institutional advancement at Richmond ... Wittenberg President Baird Tipson was named as president at Washington (Maryland), effective July 1 ... Timothy P. White was appointed president at Idaho, effective June 30. White has been provost and executive vice-president at Oregon State ... Adrian's Stanley P. Caine announced plans to retire June 30, 2005. Caine, who has been president at the school since 1989, is a former member of the NCAA Division III Presidents Council (1999-02) and formerly served as vice-chair of the NCAA Division III Management Council (1997-98).

Directors of athletics

Don A. "Doc" Parham, director of athletics at Southeastern Oklahoma State, announced plans to retire, effective July 1. Parham, who will continue with the school in the office of university advancement, has been athletics director for 34 years ... South Florida director of athletics Lee Roy Selmon resigned. Selmon will continue with the school as its chief athletics fund-raiser ... Air Force named Michael Bloomfield as athletics director ... Boston U.'s Gary Strickler announced plans to retire as athletics director, effective at the end of the school year ... Montana director of athletics Wayne Hogan resigned. Hogan has led the athletics program since November 1995 ... Denis Kanach was hired as athletics director at Randolph-Macon. Kanach has been senior associate director and chief operating officer for athletics at Georgetown.

Assistant directors of athletics

Stephen F. Austin promoted John Branch to assistant athletics director for external affairs. Branch has been coordinator of athletics operations at the school for seven years ... Jeff Falardeau was chosen as an assistant athletics director at Cabrini. Since 2002, Falardeau has worked as an assistant men's soccer coach at Potsdam State.

Coaches

Men's basketball -- Briar Cliff's Mike Beard resigned as head coach ... Frank Ferraro was named as head coach at Waynesburg ... Steve Hesser was chosen as head coach at Drury ... Danny Nee, head coach at Duquesne, signed a two-year contract extension through the 2007-08 season. Nee has led the program for three seasons ... North Carolina Central will not renew the contract of head coach Phil Spence ... Robert Gay, head coach at MacMurray for the past 29 years, stepped down, but will retain responsibilities as director of athletics at the school. Gay led the basketball program to two Saint Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference championships and also completed tenures as head coach of the soccer, baseball, cross country and tennis teams. Darrin DeNeve, an assistant coach for the past four years, was tabbed as Gay's successor ... Southern Methodist released head coach Mike Dement after nine seasons. Robert Lineberg, an assistant coach with the program for seven years, was named as interim head coach ... Florida International released Donnie Marsh as head coach and reassigned him within the university. Marsh has guided the program for four years ... Rick Pitino, third-year head coach at Louisville, was awarded a contract extension through 2010 ... New England's David Labbe resigned as men's basketball and softball coach.

Women's basketball -- Lisa Carlsen resigned as head coach at Nebraska-Omaha. Carlsen has guided the program for four seasons ... Linda Wunder will not have her contract renewed after five years as head coach at Eastern Illinois ... Mercyhurst will not renew the contract of head coach Bo Kuntz, who has guided the program for three years ... Mary Orsted resigned as head coach at Macalester, effective March 31. Orsted has been head coach for the past six years ... Marian Washington, head coach at Kansas, retired. Washington led the Jayhawks to seven conference championships and six conference tournament titles in a tenure that began in 1973 ... Hamline will not renew the contract of head coach Lisa Parsons ... Dave Johnson resigned as head coach at Augsburg.

Field hockey -- Marianne Beshara resigned as head coach at Wittenberg. Beshara, who has led the program to a 39-9 record during her tenure, was recognized as the North Coast Athletic Conference coach of the year in 2000, 2002 and 2003 ... Stevens Tech hired Jessica Reed as head coach. The program is scheduled to begin varsity play in the fall. Reed has been an assistant at Drexel for the past two seasons ... Tanya Stonehouse was named as head coach at Becker to replace Melody Stockdale. Stonehouse has been an assistant with the program for the past year.

Football -- Fordham promoted Ed Foley to head coach to replace Dave Clawson, who resigned after five seasons to take over the program at Richmond. For the past five years, Foley has served as offensive coordinator and offensive line coach. Clawson, who succeeds Jim Reid at Richmond, guided Fordham to the 2002 Patriot League championship. Reid went to Syracuse to become the defensive line coach ... Kent State's Dan Pees resigned after six seasons as head coach to become linebackers coach for the New England Patriots ... Mike Lazusky was elevated to head coach at Hiram to succeed Mike Meyer, who resigned. Lazusky has been defensive coordinator for the program ... Doug Martin was promoted to head coach at Kent State. Most recently, Martin, who replaces Dean Pees, has been offensive coordinator ... La Salle's Archie Stalcup resigned as head coach ... Bowie State named Michael J. Lynn Jr. as head coach to replace Henry Frazier. Lynn has been director of football operations and offensive line coach at Morgan State ... Bobby Petrino, head coach at Louisville, signed a contract extension through 2010.

Football assistants -- Arlington Nunn was selected as running backs coach at Mississippi ... Southeast Missouri State named Rob Likens as offensive coordinator ... Scott Lakatos was awarded responsibilities as defensive backs coach at Connecticut ... James Madison tabbed Jeff Durden as offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach, and Chip West as defensive backs coach. The school also reassigned George Barlow as defensive coordinator and Eddie Davis as special teams coordinator and tight ends coach ... Mike Cassity was selected as defensive coordinator at Louisville... Rutgers appointed John McNulty as wide receivers coach and Chris Demarest as defensive backs coach. The school also promoted Darren Rizzi to assistant head coach, Joe Susan to recruiting coordinator and Phil Galiano to linebackers coach. Rizzi has been special teams coordinator and running backs coach, and Susan has been tight ends coach. Galiano was a graduate assistant coach ... Jeremy Cameron was selected as quarterbacks coach at Wagner ... New Mexico State appointed Clint Brown as defensive backs coach ... UCLA hired Jim Svoboda as quarterbacks coach. For the past 10 years, Svoboda has worked as offensive coordinator at Northwest Missouri State ... South Carolina receivers coach Rick Stockstill assumed additional responsibilities as recruiting coordinator ... James Joseph was named as running backs coach at Troy State ... Wisconsin-Stout hired Bret Diersen as a defensive assistant coach. Diersen, who formerly was an assistant at the school from 1998 to 2000, has been an assistant at Dubuque for three seasons ... Illinois State chose Jim Williams as an assistant coach ... Baylor named Bill Bradley as defensive coordinator to replace John Goodner. Bradley has been defensive backs coach for the New York Jets for three seasons ... Kirk Doll resigned as assistant head coach and linebackers coach at LSU to become defensive assistant coach/special teams coach with the Denver Broncos ... Pittsburgh appointed Pete Carmichael as wide receivers coach ... Chris Clopton was selected as a graduate assistant coach at Purdue ... Buffalo named Tom Jones as defensive coordinator, Roy Istvan as offensive co-coordinator, Doug Socha as recruiting coordinator, Andy Rondeau as assistant defensive coordinator and safeties coach, Scott Pethtel as special teams coordinator and inside linebackers coach, Allen Mogridge as running backs coach, Ryan Groneman as assistant strength and conditioning coach and Dan Lindsay as a graduate assistant coach ... Tim Albin was hired as offensive coordinator at North Dakota State. Albin, who succeeds Dan Enos, was passing game coordinator and running backs coach at Nebraska last year ... Southeast Missouri State named Damon Bradford as defensive coordinator ... Wayne State (Michigan) added Mark Elder as defensive coordinator and linebackers coach, E.J. Henderson as wide receivers coach and recruiting coordinator and Keith Uecker as offensive line coach. Elder has been defensive coordinator at Iona and Henderson has served as defensive backs coach at Mount Union for the past two seasons. Uecker has been offensive line coach at Akron for the past five seasons ... Orlando Mitjans was elevated to defensive coordinator at Towson. Mitjans, who replaces Cliff Yoshida, has been defensive secondary coach ... Northwestern State awarded additional responsibilities to Johnny Nagle as passing game coordinator, Chris Truax as running game coordinator and Brad Laird as assistant head coach. Nagle will continue as running backs coach and Truax will retain duties as offensive line coach. Laird will remain defensive coordinator and linebackers coach. The school also moved tight ends coach Broderick Fobbs to wide receivers coach and shifted Ben Beasley to tight ends coach after he most recently has served as safeties coach ... LSU selected Mike Collins as linebackers coach. Collins was an intern with the program last season and formerly was an assistant at Louisiana-Monroe ... Northern Illinois tabbed Levern Belin as defensive interior coach, John Bond as offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach and Marquis Mosely as wide receivers coach. The school also elevated Sam Pittman to assistant head coach and offensive line coach and shifted Greg Bower to tight ends coach from defensive interior coach ... Rick Ulrich accepted duties as an assistant coach and offensive coordinator at Ursinus ... Derrick Nix was added as tight ends coach and Ron McCrone was chosen as defensive backs coach at Southern Mississippi. The school also moved Jay Johnson to running backs coach after he most recently served as tight ends coach.

Men's and women's golf -- Don Meadows resigned as head men's and women's coach at McNeese State.

Men's soccer -- Newberry head coach Joel Harrison resigned ... Chris Smith resigned after three years as head coach at Manhattanville to become head coach at St. Peter's ... Michael Pilger was appointed as head coach at Trinity (Connecticut) ... Lipscomb elevated Jim Maddux to head coach to succeed Jon Goad. For the past three years, Maddux has worked as an assistant coach.

Men's soccer assistant -- Lafayette named Bryan Laut as an assistant coach.

Women's soccer -- George Mason hired Diane Drake as head coach to succeed Jac Cicala. Drake was head coach at Georgetown for five seasons ... Greensboro appointed Tracy Ducar as head coach. For the past three seasons, Ducar has been competing in the now-defunct WUSA professional women's soccer league and was a member of the 1999 World Cup championship team.

Women's soccer assistants -- Steve Golas was hired as an assistant coach at Angelo State. Golas was head men's soccer coach at William Penn last season ... Michele O'Brien was selected as an assistant coach at New York University.

Softball -- New England appointed Joan Howard as head coach ... Christin Santiago was hired as head coach at Newbury. Santiago, who formerly competed on the softball squad at Connecticut, current works as a sport manager at the Newton (Massachusetts) YMCA.

Men's and women's swimming and diving assistant -- Mike Davis was chosen as men's and women's diving coach at Lafayette.

Men's and women's tennis -- Mark Moshos was awarded responsibilities as head men's coach at Franklin & Marshall.

Men's and women's tennis assistant -- Jennifer Crabtree Gandel was appointed as an assistant women's coach at Wellesley.

Men's and women's volleyball -- Pete Volkert resigned as head women's coach at Manhattan ... Tom Symons resigned after three seasons as head coach at Nebraska Wesleyan to become head coach at Marietta.

Men's and women's volleyball assistant -- Angelo State chose Jennifer Salmans as an assistant coach. Salmans has been an assistant at Colorado State-Pueblo since 2000 and also has been assistant to the athletics director at the school since 2001.

Staff

Sports information assistant -- Mike Ross was selected as assistant director of athletics media relations at Wichita State. Ross has been a student assistant and a graduate assistant in the athletics media relations office at the school for the past three years.

Strength and conditioning -- Lindsay Massengale was named as strength and conditioning coach at San Francisco.

Conferences

The Capital Athletic Conference elected Bill Finney to a two-year term as president. Finney, athletics director at Marymount, has been vice-president for the conference and succeeds Ed Hegmann of Mary Washington. Scott Devine, athletics director at St. Mary's (Maryland), was elected as vice-president.

School name changes

Missouri Southern State has officially changed its name to Missouri Southern State University-Joplin, effective immediately.

Deaths

Montclair State head men's and women's track and field coach Gerald "Bennie" Benson Jr. died February 20. He was 36. Benson had guided the programs for nine years and was the 2002 NCAA men's indoor national coach of the year.

Christopher Waddell, a walk-on football offensive lineman at Northwestern State, died March 1 after collapsing during a workout. Waddell, 18, also was a discus thrower for the school's track and field program, but had not competed in a meet.

Frederick M. Binder, former president at Juniata, Whittier and Hartwick, died January 28. Binder was 83.

Mt. St. Vincent president emerita Doris Smith died January 19. Smith was 73.

--Compiled by Leilana McKindra