Sunshine State names Marcil commissioner

Mike Marcil has been named as commissioner for the Sunshine State Conference. Marcil succeeds Don Landry, who retired after 10 years as commissioner.

For the past seven years, Marcil has worked as commissioner of the North Central Intercollegiate Athletic Conference. He also has been an assistant athletics director at St. Thomas University in Florida, Creighton and Miami-Dade (Florida) Community College. 

Marcil, who also completed a stint with the NCAA national office, has been active in NCAA governance, formerly serving as chair of the Division II Management Council and as a member of the Executive Committee.

Marcil earned a bachelor's degree in English at Creighton, a juris doctorate at Marquette and a master's degree in sports administration at St. Thomas (Florida).

Chief executive officers

Alverno named Mary Meehan as president. Meehan most recently has been executive vice-president for administration at Seton Hall ... Anne Cairns Federlein was named as president at Kentucky Wesleyan to succeed Wesley H. Poling, who resigned. Federlein was president at Ohio State University at Newark and Central Ohio Technical College ... Maine President Peter S. Hoff resigned but will continue with the school as a professor in the study of higher education policy ... Cal State Bakersfield selected Horace Mitchell as president. Mitchell has been vice-chancellor for business and administrative services at California ... Carlos E. Santiago was named as president at Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Santiago has been provost at the State University of New York at Albany ... William K. Thierfelder was announced as president at Belmont Abbey ... Hollins chose Nancy Oliver Gray as president, effective in January. Gray has been president at Converse.

Directors of athletics

Chestnut Hill selected Bill Stiles as director of athletics to replace Janice Kuklick. Since 1999, Stiles has worked at Ursinus as director of sports information and assistant athletics director ... Loras named Chad Walthall as director of athletics. Walthall, who succeeds Greg Capell, will continue as head men's basketball coach at the school ... Richard Zerneck, athletics director at Yeshiva since 1997, has retired. Jonathan Halpert, who will continue as head men's basketball coach, was chosen as Zerneck's successor ... Hans Mueh was selected as director of athletics at Air Force. Mueh, who replaces Randy Spetman, has been director of the academy's chemistry department since 1987 and has served as vice-dean of the faculty for the past two years ... Mount Olive Director of Athletics Allen McGarry "Mac" Cassell stepped down, effective at the end of the 2004-05 academic year, but will continue to teach at the school. Cassell has worked as athletics director since 1994.

Senior woman administrators

Jane Wildman accepted full-time responsibilities as senior woman administrator at Oberlin and relinquished duties as head women's soccer coach ... UC Irvine named Stephanie Shrieve as senior woman administrator and associate athletics director.

Associate directors of athletics

Larry Aschebrook was hired as associate athletics director for development at Northern Arizona. Most recently, Aschebrook has been at Northern Colorado ... Elaine Baker was appointed as an associate athletics director at Furman.

Assistant directors of athletics

Chuck Edkins was elevated to assistant athletics director at Misericordia. Edkins will continue as head men's soccer coach but he relinquished duties as head baseball coach ... Furman chose Chris Colvin as assistant athletics director for operations ... C.J. Huddleston was named as assistant athletics director for marketing and Ryan Satalin was appointed as assistant athletics director for development at Iona ... Mike Show was hired as assistant athletics director at Baptist Bible ... North Dakota's John Sirignano resigned as assistant athletics director for internal affairs ... Terry Beattie was named as an assistant athletics director at West Chester ... Zach Conen resigned as assistant athletics director for marketing, promotions and ticket sales at Temple ... Akron hired Kevin Klotz as assistant athletics director for compliance. Klotz has been a compliance coordinator at Cleveland State for two years.

Coaches

Baseball -- Misericordia appointed Josh Tehonica as head baseball coach and coordinator of athletics operations. Tehonica succeeds Chuck Edkins ... John Mehling was selected as head coach at Lehman ... Saint Joseph's head coach Jim Ertel resigned ... Frank Leoni, head coach at Rhode Island, signed a three-year contract extension. Leoni, a two-time Atlantic-10 Conference coach of the year, has guided the program for 12 years and is the Rams' winningest baseball coach in school history ... Baptist Bible added Don Sintic as head coach ... Old Dominion hired Jerry Meyers as head coach. Meyers has spent the past eight years as an assistant coach at South Carolina ... Mike McRae, head coach at Niagara and 2003 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference coach of the year, was named as head coach at Canisius ... Steve Mrowka was selected as head coach at George Washington. Mrowka, who succeeds Tom Walter, has guided the program at GC&SU since 1993. 

Baseball assistants -- Dave Reina was tapped as an assistant coach at Lehman ... New Orleans added Chuck Bartlett and Dennis Healy as assistant coaches ... Evan Agona was named as an assistant coach at Thiel ... Southeastern Louisiana chose Graham Martin as first assistant baseball coach, John Stephenson as an assistant coach and Luke Weatherford as a volunteer assistant coach ... Robbie Wilson was selected as an assistant at Francis Marion. Wilson spent the 2004 season as an assistant at Gardner-Webb ... Anderson (South Carolina) appointed Chris Nall as an assistant coach. 

Men's basketball -- La Salle head coach Billy Hahn resigned ... Clark (Massachusetts) named Morgan "Mo" Cassara as head coach to replace Paul Phillips. Cassara spent the 2003-04 season as an assistant at Dayton ... Drexel signed head coach Bruiser Flint to a multiyear contract extension.

Men's basketball assistants -- Pete Vasil was appointed as an assistant coach at Bloomfield ... Texas-San Antonio announced Michael Schwartz as an assistant coach ... Tim Whittle accepted duties as an assistant coach at Washington (Missouri) ... Long Beach State hired Anthony Stewart as an assistant coach and promoted Reggie Howard to associate head coach. Stewart has been an assistant at Columbus State Community College for the past four years. Howard, who succeeds Bill Carr, is starting his third season with the program ... Arkansas State's C.J. George resigned after two years as director of men's basketball operations ... Texas-Pan American added Greg Wright as an assistant coach and Ryan Edwards as an administrative assistant. In 2003-04, Wright worked as an assistant coach at Centenary (Louisiana). Edwards was a graduate manager for men's basketball at Northwestern State for two seasons ... Mike Summey accepted duties as an assistant coach at Citadel ... UC Riverside hired Bryant Moore as an assistant coach. Moore, who replaces Darren French, has been an assistant coach at Sheldon (California) High School since 2000 ... Jeff Bauer was tabbed as an assistant coach at Central Michigan ... North Carolina State appointed Archie Miller as director of basketball operations ... Mike Rice was hired as an assistant coach at Saint Joseph's to replace Matt Brady. For the past three years, Rice has worked as director of the Eastern Invitational Basketball Camp for the Hoop Group.

Women's basketball -- John Miller, head coach at La Salle, resigned ... Chestnut Hill hired Jackie deMarteleire as head coach. Most recently, deMarteleire has been an assistant at Philadelphia U. ... Patrick Knapp was selected as head coach at Pennsylvania. Knapp has spent the past 18 seasons as head coach at Georgetown. He also was head coach at New Mexico State for three seasons ... Julie Fulks was appointed as head coach at Lewis and Clark. Most recently, Fulks has worked as an assistant coach at Defiance ... Francis Elms was selected as head coach at Curry ... Chris Hitchcock, head coach at Benedictine (Illinois) for the past three years, was named as head coach at Hendrix. Hitchcock replaces Chuck Winkelman.

Women's basketball assistants -- California appointed Sunny Smallwood as an associate coach ... Chris Cunningham was named as an assistant coach at St. Peter's ... Francis Marion hired Jessica Guarneri as an assistant coach to replace Janna Magette. During the 2003-04 season, Guarneri worked as a student assistant at Wingate ... Franklin & Marshall selected Erika Linnander and Kirsten Richter as assistant coaches ... South Carolina Upstate chose Denise Shelton as an assistant coach ... Nicole Anderson and Jason Flowers were added as assistant coaches at Long Beach State. Anderson has been an assistant coach at San Diego State for two seasons and Flowers spent last year serving as head girls' varsity coach at Santa Ana Valley (California) High School ... Presbyterian chose Althea Bufford as an assistant ... Rice awarded Bryan High with responsibilities as director of women's basketball operations ... IUPUI added Chanel Spriggs as an assistant coach ... Southern Mississippi named Kirk Crawford and Troy Howell as assistants ... Brian Ramon Johnson was appointed as an assistant coach at Rider ... Sacred Heart selected Jennifer Curran as an assistant.

Men's and women's cross country -- Cleveland State chose Allison Had as head women's coach. Had currently works as a physical education teacher at S.S. Peter and Paul School in Ohio ... Brandon Uhl was tabbed as head cross country and track and field coach at Misericordia. Uhl formerly has been an assistant at Frostburg State, and Washington and Lee ... Loyola (Maryland) promoted Rick Woods to director of cross country and track ... Wes Stolp was appointed as head women's coach at Pacific ... Bob Condon resigned after 11 years as head men's and women's cross country and track and field coach at Gettysburg. Anne Schenck, a graduate assistant men's and women's coach with the programs for the past two years, was announced as interim head men's and women's cross country and track and field coach ... Michigan State chose Walt Drenth as head men's cross country coach and assistant men's track and field coach and tabbed Rita Arndt-Molis as head women's cross country coach and assistant women's track and field coach ... Nate Rucker was appointed as head men's and women's cross country coach at Dubuque ... Roger Williams hired Sean Livingston as a part-time head men's and women's coach to replace Todd Deely, who became head men's and women's cross country coach and assistant men's and women's track and field coach at Simpson. Livingston has been head boys' and girls' cross country coach at St. Raphael Academy in Rhode Island and also formerly served as a volunteer assistant at Ithaca ... Aaron Schaffner was promoted to head men's and women's cross country and track and field coach at Anderson (South Carolina). Schaffner has been an assistant with the programs since 2000.

Field hockey -- William Paterson named Lindsay Bard as head coach.

Field hockey assistant -- Dawn Hill was elevated to associate head coach at Delaware. Hill, who enters her third season at the school, has been an assistant coach.

Football assistants -- Quincy announced Camron Olson as offensive coordinator. Olson has been a graduate assistant at Idaho State since 2002 ... Charleston Southern tabbed Chuck Kelly as offensive coordinator and offensive line coach ... Muskingum added Philip Witker as football defensive secondary coach and head wrestling coach, Matt Andreas as quarterbacks coach, Clint Fox as offensive line coach and James Washington as wide receivers coach ... Nick Towns was hired as an assistant coach at Tusculum. Towns was an assistant at West Virginia Tech last season ... Edinboro named Mike Hodgson as quarterbacks coach ... Larry Bowe and Joe Fowler were selected as assistant coaches at Franklin & Marshall ... Fred von Appen retired as an assistant coach at Montana ... Tri-State named Dan Hernandez as assistant football coach and assistant sports information director. For the past two years, Hernandez has served as a student football coach at MacMurray ... Missouri Western State added Todd Throckmorton as offensive line coach. Throckmorton has been head coach at Fort Lewis for the past four seasons and formerly was an assistant at Missouri Western State from 1990 to 1996.

Men's and women's golf -- Ray Cisbani was chosen as head men's coach at Saint Leo ... Janie Farina was named as head women's coach at Florida Tech to replace Al Skellet. Farina, who formerly coached at the high-school level from 2001 to 2003 and at New Mexico from 1997 to 1999, has been a club pro at the Turtle Creek Golf Club ... Albion chose Jared Schock as head women's coach ... McNeese State named Michael Fluty as head women's coach. Fluty, who replaces Don Meadows, has been head men's and women's coach at Southwestern College for eight years ... Jerry Surratt was hired as head men's and women's coach at Wingate. Surratt, who has been with the school since 1967 and retired as dean of the college of arts and sciences in 2001, replaces Holly Burns ... Baptist Bible appointed Dwight Peterson as head men's coach.

Men's and women's golf assistant -- James Ambrose accepted assistant men's and women's coaching duties at Wingate. Ambrose, who will continue as an admissions counselor at the school, is a 2002 graduate of Wingate and was a member of the men's golf squad.

Men's and women's gymnastics assistants -- West Chester's Christie McLaughlin resigned as an assistant coach.

Men's and women's ice hockey -- Rob Riley retired after 18 years as head men's coach at Army. The school announced Brian Riley, who has been associate head coach for the past five years, as his older brother's successor ... Southern Maine hired Amanda Adams as head women's coach. Adams, who formerly was head coach at Quinnipiac, takes over for David Venditti.

Men's and women's ice hockey assistants -- North Dakota named Cary Eades as an assistant men's coach ... Aaron Kemp was hired as an assistant women's coach at Mercyhurst.

Men's and women's lacrosse -- Saint Joseph's head men's coach Paul Perdue resigned ... Jessica Spadafora was hired as head women's coach at Bucknell. For the past two seasons, Spadafora has led the program at Randolph-Macon ... Lycoming selected Michael Talarico as head men's coach to replace Shawn Rosa. Talarico formerly served as an assistant coach at Widener.

Men's and women's lacrosse assistant -- Loyola (Maryland) named Matt Dawn as an assistant men's coach.

Men's and women's rowing -- Seth Davis was chosen as head women's coach at Wellesley ... Trinity (Connecticut) tabbed Marina Traub as interim head women's coach.

Men's and women's rowing assistants -- Aina Williams and Elizabeth Ostermeier were added as assistants at Buffalo (New York). Williams has been men's rowing coach and sports information director at Willamette and Ostermeier was an assistant at Barry.

Men's and women's rugby -- West Chester appointed Tony DeRemer as head women's coach.

Men's soccer -- Tri-State selected Jeff Bateson as head coach. Bateson has worked as head coach at Alma for the past four years.

Men's soccer assistants -- Saint Leo tabbed David Scott as an assistant coach ... Phil Karn was named as an assistant coach at Philadelphia U. ... Marco Chung was selected as an assistant coach at Bloomfield ... Justin Zoslow accepted responsibilities as an assistant coach at Rice ... Brad Johnson was awarded assistant coaching duties at Dubuque ... Roger Williams hired Liam Murphy as an assistant coach. Murphy spent 2003 as assistant boys' coach at Stonington (Connecticut) High School ... Tusculum appointed Louis Thorpe as an assistant coach to succeed Mike McLean. Thorpe has been an assistant men's and women's coach and was head women's coach during the 2002 season at King College in Tennessee.

Women's soccer -- Michelle Mocarsky was promoted to head coach at Chestnut Hill. Mocarsky has been an assistant with the program since 2003 ... Averett announced Katie Talbert as head women's soccer coach and head women's lacrosse coach ... Kevin East accepted additional responsibilities as head women's soccer coach at New Jersey City. East will continue to lead the men's squad at the school ... Oberlin named Andy Nelson as head coach to succeed Jane Wildman. Nelson formerly has coached at Wellesley, Pennsylvania and Stanford.

Women's soccer assistants -- Brian Barrow was awarded additional duties as associate head women's soccer coach at New Jersey City. Barrow will retain responsibilities as an assistant men's soccer coach at the school ... Rachel Adamu assumed duties as an assistant coach at Bloomfield ... Pennsylvania named Mick Statham as an assistant ... Montana named Tina Morse as an assistant coach ... David Hatch was added as an assistant coach at Roger Williams.

Softball -- Oberlin chose Johanna Van Der Hulst as head coach. Van Der Hulst has been an assistant at Smith since 2002 ... Vanessa Simpson was appointed as head softball coach and head volleyball coach at Dallas. Simpson has been at Brookhaven College ... Morehead State promoted Jill Karwoski to head coach. Karwoski, who replaces Jennifer VanSickle, was an assistant for two seasons and spent last season as interim head coach ... Cal Poly head coach Lisa Boyer resigned to become a coordinator with the school's department of continuing education and conference services and training. Boyer, who also served as sports information director from 1986 to 1990, led the program to a 436-377 record in 16 seasons ... Michelle Manning was selected as head softball coach and assistant women's volleyball coach at Albion. Manning has been head softball coach at Shenandoah for one season ... Wisconsin-Oshkosh appointed Cindy Suess as head coach ... Deanna Parks was hired as head coach at Oneonta State. Parks, who has been head coach at Akron for eight seasons, replaces Denise Marchese.

Softball assistants -- Bloomfield added Heather MacCulloch as an assistant coach ... Chrissy Fowler was hired as an assistant coach at Bucknell. Fowler most recently has been an assistant at Ohio State ... Hillary Read was tabbed as an assistant coach at Dartmouth ... Tri-State's Melissa Cope accepted additional responsibilities as assistant softball coach. Cope will continue as sports information director and assistant women's basketball coach ... Kim Biskup was chosen as an assistant coach and Kim Burke was added as a graduate assistant at Central Michigan. Biskup has been an assistant at North Alabama for the past two seasons and Burke has served as an assistant at Massachusetts for two years.

Men's and women's tennis -- Averett appointed Bobby Shields as head men's coach to replace the retired Vesa Hiltunen ... Paul Soliz was selected as head men's and women's coach at Texas-Pan American. For the past three years, Soliz has worked as head tennis professional at the Alamo Heights Tennis Center in Texas ... Lisa Haldas resigned as head women's coach at West Chester ... Steve Soliday was hired as head men's and women's tennis coach and assistant sports information director at Shenandoah. Soliday has worked as an assistant men's and women's coach at Salisbury for the past four years ... Clark (Massachusetts) appointed Lisa Meola as head women's coach. For the past two years, Meola has worked as head girls' coach at Notre Dame Academy in Massachusetts.

Men's and women's tennis assistants -- Katie Granson was appointed as an assistant women's coach at Yale ... Montana selected Jen Canuso Anderson as an assistant coach. 

Men's and women's track and field -- Julie Culley was named as head women's coach at Loyola (Maryland) ... Thad Molnar was hired as head track coach and assistant football coach at Tri-State.

Men's and women's track and field assistants -- Penn State added Chris Johnson as an assistant women's coach to replace Jeff McAuley ... Patrick Cunniff was selected as an assistant coach at TCU ... Yvonne Scott was tabbed as hurdles and sprints coach at Long Beach State. Scott, who formerly was an assistant at Sacramento State from 1999 to 2001, has been a member of the Japanese National Program since 1996 and competed in the 2000 Olympic Games ... Central Florida appointed John Guarino as an assistant women's coach ... Texas A&M chose Vince Anderson, Juan De La Garza, Ed Marcinkiewicz, Jim VanHootegem and Dan Waters as assistant coaches ... Mellanee Welty was appointed as an assistant men's and women's coach at Texas-Pan American. Welty, who spent 2003 as head track and field coach at P.K. Yonge Developmental Research School in Florida, formerly was an assistant cross country coach at Florida and formerly was an assistant track and field coach at Illinois State.

Men's and women's volleyball -- Matt Kerr, an assistant women's coach at Temple since 2001, was named as head women's coach at Chestnut Hill ... Misericordia hired Kelly Cook as head women's coach ... Grambling State selected Kim Young as interim head coach ... Lee McBride resigned as head coach at McNeese State ... Coker tabbed Chuck Mullen as head women's coach ... Lori Staszewski accepted responsibilities as head women's coach at Rowan ... Baptist Bible elevated Tim Merrell to head men's coach. Merrell takes over for Dave Shumaker, who resigned ... Kris Zeiter accepted responsibilities as head women's coach at Iona ... David Jackson was named as interim head women's coach at Dubuque ... Southern Connecticut tabbed Lisa Barbaro as head women's volleyball coach and head softball coach.

Men's and women's volleyball assistants -- Saint Leo selected Jill Morrison as an assistant women's coach ... Rainbow A. Shaw-Giaquinto was selected as an assistant women's coach at Widener ... Matt Affolder was added as an assistant coach at Indiana ... Indiana/Purdue-Indianapolis appointed Lance Keating as an assistant coach ... Greta Pemsl assumed duties as an assistant women's coach at Dubuque ... Bucknell chose Pam Peetz as an assistant coach. For the past five years, Peetz has worked as head coach at Midwestern State.

Wrestling -- Chris Davis, head coach at Baptist Bible, retired. The school announced assistant coach John Diven as head coach.

Wrestling assistant -- Lee Pritts was chosen as an assistant at Old Dominion. Pritts has spent the past six seasons as an assistant at Missouri.

Staff

Academic services assistant -- Deborah Roche was appointed as assistant director of student services for athletes at Delaware. Roche, who succeeds Amy Carello, has been with the school's Center for Counseling and Student Development since last fall.

Athletic trainers -- Central Florida named Jeff Allen as head athletic trainer. Allen, who replaces Darryl Conway, has been head athletic trainer at Chattanooga since 2000 ... Janet McMurray was elevated to head athletic trainer at McMurry to succeed the late Bill "Doc" Hadley. McMurray has been an assistant athletic trainer at the school for eight years ... Chris Lenker was promoted to head athletic trainer at Tusculum to replace Craig Moorhouse. Lenker has been with the school's athletic training department for four years and served as associate head athletic trainer last season ... Southern Connecticut chose Carol Nelson as athletic trainer ... Vanessa Rettinger was promoted to head athletic trainer at Anderson (South Carolina). For the past year, Rettinger has worked as an assistant athletic trainer at the school ... Jennifer Grunzweig was hired as head athletic trainer at Wellesley ... Ronnie Chastain was tabbed as head athletic trainer at Bible Baptist ... Clark (Massachusetts) appointed Brent Riddle as head athletic trainer. Riddle has been assistant director of sports medicine at Assumption for two years. 

Assistant athletic trainers -- Jessika Hunt was selected as an assistant athletic trainer at Mount St. Mary's, to replace Meg Gilman. For the past year, Hunt has worked as an associate athletic trainer at Trinity (District of Columbia) ... Washington (Missouri) appointed Amy Haines and Bryan Lind as assistant athletic trainers ... Trevor Hadley was added as an assistant athletic trainer at McMurry ... Sarah Sydor was tapped as an assistant trainer at Tennessee Tech ... South Alabama named Shelley McDaniel as an athletic training graduate assistant ... Akron added Kelley Becker and Bobbi Herold as assistant athletic trainers ... Michelle Royko was tabbed as an assistant athletic trainer at South Carolina-Aiken ... Trae Tashiro and Sara Bach were added as assistant athletic trainers at Arizona ... Stetson chose Jon Michelini, Jamie McClure and Tina Thomas as assistant athletic trainers ... Daniel J. Watson was hired as an assistant athletic trainer at Delaware. Watson, who replaces Michael Higgins, has worked as an assistant athletic trainer at Rutgers for the past five years. 

Compliance -- Norfolk State added Leon Rouson as compliance officer. Rouson, who succeeds Germaine McAuley, has been at Elizabeth City State since 1993 and most recently has been serving as an associate adjunct professor in the school of education and psychology ... Furman chose Dan Brinkman as director of compliance and academics.

Development -- Ken Pettus assumed responsibilities as director of athletics development at Furman.

Facilities assistant -- Sean Wright was appointed as assistant facilities manager at Washington (Missouri).

Marketing/promotions -- Pat Schultz was added as director of marketing and promotions at Loyola (Illinois). 

Sports information -- Tampa hired Paul Martello as sports information director to replace Gil Swalls. Most recently, Martello has worked as media and public relations director for the Empire Sports Network and formerly was sports information director at Buffalo State and Ashland.

Sports information assistants -- Sarah Barbee was hired as an assistant sports information director at Birmingham-Southern. Barbee, who has been an athletics media relations intern at Coastal Carolina, replaces Bailey Mixon ... Williams chose Kris Dufour as sports information intern, effective September 1 ... Southern Methodist selected Herman Hudson as assistant director of media relations ... Kevin Bonner resigned as assistant director of athletics communications at Saint Joseph's to become assistant director of sports media relations at Temple ... Shane Herrmann was named as assistant sports information director at North Alabama ... Muhlenberg chose Katy Kresge as an assistant sports information director ... Tim Lutz was selected as a media relations graduate assistant at South Alabama ... Alabama chose Jeff Dunnavant as a media relations intern ... Jon Newberry and Theresa O'Hern were hired as sports communication graduate assistants at Georgia State ... Loyola (Illinois) appointed Jennifer Westfall as a sports information intern ... Megan Bradshaw accepted responsibilities as an athletics media relations assistant at Towson.

Conferences

The Empire 8 elected Utica President Todd Hutton as president of the conference. Hutton, whose term will expire in June 2005, has been president of the league since 2002. Bob Ward, athletics director at St. John Fisher for 18 years, was selected as first vice-president, and Jim Moretti, athletics director at Alfred for the past seven years, was appointed as second vice-president ... The City University of New York Athletic Conference announced Zak Ivkovic as executive director. The league also announced Harold Merritt, director of athletics and athletics facilities at State Island, as president of the senior college division, and Linda Barley, athletics director at York, as vice-president ... The Mid-American Conference extended the contract of Commissioner Rick Chryst through 2009. The league also appointed Dan Hughes as assistant commissioner for men's basketball operations, promoted Shonna Brown to assistant commissioner for compliance services and elevated Aimee DuPree-Chambers to director of marketing and corporate programs ... Sam Schachter was named as assistant commissioner for marketing and promotions at the Southland Conference ... Billi Godsey was chosen as assistant to the commissioner for the New York Collegiate Athletic Conference ... Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference tabbed Nicole Lepak as assistant to the commissioner.

Associations

The EA Sports Maui Invitational named Dave Gavitt as chair. Gavitt, who takes over for Wayne Duke, was co-founder and former chair of the Big East Conference, former chair of the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Committee and head coach of the 1980 U.S. Men's Basketball Olympic Team. Hosted by Chaminade, the 2004 EA Sports Maui Invitational will be held November 22-24.

National office

Stacey Preston was hired as a manager of promotions and events at the national office. Preston has been special assistant to the executive director of athletics at Long Beach State.

Notables

Bob Robertson, football radio play-by-play announcer at Washington State, was named as the 2004 Chris Schenkel Award winner. The honor, presented by the National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame, is given to a college football broadcaster on the local level who has excelled in the field and contributed to the community. Robertson is set to enter his 38th year calling Cougar football games. He also has served as the announcer for basketball games for the past 22 years ... The following former student-athletes recently were inducted into the College Sports Information Directors of America Academic All-America Hall of Fame: Gill Beck, Appalachian State, football; Dylann Duncan Ceriani, Brigham Young, volleyball; Terry Hoage, Georgia, football; Dave Rimington, Nebraska, football; Rolf Benirschke, UC Davis, football. The organization also recognized Ted Leland, director of athletics at Stanford, as the recipient of the 2004 Dick Enberg Award, which is given annually to an individual whose actions and commitments have furthered the meaning and reach of the academic all-America programs and/or the student-athlete while promoting the values of education and academics.

DEATHS

Former Morehead State men's basketball coach Bill Harrell died July 23. He was 76. Harrell guided the Morehead State program from 1969 to 1974 and also served as an assistant at Nebraska for three years.

Ben Martin, former football coach at Air Force, died July 24. Martin, 83, led the Falcons from 1958 to 1977.

Justin Williams, a football student-athlete at Oregon State, died in an automobile accident July 23. He was 19. Williams, a defensive back, was entering his red-shirt freshman season.

Former Oklahoma State football linebacker and current vice-president of football operations for the NFL's Green Bay Packers, Mark Hatley, died July 27. He was 54. Hatley was an assistant with the Cowboys from 1973 to 1975 and also coached at Tulsa, TCU, Baylor and the NFL's New Orleans Saints and Kansas City Chiefs.

Former Arizona State men's basketball coach Steve Patterson died of lung cancer July 28. He was 56. Patterson helped UCLA capture national championships in 1969, 1970 and 1971. He went on to play professionally in the NBA as well as lead the program at Arizona State from 1985 to 1989.

Former Houston football student-athlete Patterson Owens died August 2. He was 28. Owens was a lineman for the Cougars for two years.

Edward J. Bock, former Iowa State football student-athlete, died July 31. He was 87. A National Football Foundation College Hall of Fame inductee, Bock started all 26 games of his career with the Cyclones. The all-America lineman later served as an assistant coach at the school. He joined Monsanto Chemical Company in 1941, and retired in 1972 as president and CEO.

John Corbally, former president at Syracuse and the University of Illinois system, died July 23. Corbally was 79.

James E. Hoff, chancellor and former president at Xavier (Ohio), died July 23. Hoff was 72.

Former Dartmouth head baseball coach Ulysses J. (Tony) Lupien Jr. died July 9 at the age of 87.

Hugh J. Phillips, former president at Mount St. Mary's, died July 11. Phillips was 97.

--Compiled by Leilana McKindra