Ten athletics administrators have been selected to serve on the Division I Management Council beginning with the July 2005 meeting. Nine will be serving on the Council for the first time. One, Greg Sankey, an associate commissioner at the Southeastern Conference, is serving on the group for the second time (his previous service was as a representative of the Southland Conference).

The nine new members appointed to the Council are Renee Baumgartner, senior associate athletics director at the University of Oregon; Gary Clark, director of athletics at Furman University; J. Lin Dawson, associate athletics director at Virginia Commonwealth University; Robert De Carolis, director of athletics at Oregon State University; Cynthia (Kathy) Jones, senior woman administrator at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale; Jeff Long, director of athletics at the University of Pittsburgh; Gloria Nevarez, associate commissioner of the West Coast Conference; Tracy Shoemake, associate athletics director at Texas State University-San Marcos; and John Watson, director of athletics at Pepperdine University.

Two additional new members, one from the America East Conference and one from the Atlantic Coast Conference, are still to be determined.

Following are brief biographical sketches of the nine new members.

Baumgartner

Now in her 17th year at Oregon, the school's former head women's golf coach was elevated to senior associate athletics director in 2002. She also has served as the school's senior woman administrator since 1999.

A recent inductee tothe National Golf Coaches Hall of Fame, Baumgartner oversees women's basketball, men's and women's tennis, men's and women's golf, women's lacrosse, and women's volleyball, among other programs.

As a golf coach, Baumgartner led the Ducks to three top-15 finishes at the NCAA championships in her final four seasons at the helm. She began her coaching career at Oregon in 1987 and coached through the 1993 season, guiding the team to its first NCAA tournament appearance in 1993. Afterwards, she served a two-year stint at her alma mater, the University of Southern California, before beginning her second tour of duty at Oregon in 1995.

She was a four-year letter-winner in golf at Southern California, graduating in 1987 with a degree in sports information/broadcast journalism. In 1989, she completed her master's degree requirements and in 1996 was awarded a Ph.D. from Oregon in educational administration.

Clark

Clark is in his fifth year as head of Furman's 17-sport athletics program. During that time, Furman teams have won 20 Southern Conference regular-season championships and 16 league tournament titles. Furman also has claimed three "Germann Cups," awarded annually to the league's top women's athletics program.

Clark's appointment as athletics director brought him full circle after first coming to Furman as a basketball player in the early 1970s and later returning in 1998 to serve as director of the Paladin Club, the school's athletics fund-raising organization. He added the title of associate athletics director for external affairs the following year.

A 1974 Furman graduate with a B.A. in history, Clark earned M.Ed. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of South Carolina, Columbia. He spent the next 23 years at Spartanburg Day School as a teacher, coach, and finally, headmaster, where he oversaw several successful enrollment and fund-raising campaigns.

During his time as a Furman undergraduate, Clark lettered three times as a member of the basketball team and played on two Southern Conference championship squads, one of which advanced to the NCAA tournament.

Dawson

In addition to being an associate AD at Virginia Commonwealth, Dawson also is the associate director of the school's Sports Center. In that role, he serves as a sport administrator, academic liaison and professor in the graduate sports management program.

Before coming to Virginia Commonwealth, he served as the AD at North Carolina Central University from 2000 to 2003. Before that, he was the chief operating officer with the National Consortium for Academics and Sports (NCAS) located at Disney's Wide World of Sports.

His career also includes a stint at North Carolina State University as the associate AD for student-athlete development. During that time, he directed ImPACK, a program focused on the total development of student-athletes as it related to academic, athletics, personal, career and leadership skills. The NCAA Division I-A Athletic Directors' Association recognized the ImPACK program with the distinction of Program of Excellence in 1997.

Dawson also served as the associate director of training and education at the Center for the Study of Sport in Society at Northeastern University from 1991 to 1994.

He was drafted by the New England Patriots in 1981 and became a 10-year starter in the NFL. Dawson, the 1987 recipient of the NFL's Ed Block Courage Award, was a key player with the American Football Conference Championship team of 1985 and participated in Super Bowl XX in 1986. In addition, he served as team chaplain for six years.

De Carolis

De Carolis became Oregon State's 12th athletics director in August 2002. He originally joined the staff in April 1998 as the associate athletics director of internal operations, and he was promoted to senior associate athletics director in July 1999.

De Carolis spearheaded the feasibility study for a plan that will expand and renovate Reser Stadium. The $80 million expansion project called "Raising Reser: Expanding Beaver Nation" is expected to be completed by for the 2005 football season, adding about 8,000 seats and bringing the stadium's capacity to 43,000.

De Carolis started his administrative career at the University of Michigan in 1979 as an administrative assistant. He was promoted to assistant business manager and head softball coach in 1980. By 1996 he was named senior associate athletics director and became responsible for all athletics facilities and venues at Michigan.

De Carolis is a 1976 graduate of Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania with a bachelor's degree in business education. He received a master's of science degree in sports management in 1979 from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. During his undergraduate days at Bloomsburg, he was a two-year letter-winner in football and baseball.

Jones

Jones, the senior woman administrator at Southern Illinois, supervises the Olympic sports programs at the school and oversees the units in the athletics department responsible for monitoring student-athlete welfare.

A Southern Illinois alumnae with more than 25 years of experience in intercollegiate athletics, Jones is in her fifth year at the school. She also oversees compliance and the student services areas, including academic counseling, the athletic training room and the strength and conditioning program.

Before coming to Southern Illinois, Jones spent 10 years as an attorney whose practice focused on NCAA compliance and infractions matters. Jones served three years as legal counsel to the board of the National Association of Collegiate Women Athletic Administrators (NACWAA). Her background also includes a nine-year stay at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, where she served first as an academic counselor for athletics and later as compliance coordinator.

Jones earned her bachelor's degree from Northwest Missouri State University in 1973 before receiving her master's degree from Southern Illinois in 1977. She earned a juris doctor degree from the William Mitchell College of Law in St. Paul, Minnesota, and was admitted to the Minnesota Bar in 1984.

Long

Long's career in intercollegiate athletics has spanned being a graduate assistant football coach to his current position as athletics director at Pittsburgh, a post he has held for two years.

As Pittsburgh's athletics director, he also was appointed to serve on the NCAA's Sports Wagering Task Force, a group formed after a national study commissioned by the NCAA revealed a disturbing frequency of sports wagering among student-athletes.

Before accepting the Pittsburgh post, Long oversaw external affairs at the University of Oklahoma in addition to being the primary administrator for football and men's basketball.

Before that, Long was the athletics director at Eastern Kentucky University for two years. He also served a short tenure at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University as associate athletics director. The majority of Long's career was spent at the University of Michigan. Hired by then-athletics director Bo Schembechler, Long elevated through a number of administrative posts at Michigan before ultimately reaching associate athletics director.

He has also held football coaching and administrative positions at Rice University, Duke University and North Carolina State University.

A 1982 graduate of Ohio Wesleyan University with a bachelor's degree in economics, Long earned seven varsity letters in football and baseball. He received his master's degree in education from Miami University (Ohio) in 1983 after serving as a graduate assistant football coach.

Nevarez

Nevarez began her tenure at the West Coast Conference in January 2002, directing the league's compliance efforts. She also serves as the contact for the women's basketball, baseball, and men's and women's soccer coaches.

Nevarez, who was named the conference's senior woman administrator in June 2004, also is the league contact for the conference's athletic trainers and compliance directors.

Before coming to the WCC office, Nevarez was an assistant athletics director for compliance and legal affairs at the University of California, Berkeley. There she managed the compliance efforts for all 29 varsity intercollegiate sports.

Nevarez has a juris doctor from California and is a graduate of the NCAA Fellows program. She also is in her fourth year as an adjunct faculty member for the University of San Francisco sport management master's program where she teaches sport law. Nevarez received her undergraduate degree from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where she played basketball.

Shoemake

Shoemake begins her second year as Texas State's associate AD for internal operations. She also serves as the school's senior woman administrator.

Shoemake oversees academics, compliance, student-athlete development, the athletic training program, strength and conditioning, video and equipment. She also is responsible for the administration of Texas State's track and field, cross country and women's tennis programs.

Shoemake joined the Texas State staff from the America East Conference where she had served as the assistant commissioner for compliance since 1997. She also was the league administrator for various championships, including men's basketball.

She handled compliance for two years at Northeastern University before joining the America East staff. From 1991 to 1995, Shoemake worked at the University of Houston, the first three years in athletics academic counseling and the last in compliance.

A 1990 graduate of the University of Texas at Austin with a bachelor's degree in liberal arts, Shoemake earned her master's degree in sports administration from Houston in 1993.

Watson

Watson was named to replace long-time Pepperdine Athletics Director Wayne Wright in May 1998. For the last two years, Pepperdine athletics teams have won the West Coast Conference Commissioner's Cup, an all-sports award presented at the end of each academic year to the league's top-performing school in conference play.

Watson had 11 years of prior experience in Pepperdine's athletics department, and he was involved in the university increasing the number of women's sports, promoting the overall program and representing the university at the NCAA and WCC levels. Watson served as Pepperdine's institutional representative to the NCAA from 1984 to 1992, and he was a member of the WCC's executive committee from 1987 to 1992. He was named Pepperdine's faculty athletics representative in 1995.

He began his professional career at Pepperdine in 1973, and in 1980 was named acting dean of the university's School of Professional Studies.

Watson earned his bachelor's degree in political science from Pepperdine in 1972 and a master's degree in teaching from the university in 1975. He completed work for a doctorate degree in education from UCLA in 1984.