Three new members have been elected to serve on the Division II Management Council.

They are David Riggins, athletics director at Mars Hill College, South Atlantic Conference; Laure Smith, senior woman administrator at the University of Nebraska at Kearney, Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference; and Glenn Stokes, faculty athletics representative at Columbus State University, Peach Belt Conference. They replace Ross Brummett, Joan McDermott and Richard Gropper, respectively.

Riggins

Riggins has been athletics director at Mars Hill since 1999. He began his career at Mars Hill in 1986 as men's basketball coach and remained in that capacity until becoming athletics director. He also served as assistant athletics director beginning in 1993.

He has been active on NCAA committees, most recently serving as chair of the Division II Championships Eligibility Project Team. He was a member of the Division II Championships Committee from 1999 to 2004, served on the Membership Review Project Team in 2000, and currently serves as a member of the NCAA Playing Rules Oversight Panel. He also chaired the South Atlantic Conference's Athletics Director Council from 2002 to 2004.

Before joining Mars Hill, Riggins was a high-school basketball coach in South Carolina.

He has bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of South Carolina, Columbia.

Smith

Smith has been associate athletics director for compliance at Nebraska-Kearney since 1999. In that role, Smith manages all aspects of the rules compliance program, has some sports-management duties, oversees student-athlete services and serves on a number of institutional and conference committees.

She was a member of the Division II Women's Basketball Committee for the 2002-03 and 2003-04 seasons.

Before joining Nebraska-Kearney, Smith was assistant commissioner for compliance and operations at the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference. She served in that role from 1995 to 1999.

Smith has a bachelor's degree from Nebraska-Kearney, where she was a member of the women's basketball team and the campus student-athlete advisory committee. She also holds a master's degree from Nebraska-Kearney.

Stokes

Stokes became faculty athletics representative at Columbus State in 1993 and has served in that role since.

He has been active in Peach Belt Conference affairs and has served two terms as chair of the conference's faculty athletics representative committee. He also served two terms on the Peach Belt's strategic advisory committee.

Stokes is in his second term on the Division II Membership Committee, currently serving as vice-chair.

Stokes is a professor of biology. He joined Columbus State in 1983, and over the last 20 years, he has held a number of interim roles, including chair of nursing, chair of psychology and sociology, director of environmental science and dean of the college of science. He also is associate dean for the college of science.

He was selected as the university's educator of the year in 2000.

Stokes earned his bachelor's degree in zoology from the University of Rhode Island and his Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University.