DeSales chooses Guarino as head coachs

 DeSales has named Mary Guarino as head women's soccer coach.

Guarino spent two years as an assistant coach at Boston College. She also served as an assistant at William Smith for one year. For the past year, Guarino has worked as top assistant at West Chester.

A 2000 graduate of Boston College with a bachelor of science degree in marketing, Guarino contributed 33 goals and 21 (87 points) and earned all-Big East Conference second-team honors as a member of the Eagles' soccer team. She continued to play soccer professionally with the Boston Renegades of the W-League. Guarino also competed with the Rochester Reign and Steel City Sparks of the semi-pro Women's Premier Soccer League.

TRANSACTIONS

Directors of athletics

Steve Yianoukos was promoted to director of athletics at Clarkson to replace Sean T. Frazier. Yianoukos has been an associate athletics director at the school since 1997 ... Janet Lucas was announced as interim athletics director at Cal State Northridge. Lucas, senior associate athletics director and senior woman administrator at the school, succeeds Dick Dull, who became executive director of development for athletics facilities at Cal State Northridge ... Duquesne appointed Greg Amodio as director of athletics. Amodio has been associate athletics director for marketing at Xavier ... Oberlin selected Joe Karlgaard as interim athletics director. Karlgaard, who takes over for Vin Lananna, has been assistant athletics director for external affairs and media relations ... Becker announced Craig S. Barnett as director of athletics and head men's ice hockey coach. The ice hockey program is scheduled to begin varsity competition in 2006. Barnett formerly has been head coach at Findlay and an assistant coach at Kent State and Mercyhurst ... Herb Deromedi, director of athletics at Central Michigan, announced his retirement, effective January 15. Deromedi joined the school as an assistant footbll coach in 1967, formerly spent 16 years as head football coach and has been in charge of the athletics department since 1994.

Associate directors of athletics

UC San Diego elevated Mike Matoso to senior associate athletics director and promoted Shaney Fink to associate athletics director for compliance and student services. Matoso has been with the school for seven years and most recently has been associate athletics director for compliance and administration since 2003. Fink, who also will serve as senior woman administrator, has been with the school for seven years, most recently as assistant director of athletics for academics and student services ... Rosalyn Dunlap was tabbed as associate athletics director for compliance at Florida A&M. Dunlap formerly was director of compliance at Missouri. She also served as associate director for the National Consortium for Academics and Sports from 1998 to 2003 ... Scott Barnes was appointed senior associate athletics director for advancement at Washington. Barnes has been the athletics director at Eastern Washington since 1999 ... Matt Fenley was elevated to associate athletics director for compliance and student services at Stephen F. Austin ... Illinois State hired Randy Welniak as senior associate athletics director for external operations. Welniak has been associate athletics director for external operations at Fresno State for the past three years.

Assistant directors of athletics

Manhattanville elevated Julene Fisher to assistant athletics director. For the past three years, Fisher has served as an assistant sports information director ... Michelle Meadows accepted responsibilities as assistant athletics director for compliance at Longwood. Meadows has been assistant compliance director at Virginia Commonwealth since 2003 ... Mount Ida announced Mike Raposo as assistant athletics director and sports information director. For the past year, Raposo has been an assistant sports information director at Franklin Pierce ... Vicki Fredrickson was elevated to assistant athletics director at Saint Leo ... Stephen F. Austin promoted Rob Meyers to assistant athletics director for business affairs ... Robb Vessely was named as assistant athletics director for facilities and operations at Illinois State. For the past two years, Vessely has been assistant athletics director for facility and event management at Valparaiso ... Kelly O'Connell resigned as assistant athletics director, head softball coach and head women's basketball coach at Becker ... Texas-Pan American hired Rene Cantu as assistant athletics director for development, effective September 1. Cantu has been a procurement specialist with the South Texas Minority Business Opportunity Committee since 2003 ... Sherryta Freeman was hired as assistant athletics director for compliance at Temple. Freeman has been assistant athletics director for compliance at Dartmouth since 2004.

Coaches

Baseball ­ Guilford hired Nick Black as head coach to replace Gene Baker. Black has been an assistant with the program for the past three seasons ... Bryant named Jamie Pinzino as head coach to replace John Sjogren. Pinzino formerly was head coach at Assumption ... Jan Weisberg accepted responsibilities as head coach at Transylvania. Since 1993, Weisberg, who replaces Shayne Stock, has been an assistant coach at Kentucky.

Baseball assistants ­ Johnny Cardenas and Chris Connally were added as assistant coaches at Stephen F. Austin ... North Carolina-Greensboro chose Shane Schumaker and Sammy Serrano as assistant coaches. Since 2001, Schumaker has been head assistant coach at El Camino Junior College and Serrano formerly was a student assistant at Stetson.

Men's basketball ­ West Virginia Wesleyan selected Bill Lilly as head coach. For the past three seasons, Lilly has worked as director of men's basketball operations at West Virginia ... Felician appointed Del Harrison as head coach.

Men's basketball assistants ­ Michael Huger was added as an assistant coach at Longwood. For the past 12 years, Huger has played professionally in Europe ... Texas State named Charlie Fenske as an assistant coach. During the 2004-05 season, Fenske was an assistant at Lamar ... Michael Grant was selected as an assistant coach at Toledo. Grant, who replaces James Stafford, has completed head coaching tenures at Southern and Central State (Ohio) ... Rochester elevated Tim Sweeney to full-time assistant coach and tabbed Chris Fite as an assistant coach. Sweeney, who takes over for Ben Keegan, has been a part-time assistant coach with the program for two seasons. Fite was an assistant coach at St. Vincent College last season ... Mike Borek and Chuck Patterson were named as assistant coaches at Becker ... Trinity (Texas) tabbed Chris Hill as an assistant ... Michael Mitchell was chosen as director of basketball operations at UC Riverside. For the past 14 years, Mitchell has played professionally in Australia, Germany, France and Ireland ... Duquesne chose Glenn Gutierrez as coordinator of men's basketball operations and named Rodney Perry as an assistant coach. Gutierrez has been an assistant coach at Eastern Michigan for five seasons and Perry, who replaces John Mahoney, has been operations coordinator at the school for the past two seasons.

Women's basketball ­ Andrea Preston was hired as head women's basketball coach and head women's tennis coach at Clarkson. Preston, who succeeds Ann Parks, spent the 2004-05 season in an administrative position with the WNBA's Minnesota Lynx ... Cal State Northridge tabbed Staci Schulz as head coach to replace Tammy Holder. Schulz has been an assistant with the school for three years and has been acting head coach since June ... Candace Crabtree was appointed as head women's basketball coach and senior woman administrator at Mount Ida. Crabtree was an assistant coach at William and Mary for two years ... Beloit awarded head coaching duties to Don Adams. Adams has been an assistant at Maine for the past two seasons ... Jim Reed was hired as head women's basketball coach and head women's golf coach to succeed Liz Cranmer Briggs, who became head women's basketball coach at Merrimack. Reed has served as head women's basketball coach at Wilkes since 2001 ... Michael Guidone was selected as head coach at NYIT to succeed Joe Hennie. Guidone has been an assistant men's basketball coach at Briarcliffe and formerly was head women's basketball coach at Molloy ... Andrew Francis resigned as head coach at Mount St. Vincent to join the men's basketball staff at Villanova ... Lenoir-Rhyne elevated Todd Starkey to head coach to succeed Karen Barefoot, who became an assistant coach at Old Dominion. Starkey, who has spent two seasons as an assistant men's basketball coach at the school, most recently has been acting head women's basketball coach.

Women's basketball assistants ­ Shannon Sword was selected as an assistant coach at Manhattanville ... Longwood chose Jenerrie Everette as an assistant coach. Everette, who succeeds Usha Gilmore, was a varsity assistant coach at Northland (Ohio) High School during the 2004-05 season ... Morgan Valley was added as an assistant at Holy Cross ... James Madison chose Nathan Hale as director of operations. Last season, Hale worked as an assistant men's coach at Bridgewater (Virginia) ... Taren Martin was selected as director of basketball operations at Illinois State ... Mount St. Vincent tabbed Jackie Cullen as an assistant coach ... Laura Skeen was named as an assistant at Trinity (Texas) ... Wisconsin-Whitewater chose Amy Zellinger as an assistant coach. Most recently, Zellinger has been an graduate assistant with the program ... Mount St. Mary's selected Robbie Turner as an assistant coach. Turner, who replaces Marlin Chinn, has been an assistant at St. Andrews Presbyterian for two seasons ... Krista Kilburn-Steveskey was promoted to associate head coach at James Madison. Kilburn-Steveskey has been with the program since 2003 ... Ball State elevated Lisa McDonald to associate head coach, hired Mike Geary as an assistant coach and appointed Monique Govan as director of basketball operations. McDonald enters her fifth season with the Cardinals and Geary has compiled a record of 370-123 as head coach at Northern Michigan since 1988. Govan, who takes over for Heather Cusick, is a 2005 graduate of Massachusetts-Amherst, where she was a four-year letter-winner and tri-captain of the women's basketball team.

Bowling ­ Jonathon Koltz was named as head coach at Wisconsin-Whitewater. Most recently, Koltz has been in sales at Weber Bowling and Awards in Wisconsin.

Men's and women's cross country ­ Steve Eles was hired as head men's and women's cross country and track and field coach at Lake Superior State. Eles, who replaces Drew Ludtke, has been a graduate assistant at Tiffin for the past two seasons ... Mount Ida selected Shaun Harrington as head women's coach. Since 2003, Harrington has worked as athletics director at Wellbridge Athletic Club in Massachusetts ... Bates named Jennifer "Jay" Hartshorn as head women's cross country and track and field coach. Hartshorn, top assistant coach at Syracuse since 2001, takes over for Sally Hirsch ... Cortland State appointed Matthew Moran as head men's and women's coach. Moran, who formerly was a volunteer assistant at Penn State from 2000 to 2004, succeeds Jack Daniels ... Stefanie Scalessa accepted additional responsibilities as head men's and women's cross country coach at Temple. The programs are scheduled to begin varsity competition this season. Scalessa has been head men's and women's track and field coach for two years.

Men's and women's cross country assistants ­ Danielle Hobson assumed duties as assistant men's and women's cross country and track and field coach at Bucknell. For the past two seasons, Hobson has been an assistant at Army ... Cal State Los Angeles chose Gretchen Corrales as an assistant cross country and track and field coach. Corrales has been an assistant at Los Angeles (California) Community College.

Football ­ Ed DeGeorge announced plans to retire as head coach at Beloit, effective at the end of the 2005 season. DeGeorge has been in charge of the program since 1977 and formerly was defensive coordinator and linebackers coach at Colorado College.

Football assistants ­ West Virginia Wesleyan added John Pennington as wide receivers coach, Mike Counahan as secondary coach, Trent Linville as defensive line coach and Del Smith as student assistant linebackers coach ... Mark Hargis accepted duties as wide receivers coach at Guilford. Most recently, Hargis has been offensive coordinator and associate head coach with the Elancourt Templiers of the French Premier League ... Tulane chose Dennis Polian as director of football operations. Polian has been assistant athletics director for special projects and director of football operations at Columbia for the past year ... Darryl Franklin was named as a graduate assistant for the defense at Central Michigan. For the past five years, Franklin has been a student assistant coach at Missouri ... McMurry added Jack Abendschan as offensive line coach, Jim Edwards as defensive line coach, Meredith Hamilton as wide receivers coach, Larry Parker as linebackers coach, Scott Stewart as defensive backs coach and Eric Davis as intern coach for running backs. The school also announced the resignations of Joel Baker, offensive coordinator and receivers coach, and Tommy Sauceda, assistant head coach and defensive line coach. In addition, Mike Patterson will move to offensive coordinator and Donny Gray will take over as quarterbacks coach. Patterson has been offensive line coach and Gray has been special teams coordinator and linebackers coach ... Thaddaeus Ward was tabbed as running backs coach at Western Illinois ... Becker added Marc Groccia, George Guffey, Todd Roberts and Mike Stubijlar as assistant coaches ... Casey Horny, Jason Guthrie and Burt Stuart were chosen as assistants at Trinity (Texas) ... Moravian announced Andy Cerco as running backs coach, Drew DiGiacinto as tight ends coach and assistant offensive line coach and Jafar Williams as wide receivers coach.

Men's and women's golf ­ Wartburg named Ted Reuter as head men's coach. Reuter, a professor of music history and piano literature at the school, succeeds Oliver Drake, who will serve as head women's golf coach at Wartburg ... McNeese State selected Neel DeRouen as head men's coach ... Scott Statler resigned as head men's and women's coach at Pittsburgh-Greensburg. Statler has been head men's coach since 1996 and has been in charge of the women's program since 2000.

Men's and women's golf assistant ­ Marv Ott was named as an assistant men's coach at Wartburg.

Men's and women's gymnastics ­ Ball State hired Lisa Woody Simonton as head coach. Simonton, who takes over for the retired Mary Roth, has spent the past six years as head women's coach at Air Force.

Men's and women's ice hockey ­ Jim Roque was promoted to head men's coach at Lake Superior State. Roque succeeds Frank Anzalone.

Men's and women's ice hockey assistants ­ Manhattanville chose Scott Gordon as an assistant men's coach ... Joe Exter was named as an assistant coach at American International. Exter, who replaces Bobby Ferraris, has been playing with the Wheeling (West Virginia) Nailers, an affiliate of the NHL's Pittsburgh Penguins in the East Coast Hockey League ... Saint Michael's promoted Anne Blair to full-time assistant women's coach. Blair has been a part-time assistant for three seasons.

Men's and women's lacrosse ­ Dominican (New York) appointed Nick Ballou as head men's coach to succeed the retiring Dale Abeling. Ballou has been an assistant coach at Geneseo State ... Terry Corcoran was chosen as head men's coach at Elizabethtown. Corcoran has been the men's coach at Skidmore since 1996, and before that he coached at Washington (Maryland) ... Kenneth S. Cameron Jr. accepted responsibilities as head men's lacrosse coach at Becker. The program is scheduled to begin varsity play in March of next year. Cameron has been head women's soccer coach at the school, but will relinquish those duties ... Bowen Holden was named as head women's coach at Boston College. Since 2004, Holden has been associate head coach at Georgetown, where she also spent three years as an assistant coach.

Men's and women's lacrosse assistants ­ James Madison added Lisa Staedt and Matt Lawicki as assistant women's coaches. Staedt was an assistant at Virginia Tech for two years and Lawicki has been an assistant at Davidson.

Men's soccer assistants ­ Fred Jungemann was chosen as an assistant men's and women's coach at Cal State Los Angeles. From 2002 to 2004, Jungemann was an assistant men's soccer coach at Sonoma State ... Trinity (Texas) selected Chris Garcia-Prats as men's and women's assistant coach ... Charles Wood was appointed as an assistant coach at Bernard Baruch.

Women's soccer ­ Matt Paton was hired as head coach at Manhattanville. For the past three seasons, Paton has worked as an assistant at Nevada ... West Virginia Wesleyan tabbed Glenn Francis as head women's soccer coach. Francis has been an assistant men's soccer coach at the school for the past two seasons ... Bill Laporte was tabbed as head coach at Becker

Women's soccer assistants ­ Ariane Heighton was added as an assistant women's soccer coach and athletics department intern at Albion ... Keene State selected Michelle Mason as an assistant coach. Mason recently concluded her career as a goalkeeper with the school's soccer team as the career leader for wins (66), saves (437) and shutouts (43). She also finished as the all-time leading scorer for the lacrosse squad with 202 goals and 284 points ... Jim Schneiderhahn was hired as goalkeepers coach at Tulane. Schneiderhahn has been head coach at Benedictine (Kansas) for the past four seasons ... James Madison named Whitney Paynter Sajko as an assistant coach.

Softball ­ Southern Arkansas selected Jamie Madewell as head coach to replace Jenifer Pagani, who resigned. Madewell has been an assistant at Delta State for the past two seasons ... Mike Perniciaro was chosen as head coach at Wichita State. Formerly an assistant coach at Auburn, Perniciaro spent the 2005 season as head coach at Northwestern State ... NYIT hired Kristen Bakalar as head coach. For the past year, Bakalar has served as athletics director at Briarcliffe.

Softball assistants ­ Sara Vogt was
named as an assistant coach at Wichita State. Vogt most recently has been an assistant coach at Northwestern State ... Claudia Lopez was tabbed as an assistant coach at Angelo State. Lopez, who replaces Brent Shaw, was a student assistant coach at the school last season ... North Carolina-Greensboro named Holly Burris as an assistant coach. Burris has been an assistant coach at Houston (Tennessee) High School.

Men's and women's swimming and diving ­ Mark Gole accepted responsibilities as head men's and women's coach at Truman. Since 2000, Gole has been an assistant coach at Wayne State (Michigan).

Men's and women's tennis ­ Lake Superior State selected Charles Drury as head coach. Drury formerly coached at Northern Michigan from 1979 to 1981 ... Northern Colorado elevated Brenda Vlasak to head men's and women's coach. Vlasak has been head women's coach at the school ... Bill Brahler was tabbed as head men's and women's coach at Union (New York). Brahler has been an assistant with the program since 1994 ... Northern Arizona selected Dean Owen as head men's coach and Kim Bruno as head women's coach. Owen has been an assistant men's and women's coach at Boise State and formerly was head men's coach at Montana State. For the past two years, Bruno has been a graduate assistant men's and women's coach at Connecticut ... Frank Fanning was appointed as head men's and women's coach at Mount St. Vincent ... Muhlenberg tabbed Jeff Schmitt as head men's coach. Schmitt, who has been a tennis professional at Oakmont Tennis Club since 1994, succeds George Henry ... Jing "Amy" Sun was chosen as head women's coach at Ferris State to replace Dave Ramos, who became head men's tennis coach at the school. Sun was an assistant women's coach at Brigham Young-Hawaii during the 2004-05 season.

Men's and women's tennis assistant ­ Trinity (Texas) added Ryan Takao as an assistant women's coach.

Men's and women's track and field ­ Simpson appointed David Cleveland as head men's and women's coach. Cleveland, who succeeds Wayne Stacy, has been head boys' track coach at the high-school level since 1994.

Men's and women's track and field assistant ­ Ziggy Szelagowicz was tabbed as an assistant men's and women's coach at Trinity (Texas).

Men's and women's volleyball ­ Carol Munger was appointed as head coach at Clarkson. Munger has played professionally in the National French League since 2003 ... Central State (Ohio) named Shirley Austin-Cummins as head men's and women's coach. Austin-Cummins formerly was head girls' coach at Yellow Springs (Ohio) High School ... Craig Letourneau accepted responsibilities as head women's volleyball coach and assistant women's basketball coach at Rhode Island College ... Michelle Kreeger was promoted to head volleyball coach and compliance coordinator at Franklin Pierce. Kreeger, who also has been an assistant women's lacrosse coach at the school, takes over the volleyball program for Jayson King, who will concentrate on the baseball program and serve as athletics facilities coordinator ... Becker elevated Chelsea Clyburn to head coach. Last season, Clyburn was an assistant with the program.

Men's and women's volleyball assistants ­ Guilford announced Trevor Hewitt as an assistant coach. Hewitt has been head boys' and girls' coach at McKean (Delaware) High School ... Ladi Iya was hired as an assistant at Buffalo. For the past year, Iya has been an assistant coach at Nicholls State ... Rhode Island College added Holly Hummel as an assistant women's coach. Hummel has been coaching at the high-school level since 2000 ... April Fricke accepted duties as an assistant coach at Trinity (Texas) ... Wisconsin-Whitewater named Vanessa Walby as an assistant women's coach. Walby has been a graduate assistant coach with the school ... Alison Archambault and Michelle DeCoursey were added as assistant women's coaches at Russell Sage.

Men's and women's water polo assistant ­ San Jose State selected Fana Fuqua as an assistant women's coach. Fuqua has been a member of the U.S. National Team since 2000 and has played in Australia for three years.

Wrestling ­ Larry "Zeke" Jones was hired as head coach at Pennsylvania. For the past seven seasons, Jones, who served as the head coach of the 2004 U.S. Olympic freestyle wrestling team, has been an assistant coach at West Viriginia.

Staff

Academic services ­ Mark McGreevy assumed responsibilities as academic coordinator at UC Riverside. McGreevy has been a graduate intern in compliance at the school and formerly spent two years as director of compliance and sports information director at St. Martin's ... Northern Colorado named Scott Swain as director of student-athlete academic support. For the past two years, Swain has been assistant director for academics and eligibility for athletics at Colorado.

Administrative ­ Jaime Elliot was selected as assistant to the athletics director at Mount Ida ... Lehigh promoted Julie Oltman to director of sports camps and emerging technologies. Oltman has been in charge of summer camps at the school for the past three years.

Athletic trainers ­ Central State (Ohio) announced LaShaunta Jones as athletic trainer ... Brian DeMaine and Rachel Johnson were named as athletic trainers at St. Cloud State ... Paul Krumholz was appointed as head athletic trainer at Mount St. Vincent. Krumholz was an assistant athletic trainer at Dowling ... Bryant promoted Patrick O'Sullivan to head athletic trainer. O'Sullivan enters his fifth year at the school.

Assistant athletic trainers ­ Greta Schutte was chosen as an assistant athletic trainer and clinical instructor at Albion ... Adams State added Andrew Johnson and Meagan Loesche as graduate assistant athletic trainers ... Jon Thompson was selected as an assistant athletic trainer at Shenandoah. For the past four years, Thompson has been an assistant athletic trainer at William & Mary ... Melanie Gran was elevated to assistant athletic trainer at Bryant. Gran, who has been with the school for four years, was a resident assistant athletic training intern ... Heidi Von Arx was tabbed as an assistant athletic trainer at UC Riverside. For the past two years, Von Arx has been a graduate assistant athletic trainer at Oklahoma State ... Tennessee Tech named Chris Clifford as an assistant athletic trainer.

Compliance ­ Cal State Northridge named Kevin Zihlman as director of compliance. Zihlman, who replaces Darryl Pope, has been a graduate assistant with the athletics student services/compliance office at Iowa.

Compliance assistants ­ Nick Ojea was hired as assistant director of compliance at Marshall. Ojea, who formerly was a compliance intern at Louisville, succeeds Andy Louthain ... Nicole Lee, formerly a compliance graduate assistant at Marshall, was chosen as assistant compliance director at James Madison ... Ohio selected Derek Gwinn as a compliance assistant. Gwinn has been a compliance graduate assistant at Marshall ... Elon appointed Catherine Walker as assistant director of compliance. Most recently, Walker has worked as a graduate assistant for compliance at Campbell.

Development ­ Wartburg selected Steve Walker as director of athletics development. Walker has been annual fund director for the college ... Saint Louis elevated Margo Lubus to director of annual giving and events. Lubus has been administrative assistant for the Billiken Club for nine years ... Doug Knuth was selected as director of development for athletics at Utah. For the past five years, Knuth has been at Michigan State, where he most recently has served as associate director of development for athletics.

Equipment manager ­ Southern New Hampshire announced Christopher Foss as equipment/assistant facilities manager. Foss is a 2005 graduate of the school and has been a student assistant with the athletics department for three years ... Lehigh elevated Tyler Osler to director of equipment and merchandising operations. Osler has been with the school for 11 seasons.

Operations assistant ­ Pat Yannarelli accepted additional responsibilities as athletics assistant for operations and facilities at Mount St. Vincent. Yannarelli will continue as head men's lacrosse coach at the school.

Sports information ­ Brendan Krowka was named as sports information director at West Virginia Wesleyan ... James Dixon was promoted to sports information director at Stephen F. Austin ... St. John's (Minnesota) named Celest Stang as sports information director. For the past two years, Stang has worked as a graduate assistant in the St. Cloud State athletics media relations office ... Bettiann M. Michalik was named as sports information director at Becker ... Lehigh elevated Jeff Tourial to director of broadcasting and multimedia. Tourial has been director of media relations for the past three years ... Kyle C. Leach was appointed as sports information director at Swarthmore, effective September 1. Leach, who most recently has been interim sports information director at the school, was a sports information intern and an assistant women's basketball coach at the school for two years.

Sports information assistants ­ Eric Safarik was hired as assistant sports information director at Manhattanville ... James Ybiernas was promoted to assistant athletics media relations director at Cal State Northridge. Ybiernas has been a sports information intern with the school for the past four years ... West Virginia Wesleyan tabbed Hailey Nobel as an assistant sports information director... Alan Ashby was promoted to associate sports information director at Cleveland State. Since 1999, Ashby has been assistant sports information director at the school ... Geoff Goyne was chosen as assistant sports information director at Mercyhurst ... Angelo State tabbed Matt Thomas as assistant sports information director to replace Drew Lacy. Thomas has been a sports information graduate assistant at Wichita State ... Trinity (Texas) appointed Josh Moczygemba as coordinator of event management and assistant sports information director ... Jack Holleran was selected as assistant director of athletics communication at Hobart and William Smith.

Strength and conditioning ­ Lee Munger was hired as strength and conditioning coach at Wisconsin-Whitewater. Since 2002, Munger has been head strength and conditioning coach at South Dakota State.

Strength and conditioning assistant ­ Kelly Wise accepted responsibilities as assistant strength and conditioning coach at Manhattanville.

Ticketing services ­ Rich Haas was promoted to director of ticket sales and event marketing at Lehigh. For the past four years, Haas has worked as director of ticket operations.

Conferences

Matt Troha was named as sports information director for the Midwest Conference. Troha most recently has been serving as media relations assistant at Mid-Continent Conference ... The New York Collegiate Athletic Conference named Jerry Milani as associate commissioner for media relations. Milani is an account supervisor at Worldwide Marketing and Media Group ... The Sunshine State Conference announced Ann Walker as assistant to the commissioner. Walker has been with Minnesota State Mankato since 1998 and most recently has served as assistant athletics director ... The Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association announced Brenda Blessing, faculty athletics representative at Missouri Western State, as president; Kathy Anderson, assistant athletics director at Northwest Missouri State, as vice-president; and Jerry Wollmering, athletics director at Truman State, as secretary-treasurer, of the league's Institutional Representatives Council. Named as officers to the conference's Chief Executive Officers Council were Tom Bryant, president at Pittsburg State, chair; Jerry Farley, president at Washburn, vice-chair; and Barbara Dixon, president at Truman State, secretary ... Kaitlyn Cerco was appointed as sport management and compliance assistant and Nick Nagel was selected as media relations assistant at the Patriot League.

Corrections

A story about actions taken by the Men's and Women's Swimming and Diving Committee in the August 15 issue of The NCAA News misidentified committee Chair John Lyons as the head swimming coach at La Salle University. Lyons formerly was the swimming coach at La Salle but is now an associate athletics director at the school.

DEATHS

Nancy Bottge, head women's softball coach at Florida Tech, died August 8. She was 48. Bottge spent 11 seasons in charge of the program at Florida Tech and also served as head coach at Bloomfield for 10 years. She compiled a career record of 501-314-2.

Jessica Hanson and Adam Bacon, student-athletes at Loyola Marymount, died in a car accident August 5. Hanson, a member of the women's soccer squad, and Bacon, a men's cross country student-athlete, were entering their senior seasons.

Former Penn State assistant football coach Jim O'Hora died August 5. He was 90. O'Hora, a member of the Nittany Lions coaching staff for 31 years, joined the program as a full-time assistant in 1946. A part of the 1968 and 1969 unbeaten teams that captured consecutive Orange Bowl wins, he served as a line coach, defensive coordinator and assistant head coach during his tenure. O'Hora also was a three-time letter-winner at center for Penn State from 1933 to 1935.

Susquehanna cross country and track and field student-athlete Justin Miller died July 17 in a drowning accident. He was 20. Miller had turned in the sixth best time in school history in the 1,500 meters (outdoor) and the seventh-best indoor time in March and February, respectively, of this year.

Former Franklin Pierce basketball student-athlete Kevin Scott died of cancer August 9. Scott, 26, was a four-year letter-winner for the Ravens. The 2001-02 all-Northeast-10 Conference selection ranked 22nd in program history in career points (1,181), seventh in career rebounds (693) and fourth in blocked shots (138).

Former Colorado track and field student-athlete Gil Cruter died recently at the age of 90. Cruter, one of the first two African-American varsity student-athletes at Colorado, set world records in the high jump in 1936 and 1938 as a member of the school's track and field squad. He also was a member of the U.S. track and field squads that tourned Europe in the late 1930s and was selected as an alternate on the 1936 U.S. Olympic Team. In addition, Cruter coached track and served as director of health and physical education at Southern.

--Compiled by Leilana McKindra