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Feb 19, 2010 11:20:08 AM

Marilyn McNeil, vice president/director of athletics at Monmouth University, will serve as chair of the NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Committee during the 2010-11 academic year. 

McNeil's term as chair will begin September 1. Currently serving her fourth year as a member of the committee, she will succeed Jane Meyer, senior associate director of athletics at the University of Iowa, who is serving as chair of the committee for 2009-10.

"Marilyn's experience as a player, coach, administrator and committee member has allowed her to be an advocate for the game and its student-athletes for many years," said Sue Donohoe, NCAA vice president for Division I women's basketball. "As a senior member of the committee, she has been and will continue to be involved in many critical decisions regarding the championship and key women's basketball initiatives."

McNeil was named the AD at Monmouth in 1994 and was recently named a vice president of the university.

She is a former member of the NCAA Division I Committee on Women's Athletics and the Management Council and also served as president of the National Association of Collegiate Women Athletics Administrators. In 2001, McNeil was honored as the NACWAA Division I Administrator of the Year.

A native of Canada, McNeil arrived at Monmouth from California Polytechnic State University, where she served as head women's basketball coach, associate athletics director and senior woman administrator from 1979 to 1994.

She earned her bachelor's degree in physical education from the University of Calgary in 1968. She continued her education at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, where she earned a master's degree in physical education in 1974. She completed her formal education in 1993 after receiving a doctoral degree in higher education administration from Washington State University.

As an undergraduate at Calgary, McNeil was a member of both the women's basketball and volleyball teams. She was also a member of the Canadian National Championship Curling team and competed in the first World Curling Championships.  She served as head coach of women's basketball at Calgary from 1975-79 and was honored as the Canadian Coach of the Year in 1979.