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The NCAA News - The NCAA RecordMay 20, 1996Calendar
Washington appoints basketball coachJune Daugherty has been chosen as head women's basketball coach at Washington, replacing Chris Gobrecht, who recently was hired at Florida State.Daugherty has been head coach at Boise State for the past seven years, compiling a 123-74 overall record and a 73-31 record in the Big Sky Conference. Under Daugherty's guidance, the Boise State program achieved a number of firsts -- its first NCAA tournament bid, a national ranking and a regular-season conference title. At the conclusion of the 1993-94 season, Daugherty was named Big Sky cocoach of the year. Before her appointment at Boise State, Daugherty was an assistant coach at Stanford from 1985 to 1989 and an assistant at Kent from 1983 to 1985. She played at Ohio State in 1977 and 1978 and later played on and coached several international teams. The first assistant coach hired by Daugherty is Mike Daugherty, her husband and an assistant coach at Boise State. He also is an Ohio State graduate and was a player/coach in South America.
GENERALCHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICERS Gonzaga selected the Rev. Edward Glynn as president. He leads the Maryland Province of the Society of Jesus ... Illinois State's new president is David Strand, currently the university's interim president. He was appointed to a three-year term ... James Garland appointed president at Miami (Ohio). He was executive dean of the Colleges of Arts and Sciences and dean of the College of Mathematical and Physical Sciences at Ohio State ... Albany (New York) selected Karen R. Hitchcock as president. She was interim president ... Roger Bowen selected as president of New Paltz State. He was vice-president of academic affairs at Hollins ... Muriel Moore appointed at Buffalo State, where she was interim president ... John Buechner selected as president at Colorado, where he was interim president. DIRECTORS OF ATHLETICS Larry Naifeh, who has been Oklahoma's NCAA compliance officer since 1991, named interim AD ... Westfield State selected Kenneth Magarian as athletics director. He has been acting AD since June and has served the athletics department in various capacities -- including women's softball coach, assistant AD and director of intramural/recreation sports -- since arriving at the school as a student in 1968 ... Richard Whitmore given additional duties as AD at Daniel Webster, replacing Phil Rowe, who became head men's basketball coach at Keene State. Whitmore will continue as men's basketball coach.
ASSOCIATE DIRECTORS Jason Lewis, assistant athletics director at Arkansas State, hired as associate AD/business manager at New Mexico State, succeeding Angela Throneberry. Lewis handled internal affairs and budget preparation and mangement at Arkansas State as well as athletics facilities and scheduling. Before that, he was athletics assistant for business and marketing and women's tennis coach at St. Mary's (California) ... Brian Fogarty, head football coach at San Diego, named associate director of athletics for development at the school. He succeeds Ky Snyder, who became executive director of the San Diego International Sports Council ... Judy McMullen appointed associate director of physical education and athletics at Lewis and Clark, where she will be senior woman administrator. McMullen was head women's basketball coach at the school but resigned in April.
ASSISTANT DIRECTORS Charlie Wright named assistant athletics director for marketing and promotions at UC Irvine. He rejoins the staff at the school, where he was administrative and sports marketing assistant in 1993. Wright has been coordinator of corporate sales at UNLV for the past two years ... Brian Good, head men's basketball coach at Milwaukee School of Engineering, given additional duties as assistant AD. Good will coordinate athletics recruiting, monitor academic retention and oversee student-athlete academic progress ... Vanderbilt announced the promotion of Rod Williamson from sports information director to assistant AD for media relations ... Terry Prouty promoted to assistant AD at Daniel Webster. She will retain her coaching responsibilities and her duties as senior woman administrator ... Scott Cathcart, assistant athletics director/media relations at Long Beach State for the past three years, joined the athletics administration staff at Temple. Assistant sports information director Tony Gervase will replace Cathcart at Long Beach State on an interim basis. COACHES BASEBALL--John Griffith named to head the baseball program at Daniel Webster. He has been a coach and administrator in the school's athletics department since 1995. MEN'S BASKETBALL--New Orleans head coach Tic Price signed a new five-year contract through the 2000-01 season. Price has compiled a 41-20 record since his promotion to head coach in 1994 ... Texas Tech awarded head coach James Dickey a new five-year contract. Dickey has a 100-49 record and two NCAA tournament appearances in five seasons at Texas Tech, including a 30-2 record last season ... Rick Ferry, a seven-year assistant coach at Susquehanna, named full-time head coach at Juniata, succeeding Jim Zauzig, who has served on a part-time basis since 1990. Zauzig retained his full-time position as a teacher in the Huntingdon (Pennsylvania) school district. MEN'S BASKETBALL ASSISTANTS--Marshall hired Dave Dickerson and Gregg Marshall. Marshall was an assistant at Charleston (South Carolina) and has 11 years of coaching experience. Dickerson most recently was an assistant at Radford ... Tony Barbee, Brian Cousins and Ron Rutledge hired at St. John's (New York). Barbee, a 1993 Massachusetts graduate, spent two years playing basketball in Europe and last year was a graduate assistant at Massachusetts. Cousins was an assistant for the past three seasons at Manhattan and for two years before that at Southern California. Rutledge has been on the St. John's staff since 1978, when he was hired as a part-time assistant. He was promoted to a full-time position the next season ... Michigan appointed Scott Trost as restricted-earnings coach, replacing Jay Smith, who took the head coaching position at Grand Valley State. Trost had been head coach at Elmhurst since 1992 ... Joe Bryant announced his resignation as an assistant at La Salle ... UC Irvine hired Jason Levy as an assistant coach. He was on the staff at Long Beach State for two season, first as an administrative assistant and then as an assistant coach. Robert Morris appointed the following assistant coaches: Glenn Gutierrez, an assistant at California (Pennsylvania) for the past nine years; Dave Pilipovich, an assistant at Georgia State for the past two years and at Florida Atlantic before that; and Thom Holzshu, who was on the staff at California (Pennsylvania) for five years as student manager, student assistant coach and graduate assistant ... Rob O'Driscoll hired at Manhattan. O'Driscoll was an administrative assistant for two years at Villanova. WOMEN'S BASKETBALL--Greg Bruce announced his resignation as head coach at Portland State. He has accepted the head coaching position of the Portland franchise of the American Basketball League, a new eight-team women's professional league that will begin play in the fall. Bruce coached the Vikings for 10 years and was named Pacific West Conference coach of the year the past four seasons ... St. John's (New York) hired Charlene Thomas as head coach. Thomas was four-year letter-winner at Auburn and an assistant at the school for the past four years. Lewis and Clark selected Missy Smith, a former Oregon State basketball and softball standout, as head coach. Smith has been head women's softball coach at Lewis and Clark for the past three years and will retain those duties. She succeeds Judy McMullen, who remains at the school as associate director of physical education and athletics and senior woman administrator ... Brian Morehouse appointed at Hope, replacing Tod Gugino, whose contract was not renewed. Morehouse has been Hope men's junior varsity coach for two years and was a student assistant coach as an undergraduate at Hope ... Tennessee coach Pat Summitt received a two-year contract extension through the year 2003. Summitt began coaching at Tennessee 22 years ago and has a 596-133 record and four NCAA Division I titles. WOMEN'S BASKETBALL ASSISTANTS--Manhattan announced the resignation of Jody Powell as assistant coach. She moved to Charlottesville, Virginia, where her husband is a member of the Virginia football staff. FOOTBALL--Brian Fogarty, head football coach at San Diego, named associate director of athletics for development at the school. Fogarty relinquished his coaching duties after 13 years and a 71-53-3 record. MEN'S GOLF--Lee Robertson, a longtime staff member at Western Kentucky, announced his retirement as head coach, effective June 30. Robertson directed the Hilltopper golf program for the past six seasons after coming out of retirement to coach the team. He was director of alumni affairs at the school for 25 years. MEN'S ICE HOCKEY--Dean Talafous named head men's ice hockey coach at Alaska Anchorage. He has served as head coach since 1989 at Wisconsin-River Falls, where the Falcons have reached the semifinals of the Division III championship in each of the past four seasons and won the title in 1994. WOMEN'S SOCCER--Mark Krikorian, coach at Franklin Pierce for the past six years, hired at Hartford to replace Austin Daniels, who accepted the head coaching position at Colorado. Krikorian led Franklin Pierce to Division II championships in the last two seasons and his team has won its last 39 games. Last year's squad was 20-0 ... St. Joseph's (Pennsylvania) appointed Greg Nicholls. WOMEN'S SOCCER ASSISTANTS--Dawn Jaffee and Timothy Lenihan hired at St. Joseph's (Pennsylvania). MEN'S AND WOMEN'S TRACK AND FIELD ASSISTANTS--Shelley Mitchell hired at Manhattan. She was an all-American in the heptathlon at Penn State in 1992 and twice was Eastern College Athletic Conference champion in the 400 meters. She has been an assistant coach at Rider and Monmouth (New Jersey). MEN'S VOLLEYBALL--Andy Read resigned as head men's coach at UC Irvine after four seasons. Read, who also is a full-time high-school teacher, cited time constraints as the reason for his resignation. He was an assistant coach for the U.S. men's volleyball squad at last summer's World University Games in Japan WOMEN'S VOLLEYBALL--Mercer appointed Tracy Graham-Lester as head women's coach. She served as a graduate assistant at the school last season. Graham-Lester was a three-time all-Big Eight Conference performer at Iowa State from 1987 to 1991. WOMEN'S VOLLEYBALL ASSISTANTS--Jason Watson hired at Montana State. He was an assistant coach with the Brigham Young men's program for the past two seasons. STAFF ATHLETICS SCHOLARSHIP FUND DIRECTOR--Kristin Colon named director of the Golden Buffalo Scholarship Fund at Colorado. Colon coordinated the Buffalo volunteer network for the past three years. ATHLETICS SCHOLARSHIP FUND OFFICER--Pam Samuelson appointed fund officer for the Golden Buffalo Scholarship Fund at Colorado. She served during the past year as an athletics development associate. EQUIPMENT ASSISTANT--Rand Woolley named assistant equipment manager at Southern Methodist. Woolley was a graduate assistant at Tulsa in 1995-96. MEDIA RELATIONS ASSISTANT--Tom Weber hired as assistant director of media relations at Vanderbilt. He will serve as publications director. SPORTS INFORMATION DIRECTORS--Vanderbilt promoted Rob Williamson to assistant athletics director for media relations ... Jon Jackson appointed sports information director at Southern Methodist. Jackson was assistant SID from 1991 until being named interim SID last August. SPORTS INFORMATION ASSISTANT--Tony Gervase, assistant sports information director at Long Beach State, named interim assistant athletics director/media relations at the school. CONFERENCES Marla Denham hired as assistant commissioner for officiating services for women at the Big Sky Conference. Denham will be responsible for recruitment, training, assignments and evaluation of all women's volleyball and basketball officials. She has been a Division I women's basketball official since 1987.
ETC.CONFERENCE MEMBERS The Great Lakes Football Conference has been formed by schools that offer limited financial aid. Members are Quincy, St. Joseph's (Indiana), Rensselaer (Indiana) and Kentucky Wesleyan. The conference, which will begin play with the 1996 season, is seeking new members whose football programs fit its limited scholarship philosphy.
NOTABLESThe College Golf Foundation has named sophomore Tiger Woods of Stanford and freshman Maria Baena of Arizona as the winners of its Rolex College Golfer of the Month awards for April. Woods, reigning two-time U.S. amateur champion, won the individual title at the Pacific-10 Conference championships and played in The Masters. Baena captured the individual title at the women's Pacific-10 championships.The Golf Coaches Association of America has announed the 1996 United States Select Team for the U.S./Japan matches June 28-July 5 in Japan. Team members are David Seawell, South Carolina; Scott Rowe, Northwestern; Josh McCumber, Florida; Heath Slocum, South Alabama; Ted Purdy, Arizona; Donnie Darr, Kent; John Curley, Florida Southern; Mike Porter, Skidmore; Laura Philo, Wake Forest; Heather Graff, Arizona; Dodie Mazzuca, Washington; and Erica Wycoff, Indiana. Coaches are Mike Griffin of Auburn and Renee Baumgartner of Oregon. Vic Bubas, a longtime Duke basketball coach and the only person to participate in the Final Four as a player (1950), coach (1963, 1964, 1966) and administrator (1977), named the 23rd winner of the John Bunn Award presented by the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. From 1959 to 1969, Bubas coached Duke to three Final Fours in four years. He was appointed commissioner of the newly formed Sun Belt Conference in 1976 and chaired the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Committee during the 1984-85 season. The American Hockey Coaches Association selected Bruce Crowder of Massachusetts-Lowell as university division coach of the year and Dean Talafous of Wisconsin-River Falls as college division coach of the year. Ian Smith, a defenseman at Middlebury, was named college division player of the year.
DEATHSDan Washington, athletics trainer at Grambling from 1946 until 1991, died May 5 in Grambling, Louisiana, after a long illness. He was 74. Washington was a center on the Grambling football team in 1941 under coach Eddie Robinson.Temple assistant basketball coach Jim Maloney died May 3 after suffering a heart attack while driving a car in Philadelphia. He was 62. Maloney was the father of former Pennsylvania player Matt Maloney, who was honored as Ivy Group player of the year in 1994-95. Bob Drum, a longtime golf writer who was an all-American basketball player at Alabama before beginning his journalism career, died May 8 in Pinehurst, North Carolina, where he lived in retirement. Drum, who worked for CBS for several years in the mid-1980s, was a past president of the Golf Writers Association of America and his reports were published in virtually every major golf magazine. Former track coach Ken Doherty died April 19 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He was 90. Doherty led track programs at Pennsylvania and Michigan and was an assistant coach at Princeton. --Compiled by Sally Huggins
POLLSDivision I Baseball
The USA Today/Baseball Weekly top 25 NCAA Division I baseball teams through May 5 as selected by the American
Baseball Coaches Association, with
records in parentheses and points:
Division II Baseball
The Collegiate Baseball top 25 NCAA Division II baseball teams through May 6, with records in parentheses and
points:
Division III Baseball
The Collegiate Baseball top 30 NCAA Division III baseball teams through May 5 as selected by the American
Baseball Coaches Association, with records in
parentheses and points:
Division I Men's Golf
The Wilson top 25 NCAA Division I men's golf teams through May 9 as listed by the Golf Coaches Association of
America:
1. Oklahoma State, 2. Florida, 3. UNLV, 4. Arizona State, 5. Texas, 6. Clemson, 7. East Tennessee State, 8.
Southern California, 9. Texas Christian,
10. Wake Forest, 11. Arizona, 12. LSU, 13. Oklahoma, 14. Ohio State, 15. North Carolina, 16. New Mexico, 17.
Arkansas, 18. Auburn, 19. Southern
Methodist, 20. Tulsa, 21. Stanford, 22. Northwestern, 23. Pepperdine, 24. Minnesota, 25. Georgia.
Division I Women's Golf
The Rolex top 25 NCAA Division I women's golf teams through May 9, based on a rankings formula administered by
the Collegiate Golf Foundation and
compiled by Golfstat, with points:
Division III Men's Golf
The Wilson top 25 NCAA Division III men's golf teams through April 29 as listed by the Golf Coaches Association
of America:
1. Skidmore, 2. Methodist, 3. John Carroll, 4. UC San Diego, 5. Guilford, 6. Allegheny, 7. Otterbein, 8. Central
(Iowa), 9. Binghamton, 10. Carthage,
11. Emory, 12. Luther, 13. Gustavus Adolphus, 14. Greensboro, 15. DePauw, 16. Williams, 17. Christopher Newport,
18. Ohio Wesleyan, 19. Rochester, 20.
Augsburg, 21. Amherst, 22. Susquehanna, 23. Wisconsin-Eau Claire, 24. King's (Pennsylvania), 25. Wooster.
Division I Women's Lacrosse
The Brine top 15 NCAA Division I women's lacrosse teams through May 5 as listed by the Intercollegiate Women's
Lacrosse Coaches Association, with
records:
1. Maryland, 17-0; 2. Loyola (Maryland), 14-1; 3. Virginia, 12-3; 4. Princeton, 12-2; 5. Penn State, 11-4; 6.
William and Mary, 10-6; 7. Georgetown,
12-3; 8. James Madison, 9-8; 9. Temple, 11-5; 10. Old Dominion, 8-7; 11. Yale, 10-4; 12. Harvard, 8-6; 13. North
Carolina, 12-4; 14. Lehigh, 14-3; 15.
Brown, 10-5.
Division I Women's Softball
The top seven NCAA Division I women's softball teams in each region through May 8:
Northeast: 1. Massachusetts, 2. Princeton, 3. Connecticut, 4. Boston U., 5. Hofstra, 6. Canisius, 7.
Lehigh.
Mideast: 1. Michigan, 2. Iowa, 3. Notre Dame, 4. Illinois-Chicago, 5. Indiana, 6. Minnesota, 7. DePaul.
Midwest: 1. Oklahoma, 2. Oklahoma State, 3. Texas A&M, 4. Nebraska, 5. Missouri, 6. Illinois, State,
7. Drake.
South: 1. Southwestern Louisiana, 2. South Carolina, 3. South Florida, 4. Florida State, 5. Louisiana
Tech, 6. Nicholls State, 7. North
Carolina.
West: 1. Fresno State, 2. UNLV, 3. Long Beach State, 4. Cal State Fullerton, 5. New Mexico State, 6.
Hawaii, 7. Utah.
Pacific: 1. Washington, 2. Arizona, 3. Cal State Northridge, 4. UCLA, 5. California, 6. Arizona State, 7.
Cal State Sacramento.
Men's Volleyball
The final USA Today/American Volleyball Coaches Association top 15 NCAA men's volleyball teams, with records in
parentheses and points:
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