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The NCAA News - The NCAA RecordJune 10, 1996Calendar
Wisconsin-River Falls names hockey coachSteve Freeman, top assistant men's ice hockey coach at Wisconsin-River Falls for the past seven years, has been promoted to head coach.During his years at Wisconsin-River Falls, Freeman has been involved in recruiting, game-plan implementation and practice planning. Freeman has 18 years of coaching experience at the high-school, Junior A and college levels. He was a head coach/general manager in the United States Hockey League. As head coach at St. Mary's Springs High School in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, Freeman took his team to a state championship. He also had success at Stevens Point (Wisconsin) High School, where his teams made state tournament appearances and won four conference titles. He has coached several Wisconsin select teams at the Minnesota Hockey Festival each August. Freeman has been involved with hockey symposiums and clinics, both in the United States and internationally, and has been a guest speaker/instructor at USA Hockey clinics.
GENERAL
DIRECTORS OF ATHLETICS Winthrop announced the resignation of Steve Vacendak, effective July 1. Vacendak will assist the university with special projects for one year. Vacendak was appointed AD in 1985 and added duties as men's basketball coach from 1986 to 1992 ... Daniel Audette appointed director of athletics and recreation sports at Pittsburgh-Bradford, effective July 1. Audette was assistant AD at Kutztown ... Kenneth Kavanagh hired at Bradley, succeeding Ron Ferguson, who became executive director of special projects at Bradley. Ferguson had been AD since 1978. Kavanagh had been senior associate AD at Bowling Green for nine years ... Sue Lauder appointed at Fitchburg State.
ASSOCIATE DIRECTORS Linda Deno appointed at St. Joseph's (Indiana) after serving as women's volleyball coach for nine years. She will continue in coaching as a volleyball assistant ... Kimberly Keenan named associate AD at Kutztown ... Karen Fontes appointed at Johnson and Wales.
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR Peter Fields, assistant athletics director for finance at Toledo for eight years, appointed director of business affairs at Missouri. COACHES BASEBALL--Jim DeBell, head coach at Brockport State since 1989, announced his retirement. He will be replaced by Mark Rowland, who was an assistant at the school during the 1996 season. Rowland has been events coordinator at Brockport State ... Brown announced the resignation of Billy Almon ... Erskine named Dan Massarelli as interim coach ... Don Kessinger resigned from coaching as Mississippi, where he accepted an administrative position in the athletics department. BASEBALL ASSISTANT--Pete Dillon, a four-year starting basketball player at the University of the South (Sewanee), selected as assistant baseball and men's basketball coach, beginning September 1. MEN'S BASKETBALL--Tom Ryan promoted to head coach at Eckerd after nine years as an assistant ... Tom Conrad, associate head coach for the past five years at Charleston Southern, promoted to head coach. He replaces Gary Edwards, a two-time Big South Conference coach of the year who was selected as head coach at Indiana (Pennsylvania) ... Jack Bennett, a successful coach at the high-school level and a former assistant at Wisconsin-Eau Claire, named head coach at Wisconsin-Stevens Point. Bennett spent the past six years as head coach at Rinelander (Wisconsin) High School, where he compiled an 81-49 record ... Marist announced that Dave Magarity received a four-year contract extension. MEN'S BASKETBALL ASSISTANTS--Detroit promoted Mickey Barrett to full-time assistant and hired former Detroit guard Michael Jackson to replace Barrett as restricted-earnings coach. Barrett joined the Detroit staff in 1991 after serving as an assistant at Xavier (Ohio) for three seasons. Jackson was a four-year letter-winner at Detroit ... Jeff Norwood hired at Southern Mississippi. He was an assistant for two years at Nicholls Sate. He also has been an assistant at Middle Tennessee State and Mississippi State ... Pete Dillon, a four-year starting point guard at the University of the South (Sewanee), selected as assistant basketball and baseball coach, beginning September 1. Current basketball assistant Richard Barron will continue to assist on a volunteer basis ... Thad Matta returned to Miami (Ohio) after spending last season as an assistant at Western Carolina. Previously an assistant at Miami in 1994-95, Matta replaces Jim Christian, who became an assistant at Pittsburgh ... Larry Harris and John Groce appointed at North Carolina State ... Chris Beard hired at Abilene Christian ... Erksine appointed Kyle Snipes. WOMEN'S BASKETBALL--Jim Jabir resigned at Marquette to take the head coaching position at Providence. Jabir was 94-81 in six seasons at Marquette and took the Golden Eagles to three posteason appearances ... Bradley assistant coach Donna Freitag promoted to head coach, succeeding Lisa Boyer, who became head coach of the Richmond franchise of the American Basketball League, a professional women's league that begins play in October. Freitag has been an assistant at Bradley for two seasons and before that was an assistant for eight years at Wisconsin. Boyer led the Bradley team for 10 seasons ... Sandy Botham named as head coach at Wisconsin-Milwaukee after leading Beloit to a 22-4 season last year. She was an assistant at Notre Dame from 1991 to 1995 ... John Sutherland hired at New Mexico State. WOMEN'S BASKETBALL ASSISTANTS--Valparaiso announced the resignation of Frankie Jackson, who accepted the head coaching position at Bethel (Indiana) ... Kristy Sims hired as an assistant at Louisiana Tech. MEN'S AND WOMEN'S CROSS COUNTRY--Wofford appointed Jimmy Stephens as head coach. FIELD HOCKEY--St. Joseph's (Pennsylvania) promoted Chris Speer to head coach. FOOTBALL--Former Nebraska Wesleyan defensive tackle Brian Keller hired there as head coach, replacing Kevin Haslam, who resigned. Keller was offensive line coach at Nebraska Wesleyan from 1984 to 1987 and then moved to Eastern Oregon State, where has has been offensive line coach, recruitment and strength coordinator, and assistant head coach ... Whittier head coach Kirk Hoza hired at defensive coordinator at Humboldt State. FOOTBALL ASSISTANT--Gary Garabato, a former wide receivers coach at Wayne State (Nebraska), hired as quarterbacks coach and cooffensive coordinator at St. John Fisher. MEN'S AND WOMEN'S GOLF--Mark Copeland, who has headed the men's program at East Texas State since 1993, will take on additional duties as head women's coach. East Texas State will begin competition in women's golf during the 1996-97 season ... Lamar hired Brad McMakin as men's coach. McMakin played professionally for five years and has been an independent teaching professional since September 1995 in the Beaumont, Texas, area. MEN'S GYMNASTICS--Illinois announced the resignation of Don Osborn. Yoshi Hayasaki was hired to replace Osborn. MEN'S LACROSSE--Patrick Gress appointed at Swarthmore. MEN'S SOCCER--Rob Searl, former head coach at Nazareth, hired at St. John Fisher. Searl was head coach at Nazareth for 16 years, compiling a 127-121-18 record. He is acting director of the Pittsford Mustangs Soccer Club and director of the Fast Feet Future Stars soccer school ... Christopher Newport selected Steve Shaw, assistant at William and Mary, as head coach and director of supportive services. Shaw replaces Craig Reynolds, who left after seven years to become an assistant at Virginia. Shaw had been an assistant at William and Mary for six seasons. WOMEN'S SOCCER--Debbi Mitchell appointed at St. John Fisher after serving as an assistant coach for the men's team last season. Mitchell was a four-year player at Oswego State, earning recognition as most valuable player in 1987 and selection as team captain in 1989 ... Mary Howard, head coach at Marquette the past two seasons, hired as an assistant at Tulane. She played and was a graduate assistant coach at Arkansas. WOMEN'S SOFTBALL--Texas A&M coach Bob Brock resigned with a 688-255 record after 15 years to pursue other opportunities. Brock's teams won two NCAA titles and an Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW) championship ... Jim Lodes named head women's softball and volleyball coach at Brockport State, effective August 15. Lodes has been women's volleyball coach at Rochester Institute of Technology for the past five seasons ... St. Joseph's (Maine) appointed Curt Smyth as head coach. He served last year as sports information director and assistant softball coach. Smyth, who replaces Rick Simonds as softball coach, also will assist with women's basketball. Simonds will continue to serve as athletics director. SWIMMING AND DIVING ASSISTANT--Kim Dornburg, a diving champion at Air Force, hired as an assistant coach at her alma mater. She was the 1988 Division II champion in both one- and three-meter diving at Air Force and the 1991 Division II champion in three meters. Dornburg most recently was at Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri. MEN'S TENNIS--Tom Hagedorn named to head the men's program at San Diego, replacing Ed Collins, who retired after 18 seasons. Hagedorn has been an assistant at Arizona since 1988 ... Goucher appointed Michael Hootner to replace Steve Medorff, who resigned after two years with a 12-32 dual match mark. Hootner also is assistant men's basketball coach and recreational sports coordinator. WOMEN'S TENNIS--Tracy Prince hired at Sonoma State to resurrect the women's program, which was dropped in 1992. Prince established a women's program at Cal State San Bernardino last year and before that was an assistant coach at Cal Poly Pomona. The Sonoma State team will begin play during the 1996-97 season. MEN'S AND WOMEN'S TRACK AND FIELD ASSISTANTS--Patricia Durisin and Genesia Eddins hired at Simmons. Durisin was a track and field and cross country student-athlete at Lake Superior State and is a reference librarian at Simmons. Eddins, a 1991 Massachusetts-Boston graduate, holds four Division III championship records and won all-American honors 27 times for her collegiate track and cross country accomplishments. She recently qualified for the Olympic trials. WOMEN'S VOLLEYBALL--Kevin Furnish selected at St. Joseph's (Indiana), replacing Linda Deno, who was appointed associate athletics director after nine years as head women's volleyball coach. Furnish spent last season as an assistant at St. Joseph's. Deno will continue in coaching as an assistant for the volleyball team ... Eckerd appointed Steve Larkin ... Endicott hired Tara Connors, who played at Massachusetts-Lowell and was team captain for three years ... Louis McLean hired at Belmont Abbey ... Arkansas State selected Craig Cummings as head coach. STAFFS ATHLETIC TRAINERS--Rex Sharp hired at Missouri to replace Fred Wappel, who is retiring after 41 years. Sharp has spent the past 12 years on the staff at Ball State, where he had primary responsibility for the football team and coordinated the training efforts for the school's 20-sport program ... Alberto "Paco" Roman hired at Belmont Abbey. BUSINESS AFFAIRS DIRECTOR--Peter Fields, assistant athletics director for finance at Toledo for eight years, appointed director of business affairs at Missouri, replacing Mark Fitzpatrick, who resigned. SPORTS INFORMATION--UNLV announced the following changes in its sports information office: Bert Cooper named director of communications, Jim Gemma appointed sports information director and Paul Palmer named graphics arts manager. CONFERENCES The Trans America Athletic Conference announced that Bill Bibb's contract as commissioner has been extended through June 30, 1999. Bibb is entering his sixth year as commissioner. Also, the conference elected the following officers at its recent spring meetings: president, Bobby Pope, Mercer; secretary, Jerry Baker, Charleston (South Carolina); and vice-president, Steve Sloan, Central Florida. The St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference elected Blackburn athletics director Ira Zeff to a two-year term as president. Gerry Albins, Blackburn senior woman administrator, was elected vice-president. Albins has served as vice-president since November, filling an unexpired term. The Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference extended the contract of Richard Ensor as commissioner through June 30, 1999. The Big West Conference awarded a four-year contract extension to Commissioner Dennis Farrell. Brian Briscoe hired as director of media relations at the Lone Star Conference.
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SPORTS SPONSORSHIP The Atlantic 10 Conference announced that it will sponsor championships in men's and women's outdoor track and field. The addition of outdoor track brings to 21 the number of championships sponsored by the conference. The Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference announced the addition of men's and women's indoor track as league sports, effective during the 1996-97 season.
NOTABLESKris Benson, who went 14-0 with a 1.40 ERA for Clemson this season and led the team to a College World Series berth, named Baseball America's college player of the year. The 21-year-old righthander became only the second player to win the honor solely on the basis of pitching. Baseball America also announced the following all-America squad: Miami third baseman Pat Burrell; LSU designated hitter Eddy Furniss; pitchers Benson, Braden Looper of Wichita State, Eddie Yarnall of LSU, Seth Greisinger of Virginia and Evan Thomas of Florida International; Kansas second baseman Josh Kliner; Illinois shortstop Josh Klimek; outfielders Chad Green of Kentucky, J. D. Drew of Florida State and Mark Kotsay of Cal State Fullerton; and catcher Robert Fick of Cal State Northridge. Finalists for selection as the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association's college baseball player of the year are Clemson pitcher Kris Benson, Cal State Fullerton outfielder/pitcher Mark Kotsay and Texas Tech third baseman Clint Bryant. The winner will be announced June 27. -- Compiled by Sally Huggins
POLLS
Division I All-Around The Sears Directors' Cup top 25 NCAA Division I all-around athletics programs through May 29, administered by the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics and based on performance to date in NCAA men's and women's championships. Fall and winter championships are included in this ranking, as well as spring championships in women's golf, men's volleyball, and men's and women's lacrosse and tennis. Points are awarded on the basis of an institution's finish in each of 22 sports. These totals are unofficial pending completion of spring championships. 1. Stanford, 8491/2; 2. UCLA, 7151/2; 3. Florida, 6111/2; 4. Michigan, 6071/2; 5. North Carolina, 6021/2; 6. Texas, 6011/2; 7. Nebraska, 5781/2; 8. Georgia, 5611/2; 9. Wisconsin, 524; 10. Auburn, 509; 11. Penn State, 5081/2; 12. Ohio State, 499; 13. Notre Dame, 494; 14. Arizona, 487; 15. Tennessee, 451; 16. LSU, 4481/2; 17. Virginia, 443; 18. Maryland, 438; 19. Texas A&M, 434; 20. Arizona State, 4261/2; 21. Kentucky, 4241/2; 22. Southern Methodist, 413; 23. Colorado, 4111/2; 24. Brigham Young, 4071/2; 25. Princeton, 4001/2.
Division III Men's The final top 25 NCAA Division III men's outdoor track and field teams as determined by the United States Track Coaches Association, with power ranking: 1. Williams, 210.8; 2. Augustana (Illinois), 210.7; 3. Rowan, 208.6; 4. Calvin, 201.9; 5. (tie) Wisconsin-La Crosse and Nebraska Wesleyan, 199.7; 7. St. Thomas (Minnesota), 189.0; 8. Claremont-Mudd-Scripps, 183.9; 9. St. John's (Minnesota), 182.7; 10. Monmouth (Illinois), 179.2; 11. Simpson, 174.4; 12. Fredonia State, 173.7; 13. Loras, 170.3; 14. Thiel, 165.0; 15. Methodist, 163.9; 16. Lynchburg, 163.3; 17. Ithaca, 162.3; 18. Emory, 162.2; 19. Binghamton, 162.0; 20. Wartburg, 159.7; 21. Wisconsin-Platteville, 159.5; 22. Carthage, 158.7; 23. Trenton State, 158.4; 24. Gustavus Adolphus, 147.6; 25. St. Lawrence, 142.0.
Division III Women's The final top 25 NCAA Division III women's outdoor track and field teams as determined by the United States Track Coaches Association, with power ranking: 1. Wisconsin-Oshkosh, 204.6; 2. Wisconsin-La Crosse, 193.8; 3. Loras, 171.8; 4. Calvin, 170.3; 5. Williams, 164.0; 6. Augustana (Illinois), 161.7; 7. Trenton State, 155.0; 8. Claremont-Mudd-Scripps, 105.1; 9. Wartburg, 146.5; 10. Wisconsin-Eau Claire, 137.4; 11. Monmouth (Illinois), 136.0; 12. Pomona-Pitzer, 134.8; 13. Allegheny, 132.2; 14. Nebraska Wesleyan, 131.8; 15. Carthage, 131.6; 16. Emory, 124.3; 17. Lynchburg, 123.7; 18. Ithaca, 122.2; 19. Binghamton, 121.3; 20. St. Lawrence, 117.5; 21. Dickinson, 110.1; 22. Concordia-Moorhead, 108.0; 23. Thiel, 104.5; 24. Simpson, 99.8; 25. Swarthmore, 93.8. |