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The NCAA News - The NCAA RecordJune 17, 1996
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Founder of Lander athletics to retireFinis Horne, who launched the Lander intercollegiate athletics program when he started the men's basketball team in 1968, has announced his retirement as athletics director and head men's basketball coach, effective June 30, 1997.With his 28-year tenure at Lander, Horne is considered the dean of South Carolina basketball coaches. His record of 476-379 has established him as the state's most victorious active men's college basketball coach. Horne said he announced his retirement plans early to give the university time to make a smooth transition in the leadership of the athletics program. When Horne joined the Lander staff to form the men's basketball team, it was his first foray into collegiate coaching. He became AD in 1972 and expanded the Lander athletics program to include men's tennis, soccer and cross country and women's basketball, tennis, softball and cross country. The school will add baseball and women's soccer and volleyball in 1998. After 23 years in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics, Horne moved the athletics program to NCAA Division II in 1990-91. His 1993-94 and 1994-95 basketball teams won the Peach Belt Athletic Conference postseason tournaments and berths in the Division II tournament. He was named Peach Belt coach of the year for the 1993-94 season.
GENERAL
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICERS Fairmont State appointed Janet Dudley-Eshbach as president. She was provost at Potsdam State ... Michael Gallagher, former vice-president for academic affairs at Idaho State, appointed president at Mesa State, effective August 1. He succeeds Raymond Kieft, who was named president at Framingham State ... Hollins selected Janet Rasmussen as president. Rasmussen was vice-president for academic affairs at Nebraska Wesleyan ... Randolph-Macon announced the retirement of Ladell Payne as president, effective June 30, 1997 ... Katherine Eisenberger Keough named president at St. John Fisher. She was dean of the School of Education and Human Services at Canisius ... Northern Colorado appointed Howard Skinner as president. Skinner was dean of the university's College of Performing and Visual Arts ... Stillman announced the retirement of Cordell Wynn as president, effective June 30, 1997 ... Richard Cook is the new president at Allegheny. He was provost of Kalamazoo ... Pine Manor appointed Gloria Nemerowicz as president. She was executive director of the Women's Leadership Institute at Wells ... William C. Merwin, president at Potsdam State, appointed president at Salisbury State ... Siena selected the Rev. Kevin Mackin as president. Mackin was director of development and public relations for the Franciscans' Holy Name Province ... Former New Hampshire president Dale Nitzschke appointed president at Southeast Missouri State. He most recently was head of an education consulting firm in Ohio ... Elisabeth Showalter Muhlenfeld, dean of undergraduate studies at Florida State, selected as president at Sweet Briar ... Betty Turner Asher, a member of the NCAA Presidents Commission, announced her resignation as president at South Dakota, effective June 30. DIRECTORS OF ATHLETICS Gary Grace, associate director of athletics and men's basketball coach at Cornell College, hired as athletics director at Wartburg, effective July 1. Grace also will teach in Wartburg's physical education department. He has been at Cornell College since 1988 ... Southwest Texas State appointed Michael Alden, associate AD for development at New Mexico since 1992. He also was assistant AD at Arizona State from 1985 to 1992 ... Sue Lauder appointed at Fitchburg State ... Jackson State hired Paul Covington
ASSISTANT DIRECTORS Roseanne Korfant hired at Kent, her alma mater, where she will coordinate all marketing and promotional efforts, plan special events, serve as liaison for corporate partners and coordinate product merchandising. She most recently was manager of downtown activities for the Greater Cleveland Growth Association ... Gary Colson appointed at UC Santa Barbara, where he had been interim assistant AD since October. Colson has been head men's basketball coach at Fresno State, New Mexico and Pepperdine. COACHES BASEBALL--John Leister named at Alma, replacing Bill Klenk, who is preparing for retirement after three decades with the Scots. Klenk will be assistant baseball and basketball coach next year and assistant baseball coach during the following year. Leister has been an assistant baseball coach and offensive coordinator for the football team since 1993. He will retain his football duties. He joined the Scots after seven years in the Boston Red Sox minor-league organization. MEN'S BASKETBALL--John Calipari, who took over the Massachusetts team in 1988 and built it into a national powerhouse, resigned to become head coach of the NBA New Jersey Nets. Under Calipari, the Minutemen were 193-71 and won the last five Atlantic 10 Conference championships ... Davey Whitney came out of retirement to return as head coach at Alcorn State. He replaces Sam Weaver, who resigned after three seasons to become an assistant coach at Iowa State. Whitney coached the Alcorn State squad from 1969 until 1989, when his contract was not renewed ... Ray Harper, former Kentucky Wesleyan all-American, promoted to head coach at his alma mater after serving 10 years as associate head coach ... Calvin's Ed Douma resigned after 12 years as head coach. He will remain at Calvin as head women's golf and women's tennis coach. Douma led his 1991-92 basketball team to the Division III championship ... Hiram selected Stephen Minton. MEN'S BASKETBALL ASSISTANTS--Scott Monarch named full-time assistant coach at Kentucky Wesleyan and Tony Hopper and Rod Drake named volunteer assistants ... Ken Blakeney, a member of national-championship teams at Duke and 1994-95 team captain, named assistant coach at La Salle. Last season, Blakeney was an assistant at James Madison ... Monroe Brown hired at Marist ... Oral Roberts selected Scott Sutton as assistant coach ... Steve Krafcisin appointed at Iowa State. WOMEN'S BASKETBALL--Columbia appointed John "Jay" Butler. He was head coach at St. Mary's (Maryland) for the past two years and was an assistant at Brown for five years before that ... Sherry Winn, who guided Montana State-Northern to the 1993 NAIA championship, hired at Southern Colorado. Winn has a career record of 150-53 ... Mount Olive announced the resignation of Fran Hooks ... Gay Nix hired at Southwestern Louisiana WOMEN'S BASKETBALL ASSISTANTS--Indiana hired Malisa Bryant to replace Kris McGrade. Bryant was administrative assistant/volunteer coach at Central Michigan for the past two years ... Michelle Bento appointed at Fresno State, where she was a four-year starter. She spent the past two seasons as an assistant at San Jose State ... Tracy Stewart appointed at Texas A&M ... Mankato State hired Michelle Byrne. MEN'S AND WOMEN'S GOLF--Calvin announced that Ed Douma will relinquish his duties as head men's basketball coach to head the women's golf and tennis teams ... Todd McCorkle hired at Coastal Carolina to head the men's and women's teams. He was assistant men's coach at Florida for the past three years and was director of instruction and assistant golf professional at the Florida golf course for three years ... Georgia announced the resignation of men's coach Dick Copas, who will become assistant director of event management at the school. MEN'S ICE HOCKEY--Patrick Hessenauer hired at Milwaukee School of Engineering, replacing Dave Newman, who guided the Raiders to an Illinois-Wisconsin Collegiate Hockey Association title in 1995. Hessenauer was assistant coach at Beloit Memorial High School ... Curry hired Mark Tarmey, head ice hockey coach and athletics director at Winchendon School for the past four years. He also was a mathematics and computer science teacher ... Brian Dickinson named head coach and ice arena manager at Brockport State. MEN'S ICE HOCKEY ASSISTANT--Northern Michigan assistant coach Morey Gare resigned to become head coach of the Estevan Bruins of the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League. Gare was an assistant at Northern Michigan for eight years and played there as an undergraduate. WOMEN'S LACROSSE--Whittier hired Amy Dawson as its first women's lacrosse coach. She also will coach women's soccer. Dawson was an assistant soccer and softball coach last year at Macalester. WOMEN'S SOCCER--Amy Dawson named to head the women's soccer and lacrosse programs at Whittier. She succeeds Jeff Laiblin as soccer coach. Dawson was an assistant soccer and softball coach last year at Macalester ... John Peppler given additional duties as women's soccer coach at Northern Michigan. He is women's Alpine skiing coach at the school. Northern Michigan will begin women's soccer competition this fall ... Aurora announced that Ed Puskarich has been granted a leave of absence to allow him to pursue his professional playing career with Major League Soccer's Dallas Burn. Assistant coach Sue Soderberg was appointed interim head coach. Both Puskarich and Soderberg have been with the Spartan program since its inception in 1994. WOMEN'S SOFTBALL--Frank Griffin hired at Stetson, replacing Rose Kalisak, who resigned at the end of the 1996 season to become assistant coach at Mississippi. Griffin was head coach at Winthrop from 1983 to 1989 and has been a private business owner since then. He joined the Stetson staff last season as a volunteer assistant ... Manhattan announced the retirement of Paul Mazzei. WOMEN'S TENNIS--Calvin announced that Ed Douma will relinquish his duties as head men's basketball coach to head the women's tennis and golf teams ... Beth Politi hired at Earlham, where she also will be head women's volleyball coach. Politi was head women's tennis coach and an assistant volleyball coach at Heidelberg for the past two years ... St. Thomas (Minnesota) announced the resignation of Kathryn Nelson after three seasons as head coach ... UC Irvine did not renew the coaching contract of Doreen Irish. Through 23 years as head coach, Irish compiled an overall record of 347-284. She will remain at UC Irvine as an instructor in the university's campus recreation program. MEN'S AND WOMEN'S TRACK--Salem State hired Julie Goodwin, former NCAA long-jump champion and two-time Salem State all-American, as head women's coach ... Allegheny appointed Bill Ross to head the men's and women's track and cross country teams. MEN'S AND WOMEN'S TRACK ASSISTANT--Slippery Rock selected Michele Curcio as assistant men's and women's track and cross country coach. MEN'S VOLLEYBALL--Jim McLaughlin, who guided the Southern California men's volleyball team to the 1990 national championship and a runner-up finish in 1991, selected as assistant women's volleyball coach at Notre Dame. McLaughlin compiled a 142-75 record in seven seasons at Southern California. WOMEN'S VOLLEYBALL--Beth Politi hired at Earlham, where she also will be head women's tennis coach. Politi was head women's tennis coach and an assistant volleyball coach at Heidelberg for the past two years ... Denise Rossa named at Kentucky Wesleyan. She was head coach at Brescia last season ... Kathy Carbone hired at Lafayette ... Villanova appointed Margaret D'Antonio WOMEN'S VOLLEYBALL ASSISTANT--Genny Wood hired at Southern Methodist. STAFF SPORTS INFORMATION DIRECTOR--Adam Polgreen hired at Curry. He was a student assistant sports information director at Northeastern for the past four years ... Lisa Nelson promoted to SID for the women's athletics department at Minnesota. She was assistant SID for the past two years. SPORTS INFORMATION ASSISTANT--Sarah Stinson named assistant sports information director at Ferris State, where she will handle coverage for volleyball, basketball and softball. Stinson was assistant SID at Grand Valley State for the past two years ... Julie Reuvers joined the Penn State staff as a sports information assistant with primary responsibility for women's volleyball, men's and women's golf, and men's water polo. She was a public relations intern with the Pacific-10 Conference for the past year. STUDENT-ATHLETE SERVICES ASSISTANT--Massachusetts hired Elizabeth Arnold as assistant director of student-athlete services. She had been academic coordinator of athletics at Saint Louis since 1993. TICKET OPERATIONS DIRECTOR--John Sheffield, a member of the Florida State athletics department for the past 13 years, named director of ticket operations at Wisconsin. Sheffield was assistant to the athletics director at Florida State from 1983 to 1995, serving as chief administrator for the athletics ticket office. WOMEN'S ATHLETICS COORDINATOR--Widener sports information director Susan Fumagalli given additional duties as coordinator of women's athletics. She has been SID since 1994.
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CORRECTIONS
The name of Denise Van De Walle was spelled incorrectly in the Record section of the June 3 issue of The NCAA News. She was reelected to the American Volleyball Coaches Association board of directors.
Dan Wathen, head athletics trainer at Youngstown State since 1976, will receive the National Strength and Conditioning Association's Life Achievement Award June 21 in Atlanta. The award is given to individuals who have made "unique and lasting contributions in the field of strength and conditioning." As the author of nearly 100 papers on the subject and related sports medicine topics, Wathen is only the third person to receive the award.
UCLA's Al Scates named American Volleyball Coaches Association/Tachikara national coach of the year in men's volleyball. The most-victorious collegiate volleyball coach in history (894-138 record), Scates added another record to his resume by leading UCLA to its 16th national championship.
The AVCA also announced the election of Lisa Love, head women's volleyball coach and associate athletics director at Southern California, as president-elect of the organization. She will assume the presidency December 31 and serve through 1998.
Robert M. Sweazy, vice-provost for research at Texas Tech, elected chair of the College Football Association board of directors. Sweazy will lead the organization during its final year of operation. Bill Byrne, athletics director at Nebraska, was reelected as secretary-treasurer.
Elwood "Woody" Hughes, St. Thomas (Minnesota) athletics department equipment manager for the past five years, died May 12 at his home in Minneapolis of pneumonia and a virus in the heart. He was 34.
Division III Women's Tennis
The final top 25 NCAA Division III women's tennis teams as listed by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association:
1. Emory, 2. Washington and Lee, 3. Kenyon, 4. Trinity (Texas), 5. Amherst, 6. Williams, 7. UC San Diego, 8. Gustavus Adolphus, 9. Carleton, 10. (tie) Pomona-Pitzer and Claremont-Mudd-Scripps, 12. Sewanee (University of the South), 13. Rhodes, 14. Skidmore, 15. DePauw, 16. Trenton State, 17. Mary Washington, 18. UC Santa Cruz, 19. Washington (Missouri), 20. Colby, 21. Hope, 22. Redlands, 23. Guilford, 24. Bowdoin, 25. St. Thomas (Minnesota).
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