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The NCAA News - The NCAA RecordSeptember 23, 1996
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Yale's Cozza to retire after 32 yearsCarm Cozza, who has coached Yale's football teams to 10 Ivy Group championships during more than 30 years at the school, is retiring at the conclusion of the 1996 season.
Cozza, who is 66, has compiled a 177-111-5 record at Yale, making him the school's most-victorious coach. Cozza said he thought it is fitting to retire as Yale's 32nd coach after his 32nd year and added that he chose to make the announcement before the season started to alleviate any added pressure on the players.
GENERALCHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICERS John Montford, a Texas state senator and a lawyer in Lubbock, Texas, named chancellor of Texas Tech and the Texas Tech Health Sciences LEFT ... Donald Mullett, interim president at Cheyney, selected as interim president at Lincoln (Missouri). DIRECTORS OF ATHLETICS David Blake promoted to athletics director at Castleton State, replacing Natalie Hamilton, who was interim AD. Black has been assistant director of athletics and head men's basketball coach for the past three years. He will retain his coaching duties ... Senior associate AD Sandy Barbour promoted to athletics director at Tulane. Barbour has been co-interim AD since April. She joined the Tulane staff in 1991 and had overseen internal athletics operations since 1993 ASSOCIATE DIRECTORS OF ATHLETICS John Hardt, compliance officer at Syracuse, named associate athletics director for administrative and compliance services at Michigan State, replacing Clarence Underwood, who was named senior associate athletics director. Underwood was given expanded management and program responsibilities ... Brenda Reilly, head women's basketball coach for the past 25 years at Central Connecticut State, promoted to acting associate AD/senior woman administrator, replacing Lowell Lukas, who retired from his administrative duties. Lukas, who will continue as head golf coach, joined the Central Connecticut State staff in 1965 and has been associate AD since 1970. He is in his 31st season as golf coach. ASSISTANT DIRECTORS OF ATHLETICS
David Miller hired as assistant athletics director for facilities and operations at Ohio. Miller was assistant to the athletics director for facilities, event management and tickets at Truman State last year ... Rich Conover appointed assistant AD and women's basketball coach at Castleton State, replacing Tom Hendricks, who was interim assistant AD and women's basketball coach ... Long Beach State promoted MaryAnn Tripodi to assistant AD for compliance and student services. She was director of compliance and student services ... Maureen Lantz selected as assistant AD for compliance at Miami (Florida). Lantz previously was assistant AD at Wake Forest and assistant director of compliance and championships with the Atlantic Coast Conference ... Pittsburg State promoted Shannon Schmieg to assistant AD for academics and compliance. Schmieg has been director of academics and compliance COACHES BASEBALL--George Horton promoted to head coach at Cal State Fullerton after serving as assistant coach for the past six seasons. Horton previously was head coach at Cerritos College for six seasons; he was named junior college coach of the year in three of those seasons (1985, 1987 and 1989) ... Wilmington (Ohio) appointed Greg Hughes, an assistant for the past two seasons at Eastern Kentucky ... Robert Miscik hired at Indiana (Pennsylvania). Miscik played professional baseball from 1980 to 1988 with the Pittsburgh Pirates and the California Angels and also played in Venezuela and Mexico in the winters of 1983 and 1984. He spent the past seven years with the Baltimore Orioles as a field manager for player development and as an exercise consultant for the franchise's minor-league operations ... Mike Kennedy named at Elon ... Rod Soesbe hired at UNLV ... Gannon selected Chris Jones ... Elliott Avent, head coach at New Mexico State since 1989, appointed at North Carolina State. Avent is a North Carolina State alumnus. In a related move, Billy Best, head coach at Elon since 1994, was hired as assistant coach at North Carolina State. Best will be recruiting coordinator and will work with hitters, outfielders and base runners. BASEBALL ASSISTANTS--Chris Guiton, a 1996 Haverford graduate and starting infielder there, appointed at Haverford. He also will assist with men's basketball ... Oregon State announced the resignation of Kurt Kemp, assistant coach for the past nine years. He is joining Merrill Lynch as a financial consultant ... Barry Given appointed at James Madison ... Mike McGuire selected at Winthrop ... Mitch Hannahs hired at Indiana State ... St. Joseph's (Pennsylvania) appointed Jack Stanczak ... Centenary appointed the following assistant coaches: Ed McCann, pitching; Harold Christensen, bullpen and catchers; Bill Ostermeyer, hitting and outfield; and Matt Prysock, administrative assistant. MEN'S BASKETBALL--Eastern Kentucky head coach Ben Braun named at California. Braun compiled a 185-132 record in 11 seasons at Eastern Kentucky ... Mack Calvin, a former NBA player and assistant coach, hired at Cal State Dominguez Hills. Calvin was director of Upward Bound at Long Beach City College for the past six months and in 1994-95 was general manager and head coach for the Mexico City Aztecas of the Continental Basketball Association. MEN'S BASKETBALL ASSISTANTS--Valparaiso named Dave Feuer as administrative assistant for men's basketball ... Jay Crosier named assistant coach at Plattsburgh State, where he also will be assistant fitness LEFT director. Crosier spent the past three years as assistant coach at Champlain ... Chris Guiton, a 1996 Haverford graduate and former scoring leader and all-conference selection in the Centennial Conference, appointed at Haverford. Guiton also will serve as an assistant baseball coach ... Richard Sizer and Bill McIver appointed at New England College ... Marc Joffe and Kevin Smith named at Morehead State. Joffe was an assistant at Cal State Sacramento for the past four years and Smith has been an assistant at Eastern Kentucky the past two seasons ... Bill Zotti, an assistant at Kean during the past year, named at Maryland-Baltimore County ... David Balza joined the Alfred staff after five years as assistant basketball coach at Cleveland State ... Steve Fleming named at Gannon ... Eric Pauley appointed at James Madison ... Southern-Baton Rouge hired Roman Banks ... Larry Matros selected as volunteer assistant coach at Stony Brook ... Mack Calvin appointed at Cal State Dominguez Hills ... Eastern Illinois selected David Cason as assistant coach ... Brian Cupps hired at Edinboro ... Ed Cooley selected as restricted-earnings coach at Rhode Island ... Franklin Pierce hired Bob Verdun ... Doug Kraft appointed at East Stroudsburg. WOMEN'S BASKETBALL--Lynn Bria hired as interim coach at Central Florida, succeeding Jerry Richardson, who died in an automobile accident in August. Bria was coach at Texas Woman's University ... Laura Mitchell appointed at UC Santa Cruz after two seasons as head coach at Dallas ... Bill McColl hired at New Jersey Institute of Technology ... Kim Foley, assistant coach last season at Central Connecticut State, named interim head coach there after head coach Brenda Reilly was elevated to acting associate athletics director. Reilly coached the Lady Blue Devils for 25 years. WOMEN'S BASKETBALL ASSISTANTS--Yolanda Gonzalez given additional duties as assistant women's basketball coach at Haverford. She continues to serve as assistant women's softball coach ... Jonelle Polk McCloud, a standout player at Illinois and a professional player in Europe, hired at Bradley. She was an assistant at Florida State for the past two years ... Francis Arato appointed at Hofstra. Arato spent the past year as a high-school coach and also has coached at Cooper Union College and Incarnate Word ... Robyne Bostick hired at James Madison ... Amy Mallon joined the staff at St. Joseph's (Pennsylvania), which also announced the resignation of Julie Scherbenske as assistant coach ... Third-year assistant Nan Hambrose promoted to full-time status at Wagner, replacing Tara Gallagher, who took a similar position at Seton Hall. Former Rowan standout player Ronalda Smitherman named graduate assistant at Wagner. MEN'S AND WOMEN'S CROSS COUNTRY--Tony Wichmann named head women's cross country and track coach at DePaul. Since 1991, Wichmann has been head girls' track coach and assistant girls' cross country coach at Loyola Academy High School in Northfield, Illinois. MEN'S AND WOMEN'S CROSS COUNTRY ASSISTANT--Lydia Silva-Netto hired as assistant men's and women's cross country and track coach at St. Peter's. FIELD HOCKEY--Missy Moran selected at Virginia Wesleyan after one year as an assistant there. She also was a graduate assistant at Longwood. FIELD HOCKEY ASSISTANTS--Anne Livezey given additional duties as field hockey assistant at Haverford. Livezey continues to serve as women's lacrosse assistant and also will serve as the college's sports information director ... Nancy Joel hired at Longwood after leading the Jamaican National Team for the past four seasons. While performing her duties in Jamaica on a six-month basis, Joel also served as assistant coach at Fairfield ... Jen Crosbie, who played four years for Assumption before her graduation in May, hired as an assistant coach there ... Eileen Arnaldo and Amy Fowler appointed at James Madison ... Crissy Holak hired at St. Joseph's (Pennsylvania) ... Jessica McCain appointed at Rhode Island.
FOOTBALL ASSISTANTS--Assumption announced its staff for 1996: Jim Attaway, receivers/tight ends coach; Frank Witkowski, defensive coordinator; Tom Grasso, secondary coach; Steve Leavitt, offensive line coach; Bill Guilfoil, linebackers/ MEN'S AND WOMEN'S GOLF--Sue Ewart named head women's coach at Long Beach State ... Seton Hall promoted Richard Distlerath to head coach. Former head coach Allan Small, one of the top amateur golfers in New Jersey, will continue as an assistant coach in the program. WOMEN'S GOLF ASSISTANT--Northern Illinois hired Holly Alcala as its first full-time assistant coach. Alcala played golf at Oklahoma and has coached at the high-school level. She also worked as an instructor at the Rob Roy Golf Course. MEN'S ICE HOCKEY ASSISTANT--Roger Williams appointed Kevin Matson as assistant coach. Matson was a three-year letter winner in hockey at Middlebury and has coached at the high-school level since 1984. MEN'S AND WOMEN'S LACROSSE--Rob Quinn appointed men's coach at New England College, where he also will be director of skiing ... Suzanne Weinberg hired as head women's coach at Drew, replacing Karin Brower, who became head coach at Princeton. Weinberg was a four-year member of the Penn State lacrosse team before her graduation in January. She served as an assistant lacrosse coach at Penn State following graduation. MEN'S AND WOMEN'S LACROSSE ASSISTANTS--Courtney Crangi named assistant women's coach at Towson State. Crangi, a 1996 Goucher graduate, was named 1996 Division III player of the year last season after leading the nation with 7.70 points per game ... John Baer appointed assistant women's coach at Vanderbilt ... George Harris and Paul Boncaro appointed assistant men's coaches at Colgate. MEN'S AND WOMEN'S SKIING--New England College appointed Tom Moore as head Nordic coach, Dave Salathe as head Alpine coach and Rob Quinn as director of skiing and head men's lacrosse coach. MEN'S SOCCER--Rob Acunto hired at Bard. MEN'S SOCCER ASSISTANTS--Josh Gallu, a 1995 Haverford graduate who plays for the Philadelphia Freedoms, and Rob Hurley, former Elizabethtown player active in club coaching, appointed at Haverford ... Anthony Altomonte hired at James Madison ... Charlie Naimo appointed at Lafayette ... St. Joseph's (Pennsylvania) hired Don D'Ambra. WOMEN'S SOCCER--Jeff DeZago hired at Bard ... New Jersey Institute of Technology appointed Dan Kilday ... Stephanie Gabbert named head coach at Iowa. She was an assistant at Wisconsin. WOMEN'S SOCCER ASSISTANTS--Bonnie McCollom, a standout player at Connecticut, and Esaho Kipuk of Zaire, currently a graduate student, hired as assistant coaches at Assumption ... Stacey Thomas appointed at Roger Williams. Thomas played for Brown and has continued playing for amateur teams in Rhode Island. She recently returned to the state after working for the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C. ... Tina Conley, a soccer standout at Coker, named assistant coach at Coker. She spent the past two years as manager of a retail sportswear store in Atlanta ... Dan Rothert selected at Plattsburgh State. Rothert was a four-year letter winner in soccer at Loras before graduating in May ... Anne Jenks hired at James Madison ... Geoff Bennett appointed at Lafayette ... Mary Wilson selected at Ursinus. WOMEN'S SOFTBALL--Ray Vander May selected at Seton Hall. Vander May is the most victorious high-school softball coach in New Jersey scholastic history, having compiled a 379-130-1 record over 21 years ... Terri Laux appointed at Ball State after nine years as head coach at Loyola (Illinois). Laux also was assistant athletic trainer at Loyola ... West Chester appointed Jean Buskirk interim coach ... Robert Wilkerson hired at Detroit ... Stony Brook selected Diane Hobin. WOMEN'S SOFTBALL ASSISTANTS--Caryl Drohan named at Hofstra after serving as an assistant last season at Providence, her alma mater ... Ralph De Lucia, a head high-school coach for the past 10 years, hired as an assistant coach at Assumption ... Jay Nelson and Robyn Baron hired as assistants at Seton Hall. Nelson has been head coach of Mountain Lakes High School softball team for the past 12 years, winning three state championships. Baron was a two-time all-American pitcher at Montclair State and was that school's 1996 athlete of the year ... Staten Island named Gina Battista assistant coach ... Stephanie Byrge hired at McNeese State ... Rhode Island selected Beth Stavru as assistant coach ... Stacey Carroll hired at Texas-San Antonio. MEN'S AND WOMEN'S SWIMMING AND DIVING--St. Rose hired Cathy Emerson as head men's and women's swimming coach. Emerson was an assistant at St. Rose last year ... Northern Arizona appointed Nikki Kelsey as diving coach. Kelsey was diving coach at Clemson for the past two years ... Errol Carter named men's and women's diving coach at Bucknell ... Rhode Island selected Rob Krause as men's and women's diving coach. MEN'S AND WOMEN'S TENNIS--UC Santa Cruz appointed Dave Muldawer as head of the women's tennis program. Muldawer had a successful playing career for the Slugs and is the school's only four-time all American. He spent the past two seasons as an assistant coach for the men's program ... Mike Ruane named at New Jersey Institute of Technology ... Jan Berkey Donaldson named head coach of La Roche's women's team, which has moved from club to varsity status. Donaldson is a tennis teaching professional ... Bradley appointed Byron Rabb, tennis director for the Pekin (Illinois) Park District, as head men's coach and Sigrid Rogers, a former tennis instructor for the Pekin Park District, as head women's coach ... Nils Leblang, local tennis instructor, named head men's and women's coach at Albertus Magnus ... Christopher Newport appointed Rush Cole men's tennis coach ... Tracy Tooke named women's coach at West Chester. MEN'S AND WOMEN'S TENNIS ASSISTANTS--Father Peter Clark selected as assistant men's coach at St. Joseph's (Pennsylvania) ... Alyson Vallante appointed assistant women's coach at Rhode Island. MEN'S AND WOMEN'S TRACK AND FIELD--Jerry Hassard, head coach at Iowa, hired at Rhode Island. Jim Grant, first assistant at Iowa, has been named interim head coach at Iowa. MEN'S AND WOMEN'S TRACK ASSISTANTS--Rachelle Roberts named first assistant coach at Iowa, replacing Jim Grant, who was named interim head coach ... Brett Willmott named at Plattsburgh State, his alma mater ... Brown hired Ron Flynn as assistant track coach in the throwing events, replacing Tom Pukstys ... Dayna Holston hired at Penn State, where she threw javelin and was team captain ... Gwen Loud named assistant coach at UC Irvine after serving for the past two years as assistant track and field coach at Long Beach State ... Sam Hume hired at Kansas ... Monica Joyce, Walt Wandall, Jeanne Ciullo and Al Yodakis appointed assistant coaches at Lehigh ... Lydia Silva-Netto hired as assistant men's and women's cross country and track coach at St. Peter's. WOMEN'S VOLLEYBALL--Charles Fredricks appointed at New Jersey Institute of Technology ... Eva Espositio, former Hartford basketball standout, named head volleyball coach at Albertus Magnus. Espositio will continue as assistant women's basketball coach. WOMEN'S VOLLEYBALL ASSISTANTS--Al Reid, well-known Philadelphia area club coach and a former high-school head coach, appointed at Haverford ... Mary-Beth Beerman and Robert Pulliza hired at James Madison. WRESTLING--Tom Schleicher hired at Muhlenberg. WRESTLING ASSISTANTS--Joe Scrignoli, former Elizabethtown wrestler, appointed at Haverford ... Patrick Flynn hired at James Madison. STAFF ACADEMIC ADVISOR--Mel Sanders, who has nearly 15 years of experience at the intercollegiate level in academic counseling and coaching, hired as assistant academic advisor at Fresno State. Sanders was assistant football coach and academic advisor at Southwest State during the past year ... Robert Daughtry named assistant to the athletics director/academic advisor at Massachusetts. Daughtry has been academic coordinator in the academic services for athletics department at South Alabama since last fall. ACADEMIC COORDINATORS--David Wyman hired as coordinator of academic advising at Miami (Florida) ... Kim Wood resigned as academic coordinator at Arkansas. ATHLETICS SERVICES DIRECTOR--Chad Carlton named director of athletics services at Miami (Florida). He previously worked in sales and marketing for the Florida Marlins. BROADCASTING DIRECTOR--Dan Smith appointed broadcasting director at Long Beach State. DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANT--Former Penn State basketball standout Katina Mack named development assistant for athletics at the school. DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR--Michael Rehm, a former Montana distance runner, hired as athletics development officer at Montana. Rehm will be responsible for seeking major gifts for Grizzly athletics. He has been assistant director of the Montana Foundation annual fund drive. DONOR RELATIONS COORDINATOR--Miami (Florida) appointed Lia Camara as coordinator of donor relations for the Hurricane Club. Camara has worked for the West Coast Conference in marketing and promotions and at the NCAA national office as a championships intern. MARKETING DIRECTORS--John Costello selected as interim director of marketing at Long Beach State. Costello was director of baseball operations at the school ... Whit Babcock appointed marketing coordinator at James Madison. MARKETING ASSISTANT--Brian Pracht promoted to assistant director of marketing at Long Beach State after serving as marketing assistant. MEDIA RELATIONS ASSISTANT--Tom Nelson appointed assistant media relations director at St. Cloud State. SPORTS INFORMATION DIRECTORS--Anne Livezey appointed at Haverford. She also will be assistant field hockey coach and women's lacrosse coach ... Matthew Clark hired at Albertus Magnus ... Cris Belvin named at Arkansas-Monticello. Belvin was an intern in the sports information office at Austin Peay State for the past two years ... Ross French, a sports information assistant at UC Santa Barbara for the past two years, named SID at Redlands ... Gary Richter hired at UTEP. He has been SID at Marshall since 1988 ... Ross French named SID at Redlands. SPORTS INFORMATION ASSISTANTS--Amy Symons named assistant to the sports information director at Akron ... Derek Smolik named assistant SID at UTEP. He was a graduate assistant at East Tennessee State ... Francis Tommasino selected as assistant SID at Christopher Newport. STRENGTH AND CONDITIONING COACH--Nicholls State appointed Mark Jaimes strength and conditioning coach. He was assistant strength coach last year at Southwest Texas State. TICKET ASSISTANT--Greg Schiller selected as assistant ticket manager at Miami (Florida). He was an intern in the Texas athletics department for two years and recently earned his sports administration degree there. ATHLETIC TRAINER--Scott Swere named at Bard. ASSISTANT ATHLETIC TRAINERS--Kevin McDonald, formerly on the training staff at St. Joseph's (Pennsylvania) and Wayne State (Nebraska), hired at Haverford ... Deb Belcher named assistant athletic trainer at Brown. Belcher has been an assistant at Vermont for the past seven years ... Leila Almahdy named at Oregon State, replacing Connie Rauser. She served on the Fresno State training staff for three years ... Carey MacDonald hired at Salem State. MacDonald, a 1989 Salem State graduate, returns to the college after serving as assistant athletic trainer at Worcester Polytechnic for the past five years ... Carlo Cantarella appointed associate athletic trainer at Rhode Island. CONFERENCES Kristen Hall, athletics director at Bard, named vice-president of the Independent Athletic Conference. Keanah Smith hired as compliance/championships intern for Conference USA. Smith was coordinator of training for the Indiana Special Olympics. ASSOCIATIONS The National Soccer Coaches Association of America selected Howard Milton as administrative assistant intern. Milton, who is working on a master's degree in educational administration at Kansas, joins the NSCAA from a compliance internship at the Western Athletic Conference.
ETC.CONFERENCE MEMBERS East Carolina accepted an invitation to join Conference USA for football competition. East Carolina, which has been a Division I football independent since 1977, will be eligible to compete for the Conference USA championship beginning with the 1997 season. East Carolina is a member of the Colonial Athletic Association in other sports. CLARIFICATION An item in the NCAA Record section of the September 2 issue of The NCAA News did not specify that Lisa Pleban, a Sacred Heart women's basketball assistant who recently was named head women's basketball coach at Adelphi, served as men's and women's cross country coach at Sacred Heart in 1993 and 1994. Christian Morrison, men's and women's track and field coach at Sacred Heart since August 1994, replaced Pleban as head cross country coach in March 1995.
NOTABLESAdm. Charles Larsen, in his second tour of duty as superintendent at Navy, was named the recipient of the All-American Football Foundation's Outstanding College President Award. The foundation also awarded the Admiral Thomas Hamilton Award to Gen. Pete Dawkins, Army's 1958 Heisman Trophy winner.Katie Crawford, a 6-3 middle blocker for No. 17-ranked UC Santa Barbara, named the American Volleyball Coaches Association's Division I player of the week after leading the Gauchos to five wins, including a pair of victories against ranked teams. For the week, Crawford hit .374, with 87 kills, 30 blocks, 24 digs and nine service aces. Jodi Jost of Minnesota-Duluth was named Division II player of the week after collecting 46 kills, 36 digs, five blocks and a .318 hitting percentage. In Division III, sophomore middle blocker Jennifer Martz took the honors after leading Washington (Missouri) to four victories over Division II teams and the championship of the Washburn Invite. Martz had 60 kills, 21 blocks, 16 digs and a .485 hitting percentage for the week. The National Association of Collegiate Women Athletic Administrators named its district administrators of the year. They are, by district: District 1, Linda Moulton, Clark (Massachusetts); District 2, Marilyn McNeil, Monmouth (New Jersey); District 3, Mary Jo Warner, George Washington; District 4, Fern Gardner, Utah; District 5, Patty Viverito, Gateway Football Conference/Missouri Valley Conference; District 6, Margie McDonald, Western Athletic Conference; and District 7, Jeannine McHaney, Texas Tech (posthumous award). Winners of the AT&T Long Distance Awards for college football games played through the weekend of September 7 (week No. 2) are: longest run from scrimmage, 80 yards, Kevin Faulk, LSU vs. Houston; longest pass play, 97 yards, Matt Koffler to Jay Soward, Southern California vs. Illinois; longest punt return (minimum two punts), 54.5 yards on two punts, Will Brice, Virginia vs. Central Michigan; longest punt return, 86 yards, Terry Fair, Tennessee vs. UCLA; longest kickoff return, 96 yards, Calvin Branch, Colorado State vs. Colorado; and longest field goal, 52 yards, Phil Dawson, Texas vs. New Mexico State. AT&T provides $400 weekly in each of the six categories to the NCAA Degree-Completion Scholarship Program. Southern Methodist placekicker Daniel Hernandez named to the College Football Assocation's 1996 "Good Works Team." Hernandez is a regular volunteer at a preschool that teaches English to Hispanic children before they enter the first grade, and he organized a soccer clinic at Southern Methodist for more than 200 children. The Good Works Team was established in 1992 and recognizes outstanding efforts of college football players off the field. The team annually includes 11 players; one member is selected each week during the season.
DEATHSArda Bowser, the last surviving member of the National Football League's first championship team and the league's oldest ex-player, died September 7. He was 97. Bowser played with the Canton Bulldogs' 1922 championship team. A punter, placekicker, linebacker and fullback who was paid $250 a game, Bowser was the first NFL player to use kicking tees. Before his pro career, Bowser was a college star at Bucknell and is a member of the Bucknell Football Hall of Fame. Willis Smith, who played two years for the New York Giants and helped win a championship in 1934, died September 4. He was 86. Smith, dubbed the "Little Giant" and "Little Mr. Zero," stood 5-6, weighed 147 pounds and had the number "0" on his jersey. Smith played college football at Idaho and is in the Idaho Hall of Fame. -- Compiled by Sally Huggins |
Cozza began his collegiate coaching career at Miami (Ohio), his alma mater, in 1956. He joined the Yale staff as an assistant coach with responsibility for the backfield in 1963. He was promoted to head coach in 1965.