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The NCAA News - The NCAA RecordNovember 4, 1996
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Husch appointed faculty rep at RiderJonathan Husch, professor of geological and marine sciences at Rider, has been appointed faculty athletics representative at Rider.
The faculty representative reports directly to the president and provides counsel to the director of athletics in policy decisions, serves on the Rider Athletic Council, is active in all matters of NCAA compliance, and represents Rider at appropriate conference and NCAA meetings. Husch, who obtained master's and doctoral degrees at Princeton, has served Rider as a teaching member of the faculty for 16 years. He is a 1975 graduate of Colgate.
GENERAL
DIRECTOR OF ATHLETICS Pete Carlon appointed at Texas-Arlington. Carlon had been interim athletics director since May. He also was the school's interim AD for 16 months in 1991-92. ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF ATHLETICS Christ Petrouleas promoted to associate athletics director at Wayne State (Michigan). He was assistant AD. ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF ATHLETICS Wayne State (Michigan) promoted Richard Thompson Jr. from sports information director to assistant director of athletics for sports information and computer operations. COACHES MEN'S BASKETBALL--Joe Kremer named interim coach at New Paltz State, succeeding Paul Clune, who resigned after seven seasons at the school. Clune compiled a 79-99 record at New Paltz State. Kremer had been the top assistant at the school since 1993 ... Brad Bross, the top assistant coach at Lock Haven for the past eight seasons, promoted to head coach. He replaces Dave Blank, who resigned to become assistant director of athletics for development and marketing at Coastal Carolina. MEN'S BASKETBALL ASSISTANTS--Bob Siracuse given additional duties as interim assistant men's coach at New Paltz State. He will continue as men's and women's tennis coach and assistant athletics director for compliance. WOMEN'S BASKETBALL--Kim Basick named head coach at Robert Morris, her alma mater. Basick, who was the school's athlete of the year in 1983, was an assistant coach at Robert Morris from 1983 to 1986. She also coached at Pittsburgh ... Adelphi head coach Bill Zatulskis named at Stony Brook. Zatulskis was head coach at Adelphi for six seasons. WOMEN'S BASKETBALL ASSISTANTS--Delaware announced the resignation of assistant coach Leni Wilson, who will become a head girls' coach at the high-school level ... Anna West appointed at Southern Utah. West was an assistant at Montana State last season ... Steve Fagan selected at St. Francis (New York). He has coached at the high-school level. FOOTBALL--Jim Sweeney, the architect of the most successful period in Fresno State football history, announced his retirement, effective at the conclusion of the 1996 season. Sweeney has spent more than four decades in coaching, including 19 years at Fresno State. He was named head coach in 1976 but left in 1978 to become an assistant coach for the Oakland Raiders. He moved to the St. Louis Cardinals in 1979 for one season and then returned to Fresno State, where he had compiled a record of 141-72-3 as of October 24 ... San Jose State announced the retirement of head coach John Ralston at the conclusion of the current season. Ralston will remain with the athletics department as a special assistant to the athletics director for football. He is in his fourth season at San Jose State but has been coaching 22 seasons in college and professional football. He was the first head coach in the NFL Denver Broncos' history to lead the Broncos to a winning season (in 1973). He was Broncos head coach from 1972 to 1976. MEN'S ICE HOCKEY ASSISTANT--John Giuliotti appointed at Wentworth Institute. WOMEN'S ICE HOCKEY--Minnesota appointed Laura Halldorson as the Gophers' first women's ice hockey coach. Halldorson will initiate the women's hockey program, which will begin play during the 1997-98 season. For the past seven seasons, she has been head coach at Colby. MEN'S LACROSSE ASSISTANT--Seth Ruoss hired at Wentworth Institute. WOMEN'S SOFTBALL--Bob Long named at Wentworth Institute. MEN'S AND WOMEN'S SWIMMING AND DIVING--Dan Gelderloos hired as men's and women's coach at Calvin. A 1994 graduate of Calvin, Gelderloos was a four-year member of the school's swimming and diving team ... Frank Vaccaro appointed head men's and women's coach at Merchant Marine. He has been an assistant swimming coach at Slippery Rock since 1993. MEN'S AND WOMEN'S SWIMMING ASSISTANTS--Laura Gelderloos and former Calvin all-American Mike Lubbers hired as assistant coaches at Calvin. Gelderloos is the sister of new head coach Dan Gelderloos. MEN'S AND WOMEN'S TENNIS--Abilene Christian announced the resignation of head men's and women's coach Ron Elston. In six spring seasons at Abilene Christian, Elston's coaching record was 83-27 in women's dual matches and 73-32 in men's dual matches. He was a three-year tennis letterwinner at Abilene Christian ... Sandy Launstein stepped down after 11 years as head coach at St. Catherine. Assistant coach Lori Finanger was named interim head coach. MEN'S VOLLEYBALL--Jesse Adams named at Westfield State. He also will be intramurals director. WRESTLING ASSISTANT--Joel Sharratt, an NCAA champion in the 190-pound bracket at Iowa, where he was a three-time national finalist, hired as an assistant coach at Lehigh. STAFF ATHLETICS VICE-PRESIDENT--Gardner-Webb promoted Eddie Holbrook to vice-president for athletics and special events. Holbrook has been at Gardner-Webb for the past three years, serving as assistant to the president for athletics and assistant to the vice-president for university relations. SPORTS INFORMATION DIRECTOR--Montevallo named Adam Kelley as sports information director. Kelley was a graduate assistant in the media relations office at Auburn ... Tom Perry hired at Marietta. He was sports editor at The Marietta Times for the past four years. ASSISTANT ATHLETIC TRAINER--Stacy Hayden hired as assistant athletic trainer and equipment manager at Westfield State. CONFERENCES The Big Ten Conference promoted Mary Masters, managing editor and director of sports management, to assistant commissioner for publications and sport management. Charles Bertram, faculty athletics representative at Southern Indiana, elected president of the Great Lakes Valley Conference for a two-year term beginning January 1, 1997. Thomas Kearns, faculty representative at Northern Kentucky, was elected to a two-year term as treasurer. Craig Bohnert named interim director of communications for the Midwestern Collegiate Conference. Bohnert served the MCC in a similar capacity during the 1993-94 basketball season. In January 1991, he began a five-year stint as director of communications for the U.S. Canoe and Kayak Team and was a press officer for the United States Olympic Committee in Barcelona and Atlanta. ASSOCIATIONS Nike women's basketball executive Beth Bass hired as executive director of the Women's Basketball Coaches Association, effective January 1, 1997. Bass succeeds Betty Jaynes, who was named WBCA chief executive officer in August. Bass will oversee internal affairs. She was national sports marketing director at Converse from 1986 through 1995 and managed Nike's women's basketball sports marketing over the past year.
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CONFERENCE MEMBERS North Florida has been accepted as the 12th member of the Peach Belt Athletic Conference, effective July 1, 1997. North Florida, currently a member of the Sunshine State Conference, will be eligible for conference championships beginning in fall 1997. CORRECTION
A story in the October 21 issue of The NCAA News about the reclassification of seven NCAA institutions incorrectly reported details of the reclassification of Mankato State and Norfolk State. Mankato State's ice hockey program moved from Division II to Division I, effective September 1, 1996. Norfolk State will move from Division II to Division AGREEMENTS The Atlantic Coast Conference and BellSouth announced an exclusive marketing agreement that will extend BellSouth's corporate partnership with the ACC through the year 2000. The agreement includes television and marketing involvement with ACC football and basketball and 23 ACC championship events.
NOTABLESWinners of the AT&T Long Distance Awards for college football games played through the weekend of October 19 (week No. 8) are: longest run from scrimmage, 71 yards, Bryan Harmon, Southern Methodist vs. Rice; longest pass play, 86 yards, John Reeves to Isaac Jones, Purdue vs. Ohio State; longest punt average (minimum two punts), 57.5 yards on two punts, Joe Furlow, San Jose State vs. Colorado State; longest punt return, 83 yards, Tim Dwight, Iowa vs. Penn State; longest kickoff return, 98 yards, R. Jay Soward, Southern California vs. Arizona State; and longest field goal, 54 yards, Wade Richey, LSU vs. Kentucky. AT&T provides $400 weekly for each of the six categories to the NCAA Degree-Completion Scholarship Program. Kerri Walsh, a 6-2 outside hitter/middle blocker for Stanford, named Division I player of the week by the American Volleyball Coaches Association. Nebraska-Omaha's Amy Steffel was named player of the week in Division II. In Division III, the honors went to senior middle blocker Anna Thibault of St. Mary's (Minnesota). Kentucky's Kurt Supe was recognized for his community-service efforts by being named the seventh member of the College Football Association Good Works Team. Supe is responsible for organizing 15 Kentucky student-athletes in a pen-pal program that encourages elementary students to read. He also participated in the university's mentor program.
DEATHSJohn Hackett, head football coach at Wayne State (Michigan) in 1946 and 1947, died September 18 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He was 87. Hackett had a 9-7-0 record in two seasons at Wayne State. He also coached at Lawrence Technological University and was a long-time prep coach in the Detroit area. Joseph Szur, a high-school and college athlete in three sports who also played professional baseball and football, died October 13. He was 83. Szur was captain of the Canisius football team in 1936 and received offers to play pro football from the fledgling New York Giants after he graduated in 1937. He earned honorable mention from The Associated Press All-American Hall of Fame in 1936. --Compiled by Sally Huggins |
Husch replaces Joseph Gowaskie, professor of history, who had served as Rider's faculty representative since 1992.