The NCAA News - Record

November 18, 1996

• Calendar
• Girton named senior woman administrator
• General
• Etc.
• Notables
• Deaths

Calendar

Girton named senior woman administrator

Girton will be responsible for budget preparation, scheduling and contracts, facility and event management, and development of strategies to enhance Western Carolina sports programs.

Girton replaces Betty Peele, who retired in June after 33 years as a coach, classroom teacher and the university's first women's athletics administrator.

Girton came to Western Carolina from Purdue, where she is completing requirements for a doctorate in higher education administration. At Purdue, she served as special events coordinator for the alumni association and was color analyst for Purdue women's basketball radio broadcasts during the past three years.

Girton coached women's basketball for 10 years, coaching at Trinity (Illinois), Taylor and Southern Colorado.

GENERAL

CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICERS

Patricia Cormier, vice-president for academic affairs and professor of educational leadership at Winthrop, named president at Longwood ... Monsignor Milam Joseph appointed president at Dallas. He has been serving as interim president.

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF ATHLETICS

South Alabama promoted Hal Williams to assistant athletics director for compliance. Williams has been NCAA coordinator and academic advisor at South Alabama since 1988.

COACHES

MEN'S BASKETBALL--Jim Harrick dismissed as head coach at UCLA, where he served for the past eight years. The institution cited alleged violations of institutional rules as the reason for the action. Assistant coach Steve Lavin was named interim head coach. Harrick, the second most-victorious coach in UCLA history, compiled a 191-63 record at the school and was named national coach of the year in 1995 after leading the Bruins to their 11th NCAA basketball championship. Lavin has been an assistant coach at UCLA for the past five seasons ... Paul Marienthal appointed at Bard.

MEN'S BASKETBALL ASSISTANTS--Ron Grove hired as assistant coach at Vassar. He was an assistant coach at Massachusetts College of Pharmacy ... George Dianni named assistant coach at Bard. Dianni has been a high-school coach.

WOMEN'S BASKETBALL--Michelle Sternes hired at Bard. She was a member of the Florida State basketball team as an undergraduate ... Karen Byrne Reinertson named head coach at Salve Regina. Reinertson was assistant coach for the past nine seasons at Bentley.

WOMEN'S BASKETBALL ASSISTANT--Jeff Gold appointed assistant coach at Bard. He previously was head coach at New Paltz State and Ulster County Community College.

FOOTBALL--Jim Colletto, in his sixth season at Purdue, resigned effective at the end of the 1996 season. Colletto was offensive coordinator at Arizona State and at Ohio State before becoming head coach at Purdue. He also was offensive coordinator at Purdue from 1982 to 1984. Colletto has compiled a 20-40-3 record at Purdue.

MEN'S SOCCER--Iain Dalton, head coach at New York Tech for the past five seasons, resigned. Dalton, who compiled a 39-37-5 record at New York Tech, will return to his native England to pursue personal business interests.

WOMEN'S SOFTBALL--Ashland named Sheilah Lingenfelter, Wittenberg head coach since 1990, as its head coach. Lingenfelter was head coach at Allegheny from 1987 to 1990 and was the National Softball Coaches Association Division III coach of the year in 1988 and 1989. She has a lifetime coaching record of 206-125.

MEN'S AND WOMEN'S SQUASH--Steve Kuzman appointed head men's and women's squash coach at Bard. He has coached squash at Colgate and Stevens Tech and is director of the Capital District Collegiate Squash Federation.

WOMEN'S SWIMMING AND DIVING--Shelia Stepp, assistant coach last season, promoted to head women's coach at Manhattanville. Stepp succeeds John Collins, who retired after 20 years. Stepp also is health and fitness coordinator and director of the college's intramurals program.

MEN'S AND WOMEN'S SWIMMING AND DIVING ASSISTANT--Jennifer Mattson selected as assistant coach for the men's and women's teams at Miami (Florida). Mattson was a manager with the Timberlane Swim Club in Wilmington, Delaware. She replaces Nancy Marley, who became assistant swimming coach at Washington.

STAFF

COLOR COMMENTATOR--Brian Mahoney, a former Manhattan basketball player and head coach who served during the past four years as head coach at St. John's (New York), hired to provide color commentary for men's basketball radio broadcasts at Manhattan during the 1996-97 season.

NCAA NATIONAL OFFICE

Lori Hendricks named NCAA education outreach program coordinator after serving last year as an intern for the Association's education services staff. Previously, Hendricks worked in student development at Ohio State, where she earned a master's degree in sports administration.

ETC.

AGREEMENTS

GTE has become official telecommunications consultant for three athletics conferences -- the Pacific-10, Big Ten and Big 12. As part of the agreements, GTE will provide media support and telecommunications equipment and services to the conferences and will sponsor awards and other programs.

SEMINAR

Coaching education, certification programs and advocacy for quality coaching in sport at all levels will be debated at the National Coaching Forum January 16-18 in Austin, Texas. The forum, sponsored by the National Association for Sport & Physical Education, is designed for coaches, youth sport leaders, leaders in school sport, school policy makers, and college and university coaching educators. More information can be obtained by calling 800/213-7193, extension 417.

NOTABLES

The winners of the AT&T Long Distance Awards for college football games played through the weekend of November 2 (week No. 10) are: longest run from scrimmage, 83 yards, Yasin Reeder, Akron vs. Bowling Green; longest pass play, 80 yards, Jon Denton to Todd Floyd, UNLV vs. Texas Christian; longest punt average (minimum two punts), 52.5 yards on two punts, Andy Russ, Mississippi State vs. Northeast Louisiana; longest punt return, 77 yards, Don Morgan, Nevada vs. New Mexico State; longest kickoff return, (tie) 100 yards, Terry Battle, Arizona State vs. Oregon State, and James Dye, Brigham Young vs. UTEP; and longest field goal, (tie) 51 yards, Jeff McCord, Kansas vs. Iowa State, and Cory Wedel, Wyoming vs. Southern Methodist. AT&T donates $400 weekly for each of the six categories to the NCAA Degree-Completion Scholarship Program.

Missouri offensive back Kenyetta Williams and Miami (Florida) defensive linebacker Tony Coley were named the eighth and ninth members, respectively, of the College Football Association's Good Works Team. Williams has volunteered numerous hours to organizations such as the Ronald McDonald House, the Cancer Research LEFT and the Blind Boone LEFT. His involvement has included speaking to disadvantaged youths regarding goal setting, education, positive thinking and environmental empowerment. Coley has assisted with the Special Olympics and has served as a spokesman at the National Youth Crimewatch convention, and read to elementary students as part of the Literature in the Park program.

Vanessa Wouters, a 6-2 outside hitter at Ohio State, named Division I national player of the week by the American Volleyball Coaches Association. Fiona McPherson of Elon was named in Division II and Jennifer Frodl of Wisconsin-River Falls was selected in Division III.

DEATHS

Mary Ann Edge, a member of the Millsaps athletics staff for 33 years, died October 28 in Jackson, Mississippi. Edge was instrumental in rejuvenating the Millsaps women's athletics program. She began the women's basketball team in fall 1978 and created the men's and women's cross country teams in 1987. Her first love was golf, and she was coach of the men's golf team for 28 years. She also was an outstanding amateur golfer, winning numerous championships. Edge was inducted into the Millsaps College Sports Hall of Fame in 1993, the year she retired.

-- Compiled by Sally Huggins