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The NCAA RecordFebruary 16, 1998
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Grunwald to head volleyball at Auburn
He succeeds Liz Bitzer, who resigned in December. She had been head coach since 1992. Grunwald, top assistant for four years at the school, has been involved with recruiting, practice, home-event management, team travel coordination and scheduling. He joined the Auburn staff after a three-season stint at Florida State as second assistant coach responsible for practice and team travel coordination and other administrative duties. As a freshman at George Mason, Grunwald helped his team to an appearance in the NCAA Men's Volleyball Championship. Before graduating with a bachelor's degree in mathematics in 1991, he netted honorable-mention all-America honors and received first-team all-East recognition in 1988 and 1989. He also competed on the United States Olympic Festival South team in 1987.
Grunwald earned a master's degree in mathematics from Florida State in 1993.
GENERALCHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICERS Texas A&M-Kingsville President Manuel I. Ibanez announced his resignation, effective September 1 ... Edward R. Jackson named chancellor at Southern University, where he has been interim chancellor. DIRECTOR OF ATHLETICS Robert E. Mulcahy III named athletics director at Rutgers. For the past 19 years, Mulcahy has been president and chief executive officer of the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority, which operates facilities such as Giants Stadium, the Meadowlands Racetrack and Continental Airlines Arena. COACHES Baseball--Portland appointed Chris Sperry head coach at his alma mater. Sperry replaces Terry Pollreisz, who resigned after 11 seasons to manage the Everett Aqua-Sox, a team in Major League Baseball's Seattle Mariners' minor-league system. Sperry most recently served as head assistant coach at Portland State. Men's basketball--Cal State Dominguez Hills selected Larry Hauser as head coach ... Stan Morrison, nine-year head coach at San Jose State, resigned, effective at the end of the season ... Alabama will release David Hobbs, head coach since 1992, at the end of the season ... Dave Calloway tapped as interim head coach at Monmouth following the resignation of head coach Wayne Szoke. Women's basketball--Steve Corraro named interim head women's coach at UNLV for the remainder of the season. Corraro succeeds LaDonna McClain, who resigned after compiling an overall record of 7-40 since accepting the head post at the beginning of the 1996-97 season. Corraro serves as director of women's basketball operations at the school. Women's basketball assistants--UNLV announced the resignations of assistant coaches Sheryl Krmpotich and Marcus Payne. Men's and women's fencing--Air Force appointed Abdel Salem head coach, replacing interim coach Denise Chambers. Most recently, Salem served as head coach at the Lone Star Fencing Center, which he founded in Dallas in 1989, and also coached at St. Mark's School in Dallas. Football--Mark Kreydt accepted the head coaching position at Rochester. Football assistants--Kent selected Chris Green as an assistant. Green coached the secondary and fulfilled recruiting duties at Eastern Illinois last season ... Willie Martinez named secondary coach and Jim Boccher named outside linebackers coach at Central Michigan. Martinez was defensive coordinator at Eastern Michigan during the 1997 season and Boccher has been an assistant coach at Ferris State for the last two years ... Ron Miller selected as offensive line coach at Susquehanna ... Rick Villarreal appointed director of football operations at his alma mater, Southern Mississippi. Villarreal, who succeeds Thamas Coleman, had worked in the same position at Texas Christian since March 1995. Women's soccer--Bloomsburg head coach Chuck Laudermilch announced his retirement after eight years at the school, effective immediately. Laudermilch, the only coach in the program's history, will remain at the school as a faculty member of the department of sociology, social welfare and criminal justice ... Three-year coach Mark Salisbury resigned as men's and women's soccer coach at Missouri-Rolla to become the first head coach of the Central Michigan women's soccer program, which is scheduled to participate in its first season of competition in fall 1998. Women's softball--Randolph-Macon Woman's hired Michelle Malebranche as head softball coach. Malebranche, who last coached the sport on the high-school level, assisted with the school's field hockey team earlier this year ... Macalester named Jen Scanlon interim head softball coach ... Luanna Harris selected as head coach of the Southern Mississippi softball program, which will be re-established af-ter being discontinued in 1992. Harris coached and managed the Orlando Wahoos of the Women's Professional Fastpitch League for one year ... Methodist named Ron Simpson head coach, effective in August. He succeeds Brenda Hillman, who has been head softball and volleyball coach for the past three years. Hillman will retain her volleyball duties. For the past two years, Simpson has been head softball coach and assistant women's basketball coach at St. Andrews Presbyterian. Women's softball assistant--Kelly Fackler appointed assistant coach at Randolph-Macon Woman's. Fackler, who played with the Professional Fastpitch Softball League's Orlando Wahoos in 1997, also will assume interim volleyball coaching duties. Men's and women's swimming and diving--La Verne tapped John Hallman as head men's and women's swimming and diving coach. Hallman has served as head swimming and water polo coach at Citrus College since 1988 and, during the past year, assisted with teams at Cal State Northridge and Pomona-Pitzer. Men's tennis--Tim Burke accepted the position of head men's coach at his alma mater, St. Norbert. Burke succeeds Don Rondou, who retired after five seasons but will serve as assistant men's coach during the spring. Burke was an assistant coach with the school's women's team ... St. John's (Minnesota) appointed Jack Bowe head men's tennis coach. He replaces Jim Murphy, who has been coach for the past three seasons. Bowe was head coach at St. Benedict for seven years. Women's tennis--Long Island-Brooklyn selected Wayne Martin as head women's coach. Men's and women's track and field--Mike Johnson hired as head men's and women's track and field coach at Boise State. Women's volleyball--La Verne promoted five-year assistant coach Don Flora to head coach. Flora succeeds Jim Paschal, who resigned after 24 years in the post. Paschal will retain his responsibilities as athletics director, a position he has held since 1992 ... Marge Burkett, head coach at Mankato State for the last 12 years, announced her resignation. Burkett, the school's all-time most-victorious volleyball coach, will assume a full-time teaching post with the school's physical education department. Women's volleyball assistants--LSU named Tonya Johnson and Jackie Bode assistant coaches ... Paul Zickert tapped as assistant volleyball coach at Kent. Zickert was an assistant coach at Loyola (Illinois) last season and coached the Shoreline Volleyball Club (Illinois) for five years. Men's and women's water polo--La Verne selected Timothy Hugar as head coach for its men's and women's programs, which are expected to begin competition in fall 1998. Hugar most recently worked as interim head water polo coach at Slippery Rock. Wrestling--Oregon's Ron Finley announced his resignation, effective at the end of the 1998 season. Finley, who has been head coach since 1970, stands to end his tenure as the school's most-victorious wrestling coach. STAFF Compliance auditor--Jennifer Thole hired as compliance auditor at Kansas. Thole has been an assistant sports information director at Kansas State for the past year and a half. Sports information directors--Dan Mulville appointed sports information director at La Verne, replacing Mark Bagley, who accepted a position in the development department at Western Washington. Mulville has been assistant men's basketball coach since 1995 ... Wallace Dooley Jr. named interim sports information director at Tennessee State. Ticket sales account executive--Kansas named Brandon Parker ticket sales account executive for football. Parker most recently served in the school's promotions office for two years. Athletic trainer--Long Island-Brooklyn promoted Jayne Kitsos to head athletic trainer. She has been interim head athletic trainer since October 1997. Assistant athletic trainer--Dan O'Conner selected as assistant athletic trainer at Long Island-Brooklyn. O'Conner served in a similar capacity at Adelphi. CONFERENCES Mark Simpson, assistant commissioner for media relations at the Mid-Continent Conference since August 1996, resigned, effective March 31. ASSOCIATIONS Robert Dale Morgan, who as vice-president of sports at the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce served as executive director of Peach Bowl, Inc., resigned, effective March 31, to become president and executive director of Atlanta's 2000 Super Bowl host committee. NATIONAL OFFICE STAFF Darrell Gordon hired as membership services representative. Most recently, Gordon was a law clerk for Waite, Shneider, Bayless and Chesley in Cincinnati, Ohio.
ETC.SEMINAR The Women's Soccer Resource Center will host a National Soccer Coaches Association of America Women's Regional Diploma Coaching Course at San Rafel (California) High School 8 a.m.-5 p.m. March 21 and 8 a.m.-1 p.m. March 22. NSCAA national staff coaches Karen Stanley and Lesle Gallimore will instruct the course. The cost is $35 for NSCAA members and $50 for nonmembers. For registration information, call Jenni Liner of the Women's Soccer Resource Center at 415/454-7627. |
Auburn promoted Kris Grunwald from first assistant coach to head women's volleyball coach.