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The NCAA RecordOctober 26, 1998
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Big 12 selects Weiberg as commissioner
The Big 12 Conference has chosen Kevin Weiberg as its commissioner, effective January 2. Weiberg replaces Steve Hatchell, who resigned, and interim commissioner Dave Martin, associate athletics director at Oklahoma State. Weiberg comes to the Big 12 from the Big Ten Conference, where he most recently served as deputy commissioner of the conference, a position he had held since August. Before becoming deputy commissioner, Weiberg had been associate commissioner/chief operating officer at the Big Ten since 1989. From 1987 to 1989, Weiberg fulfilled associate athletics director responsibilities at Maryland. He also spent seven years working in various capacities within the Wichita State athletics department, including associate athletics director, assistant athletics director and sports information director.
Weiberg earned a bachelor of science degree in education from Kansas State and a master of science degree in athletics administration from Western Illinois.
GENERAL
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER Francis Mertz, president of Fairleigh Dickinson, announced plans to retire effective June 1999. DIRECTORS OF ATHLETICS Donald F. Staffo assumed interim athletics director responsibilities at Stillman. Staffo will continue to serve as professor in and chairman of the school's department of health, physical education and recreation ... Curry athletics director Pam Samuelson resigned ... Albany named Robert Ford, head football coach at the school for 26 seasons, interim director of athletics. Ford, who succeeds Milton E. Richards, previously was athletics director at the school from 1977 to 1982. ASSISTANT DIRECTORS OF ATHLETICS
Morgan State named Jerome James as assistant athletics director for external affairs. James most recently has been director COACHES Baseball--Stillman selected Jimmy Roshell as coach ... Lakeland selected John Weber as head baseball coach and sports information director. Weber was an assistant baseball coach at Lewis. Baseball assistants--Chicago hired David B. Grewe III as assistant baseball coach and assistant sports information director for the 1998-99 school year. Grewe is a 1998 graduate of Dayton ... Marietta selected Darryl Morhardt as pitching coach. Morhardt has coached at Hartford, Gateway (Connecticut) Junior College and Western Connecticut State ... Jason Bartelt appointed assistant coach at Lakeland. Men's basketball--Chris Casey, assistant men's basketball coach at St. Peter's, hired as head coach and recruiting coordinator at Rutgers-Newark ... Oliver Purnell, head coach at Dayton, signed a 10-year agreement that will supplement his existing contract. Men's basketball assistants--Stacey Palmore hired as an assistant at Erskine. Palmore spent the 1997-98 season as an assistant at Lander ... Pete Broaca selected as an assistant at Springfield. Broaca currently teaches physical education at the middle-school level and is a former head coach at Coast Guard and Western New England ... Adelphi hired Ted Hotaling and Jeff Donato as assistants ... Morgan State chose Lamont Pennick as an assistant. Pennick has been director of physical fitness at the Towson (Maryland) YMCA ... Steve Weemer added as an assistant at Eastern Illinois ... Methodist hired David Smith as an assistant ... Pat Plunkett chosen as assistant coach at Niagara ... San Diego State appointed John Astorquia as an assistant ... Michael Agostino named as an assistant coach at St. Joseph's (New York) for 1998-99 ... Wentworth Institute selected Tom Ryser as an assistant. Ryser most recently coached at the high-school level ... Pittsburgh-Johnstown hired Adrian Batts as an assistant. Most recently, Batts coached at the high-school level ... Texas-Arlington added Scott Cross as an assistant to replace Buzz Williams. Cross is a recent graduate of the school ... Carey Keyes and Matt Weaver appointed assistant coaches at Eastern Mennonite. Women's basketball--Carol Meegan named head coach at Rutgers-Newark. Meegan, who previously served as head women's basketball coach at the school from 1988-90, has been head women's volleyball coach at Armstrong Atlantic State for the past five seasons. Women's basketball assistants--Holy Cross selected Catherine DiGiacinto as an assistant. DiGiacinto most recently played and served as head coach of the Horsholm Basketball Club, a professional team in Denmark ... Adelphi added Erik Connolly, T. C. McAleavey and David Waites as assistants ... Mollie McClure appointed interim assistant coach at North Carolina-Asheville, succeeding Beth Kane, who became an assistant at Wake Forest. McClure was an assistant at South Carolina ... Plattsburgh State named Kerry Chaping as an assistant. Field hockey--Kim Kos selected as head coach at Regis. Men's and women's golf--Rick Hamilton selected as head coach at Adelphi. Hamilton will continue to work as assistant director of recreation at the school, a post he has held for two years ... Brian Miller, head men's basketball coach at Lakeland, accepted expanded duties as head women's golf coach at the school. Women's ice hockey--Deb Lien announced as head coach at Concordia-Moorhead. The school plans to field a women's club team during the 1998-99 season and compete at the varsity level in 1999-2000. From 1997-98, Lien served as an assistant hockey coach at Moorhead (Minnesota) High School. Men's lacrosse--Preston Chapman accepted the head coaching responsibilities at Alfred, succeeding Matt Kerwick. Chapman coached at Elmira for eight years in addition to working as an admissions counselor, and most recently, as assistant director of admissions at Elmira. Women's lacrosse--Goucher hired Jennifer Hart as head women's lacrosse coach and assistant field hockey coach. Hart has been head women's lacrosse coach at College of New Jersey, where she guided the team to a perfect record and national title in 1998. Men's and women's skiing--Smith announced Steven Samolewicz as head men's and women's coach succeeding Teresa Collins, who left to pursue opportunities in athletics administration. Men's and women's soccer--Godwin Ihejeto appointed coach at Stillman ... Matt Grandstand named head men's and women's coach at Lakeland. Since 1996, Grandstand has been head coach at Page (Tennessee) High School. Men's and women's soccer assistants--Lakeland added Jen Burchett as an assistant ... Russell Sage College hired Sherry Domagala as an assistant coach. For the past four seasons, Domagala has competed in the school's soccer program. Softball--Mark Voisard accepted the head coaching post at Samford ... Merchant Marine chose Nicci Hays as head softball coach, head women's basketball coach and assistant athletics recruiting coordinator. For the past three years, Hays has coached in the under-12 and under-16 age groups for the Hannibal Gold of the Missouri State Amateur Softball Association ... Ferris State hired Chad Haberland as an assistant. Haberland was a volunteer assistant with the program last season in addition to working as assistant varsity softball coach at Bullock Creek (Michigan) High School from 1996-98. Softball assistants--Erin Quaglia named top assistant at Brown ... Stephanie DeFeo chosen as an assistant at Texas-San Antonio. DeFeo has been an assistant softball coach at Southwestern Louisiana ... Jennie Vargas accepted assistant coaching responsibilities at North Carolina-Wilmington. Men's and women's swimming--Adelphi chose Linda Jelovich as head men's and women's coach. Jelovich was an assistant during the the 1997-98 season ... Ursinus selected Tammy John as men's and women's head coach ... Richard Crane chosen as head women's swimming and diving coach at Western Connecticut. Men's and women's swimming assistants--Purdue hired Tim Kelly as a men's assistant. For the past three years, Kelly has coached at the Curl-Burke Swim Club in Damascus, Maryland ... Keiichiro Yoshida chosen as assistant men's and women's coach at Kutztown, replacing Chris Gally ... American added Steve Schadt as an assistant. Schadt has been a men's assistant coach at California. Men's and women's tennis--Gary Victor elevated to director of tennis at Cal State Northridge. Victor, who has been head women's coach at the school since August 1997, will become head men's coach. The school plans to field a men's tennis squad in fall 1999. Men's track and field--Chad Fickbohm hired as men's and women's track and field coach at Buffalo State. Most recently, Fickbohm served as head cross country and assistant track and field coach at St. Cloud State. Men's track and field assistants--Purdue added Lissa Olson and David Kaiser as assistants for men's track and field. Olson was associate head men's and women's track and field and cross country coach at Washington State. Kaiser served as co-head women's track and field coach and administrative assistant for men's and women's track and field at Clemson. Men's and women's volleyball--Sean Byron appointed head men's and women's coach at East Stroudsburg, succeeding Santiago Restrepo, who became assistant women's volleyball coach at Saint Louis. Bryon has spent four years coaching men's and women's volleyball at Springfield, including the last two as head men's coach ... Wayne Lem chosen as head women's coach at Regis. Lem formerly served as head coach at Boston College and Harvard ... Tina Phillips, assistant director of athletics and recreation and head softball coach at Russell Sage for the past three years, accepted additional duties as head women's volleyball coach. Men's and women's volleyball assistant--Jeff Willems hired as an assistant at Lakeland. Willems has been a coach at the high-school level. Wrestling--Lakeland chose Noel Peterson as head coach. STAFF Academic services--Morgan State named Demetrius Allen as assistant academic coordinator. Allen has been a professional football player with the Atlanta Falcons of the National Football League and the Calgary Stampeders of the Canadian Football League. Athletic trainer--Diane Turgeon hired as an athletic trainer at Morgan State. Most recently, Turgeon was an athletic trainer at St. Margaret's Hospital in Peru, Illinois, and Illinois Valley Community College. Development--Georgia State selected Mina Yi as director of development. Yi most recently was a development officer for the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences at Georgia. Marketing--Colleen Becker resigned as marketing director at Stetson to accept a position as director of special events in the president's office at the school. Publications--Mike Sheridan appointed director of publications at Villanova. Sports information--Russell Sage awarded tennis coach Jeffrey Bloomberg additional responsibilities as sports information director. Sports information assistants--Wichita State hired John Barker Jr. as an assistant sports information director. Most recently, Barker has been with the sports information office at Southern Colorado ... Northern Illinois hired Bob Regan as assistant sports information director, replacing Joanne Hoey. Regan has been with the DeKalb Daily Chronicle for six years, most recently serving as sports editor. CONFERENCES Noreen Morris elevated to assistant commissioner at Conference USA. Morris has been director of legislative services since September 1996. AGREEMENTS Host Communications, Inc., announced new agreements with the Builders Square Alamo Bowl, CompUSA Florida Citrus Bowl and Toyota Gator Bowl through 2001. According to the new agreement, Host has the exclusive radio and publishing rights to the Builders Square Alamo Bowl, radio rights for the CompUSA Florida Citrus Bowl and publishing rights for the Toyota Gator Bowl. The Alamo Bowl will be played December 29 in San Antonio, and the Citrus and Gator Bowls will be played on January 1, 1999, in Orlando and Jacksonville, Florida, respectively. ASSOCIATIONS
The National Association of Collegiate Women Athletic Administrators elected and installed the following officers for 1998-99: Bridget Belgiovine, NCAA, president-elect; Jane Meyer, Wisconsin-La Crosse, board NATIONAL OFFICE Jennifer Williams appointed human resources coordinator II. Williams was human resources manager at Ameritech in Indianapolis ... Kendyl Baugh hired as assistant director of the Division I men's basketball championship. For the past three years, Baugh has been with Conference USA, most recently serving as assistant director of championships and marketing ... Lori Satterfield hired as manager of corporate marketing. Satterfield most recently worked in public relations for the Indiana Black Expo and promotions for the National Basketball Association's Indiana Pacers. SEMINARS The National Soccer Coaches Association of America will present the ninth annual Men's Soccer Symposium on December 12 in conjunction with the Division I Men's Soccer Championship in Richmond, Virginia. Featured clinicians include Steve Sampson, former U. S. National Team head coach, Bob Bradley, head coach of Major League Soccer's Chicago Fire, and Jeff Tipping, NSCAA director of coaching and head coach at Muhlenberg. The NSCAA also will present the fifth annual Women's Soccer Symposium on December 5 in conjunction with the Division I Women's Soccer Championship in Greensboro, North Carolina. Featured clinicians include Tony DiCicco, head coach of the U.S. Women's National Team; Lauren Gregg, head coach of the U.S. Women's U-20 Team; Shannon Cirovski, head coach of the U.S. Women's U-18 Team; and Colleen Hacker, former coach and current sports psychology professor at Pacific Lutheran. For registration information about the symposiums, call 800/458-0678.
NOTABLESOklahoma State's Charles Howell and Texas Christian's Angela Stanford were recognized as Rolex College Golfers of the Month for September. Howell, a sophomore, captured individual medalist honors at the Ping/Golfweek Preview and Stanford, a junior, won the UNM Dick McGuire Invitational. The following 12 football players were announced as semifinalists for the 29th Annual Rotary Lombardi Award: Anthony Cesario, Colorado State; Ed Chester, Florida; Jared DeVries, Iowa; Kris Ferris, UCLA; Aaron Gibson, Wisconsin; Jon Jansen, Michigan; Andy Katzenmoyer, Ohio State; Jevon Kearse, Florida; Dat Nguyen, Texas A&M; Montae Reagor, Texas Tech; Grey Ruegamer, Arizona State; and Matt Stinchcomb, Georgia. The Lombardi award is presented annually to college football's top lineman. Former Montana football coach Don Read and former Montana athletics director Harley Lewis were inducted into the school's sports hall of fame. Read, the school's winningest coach, lead the football team to its only national championship in 1995. Lewis worked as director of athletics at the school from 1975 to 1989. Dave Hart Sr. was named winner of the Homer Rice Award, presented by the NCAA Division I Athletic Directors Association to an individual who has given significant and meaningful contributions to intercollegiate athletics. Hart was an assistant football coach at Kentucky and Navy and head football coach at Pittsburgh before becoming an athletics administrator, most recently serving as commissioner of the Southern Conference from 1986 to 1991. Sharon E. Taylor, director of athletics at Lock Haven, was named National Administrator of the Year by the National Association of Collegiate Women Athletic Administrators. Taylor, who has been athletics director at Lock Haven since 1987, served as field hockey coach at the school from 1973 to 1995, collecting six national championships and building a record of 331-96-27. Taylor also has been president of the Eastern College Athletic Conference, the Eastern Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women and vice president for Division III of the AIAW. |