The NCAA Record

May 24, 1999

Scranton names Lambinus as head coach

Scranton has hired Eric Lambinus as head men's soccer coach. For the past year, he has been an assistant coach and administrative intern at Washington (Maryland).

Lambinus competed collegiately in soccer and tennis at Moravian. In soccer, Lambinus served as team captain in addition to being a four-time conference all-star and a two-time regional all-star. Lambinus also earned conference all-star recognition as a tennis player and was an all-district academic selection as well.

Currently, Lambinus works as a certified public accountant and competes as team captain and a starting defender for the Reading Rage, a professional soccer team affiliated with the USISL.

Lambinus earned a master's degree in physical education at East Stroudsburg.

GENERAL

CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICERS

Evergreen President Jane L. Jervis announced retirement plans, effective in the summer of 2000 ... Charles E. Kupchella selected as president at North Dakota. Kupchella has been provost at Southeast Missouri State ... Jacksonville promoted William Meehan to president. Meehan has been acting vice-president for institutional advancement at the school ... Bernard F. O'Connor named president at Allentown, effective July 1. O'Connor has been executive vice-president at the school ... Vanderbilt Chancellor Joe B. Wyatt announced his retirement, effective July 2000 ... Newberry President Peter French announced plans to retire. French has been president at the school since January 1995.

DIRECTOR OF ATHLETICS

Ithaca's Betsy Alden announced her resignation as director of athletics ... Ed Bilik resigned as director of athletics at Springfield, effective May 31. Bilik, who has been athletics director since 1989, has been at Springfield for 40 years. He will remain as the secretary-rules editor and national interpreter for the NCAA Men's Basketball Rules Committee ... Georgia State athletics director Orby Moss resigned ... Bob Roller chosen as director of athletics at Samford. Roller, who has been with the school since 1997, succeeds Stephen C. Allgood ... Chowan athletics director Diane M. Morea resigned to become director of athletics at Frostburg State. Morea has been athletics director at Chowan since October of 1997 ... Northern Iowa's Chris Ritrievi resigned as athletics director to become director of development for intercollegiate athletics at Michigan State ... Texas Southern released athletics director Harold Odom and named Bill Thomas, head football coach, as interim athletics director ... Manhattanville hired Sean Frazier as director of intercollegiate athletics to succeed Karen Peterson. Frazier has been assistant director of athletics at Maine ... Scott Barnes appointed as athletics director at Eastern Washington.

SENIOR WOMAN ADMINISTRATORS

Kings Point named Kim Robinson as senior woman administrator. Robinson will continue as the school's sports information director, a position she has held since June 1996 ... Drexel chose Laura White as senior woman administrator/assistant athletics director ... Adele P. Boyd announced plans to retire as senior woman administrator and associate athletics director at Ursinus, effective at the end of the academic year.

ASSISTANT DIRECTORS OF ATHLETICS

Charles Lang promoted to assistant athletics director for finance and operations at Kings Point. Lang has been with the school for four years, most recently serving as athletics business manager ... South Carolina appointed Craig Curry as assistant athletics director for academics ... Steve Barrick named as assistant athletics director for operations at Belmont. Barrick has been an assistant women's basketball coach at the school ... Texas Christian assistant director of athletics James Sarra chosen as assistant athletics director of compliance at Portland State.

COACHES

Baseball -- Bob Flynn announced plans to retire as head baseball and golf coach at Bates, effective at the end of the 1999 season. Flynn joined the school's athletics department in 1965 as an assistant football coach and baseball coach. He also has been head women's skiing coach at the school ... George Redman resigned as head coach at Central Connecticut State to become a special assistant to the athletics director ... Doug Minnis announced plans to retire as head coach at Missouri Western State, effective July 1. Minnis, who has been the program's only head coach, joined the school in 1969 as head baseball coach and assistant football coach ... Bates promoted Craig Vandersea to head coach to succeed Bob Flynn. Vandersea has been an assistant baseball and football coach.

Baseball assistant -- Pace assistant coach Tim Kelly resigned.

Men's basketball -- Rick Byrd awarded a four-year contract extension through the 2002-03 season ... John Jay appointed Guy Rancourt as head coach. Rancourt has been an assistant coach at New Haven ... Moorhead State named Mike Olson as head coach. Olson, who replaces Dave Schellhase, has been head coach at Black Hills State for the past nine seasons ... John Robic appointed as head coach at Youngstown State ... Miami (Ohio) awarded Charlie Coles a four-year contract extension through the 2003-04 school year ... Buzz Williams added as head coach at Northwestern State ... Longwood appointed Mike Leeder as head coach. Leeder has been associate head coach at Kentucky Wesleyan ... Cleveland State signed Rollie Massimino to a four-year contract as head coach ... Craig Rasmuson hired as head coach at Northern Colorado. For the past five seasons, Rasmuson has been head coach at Lincoln Memorial ... American International added Art Luptowski as head coach. Luptowski has been head coach at Franklin Pierce for 10 seasons ... Jim Ferry resigned as head coach at Plymouth State to become head coach at Adelphi ... Drexel promoted Steven Seymour to head coach to succeed Bill Herrion, who resigned to become head coach at East Carolina. Seymour has been an assistant with the program for eight seasons, including having served as associate head coach since 1995-96.

Men's basketball assistants -- Saint Louis added Randy Bennett and Jim Shaw as assistants. Bennett has been an assis-tant at Pepperdine, and Shaw has been coaching at Portland ... Ron Jirsa hired as senior assistant coach at Dayton. Jirsa was head coach at Georgia. The school also announced that Bill Comar will revert to the position of coordinator of basketball operations, and Brad Burris, formerly coordinator of basketball operations, will assume an administrative post with the university ... Brigham Young named Jeff Judkins as director of basketball operations ... John Dunne selected as an assistant at Siena ... Tennessee-Martin added Dean Martin as an assistant coach ... Mark Cline accepted assistant coaching duties at Virginia Tech ... Stetson chose Brian Cupps as an assistant coach to succeed Andy McClouskey. For the past three seasons, Cupps has been an assistant at Edinboro ... Kansas named Jerod Haase and C.B. McGrath as part-time administrative assistants ... Bryan Galuski added as an assistant coach at Eckerd. Galuski, who replaces Pat Miller, was a member of the school's admissions department and a volunteer assistant coach with the men's basketball team last season ... St. Francis (Pennsylvania) added Michael Summey and Mitch Young as assistants. Summey has been an office assistant for the North Carolina State men's basketball team since 1994. For the past two years, Young has been administrative assistant coach at DePaul ... San Diego named Kyle Smith as associate head coach ... Tom Marryott given additional recruiting duties at Navy. Marryott succeeds Doug Wojcik ... Georgia Southern hired Calvin Sinkfield as an assistant. Sinkfield has been an assistant at Odessa (Texas) Junior College for four seasons ... Saint Francis (Pennsylvania) five-year assistant Andy Helton resigned to become an administrative assistant for men's basketball at Miami (Florida) ... John Fitzpatrick promoted to full-time status to succeed Tim Buckley as an assistant coach at Ball State. Fitzpatrick was a part-time coach with the program last season.

Women's basketball -- Stony Brook chose Trish Roberts as head coach ... John Lo Sasso hired as head coach at John Jay to replace Ula Lysniak, who resigned. Lo Sasso has been a head coach at the high-school level ... Richard Barron resigned as head coach at Sewanee (University of the South) ... Lisa Robinson selected as head coach at Augustana ... St. John's (New York) head coach Charlene Thomas-Swinson resigned to accept a coaching position with the Orlando Miracle of the Women's National Basketball Association ... Hilbert selected Chuck Cieslica as head coach ... CCNY named Derrick Harrison as head coach ... Ruth Henderson selected as head coach at Mansfield ... Fairleigh Dickinson chose Sandra Gordon as head coach ... Rebecca Hays resigned as head coach at Saint Leo to become head coach at Trinity Western University in Langley, Canada.

Women's basketball assistants -- Jerry Lewis and Lisa Rathbun added as assistant coaches at San Jose State. For the past year, Lewis has been an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator at Maryland Eastern Shore, and Rathbun has been an assistant coach at UNLV ... Notre Dame selected Bob MacKinnon as an assistant ... Kathleen Howard resigned as an assistant coach at Montana State ... Belmont appointed Scott Oatsvall as an assistant coach. Oatsvall most recently coach at Tennessee Temple ... Wheeling Jesuit elevated Stephanie Garrett to full-time assistant coach. For the past three seasons, Garrett has been a graduate assistant coach ... UC Irvine hired Elizabeth Sirchia as an assistant. Since 1994, Sirchia has been an assistant at Cal Poly Pomona ... Matthew Schmidt added as an assistant at UMBC. Schmidt has been a graduate assistant of basketball operations at West Virginia since 1998 ... Steve Huber added as an assistant coach at San Diego State ... Saint Francis (Pennsylvania) assistant Stacy Alexander resigned after two seasons to become an assistant coach at Washington State.

Men's and women's cross country -- Curry named Erica Towlson head women's coach.

Field hockey -- Framingham State head field hockey and softball coach Sarah Keough resigned.

Football -- Mike Kemp resigned as head coach at Plymouth State to accept the same position at Utica ... Minnesota-Duluth hired Bob Nielson as head coach to replace Jim Malosky, who retired. Nielson has been head coach at Wisconsin-Eau Claire since 1996.

Football assistants -- Shawn Lutz promoted to defensive line coach at Slippery Rock. Lutz, who succeeds Keith Willis, enters his fourth season as an assistant with the program ... Florida Atlantic added Michael Gribetz, Bob Maddox, Alfredo Roberts, Arnold Romero, Mark Sander and Ronald Sbrissa as assistants ... Western Michigan appointed Sam Pittman as offensive line coach to replace Dave Voth. Pittman has been offensive line coach at Oklahoma for two seasons ... Chris Bache added as linebackers coach and recruiting coordinator at Indiana (Pennsylvania) ... Robert Morris chose Bob Babish as linebackers coach ... Chris Brasfield hired as an assistant coach at Southwest Texas to work with wide receivers ... Lehigh named Brian Murphy as a defensive line coach to succeed Donnie Roberts. Murphy was defensive coordinator and recruiting coordinator at San Diego ... Keeth Matheny accepted offensive coordinator duties at Truman State. Since 1997, Matheny has been offensive coordinator and recruiting coordinator at Scottsdale (Arizona) Community College ... Calvin Williams named as assistant coach at Morgan State. Williams, who played professionally in the National Football League for eight years, has coached on the high-school level ... Mark Pizziferri appointed as associate head football coach at Curry ... Brent Baldwin, an assistant at Ball State, resigned to become offensive coordinator at Anderson ... Massachusetts added Paul Gorham as recruiting coordinator and offensive line coach, Mike Dawson as a graduate assistant and Mitchell Wilkens as video coordinator. The school also elevated Keith Dudzinski to linebackers and special teams coach, Jim Bradley to defensive line coach and Brian Picucci to assistant defensive coach ... Shepherd hired Ernie McCook as offensive line coach to replace Greg Boyce. McCook was the offensive line coach at Frostburg State. The school also named quarterbacks/receivers coach Carmen Felus as offensive coordinator.

Men's and women's golf -- Jonathan Shoom-Kirsch, senior captain of American's men's golf squad, selected as head coach at the school. Shoom-Kirsch will graduate in May ... Bates selected Al Brown as head golf coach to replace retiring head coach Bob Flynn. Brown currently is head men's lacrosse coach at the school and will relinquish his assistant football coaching responsibilities ... Britt Harrison resigned as head men's coach at LSU.

Gymnastics -- Auburn hired Jeff Thompson as head coach to replace Robert Dillard, who retired after 14 years. Thompson has been an assistant at LSU for the past five years.

Men's ice hockey assistant -- Notre Dame assistant coach Tom Carroll resigned ... Chris Wells named as an assistant coach at St. Lawrence. Wells has been an assistant at Western Michigan ... Alaska Fairbanks named Guy Gadowsky as head coach.

Men's and women's lacrosse -- Colgate hired Katrina Silva as head women's coach to replace Cathy Foto, who stepped down to focus on her duties as head field hockey coach. Silva has been head lacrosse coach at Roanoke for three seasons.

Men's soccer -- Teikyo Post chose Rick Bryant as head men's and women's soccer coach ... Andy Coutts appointed as head men's soccer coach and assistant tennis coach at Hamline. Coutts was head boys' soccer coach at the University of Chicago Laboratory School and assistant men's soccer coach at Colgate.

Men's soccer assistant -- Chris Bosworth appointed as an assistant coach at Belmont to replace Phil Klein. Bosworth most recently served as head coach at Stone Ridge (Maryland) High School.

Women's soccer -- Michael Minielli chosen as head coach at Murray State ... New Hampshire College appointed Terry Prouty as head soccer and softball coach. Prouty, who succeeds Peter Tufts and Colleen Kelley, has been assistant director of athlet-ics and assistant women's soccer coach at Keene State for the past two years ... Cal State Hayward appointed Lisa Best as interim head coach ... Arnold Ramirez added as head coach at Ramapo ... Dana Kusjanovic hired as head coach at Portland State. For the past five years, Kusjanovic has been coaching at Northern Colorado ... Plymouth State hired Rebecca Lisack as head coach. Lisack, who succeeds Beth Field, has been an assistant coach at Allegheny ... Amy Brunner named as head women's soccer coach and intramurals director at Swarthmore. For the past two years, Brunner has been assistant soccer and basketball coach at Smith.

Women's soccer assistant -- Belmont selected Alexis Hyrup as an assistant coach to succeed Chris Price. Hyrup has been an assistant coach at Plattsburgh State.

Softball -- Butler head coach Tiffany Strnad resigned.

Men's and women's tennis -- Jim Madrigal chosen as director of tennis at Belmont. Since 1997, Madrigal has been head men's coach ... Eric Ratchford chosen as women's head coach at Robert Morris ... Tony Medvetz hired as women's head coach at Indiana (Pennsylvania) ... Whittier selected head men's tennis coach Anthony Almeida as women's tennis coach and promoted Jim Emerson from men's assistant tennis coach to head men's tennis coach ... Jolyn Smith resigned as head women's coach at Clayton State. Smith has been head coach since the program began in 1996.

Men's and women's tennis assistants -- Belmont hired Mark Srouji as an assistant men's and women's coach ... Marc Pearson selected as men's and women's assistant coach at Colgate.

Men's and women's volleyball -- Jennifer Torns promoted to head women's coach at San Diego to succeed Sue Snyder, who stepped down. Torns has been the program's top assistant for two seasons ... North Carolina-Charlotte chose Patty Dennison as head coach. For the past five seasons, Dennison has been an assistant at Louisville ... Valera Hackett resigned as head coach at Montevallo ... Pepperdine head men's coach Marv Dunphy will join the USA men's national team as an assistant coach through the 2000 Olympics. The school appointed assistant coach Jeff Stork as men's interim volleyball coach for the 2000 season ... Northern Illinois appointed Todd Kress as head women's volleyball coach ... Radford appointed Jerry Pruitt as the program's first full-time head women's coach. Pruitt has coached at Francis Marion for three years ... Sindie Shollenberger chosen as head coach at Bates to replace Marsha Graef, who will become an assistant athletics director at the school.

Men's and women's volleyball assistants -- Sabrina Hernandez and Ben Somera hired as assistants at Oregon State ... Northern Michigan appointed Tracy Seiler as a women's assistant coach. Seiler replaces Todd Dagenais.

STAFF

Athletic training assistants -- Slippery Rock named Kristen DiRocco as assistant athletic trainer ... Doug Padron selected as assistant athletic trainer at Villanova.

Business services -- Lisa Bash-Ward named business officer at Indiana (Pennsylvania).

Corporate sales -- Miami (Florida) appointed Blake James as director of corporate sales. James was director of major gifts at the school.

Facilities -- Indiana (Pennsylvania) selected Ryan Smith as facilities and intramurals director.

Media relations assistants -- Jeff Keiser named assistant media relations director at Portland State ... Texas Tech added Chris Cook and Tammi Hoffman as associate media relations directors.

Recreation -- Peter Tufts selected as director of intramurals and recreation at New Hampshire College. Tufts has been head women's soccer coach at the school since 1982 and has served as women's soccer coach and men's hockey coach since 1988.

Sports information -- John Langdon, sports information director at Belmont, relinquished his duties to become ticket manager at the school. The school elevated assistant sports information director Matt Wilson to sports information director ... Patrick Farabaugh selected as sports information director at St. Francis (Pennsylvania). Farabaugh has been sports information director at Bucknell since January 1998.

Sports information assistant -- Bob Regan resigned as assistant sports information director at Northern Illinois.

Strength and conditioning -- Joe Kenn appointed as head strength and conditioning coach at Utah. Kenn most recently has been director of the strength and conditioning staff at Boise State.

Ticket services -- Western Michigan promoted Don Beyer to ticket manager to replace Greg Menzel. Since 1995, Beyer has served as assistant ticket manager.

CONFERENCES

The Mid-American Conference named Rick Chryst commissioner. Chryst was an assistant commissioner at the Atlantic Coast Conference.

ASSOCIATIONS

The Salt Lake Organizing Committee hired Doug Arnot as managing director of event operations for the 2002 Olympic Winter Games. The organization also appointed Laura Lamando director of licensing.

AGREEMENTS

The National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA) has secured the support of Host Communications, Inc. in providing funding for the recently formed John McLendon Minority Postgraduate Scholarship Awards. Host will contribute $25,000 to the program over the next five years. The awards were announced by NACDA earlier this year, and will be presented to minority senior students who intend to pursue a graduate degree in athletics administration. Each of the 10 annual recipients will receive a $5,000 grant. The program will be administered by the NACDA Foundation. NACDA initiated the program with funding of $250,000 from proceeds from the Kickoff and Pigskin Classics.

The Mobile Alabama Bowl announced a multiyear agreement with Conference USA and a one-year agreement with the Western Athletic Conference to provide their second team selections. The bowl is scheduled to debut at 6:30 p.m. Central time, December 22 on ESPN2.

NEW MEMBERS

Mountain West Conference (Division I, Football I-A), Executive Officer: Craig Thompson, commissioner, Mailing Address: 1855 Telstar Drive, Colorado Springs, CO 80920 -- 719/533-9500. Fax -- 719/533-9512. E-mail -- cthompson@mountainwest conf.com -- President: Albert Yates, Colorado State, Members: Brigham Young University, Colorado State University, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, University of New Mexico, San Diego State University, U.S. Air Force Academy, University of Utah, University of Wyoming.

Affiliated -- Hispanic College Fund, Inc.: Dario O. Marquez Jr., 8301 Greensboro Drive, Suite 300, McLean, VA 22102-3603 -- 703/790-3138, Fax -- 703/790-9546 (P); Walter Nagel, 1133 19th Street NW, Washington, DC 20036 -- 202/736-6216, Fax -- 202/736-6905 (Sec.); Adam Chavarria, One Thomas Circle NW, suite 375, Washington, DC 20005-5802 -- 202/296-5400, Fax -- 202/296-3774 (Exec. Dir.); United States Basketball Writers Association: Bill Benner, Indianapolis Star, 307 N. Pennsylvania Avenue, Indianapolis, IN 46204 -- 317/633-9112, Fax -- 317/633-9209, E-mail -- WJB9876@aol.com (P); Joe Mitch, Missouri Valley Conference, 1000 St. Louis Union Station, Suite 105, St. Louis, MO 63103 -- 314/421-0339, Fax -- 314/421-3505, E-mail -- mitch@mvc.org (Exec. Dir.).

NATIONAL OFFICE

Laronica Conway hired as a public information coordinator. Conway most recently served as public information coordinator at the South Carolina Department of Insurance.

NOTABLES

The following have been named as semifinalists for the Rotary Smith Award, presented to college baseball's player of the year: Josh Bard, Texas Tech; Andrew Beinbrink, Arizona State; Taggert Bozied, San Francisco; Matt Diaz, Florida State; Casey Possum, Texas A&M; Ken Harvey, Nebraska; Bobby Hill, Miami (Florida); Jason Jennings, Baylor; Eric Munson, Southern California; Mario Ramos, Rice; Alex Santos, Miami (Florida); Damon Thames, Rice.

Jack Lengyel, director of athletics at Navy, has been chosen by the National Invitation Tournament to be the recipient of the 18th NACDA/NIT Athletics Directors Award. Lengyel has been the athletics director at Navy for 11 years.

The Intercollegiate Tennis Association named Michal Chmela, a junior at LSU, and Vanessa Castellano, a senior at Georgia, as national players of the month for April. The association also named Texas A&M's Dumitru Caradima and Shuon Madden and Stanford's Teryn Ashley and Marissa Irvin as men's and women's national doubles teams of the month.

Chuck Neinas was selected as recipient of the National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame's Outstanding Contribution to Amateur Football award, presented annually to the person whose efforts has positively impacted amateur football. Neinas formerly served as executive director of the College Football Association and currently serves as executive director of Neinas Sports Services in Boulder, Colorado.

John Toner, Connecticut athletics director and former NCAA president, has been named recipient of the Outstanding Contribution Award at the 46th Annual UConn Club Awards Dinner. Toner joined Connecticut athletics in 1966 as head football coach. When he became athletics director in 1969, he retained his head coaching duties for two more years. Toner also has served as president of the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics and the Eastern College Athletic Conference.

Paul Casey and Shauna Estes named Rolex College Golfers of the Month for April. Casey, a sophomore at Arizona State, captured the Pacific-10 Conference championship and Estes, a junior at Georgia, won the Southeastern Conference championship.

The College Golf Foundation, in cooperation with MasterCard International, announced the following six winners of the second annual MasterCard Graduate Scholarship Awards: Division I -- David Searle, Stanford; Kendy Kuczka, Southern Methodist. Division II -- Thomas Moore, High Point; Marsha Jance, St. Joseph's (Indiana). Division III -- Andrew Wilkinson, Denison; Gina Cesaretti, Cornell. The awards are presented to graduating varsity collegiate golfers planning to continue on to an accredited postgraduate program.

The following individuals were selected as regional winners of the inaugural National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics/Continental AD of the Year award: Division I-A -- Al Vanderbush, Army; C.M. Newton, Kentucky; Bill Byrne, Nebraska; Jim Livengood, Arizona. Division I-AA/I-AAA -- Bob Marcum, Massachusetts; Paul Griffin, South Florida; Bill Cords, Marquette; Gary Cunningham, UC Santa Barbara. Division II -- Deborah Chin, New Haven; Phil Roach, Rollins; Jerry Hughes, Central Missouri State; Rudy Carvajal, Cal State Bakersfield. Division III -- Rocco Carzo, Tufts; Thomas Kinder, Bridgewater (Virginia); Frank O'Brien, Wisconsin-Stevens Point; Judy Sweet, UC San Diego.

DEATHS

Matthew Weiner, a member of the varsity Princeton swimming and diving team, died of a cardiac arrest on March 22 while playing basketball with teammates. Weiner competed in the 200-yard butterfly, individual medley and 500-yard freestyle events.

Massachusetts junior lacrosse player Eric Sopracasa died after being struck in the chest with a ball during practice. Sopracasa was 21.

Billy "Red" Hendrix, former LSU football player, died May 4 at the age of 64. Hendrix, a left defensive end, was captain of the 1958 national champion LSU football team. Hendrix coached on the high-school level and at Northeastern Louisiana before retiring as a high-school principal.

--Compiled by Leilana McKindra