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Grant steps down as women's AD at Iowa

Currently, Grant holds positions on the NCAA Division I Academics/Eligibility/Compliance Cabinet and the cabinet's Subcommittee on Amateurism and Agents. She has served as women's athletics director at Iowa since the department's establishment in 1973. Grant coached and played field hockey in Scotland and Canada before coming to Iowa in 1969.

A founding member of the Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women, she fulfilled president-elect, president and past-president duties with the organization from 1979 to 1982. Grant also was a member of the board of directors for the National Association of Collegiate Women Athletic Administrators and served as president from 1987 to 1989.

A native of Scotland, Grant graduated from Dunfermline College of Physical Education in 1956 before earning a bachelor's degree in physical education from Iowa in 1969. She also earned a master's degree and doctorate in sports administration from Iowa.

GENERAL

DIRECTORS OF ATHLETICS

Carl R. Clapp was hired as athletics director at St. Mary's (California). Clapp has been director of physical education and athletics at Redlands since 1995 ... Frank Pergolizzi was chosen as director of athletics at Southeastern Louisiana to succeed interim athletics director Richard Sharp. Since 1998, Pergolizzi has been athletics director at East Tennessee State ... Karla K. Gavin was promoted to athletics director at Upper Iowa, replacing Paul Rudolph. Gavin has been with the school for eight years and most recently has been athletics media relations director/senior woman administrator ... Coastal Carolina athletics director Dave Blank resigned to become athletics director at Drake ... Dixon Farmer was chosen as athletics director at Occidental ... Washington State appointed Jim Sterk as athletics director ... Wingate named Doreen McAfee as athletics director. Replacing Beth L. Murray, McAfee most recently has served as president of National Scholarship Consultants ... St. Scholastica promoted Dana Moore to athletics director to replace James Datka. Moore also has been head volleyball coach since 1997 and will retain coaching responsibilities ... North Carolina-Asheville appointed Joni Comstock as athletics director. Comstock succeeds Tom Hunnicutt, who retired. For the past three years, Comstock has been senior associate athletics director at Purdue.

SENIOR WOMAN ADMINISTRATOR

Risa Ott was chosen as assistant athletics director for compliance and academics/
senior woman administrator at Pace. Ott most recently was an intern in the school's athletics department and formerly worked at the Women's Sports Foundation.

Clemson elevated Becky Bowman to associate athletics director for NCAA compliance ... Columbia named Al Langer as associate director of athletics for external affairs ... Pace promoted David Bierwirth to associate athletics director for marketing. Since 1998, Bierwirth has been assistant athletics director for marketing.

ASSISTANT DIRECTORS OF ATHLETICS

Liz Abel was promoted to assistant athletics director for sports information at Utah. Abel has been with the school since 1983 and most recently has been sports information director ... Clemson appointed Eric Baumgartner as assistant athletics director for NCAA compliance ... Dave Fontaine was promoted to assistant athletics director at Utica. Fontaine will continue as intramural director and head softball coach ... GC&SU assistant athletics director Duward Whelchel resigned to accept a position in business in Atlanta. Whelchel also was head men's and women's tennis coach for 13 years, capturing two men's and five women's conference championships ... Al Carbone was promoted to assistant athletics director for sports information at Quinnipiac. Carbone has been the school's sports information director since August 1999 ... Christine Hodgdon accepted responsibilities as assistant athletics director and head women's lacrosse coach at New England College ... Siena chose Theresa Wenzel as assistant director of athletics for business operations ... Charlie Davis resigned as assistant athletics director for student-athlete enhancement and community programs at Wake Forest ... Central Washington hired Lyndon Wieseman as assistant athletics director for resource development, replacing Bill McAllister, who was serving in an interim capacity after the resignation of Brett Manock. Wieseman has been athletics development officer at Dakota State University ... Eddie Payne was hired as assistant athletics director for development and head men's basketball coach at Greensboro. Payne was head coach at Oregon State from 1995 to 2000 ... Ashland promoted Rob Zinkan to assistant athletics director. Zinkan has been director of marketing and promotions for athletics since November 1997 ... Eric Harrison was named as assistant director of athletics for sports media relations at Lehman.

COACHES

Baseball -- Northwest Nazarene selected Tim Onofrei as head coach ... Sherman Corbett was added as head coach at Texas-San Antonio ... Ken Harring Jr. was chosen as head coach at Saint Anselm ... UC Irvine hired John Savage as head coach. The program is scheduled to be reinstated during the 2001-02 academic year and compete in the spring of 2002. For the past four seasons, Savage has been pitching coach and recruiting coordinator at Southern California ... West Chester awarded head coaching responsibilities to Chris Calciano.

Baseball assistants -- Dan McDonnell was selected as an assistant coach at Mississippi ... California chose Ron Witmeyer as an assistant coach ... Mike Weathers was selected as associate head coach and Troy Buckley was appointed as an assistant coach at Long Beach State.

Men's basketball -- Texas-Dallas named Terry Butterfield as head coach ... Tom Oswald was hired as head coach at Texas Lutheran. Oswald, who succeeds Jim Shuler, has been head coach at North Dakota State College of Science ... Gino Valente was appointed as head coach at New England College ... Mike Brey, head coach at Delaware, signed a five-year contract extension through the 2006-07 season ... Ed Conroy, head coach at Francis Marion, resigned to become director of men's basketball operations at Tulsa. In three seasons at Francis Marion, Conroy compiled a 41-40 record ... North Carolina's Bill Guthridge retired after three seasons as head coach and 30 seasons as an assistant. Guthridge led squads to Final Four appearances in two of his three seasons as head coach ... David Paulsen succeeded Harry C. Sheehy as head coach at Williams. For the past three years, Paulsen has been guiding the program at Le Moyne ... Kent State awarded head coach Gary Waters with a six-year contract extension through June 30, 2006. Waters, named Mid-American Conference coach of the year for the last two years, has led the program since 1996.

Men's basketball assistants -- Barry Sanderson accepted the position of assistant coach at Wake Forest ... Dagan Nelson was appointed as an assistant coach at New York University ... Illinois added Billy Gillespie and Norman Roberts as assistant coaches ... Randy Dunton was hired as an assistant at Binghamton. Dunton has been athletics director and head men's basketball coach at Marshalltown Community College in Marshalltown, Iowa ... Tulsa elevated assistant coach John Phillips to associate head coach ... Gettysburg added Paul Redfern as an assistant coach ... Lamar Reddicks accepted duties as an assistant coach at Harvard ... Northern Illinois chose Andre Peavy as an assistant ... Cuonzo Martin was appointed as an assistant coach at Purdue ... Southern Mississippi elevated assistant coach Kyle Roane to assistant head coach and selected Luster Goodwin as an assistant coach ... Howard Moore was promoted to full-time assistant coach at Bradley. Moore most recently has been an administrative assistant ... Virginia Commonwealth assistant Chris Cheeks resigned to assume an assistant coaching post at West Virginia.

Women's basketball -- California (Pennsylvania) chose Darcie Vincent as head coach ... Ashley Smith accepted responsibilities as head coach at Texas Lutheran, replacing Kim Callicoatte. Smith has been assistant women's basketball and assistant softball coach at Gettysburg ... Manhattanville selected Carla N. Debro, most recently an assistant at Maine, as head coach ... John McCullough was selected as head coach at Oklahoma Baptist ... Southern appointed Sandy Pugh as head coach ... Tracy Aldridge was hired as head women's basketball and cross country coach at Westminster (Missouri) ... South Dakota State appointed assistant coach Aaron Johnston as head coach. Johnston, who has served as interim head coach at the end of last season, replaces Nancy Neiber ... Shaw named Jacques Curtis as head coach.

Women's basketball assistants -- Maryland named Allison Jones as an assistant coach and Beth Deskins as women's basketball administrative assistant ... Linda Hill-MacDonald was added as an assistant coach at South Carolina ... Spring Hill appointed Annie Schaben as an assistant coach ... Karen Aston was promoted to women's associate head coach at Texas. Aston enters her third year as an assistant coach with the program ... James Madison named Kim Hairston as an assistant coach ... Gaye Chapman was added as an assistant coach at Temple ... Syracuse named Darren Bennett as an assistant. For the past two seasons, Bennett has been an assistant at Temple ... Joe DeAntonio was awarded duties as first assistant coach at Manhattan. From 1983 to 1995, DeAntonio was head coach at Mount Aloysius College ... Chattanooga added Angela Crosby as an assistant coach ... Jeni Garber was hired as an assistant coach at Bradley. For the past two seasons, Garber has led the program at Normal West (Illinois) High School and also is a former assistant at Missouri and Minnesota State-Mankato ... Miami (Ohio) selected Jennifer Jacoby as an assistant. For the past two seasons, Jacoby has been an assistant at Indiana ... Jennifer Griffin was promoted to full-time assistant coach at Midwestern State. Griffin, who has been a graduate assistant coach, replaces Tonya Stane ... James Howard was added as an assistant coach at George Mason.

Men's and women's cross country -- John Crooke was selected as head men's and women's cross country and assistant indoor and outdoor track coach at Wesleyan (Connecticut). For the past two years, Crooke has been head men's and women's cross country and track and field coach at Hiram ... Greensboro added Jill Goodhind as head men's and women's coach. In 1999, Goodhind served as an assistant volleyball coach with the school ... Tulsa awarded head cross country and track and field coaching responsibilities to Steve Gulley ... Chris Pio was chosen as head coach and coordinator of men's and women's cross country and track and field at Knox ... Todd Harbour was chosen as head coach at Baylor.

Equestrian -- Texas A&M appointed Tana Buckner as head coach.

Field hockey assistant -- Lisa Kadien was hired as an assistant coach at Cornell. For the past year, Kadien has been athletics director, head field hockey and head lacrosse coach at Foxcroft School in Middleburg, Virginia.

Football -- McNeese State elevated Tommy Tate to head coach, replacing Kirby Bruchhaus. Tate, who was assistant head coach and defensive coordinator last year, has fulfilled duties as interim head coach since June 6 ... Lloyd Carr, head coach at Michigan, was awarded a contract extension through the 2005 season. Carr begins his sixth season as head coach ... UNLV head coach John Robinson signed a contract extension through the 2002 season.

Football assistants -- DePauw appointed Jeff McMartin as an assistant football and track coach and named Neil Kazmierczak as assistant football coach and strength and conditioning coordinator ... Bill Young accepted the position of assistant coach at Greensboro ... Louisiana Tech chose Randy Bates as defensive backs coach, Todd Howard as linebackers coach, Todd Monken as running backs coach and recruiting coordinator, Pete Perot as offensive line coach and Rob Spence as quarterbacks coach and co-offensive coordinator ... Tim Tibesar was added as an assistant at Cornell. For the past year, Tibesar has served as offensive line coach at California ... Wisconsin-Stout added Rod Carey as co-offensive coordinator and Dick Weinberger as wide receivers coach ... Bob Connelly and R. Todd Littlejohn were appointed as assistants at San Jose State. Connelly, most recently an assistant at Cal State Northridge, will be offensive line coach and Littlejohn, an assistant at Utah State for two seasons, will be defensive backs coach ... Ray Wright was named football scouting and college personnel director at Cornell. Wright has been with the National Football League's Washington Redskins since 1997, most recently working as director of player programs ... Saint Peter's elevated Lou Zampella to defensive coordinator and chose Jon Chevalier as running backs coach and running game coordinator and Troy Lehrer as receivers coach. The school also reassigned receivers coach Erik Van Boeckel as quarterbacks coach ... Corey Russell was named as an assistant at Southern Utah.

Men's and women's golf -- Coastal Carolina chose Allen Terrell as director of golf and head men's coach ... Iowa State selected Jay Horton as head men's coach.

Men's and women's golf assistant -- Eric Toomey was added as men's and women's assistant coach at Iowa State.

Men's and women's ice hockey assistant -- A.J. Baker resigned as assistant coach at Alabama-Huntsville.

Men's and women's lacrosse -- Bill Dirrigl was hired as head men's coach at Rutgers to succeed Tom Hayes. Dirrigl has been an assistant at Loyola (Maryland) for the eight seasons, including the last two as associate head coach ... Methodist hired Heather Stafford as head women's coach. The program is slated to begin competition in the fall of 2001. Stafford has been a lacrosse coach with the English Lacrosse Association.

Men's and women's lacrosse assistants -- Dartmouth named Kate Graw as a women's assistant coach ... Aimee Seward was chosen as women's assistant lacrosse and field hockey coach at Gettysburg.

Men's soccer assistants -- Mississippi named Louis Richard as an assistant ... Darren Nowaczyk was added as an assistant at Saint Joseph's (Indiana).

Women's soccer -- Campbell named Patrick Ferguson as head women's coach ... Peace awarded head coaching duties to Monica Hall ... Scott Stan accepted the position of head coach at Manchester. Stan has been head boys' and girls' coach at Illiana Christian (Illinois) High School ... David Vivino was appointed as head coach at Bloomfield ... Tony Martelli was awarded duties as head coach at Georgia State ... New England College named Carrah Fisk as head women's soccer and head softball coach ... Rachel Hoffman was announced as head coach at Alvernia, succeeding Wendy Keene. Hoffman has been an assistant coach at the high-school level ... Bill Solberg was promoted to head coach at Houston, replacing Chris Huston, who resigned. Solberg spent one season as top assistant coach ... Southern Mississippi named Matt Clark as head coach ... John H. Gibson was hired as head coach at Springfield.

Women's soccer assistants -- Cornell hired Keeley Bates as an assistant. For the past two seasons, Bates has served as a graduate assistant coach at Texas Christian ... Cat Broshears and Katherina Kakoyianni were added as assistants at Northern Iowa.

Softball -- Baylor chose Glenn Moore as head coach to replace Paula Young. For the past three seasons, Moore has led the program at LSU ... Christine Bouffard was hired as head softball coach, associate volleyball coach and sports information director at Edgewood. Most recently Bouffard, who succeeds Sue Gerenstein, has been in the public relations and ticket sales areas of Major League Baseball's Chicago White Sox.

Softball assistants -- Bo Reid was selected as an assistant coach at Mississippi State ... Jenny Condon was appointed as an assistant coach at Oregon State ... Utah chose Robert Wagner as an assistant.

Men's and women's swimming -- Texas appointed Michael Walker as women's co-head coach. Walker has been co-head swimming coach at California since 1997 ... Sandra Brindamour was hired as head swimming coach and aquatics director. Brindamour has been an assistant women's coach and assistant aquatics director at Wagner for two seasons ... Ashland awarded head men's and women's coaching duties to Paul Graham. Since 1995, Graham has served as an assistant coach at Wright State.

Men's and women's swimming assistant -- Adam Crossen was added as assistant coach at California.

Men's and women's tennis -- CCNY chose Ronaldo Salomon as head men's and women's coach ... Shawn Siegele accepted responsibilities as head coach at Emporia State ... Rod Ray accepted the position of men's and women's head coach at Wofford ... Head men's coach Barry Schoonmaker accepted additional duties as manager of the Reis Tennis Center. Schoonmaker has led the men's program for six seasons ... Dave Snyder, head men's coach at Texas for 28 seasons, announced his retirement. Snyder, who also was head coach at Arizona, closes a career that spans 42 seasons and includes a 697-226 dual-match record

Men's and women's tennis assistants -- Texas selected Meredith Geiger-Walton as assistant women's coach. Since 1998, Geiger-Walton has been director of women's tennis at St. Stephen's Tennis Academy ... Mississippi State appointed Michael Metz as an assistant women's coach.

Men's and women's track and field -- Tyler Sisco resigned as head track coach and football offensive coordinator at Manchester to become head football and assistant boys' track and field coach at Glenwood (Iowa) High School. Manchester chose Jeremy Markham as Sisco's successor ... Curtis Frye, head coach at South Carolina, agreed to terms on a five-year contract ... Norm Ogilvie was elevated to head coach at Duke ... Illinois State selected Jeff Pigg as head men's and women's track and field and cross country coach.

Men's and women's track and field assistants -- Tennessee added Rodney Rothoff as assistant women's coach, succeeding interim assistant Doug Molnar ... Kebba Tolbert accepted duties as an assistant coach at Syracuse. Tolbert has been associate women's coach at McKendree College in Lebanon, Illinois, for two years ... South Alabama added Brad Bowman and Chris Baptista as assistants.

Men's and women's volleyball -- Linda Sagnelli resigned as head coach at Iona ... Manchester added Heidi Lombardo as head coach ... Westminster (Missouri) chose Chris Viers as head volleyball and softball coach ... Gary Paul was hired as head women's coach at Edgewood. For the past 10 seasons, Paul has been an assistant with the program and succeeds Sue Gerenstein ... Texas Lutheran elevated two-year assistant coach Phil Jackson to head coach. Jackson replaces Bryan Bunn, who became head women's coach at North Florida ... Bob Thorburn was chosen as head men's and women's coach at New Paltz State. Most recently Thorburn has been head men's and women's coach at Cardinal Stritch University.

Men's and women's volleyball assistants -- Colgate named James Wilroy as an assistant ... Auburn selected Erica Miller as an assistant coach ... Ohio appointed Kirstine Jensen as an assistant to succeed Mike Lessinger, who was promoted to head coach of the program. Jensen has been an assistant at Northern Illinois for two seasons ... Rob Beam was hired as top women's assistant at Wright State. Beam comes to the school after working as top men's and women's assistant at Quincy.

Men's and women's water polo assistant -- Hartwick named Janell Odom as women's assistant coach.

Wrestling -- Steve Kimpel was hired as head coach and strength and conditioning coordinator at Wabash ... Lou Montano resigned as head coach at Columbia.

Wrestling -- Brad Penrith was promoted to head coach at Northern Iowa after serving as top assistant coach for the past three seasons. Penrith replaces Mark Manning, who resigned.

Wrestling assistants -- Cornell added Steve Garland as an assistant coach. Garland, a 2000 graduate of Virginia with a bachelor's degree in psychology, was the 2000 Atlantic Coast Conference wrestler of the year ... Terry Brands and Steve Hamilton were added as assistants at Nebraska ... John Dattalo was chosen as an assistant at Syracuse. Dattalo has been an assistant at Anderson (South Carolina) ... Citadel chose Jeff Ragan as an assistant coach.

STAFF

Athletic trainer -- Chris Hildebrandt was awarded duties as athletic trainer at Lehman.

Athletic training assistants -- Lisa Stalans was selected as women's assistant athletic trainer at Texas. Stalans, who succeeds Jenny Posey, was assistant athletic trainer at Tusculum ... Bryn Mawr awarded assistant athletic trainer responsibilities to Kimberly Winslow. From 1997 to 2000, Winslow served as head athletic trainer and high-school student athletic trainer advisor with the State College Area School District.

Compliance -- Vanderbilt named Jim Booz as director of compliance ... Midwestern State named Brad Barnes as director of compliance to succeed Heath Senour.

Compliance assistant -- Benjy Wilber, former assistant director of compliance at Utah, was named to a similar post at Wisconsin.

Development -- Miami (Florida) hired Blake James as director of athletics development.

Equipment manager -- Timothy Fisher was selected as athletics equipment manager at Manhattanville. For the past five years, Fisher has been assistant supervisor of facilities/equipment room at Dutchess Community College.

Facilities -- San Diego hired Carl Reed as director of the Jenny Craig Pavilion. Reed has been assistant sports events manager at California for the past two years.

Facilities assistant -- Joel Morgan accepted the position of assistant athletics facilities director at San Diego. For the past two seasons, Morgan has served as a graduate assistant for event management at Gonzaga.

Marketing -- Minnesota added Natasha Freimark as director of marketing and corporate sponsorships for women's athletics ... Northern Colorado added Beth Gregory as marketing and promotions assistant. Gregory has spent the past two years as a graduate assistant in the sports marketing department at Providence.

Marketing assistant -- Steve Ekhoff was appointed assistant director of marketing at DePaul.

Media relations assistant -- Colin McDonough was selected as athletics media relations assistant at Northern Colorado. Most recently, McDonough has been interim assistant director of athletics communications at Akron.

Recruiting coordinator -- Kim Schrader was appointed as recruiting coordinator and assistant to the athletics director at Knox.

Sports information -- Rick Schaeffer, sports information director at Arkansas, resigned to become northwest Arkansas regional director of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes ... Gregg Matalas accepted duties as sports information director at Lebanon Valley.

Sports information assistants -- Jeff Duggan accepted duties as sports information director at Regis ... Florida hired Greg Hotchkiss as assistant sports information director and chose Matthew Ciciarelli as sports information coordinator.

Sports medicine -- Wesleyan (Connecticut) hired Joe Fountain as director of athletics injury care. For the past nine years, Fountain has been head athletic trainer at Trinity (Connecticut).

Strength and conditioning -- Scott Kellar accepted the position of head strength and conditioning coach at Bowling Green, succeeding Mike Ward. Kellar was head strength and conditioning, head men's and women's track and field and assistant football coach at College of DuPage.

Ticketing services -- Missouri-Kansas City hired Terry Drake as director of tickets and events operations. Drake most recently has been an account executive for the Kansas City Attack professional indoor soccer organization.

CONFERENCES

The City University of New York Athletic Conference elected Bruce Filosa as president and Robert J. Coleman as vice-president for the 2000-01 and 2001-02 academic years.

Thomas Reuschling was elected as president of the Sunshine State Conference for the 2000-01 school year. Reuschling is president at Florida Southern.

The Mountain West Conference chose Ron Christian as assistant director of communications. For the past three years, Christian has fulfilled responsibilities as sports information director at Bemidji State.

Julie Reuvers assumed the post of assistant public relations director at the Pacific-10 Conference. Reuvers has spent the last three years at Arizona State in the areas of media relations and marketing.

The Pacific-10 Conference announced the selection of the following individuals as officers for 2000-01: Richard L. McCormick, president at Washington, chair of the chief executive officers group; Kenneth L. Casavant, faculty athletics representative at Washington State, president; William H. Moos, athletics director at Oregon, vice-president; and Christine A. Dawson, associate athletics director at California, vice-president.

The Heartland Conference selected Peyton Low as sports information director.

ASSOCIATIONS

The American Volleyball Coaches Association hired Maggie Mohrfeld as assistant membership director. Mohrfeld has spent the last two years as an assistant coach at Missouri-Kansas City.

ETC.

ADDRESS CHANGES

Effective June 26, 2000, the Big East Conference has the following address: 222 Richmond Street, Providence, Rhode Island 02903; phone: 401/272-9108; fax: 401/274-5967.

Effective July 3, 2000, the Sun Belt Conference has the following address: 601 Poydras Street, Suite 2355, New Orleans, Louisiana 70130-6078; phone: 504/299-9066; fax: 504/299-9067.

Effective June 29, 2000, The Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference has the following address: 2331 University Avenue, Suite 122, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55414.

NOTABLES

Oklahoma head softball coach Patty Gasso, assistants Melyssa Panzer and Tim Walton and graduate assistant Jennifer Jaime were selected as the Speedline/NFCA Division I national coaching staff of the year for 2000. Gasso, Panzer, Walton and Jaime led the squad to the 2000 Women's College World Series championship and closed the season with a 66-8 mark.

DEATHS

Former Grambling women's basketball player Mary Currie died of Lou Gehrig's disease June 25. Currie, 34, played at Grambling from 1983 to 1987 and closed her collegiate career as the school's leading career scorer with 2,256 points.

Larry Kelley, former Yale football player and the second winner of the Heisman Trophy, died recently. Kelley, 85, was a three-sport athlete at Yale, competing in football, baseball and basketball. He earned the Heisman in 1936 and was elected to the National Football Hall of Fame in 1969.

Hana Pochobradska, former all-America skier at Colorado, died from complications with brain cancer. She was 28. Pochobradska earned first-team all-America recognition in 1991, 1993 and 1994.

--Compiled by Leilana McKindra