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Personnel changes announced in national office basketball staff


Jun 10, 2002 12:46:56 PM


The NCAA News

Two personnel developments at the director level in the Division I men's basketball staff at the national office have taken place.

Sue Donohoe, who had served as director of the Division I Women's Basketball Championship, has been named as director of the Division I Men's Basketball Championship.

Also, Bill Hancock, a 13-year member of the Division I men's basketball staff, announced he will be leaving the Association in July.

Donohoe has been director of the Division I Women's Basketball Championship since December 1999. She was an assistant, then associate commissioner of the Southland Conference before joining the national office staff. Before that, Donohoe was the associate director of athletics at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, since 1994, where she directed the Lady Razorback Foundation, among other duties.

She also served as an assistant women's basketball coach at Arkansas from 1993 to 1994, and as an assistant women's basketball coach at Stephen F. Austin State University from 1991 to 1993.

The former chair of the NCAA Women's Basketball Rules Committee is a 1981 graduate of Louisiana Tech University, where she earned her bachelor of science degree. She also obtained her master's degree there.

Hancock's announcement follows the departure of another longtime member of the Division I men's basketball staff, Jim Marchiony, who left in May to become the associate director of athletics for external operations at the University of Connecticut.

Hancock will return to the Kansas City, Missouri, area to spend more time with his family. Effective July 8, Hancock will become a consultant to the Division I Men's Basketball Championship handling media responsibilities and remaining involved in a variety of aspects of the tournament.

In his role as director of the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship, administration, Hancock directed a full-time staff of three and more than 1,000 part-timers in 14 cities each year.

Hancock is a 1972 journalism graduate of the University of Oklahoma, where he worked in sports information.

In 1978, Hancock became the information director for the Big Eight Conference in Kansas City. In 1983, he was promoted to assistant commissioner of the Big Eight, and was co-chair of the Kansas City Organizing Committee for the 1988 Final Four in Kemper Arena. He joined the NCAA staff in 1989.

Hancock has served as a media attaché for the U.S. Olympic teams at five summer Games: 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996 and 2000 in Los Angeles, Seoul, Barcelona, Atlanta and Sydney; the 1987 and 1991 Pan American Games in Indianapolis and Havana and the 1981 and 1982 U. S. Olympic Festivals in Syracuse and Indianapolis.

In March 1999, he received the Katha Quinn award, presented annually by the United States Basketball Writers Association to an individual who has provided exemplary service to the media.


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