Buffalo hired Todd Kress as head women’s volleyball coach. Kress has a career record of 255-156 in 14 years as a head coach at the Division I level. He became the second-youngest head coach in NCAA volleyball history to win 200 matches, which occurred in October 2004 while he was at Florida State.

Other transactions

Directors of athletics -- Glenn Hofman was named athletics director at Merrimack. … McMurry men’s basketball coach Ron Holmes has been named athletics director there.

Coaches

Football assistants – New Mexico State named Jason Lenzmeier as offensive line coach, Dale Lindsey as assistant head coach and linebackers coach, R. Todd Littlejohn as co-secondary coach, Keith Murphy as receivers and special teams coach, Tim Rosenbach as offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach, Mike Rutenberg as safeties coach, Gary Uribe as football strength and conditioning coach and Jesse Williams as defensive line coach. … Ohio reassigned football recruiting coordinator/tight ends coach Pete Germano to defensive line coach and named Scott Isphording as football recruiting coordinator/tight ends coach. … South Carolina named Johnson Hunter as tight ends coach and assistant special teams coordinator and Craig Fitzgerald as strength coach. … TCU promoted assistant football coaches Jarrett Anderson and Justin Fuente to co-offensive coordinators and named Rusty Burns as wide receivers coach.

Men’s and women’s soccer assistants – Indiana named Aleksey Korol as a men’s soccer assistant. Korol is a former all-American and 1999 National Soccer Coaches Association of America national player of the year during his playing days with the Hoosiers. … Army named Stefanie Golan as women’s assistant soccer coach.

Deaths

Donnis Thompson, a former director or athletics at Hawaii, died February 2 at the age of 75. Thompson was Hawaii’s first women’s track and field coach and oversaw the establishment and growth of the women’s intercollegiate athletics program there.