The Big East Conference announced staff changes and additions. Donna DeMarco was elevated from associate commissioner for administration to senior associate commissioner for administration. Sara Nagger, who was previously the assistant athletics director for communication at Fairleigh Dickinson, was named director of communications. Eddie Thieve was hired as an Olympic sport/sport administration assistant after serving as an event management intern at Indiana. Michael Costa was named football and video assistant. Costa previously worked with the Atlantic Coast Conference as a football game day operations intern. Jared Hager and Katie Parker were selected as communications assistants.

Other transactions

Associate director of athletics – Lisa Danner was named associate director of athletics for compliance at St. Peter's. Danner was the associate athletics director for compliance at UCF the past three years.

Coaches

Men's and women's lacrosse – Jackie McGarrigle was named head coach of the women's lacrosse program at Georgian Court after two seasons as an assistant coach for the women's lacrosse program at Birmingham-Southern.

Men's and women's lacrosse assistants – Shenandoah elevated Ray Rice to assistant coach of the men's lacrosse program after two years of service as a volunteer assistant.

Men's and women's tennis assistants – Corey Winn was appointed assistant coach of the men's and women's tennis programs at Fairleigh Dickinson. Winn spent the past five years as an assistant tennis coach at the high school level.

Staff

Sports information – Holy Family selected Greg Pellegrino as sports information director. Pellegrino previously worked at the Northeast-10 Conference as the director of media relations.

Strength and conditioning – Holy Cross selected Brittany Keil as an assistant strength and conditioning coach. Kei was a basketball student-athlete at the school and worked as a strength and conditioning assistant at Harvard.

Conferences

The Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference hired John Fochi as the coordinator of softball officials.

Information for submissions

Send transactions – including hiring announcements, contract extensions, retirements, milestones and deaths – to transactions@ncaa.org.