Sports Law Handbook

Celebrating six years of cooperation with the National Basketball Association (NBA) and the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA), the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs SportsUnited Office is conducting a series of Sports Envoy programs this summer. From May to August, current and former NBA and WNBA players will travel as Sports Envoys to four regions of the world reaching youth in Indonesia, Tunisia, Serbia, Cape Verde and Malawi. The basketball players and coaches will conduct drills and team-building activities, as well as engage local youth in a dialogue on the importance of education, teamwork, leadership, and respect for diversity.
 

 
The NCAA News

Montevallo head men’s basketball coach Danny Young picked up his 200th career victory with a 74-60 win at Clayton State in a Peach Belt Conference game on January 20.

Young’s career record after that game stood at 200-71 losses. He has coached six of his eight teams to 23-plus win seasons and has had only two losing seasons in his eight-year career.

The milestone came less than five years after Young won his 100th career game – a 65-62 win in the second round of the NCAA South Regional over Eckerd.

The 18th-ranked Falcons (15-1, 5-1 Peach Belt) used senior Freddy Little’s seven three-pointers to beat Clayton State.

Regis (Colorado) Director of Athletics Barbara Schroeder announced Monday that she will retire, effective June 1. A national search will begin immediately for her successor. Schroeder has been leading the Ranger athletics department since 1995, but she has an even longer history working with Regis athletics. She was the associate director of athletics from 1987-95 and head women’s basketball coach from 1981-89, compiling a 134-118 record in nine seasons. Schroeder most recently was the National Association of Collegiate Women Athletics Administrators president. She has been involved with NACWAA for 20 years in a variety of capacities and was honored as Administrator of the Year in 1998. She also has been a member of the Division II Management Council.

 

Associate athletics directors – Erin McDermott, who came to Princeton in fall 2000 for a three-year position primarily in compliance, has been promoted to executive associate AD. McDermott replaces Michael Cross, who left Princeton last month to become the director of athletics at Bradley. McDermott is a 1994 graduate of Hofstra, where she played basketball and was named the school’s top female scholar-athlete her senior year. Before coming to Princeton, she spent three years working in the athletics department at Columbia.

Assistant athletics directors – Gallaudet promoted Jeb Barber to assistant athletics director. Barber is in the midst of his third season as the Gallaudet head men’s basketball coach. He has also served the athletics department as the university’s NCAA compliance officer for two years.

Coaches

Men’s and women’s soccer – Saint Louis head men’s soccer coach Dan Donigan announced his resignation January 22 to take the same position at Rutgers. Donigan was named head coach at Saint Louis in 2001 after serving four seasons as an assistant. During his nine-year head coaching tenure, the Billikens posted a 118-42-23 record and made seven NCAA tournament appearances.

Men’s and women’s tennis – Newberry hired Catherine Dunagan as head women’s tennis coach on Monday. Dunagan, who played at Presbyterian and also played professionally, most recently served as the director of tennis at a South Carolina country club.

Kate Ryan Reiling, captain of Macalester’s 1998 national championship women’s soccer squad, will return to her alma mater as the new head women’s soccer coach. Ryan Reiling replaces John Leaney, who retired from coaching after a long career at Macalester.

Chancellors and presidents – Stevens Institute of Technology President Harold J. Raveché resigned as part of a settlement resulting from a lawsuit filed last year by the New Jersey attorney general seeking reforms of the school’s governance structure. Raveché will remain a Stevens consultant until 2014 under the settlement.

Senior woman administrators – Rensselaer designated Associate Athletics Director for Business and Finance Operations Karen Hansen as the athletics department’s senior woman administrator.

Coaches

Men’s and women’s cross country and track and field – Karen Godlock has been named to lead the new men’s and women’s track and field program at Barton.

Football – Liberty extended head football coach Danny Rocco’s contract through the 2014 season … Longtime Texas Tech assistant coach Ruffin McNeill was hired as head coach at East Carolina. McNeill takes over at his alma mater after 10 seasons in Lubbock, including the last two and a half as defensive coordinator.

Football assistants – Youngstown State chose Tom Sims as defensive line and assistant head coach. Sims, who played in the NFL from 1990-96, has spent the last nine years coaching defensive linemen at Minnesota, Illinois and most recently at Kansas in 2009. Youngstown State also announced that Rick Kravitz, who has 20 years experience as a defensive coordinator, will fill that role for the Penguins. Kravitz spent the past two seasons coaching the safeties at Western Michigan. Kravitz also has coached at Clemson, North Carolina State, South Florida, West Alabama and Florida A&M.

Men’s and women’s soccer – Melissa (Missy) Price is the new head women’s soccer coach at Nevada. She has spent the previous two years as an assistant coach at the school.

Men’s and women’s soccer assistants – Army named Dan Driscoll as an assistant coach/goalkeeper coach for the Black Knights. Driscoll joins the Army staff after spending the last three years as the coach and manager of City FC, a soccer club for urban youth in Washington, D.C., and serving as the men’s soccer coordinator at Gallaudet for the last year.

Softball – Sheryl Neff, who has coached Barton’s cross country teams since 2001, will devote her full coaching efforts to the Bulldogs’ softball team.

Men’s and women’s swimming and diving – Nicole M. Rose, an all-conference performer as a student-athlete at Wheeling Jesuit, has been named the first swimming and diving coach at Lake Erie.  The Storm men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams, as well as wrestling, will begin varsity competition during the 2010-11 school year, joining the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference at that time. Most recently, Rose was an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator at her alma mater

Men’s and women’s tennis – Edgewood announced that women’s tennis coach Ben Oestreich will also coach the men’s tennis program, which will return to Edgewood this fall after a 10-year absence … Paul Huch has been named head women’s tennis coach at Meredith after eight seasons as head men’s and women’s coach at Connecticut College.

Men’s and women’s volleyball – Central Michigan head women’s volleyball coach Erik Olson agreed to a four-year contract extension.

Our congratulations to these Coaches.

Deaths

Former Weber State tennis coach Keith Cox died January 20 at the age of 63. Cox served as head coach of the men’s team for 29 seasons and of the women’s team for 24, compiling a 697-594 record … Tulane football student-athlete Sule Osagiede died January 21 as a result of injuries sustained in a car accident. Osagiede, a linebacker, played in nine games as a true freshman during the 2008 season and registered seven tackles. He missed the 2009 campaign after he was medically disqualified due to a neck injury sustained during preseason camp last August.

Our sympathy to these families.

Former longtime Texas Tech assistant coach Ruffin McNeill was hired as head coach at East Carolina on Thursday, becoming the 15th ethnic minority to take charge of a Division I Football Bowl Subdivision program.

He is the 28th minority head football coach at a non-historically black institution in all three NCAA divisions.

McNeill takes over at his alma mater after 10 seasons in Lubbock, including the last two and a half as defensive coordinator. He also guided the Red Raiders to a win in the 2010 Valero Alamo Bowl as interim head coach after Mike Leach was released.

McNeill also was an assistant coach at Austin Peay, North Alabama and Appalachian State. He was East Carolina’s defensive line coach in 1992. He began his collegiate coaching career as a graduate assistant at Clemson during the 1985-86 season.

A four-year letter-winner from 1976-80 and three-year starter at defensive back for East Carolina, McNeill was a two-time team captain and a member of the 1976 Southern Conference championship squad. He graduated from East Carolina in 1980 and earned a master’s degree in counseling from Clemson in 1987.

Minority football coaches at NCAA institutions
As of January 22, 2010; historically black colleges and universities excluded

Division I
Football Bowl Subdivision
Mario Cristobal, Florida Intl	Latino
Ron English, Eastern Michigan	African-American
Turner Gill, Kansas	African-American
Mike Haywood, Miami (Ohio)	African-American
Mike Locksley, New Mexico	African-American
Mike London, Virginia	African-American
Ruffin McNeill, East Carolina	African-American
Ken Niumatalolo, Navy	Pacific Islander
Joker Phillips, Kentucky	African-American
Larry Porter, Memphis	African-American
Randy Shannon, Miami	African-American
Charlie Strong, Louisville	African-American
Kevin Sumlin, Houston	African-American
Willie Taggart, Western Kentucky	African-American
Dwayne Walker, New Mexico State	African-American
Football Championship Subdivision
Nigel Burton, Portland State	African-American
Trent Miles, Indiana State	African-American
Tony Samuel, Southeast Missouri	African-American
Latrell Scott, Richmond	African-American
Jerome Souers, Northern Arizona	American Indian
Tom Williams, Yale	African-American
Norries Wilson, Columbia	African-American
Division II
Robert Talley, Stonehill	African-American
Paul Winters, Wayne State (Mich.)	African-American
Division III
Pedro Arruza, Randolph-Macon	Latino
Robby Long, DePauw	African-American
Bob Owens, Chapman	African-American
Sherman Wood, Salisbury State	African-American

Matthew Stolbergwas hired as associate athletics director for compliance and student-athlete services at Penn State. For the past nine years, Stolberg, who succeeds the retired John Bove, has been the assistant athletics director for compliance at Michigan and formerly was assistant compliance coordinator at Michigan State, compliance coordinator at Northwestern and coordinator of administrative services at St. Bonaventure.

Other transactions

Presidents and chancellors – Roger N. Casey was named as president at McDaniel, succeeding Joan Develin Coley, who will retire in June of this year. Casey currently serves as vice president of academic affairs and provost at Rollins … David P. Angel, provost and vice president for academic affairs at Clark (Massachusetts) since 2003, was selected to succeed John Bassett as the university’s president.

Coaches

Men’s basketball – Winston-Salem State head coach Bobby Collins was awarded a three-year contract extension to remain in charge of the Rams program through 2012-13. Collins is currently in his fourth season at the school.

Football – Ohio Dominican hired former Ohio State assistant coach Bill Conley as head coach. Conley coached tight ends, linebackers, defensive ends and special teams during a 17-year tenure with the Buckeyes before retiring in 2004 … Chuck Goldsteinwas elevated to head coach at Gallaudet after serving as offensive coordinator for one season, and also will take over compliance responsibilities … Jim Svoboda was named as the 28th head coach at Central Missouri. For the past three years, the former UCLA and Northwest Missouri State assistant has been assistant head coach and quarterbacks coach at Montana State.

Football assistants – Arkansas-Pine Bluff tabbed Jerry Mack as offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach, Vernon Dean as linebackers coach and Dennis Winston as defensive line coach … Dick Arbuckle was chosen as special teams coach and Rob Oviatt was appointed as strength and conditioning coach at Montana … Youngstown State added Frank J. Buffanoas secondary coach. Buffano has been a defensive graduate assistant at Arizona for the past two seasons … John Davis, who enters his second season as defensive coordinator at Gallaudet, was promoted to assistant head coach.

Men’s and women’s lacrosse – Bethany (West Virginia) hired Todd Wolffrumas head men’s lacrosse coach. The program will compete at the club level during 2010-11 before moving to varsity status for the 2011-12 academic year. Wolffrum, who played collegiately at Pfeiffer, has been a defensive coach at St. John’s College High School in Washington, D.C., since 2008.

Men’s and women’s soccer– Gallaudet hired Luis Genediveas head men’s coach. Genedive, who returns to the school after a three-year hiatus, coached the Bison from 2004-06.

Softball – Kitty Bottomswas selected as interim head coach at Gallaudet after spending the last four years as an assistant coach with the Bison.

Men’s and women’s volleyball – North Texas appointed Ken Murczekas the eighth head women’s coach in program history. Murczek spent the past two seasons as an assistant at Kansas and formerly was an assistant at Virginia for two seasons.  

Staff

Sports information – Mercer appointed Dave Beyeras sports information director, replacing Robbie Burns. Beyer has held similar responsibilities at Benedictine (Illinois) since 2005 and formerly has been the sports information director at Rockford, Loras, Aurora and Cal State San Bernardino.

 Our congratulations to these fine coaches.