#10: Alfred will bring back Baseball starting next academic year. AD Steward: “Our club team has been active, and our plan was to add baseball in a couple years upon the completion of the Saxon Hill Sports Complex project. However, with the closure of Medaille University and our subsequent teach-out partnership, we re-evaluated our timeline for baseball. We are committed to joining forces and building a successful Saxon baseball program while helping our student-athletes pursue their academic passions.” (link)
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#9: The Office of the State Comptroller finds that former New Jersey City senior administrators proposed using nearly $14M in COVID-19 relief funds for an already existing institutional scholarship program, which would have been in violation of federal law. (link)
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#8: Valley Forge appoints Warren Wilson MBB HC/SID Boone as MBB HC. Patriots AD Levan: “We are excited to have a seasoned coach like Dominique be joining our team. Our mission is paramount when extending an offer to any candidate and we strongly felt God has called Coach Boone and his family to UVF for such a time as this.” (link)
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#7: Kenyon WLAX HC Good steps away after six seasons. (link)
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#6: Amherst XC HC Funke-Harris will step down after 11 years with the Mammoths. (link) |
#5: Willamette hires Bard MBB HC Lenahan for the same role with the Bearcats. WU AD Passage: "He rose to the top of a very competitive applicant pool with his combination of head coaching experience, familiarity with the Northwest Conference and our region, and his appreciation for the role athletics plays in the lives of our student-athletes. I think he will have an immediate impact on our program and look forward to him getting started." (link)
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#4: McMurry AD Ferguson will move across town to become the Assoc. VP/Deputy AD for Revenue Generation at Abilene Christian (DI). McMurry President Harper: "McMurry University has appreciated Sam Ferguson's leadership and creativity for over nine years. Whether it was leading us in the transition to Division Three, adding softball and esports, supervising the construction of the Edwards Softball Field, or hiring conference championship coaches, the impact of Sam Ferguson on McMurry athletics has been profound. More recently, his role expanded as the leader of our student affairs division during an especially challenging time of the global pandemic. We appreciate Sam's work ethic and wish him well in his new position at ACU." (link)
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#3: Softball and baseball super regional matchups are set for Friday. (link, link) |
#2: Lewis & Clark Baseball HC Kosderka tweets a photo of several players sleeping in an airport with the caption: “Nothing says ‘we truly care about the student-athlete experience’ more than being eliminated at 10:30 pm, and the NCAA requiring us to jump on a bus at 1:30 am for a 3 hour drive to Atlanta to catch an 8:30 am flight home.” (link)
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#1: RPI Assoc. VP/AD McElroy will retire at the end of the academic year after eight years leading the Engineers. (link) |