Southern Maine announced a major reorganization within the athletic department and introduced an interim women’s basketball coach at a news conference.

In 21 seasons as USM women’s basketball coach, Gary Fifield compiled a 541-86 record and led the Huskies the NCAA Division III Final Four five times (1988, 1998, 2000, 2005, 2006), including three appearances in the national championship game. At the end of the 2007-08 season, his .863 winning percentage was the highest among active Division III coaches with five or more years on the sidelines, and his 541 career wins ranked seventh among active coaches.

During that span (1987-2008), he guided the Huskies to 17 Little East Conference tournament championships, including 11 in a row from 1997 through 2007, and won or shared the LEC regular season crown an amazing 19 times. Last season, Fifield led the Huskies to a 25-4 overall record and a 13-1 regular season mark in the Little East Conference. Full story

Daniel Webster moved quickly to replace departed coach Jeremy Currier, naming former Dartmouth head coach Dave Faucher to lead the program.

Faucher was most recently head coach at Kimball Union Academy in Meriden, N.H., for three seasons, going 42-32. He was head coach at Dartmouth for 13 of his 20 years there, going 136-208 from 1991 to 2004.

Phil Rowe, formerly the men's coach at Keene State and currently the athletic director at Daniel Webster, was coach at New Hampshire for part of the same time frame.

Currier, who has been with the program for two seasons, has been named the associate head coach at Division II member Pfeiffer in Misenheimer, N.C. He was 13-37 in two seasons with the Eagles.

Daniel Webster went 7-44 in the two seasons prior to Currier's hiring. The Eagles went 7-19, 5-13 in the Great Northeast Athletic Conference last season, and return rookie of the year winner Chris Hanson.