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Arcadia hires another Leb Val grad
Arcadia University hired Crystal Gibson, a 2005 graduate of Lebanon Valley, as its new head women's basketball coach. Arcadia's men's basketball coach, Pat Dorney, is also a Lebanon Valley alum.

The past two seasons Gibson was the primary assistant coach at Frostburg State. She handled recruiting, opponent scouting, development of player personnel including teaching offensive and defensive techniques. From 2005-06 Gibson was the assistant at Lebanon Valley where she was a four year starter at point guard and a four year letter winner for the Track & Field team. Gibson is Lebanon Valley's all-time leader in assists for a career (528) and a season (146 in 2004-05).

Arcadia finished the 2007-08 season 8-17, 4-8 in the MAC Freedom Conference.

The Knights move to the MAC Commonwealth Conference this year and will open conference play against Gibson's alma mater on January 6, 2009.
Permalink | Sep 29, 2008

Following Janice Quinn's retirement, Chris Kosiba (seated, holding sign) was named interim head coach.
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Quinn retires as NYU coach
Janice Quinn, who has been head women's coach at NYU since 1987 and has 455 career wins and a national championship, retired as coach Thursday, Sept. 25, in direct response to medical developments, just prior to the beginning of a new basketball season.


The announcement was made by athletic director Christopher Bledsoe, who said that although saddened that Quinn could no longer coach, he was very pleased that she would remain as Senior Associate Director for Athletics, a position she has held for two years after 20 years as assistant and associate director.

The University announced that Chris Kosiba will take over as head coach on an interim basis. Kosiba served as an assistant head coach under Quinn for five years and as head coach of Hilbert in 2001-2002.

Quinn began her association with NYU in 1981 as a 1,000-point scorer on the school's basketball team, graduating with honors with dual baccalaureate degrees in 1985. After two seasons as assistant coach, during which time she earned a master's degree in finance, she became the head coach in 1987 at the age of 23.

"The basketball court has been my home for the past 27 years," Quinn said. "I've literally grown up here."

Her teams have compiled a 453-127 record and have reached the NCAA Tournament 13 times, including NYU's first-ever national championship in 1997. Under her guidance the Violets have won six University Athletic Association championships and accumulated 25 consecutive winning seasons. During that time, she has collected more than a dozen Coach of the Year awards.

Quinn has battled arrhythmia-related conditions for several years. Recent medical developments led to a pacemaker implant four weeks ago.

"Words cannot express how rewarding my time here has been with the truly great players who have passed through this program," Quinn said. "It has been my honor to coach these great women."

"Janice Quinn has obviously accomplished great things as a coach and representative of our community," Bledsoe added. "Our concern at this time is for her and for her health. We look forward to her continued valuable contributions to our University and our department as Senior Associate Director."
Permalink | Sep 25, 2008

SLIAC to play with Spalding
Spalding University is in its first year of provisional Division III membership.
The St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference announced that Spalding University has been accepted as a full member of the Conference beginning with the 2009-10 academic year. The SLIAC Presidents' Council unanimously approved the addition.

Based in Louisville, Kentucky, Spalding is repeating its first year of Division III provisional membership in 2008-09. If the Golden Eagles progress through the four years of provisional membership as planned, they would gain full NCAA membership in 2012-2013. Spalding currently competes in 10 sports including men's and women's basketball, men's and women's soccer and baseball.

"We are pleased to welcome a new partner to the SLIAC and excited by what the institution brings. The Conference, at all levels from Presidents to student-athletes, has been intrigued and quite impressed by Spalding University from the start of the courting process," SLIAC Commissioner William J. Wolper said.

With the anticipated departure of Maryville (Mo.) to Division II after the 2008-09 athletic season, the SLIAC would remain at nine full members. Spalding will be the first full member outside Missouri and Illinois. The Conference added Huntingdon (Montgomery, Ala.) and LaGrange (LaGrange, Ga.) as football only playing members this fall.
Permalink | Sep 24, 2008

Oliver Eslinger goes from one academic powerhouse to another.
MIT photo by Stanley Hu
MIT assistant gets shot at Caltech
After a search with more than 120 applicants, Caltech got its man in MIT's associate head coach, Oliver Eslinger who has spent that past six years as the top assistant men's basketball coach at MIT. He takes over at a school that has more Nobel Prize winners than men's basketball victories: the Beavers were 1-24 last season, 1-24 the year before and 0-25 the previous year.

Caltech has not won a SCIAC game in men's basketball since 1985, a span of 273 games. MIT, which has similar academic constraints, has gone 87-73 (.544) since Eslinger joined the staff in 2002. He replaces Roy Dow, who went 4-144 in six years at Caltech.

"Oliver is an ideal fit for Caltech as his MIT background really allows him to hit the ground running here at Caltech," said athletic director Wendell Jack.

Nearly every season under Eslinger, MIT has ranked nationally in the top 10 in field goal percentage defense, scoring defense, rebounding margin or free throw percentage. He coached the 2006 team when it traveled to Taiwan and won the Kainan Invitational International Tournament Championship.

Prior to MIT, Eslinger previously served as head coach at Boston University Academy and as an assistant coach at Bethlehem Central High School in Delmar, N.Y.

Eslinger played at Clark, where he was a starting guard and majored in psychology. Eslinger holds a doctorate in counseling psychology-sport psychology and masters degree in counseling from Boston University.
Permalink | Sep 19, 2008

MacMurray coach moves to Neb. Wesleyan
Eric Jensen has been hired as the head women's basketball coach at Nebraska Wesleyan.

Jensen comes to Nebraska Wesleyan from MacMurray, a NCAA Division III school in Jacksonville, Ill., where he was the head women's basketball coach in 2007-08. The Highlanders were 3-20.

The Prairie Wolves went 6-21 last season under Amy Sander. She was head coach for three seasons, compiling a 21-59 mark.

“We're glad to make Eric a member of the NWU athletic department,” Nebraska Wesleyan athletic director Ira Zeff said. “He is an enthusiastic young coach with a strong background in small college women's basketball. We are excited to have him leading the Prairie Wolves women's basketball program.”

Jensen, a Kankakee, Ill., native was the assistant women's basketball coach at Anderson for three seasons from 2004-07. While at Anderson, he helped the team improve from a five-win season in his first year, to back-to-back 16-win seasons in his final two years.

He also served as an assistant coach at Franklin College in 2003-04 where the team finished 23-5 and was the HCAC regular season and tournament champions. In 2002-03, Jensen was a graduate assistant at the University of Indianapolis helping the team to a 29-3 record and the GOVC regular season and tournament conference championships.

Eric Jensen earned his bachelor's degree in history from North Central (Ill.) in 2002. While at North Central, he was a student assistant women's basketball coach for four seasons. Jensen earned his master's degree in sports management in 2005 from Nova Southeastern. Jensen and his wife, Cathy, have two daughters Leslie and Ella.

Sander resigned this summer to become an assistant coach at Minnesota State University-Mankato.
Permalink | Sep 15, 2008

Pursuit of a bid leads NEAC to Dallas
The University of Dallas' nickname is Crusaders, but you might have to call them Globetrotters once they see their new travel schedule.
University of Dallas photo by Rick Yeatts
With its membership dwindling to five in the latest round of the Mid-Atlantic Shuffle, the North Eastern Athletic Conference has reached far afield to attempt to retain its automatic bid in men's basketball.

That's clearly the reason that the North Eastern Athletic Conference and the University of Dallas are joining up with each other, starting this season, 2008-09.

The University of Dallas is indeed located in Dallas, Texas. Both basketball teams, the men's soccer team, both cross country teams and men's golf will participate in the league as well, which consists primarily of schools in upstate New York and Pennsylvania. Women's volleyball will join in 2009-10.

The conference also announced Penn State-Abington would join for the 2009-10 season, which the school hopes to be accepted as a first-year provisional member of Division III. St. Elizabeth, a women's school in Morristown, N.J., will also join in 2009-10.

No schedule details were given for integrating Dallas into the 2008-09 NEAC slate. However, sources tell D3sports.com that there will be no conference games in the NEAC 2008-09 and they will list only overall standings. It was not known how the conference intends to select its automatic qualifier to the NCAA Tournament.

"We're gaining two new full members and four new associate members, and we are expanding our conference into two additional states -- New Jersey and Texas," said Keuka president Joseph G. Burke, chair of the league's Presidents Council. "These new members will provide our NEAC student-athletes with greater opportunities to compete."
Permalink | Sep 12, 2008

Sharp retires from Concordia-Austin
Women's Basketball Hall of Fame member and Concordia-Austin Head Coach Linda Sharp resigned, finishing a career that spanned four decades and included two Division I national championships.

“This has definitely been a difficult and long decision process for me” Sharp said. “As I look back on my 40 year coaching career I have enjoyed all the players, coaching staffs, administrations and fans, but it is time for me to spend time with my family and friends.”

Sharp went 87 — 87 in seven seasons with the Tornados but had a career record of 496-271 in 27 years. She coached the University of Southern California from 1976-1989, where she achieved a 271-99 record and led her teams to four NCAA Final Four appearances, including back-to-back National Championships in 1983 and 1984. Sharp coached some star-studded teams during her time at USC including such players as Cheryl Miller and Cynthia Cooper.

After leaving USC Coach Sharp coached at Southwest Texas State University (now known as Texas State) from 1989-1997 where she won 138 games and lost 85 in eight seasons. She coached the Los Angeles Sparks in 1997, the WNBA's inaugural year. Sharp then assisted her former pupil Cheryl Miller with the Phoenix Mercury in 2000. Coach Sharp became the Head Coach of the Phoenix Mercury during the remainder of the 2002 season after Cynthia Cooper resigned the position.

Amy Carlton, American Southwest Conference Commissioner, said “the membership of the American Southwest Conference has been privileged over the last seven seasons to have been associated with Hall of Fame coach Linda Sharp. Throughout her career, Coach Sharp has been a leader and advocate for women's basketball on the collegiate and professional levels.”

A search for her replacement will begin immediately.
Permalink | Sep 10, 2008

Gary Fifield won 541 games at Southern Maine.
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Fifield steps down
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.

Athletic director Al Bean, announced that veteran women's basketball head coach and assistant athletic director Gary Fifield has retired as women's basketball coach and is assuming the new role of Associate Director of Athletics. Bean also announced that Mike McDevitt, an assistant coach with Fifield for the past five seasons and former head coach at St. Joseph's (Maine) has been named interim head coach of the women's basketball program for the 2008-09 season. Both moves are effective immediately.

In prepared remarks, Bean said, “Gary Fifield's retirement as women's basketball coach is among the most significant personnel decisions in the history of this athletic program. When Gary came to USM in 1987, he followed in the footsteps of a legend in Dr. Richard A. Costello. During his own 21-year tenure on the bench, Gary built his own legacy, and in the process, elevated USM women's basketball to be among the truly elite programs in the nation. His team and personal records are truly astounding at any level in any sport.

“The Huskies domination of the Little East Conference with Gary at the helm is nothing short of amazing and the numbers are staggering,” continued Bean. “It's tough to imagine USM women's basketball without Gary leading the team from the bench. I want to personally thank Gary for his incredible commitment to our student-athletes and the women's basketball program. His efforts have truly made a difference for our students and for the University of Southern Maine.

“While an incredible chapter in USM coaching history comes to a close, we could not be more confident and more fortunate than to turn to Mike McDevitt to lead the program in the coming year. When Gary and I discussed his retirement and the prospect of turning the program over to someone to carry on, the list was extremely short. At the top of that very short list was Mike McDevitt. His decision to accept the one-year appointment made this restructuring a reality. We are familiar with Mike's work as the former head coach at St. Joseph's College and for the past five years as an assistant on our bench. Mike will be a great fit, maintain continuity with our program, and we welcome his addition to our staff. I have great confidence that he will continue the great tradition of our women's basketball program.”

Fifield guided the Huskies to an NCAA tournament berth in 20 of his 21 seasons as head coach. His teams won 20 or more games every season, extending the Huskies' streak of consecutive seasons with 20 or more wins to 28, an NCAA Division III women's basketball record. Six players combined to win the Little East Conference Player of the Year award 11 times, and five players were named to the WBCA/Kodak Division III All-America team.

Among his numerous honors, Fifield was named the WBCA Division III National Coach of the Year in 2005 after leading the Huskies to 31-3 overall record and a third-place finish in the NCAA tournament. He also was named Little East Conference Coach of the Year 13 times. He served as an assistant coach at the U.S. Olympic Festival in 1993, and was inducted into the New England Basketball Hall of Fame in 2003.

Fifield came to USM from South Royalton (Vt.) High School in 1987, succeeding Costello, as women's basketball coach. He also coached the USM men's soccer program for five seasons (30-35-10).

McDevitt returns to the sidelines after spending the past five seasons as an assistant coach at USM. During that time, he helped the Huskies run up a remarkable 144-14 record, make four trips to the NCAA “Sweet Sixteen” and two appearances in the Final Four.

During his 16 seasons (1987-2003) as head coach at St. Joseph's, McDevitt compiled a 326-117 record (.736) and guided the Monks to seven conference titles. His teams won 20 or more games 12 times, made seven appearances in the NAIA national tournament and he was named Maine Athletic Conference Coach of the Year five times (1988, 1990, 1991, 1994, 1999).

Prior to becoming the head coach at St. Joseph's, McDevitt served as an assistant coach of the men's basketball team for three seasons (1984-87). A four-year starter for the Monks men's basketball team while earning a degree in business administration, McDevitt scored 1,381 points and grabbed 674 rebounds.
Permalink | Sep 3, 2008

Carse
Former D-III coach returns to lead Hardin-Simmons
Hardin-Simmons athletic director John Neese has named Craig Carse as the 26th head coach in the history of the men's basketball program.

Carse comes to Hardin-Simmons after a successful 13-year stint as the head coach at Division II Montana State-Billings, where he posted a career record of 211-137. He is 290-190 all-time as a head coach.

"I am appreciative of the opportunity to become a member of the Hardin-Simmons University family," said Carse. "My foundation was formed as a Division III student-athlete. I have been fortunate to coach conference championship and national tournament teams at the NCAA Division I, II and III and NAIA levels."

"I am blessed to have had the support of my wife and family. HSU is rich in tradition and excellence. I look forward to having a role in the continuation of the Cowboy success."

Carse has coached at the NCAA Division I, II and III and NAIA levels. He has championships in the Presidents' Athletic Conference, West Virginia Athletic Conference, the Southeastern Conference, the Pacific West Conference and the Heartland Conference.

"Craig has tremendous experience at all levels of NCAA basketball which certainly was a factor in our decision," said Neese. "He has also demonstrated a keen understanding of how important recruiting is at the Division III level. We believe he is committed to the values of Hardin-Simmons and that he has a long term plan for this program to continue to be one of the best in the American Southwest Conference."

He coached his MSUB teams to four NCAA Division II Tournament berths and three PacWest Conference Championships. The Yellowjackets led the nation in 3-pointers made per game in 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2004 and 2006. They were also the nation's leading scoring team in 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001 and 2002 with second place rankings in 1999, 2003 and 2006.

Prior to MSUB he spent two years as the Executive Vice President of the United State Basketball Academy. Prior to that, he was an assistant coach at Louisiana State under legendary head coach Dale Brown. During his tenure there he was the lead recruiter of legends Shaquille O'Neal and Chris Jackson and helped lead the Tigers to a No. 1 national ranking.

Prior to LSU, he coached at NAIA West Virginia State and he went 79-43, including a 57-8 mark in his final two seasons. His team played in the NAIA National Championship Final in 1987.

His first position as an assistant at Division III Bethany in 1977-1978 produced a Presidents Conference Championship and trip to the NCAA Tournament. He was then an assistant at NAIA Salem in West Virginia from 1978 through 1983. He helped guide the program to conference championships and an NAIA tournament berth.

Carse is a noted speaker and clinician. He has lectured and taught the game of basketball nationally and internationally, including a trip to Australia and most recently the Philippines. Carse has represented the United States in Europe where he lectured at the Super Cup. He has also instructed the Chinese National Teams.

Carse is a native of Sistersville, W.Va., and earned his undergraduate degree from Bethany and a master's degree from West Virginia.
Permalink | Aug 30, 2008

Phil Rowe and Dave Faucher each coached in Division I. Faucher takes over Daniel Webster, which went 7-19 last season.
Ex-Dartmouth coach hired at Daniel Webster
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 in adminstration 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, 7-19 as head coach.

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.
Permalink | Aug 27, 2008

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