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Wellesley’s Abrishami Awarded NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship
Wellesley College senior rower Monique Abrishami has been selected as a 2006 NCAA Spring Postgraduate Scholarship winner. The two-time NEWMAC Academic All-Conference Award Winner, graduated with a degree in political science and will enroll in the Harvard School of Law this fall. (more)

Paul Phillips Named Head Men’s Basketball Coach at Clark
Clark University’s Athletic Director Linda Moulton announced the hiring and return of Paul Phillips as head men’s basketball coach. Phillips returns to Clark after two years as the Dean of Students at St. John’s High School. (more)

Wheaton Adds Dave Cox to Athletic Training Staff, DiSilvestri Promoted
Wheaton College has announced the hiring of Dave Cox as assistant athletic trainer, effective August 14, 2006. Cox's addition comes after Adam Eastwood resigned to accept a sales position at Surgi-Care, Inc. With Eastwood's departure, assistant Kathy DiSilvestri was promoted to associate athletic trainer. (more)

Read Hired as Wheaton Women's Volleyball Head Coach
Wheaton College Executive Director of Athletics Chad Yowell has announced the hiring of Ben Read as head women's volleyball coach, effective August 14, 2006. (more)

MIT's Lentz Named Winner of CSTV's Diane Geppi-Aikens Scholarship
Deanna Lentz, MIT's Woman Athlete of the Year, was named the winner of CSTV's third annual Diane Geppi-Aikens Scholarship. The $5,000 scholarship was awarded by CSTV's Executive Vice President, Tim Pernetti, at the Tewaaraton Trophy Awards Ceremony on June 1 at the National Geographic Society in Washington, D.C. (more)

Wheaton Baseball Completes Monumental Season with Loss in National Title Game
The Wheaton College baseball team's quest for a national championship fell just short Tuesday at the NCAA Division III Tournament, as the Lyons completed their monumental season with a 7-2 loss to Marietta College at Fox Cities Stadium. Wheaton reached the title game in just its ninth year of varsity action, surpassing the program record with 42 wins while finishing their most successful season with a 42-10 mark. Wheaton's journey including capturing an eighth New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) regular season championship, seventh conference tournament title, first New England crown and inaugural appearance in a national championship. (more)

MacArthur Named New Athletics Director At Babson College
Babson College has announced the hiring of a new Director of Athletics, as Johns Hopkins University Associate Athletics Director Josh MacArthur will assume the role beginning on August 7. (more)

Clark University Names Qualls Sports Information Director
Clark University Athletic Director Linda Moulton recently announced the hiring of Dalya Qualls as Clark’s full-time Sports Information Director. Qualls replaces Head Women’s Soccer Coach and current Sports Information Director Joe Brady. (more)

Clark University’s Administrative Intern Kelly Accepts Position at Mitchell College
Stacy Kelly, an administrative intern at Clark University of Worcester, MA for the past two years, recently accepted the Associate Director of Athletics position at Mitchell College in New London, CT. The internship was part of the NCAA Division III Ethnic/Women’s Minority Internship grant program. (more)

Hyer Retires as Head Lacrosse Coach at Mount Holyoke College
Mount Holyoke Director of Athletics and Chair of Physical Education Laurie Priest recently announced Mike Hyer's retirement as head lacrosse coach after 20 years at the helm. Hyer will remain as senior lecturer in physical education for one more year. Head Soccer Coach and Assistant Lacrosse Coach Jennifer Seferiadis will serve as interim lacrosse coach for the 2006-2007 academic year. (more)

Grills Named Irving T. Marsh Award Recipient
The Eastern College Athletic Conference Sports Information Directors Association (ECAC-SIDA) has announced that Carole Grills of Smith College is the 2006 recipient of the prestigious Irving T. Marsh Award recognizing dedication, contribution and excellence in the field of collegiate sports information and media relations. The first woman in New England in the college division to receive this award, Grills also celebrates her silver anniversary this year as the college’s Sports Information Director. First presented in 1966, the award is named after Irving T. Marsh, the ECAC Service Bureau founder and director until his retirement in 1973. (more)

Royer Prepares for New Role at MIT
Candace L. Royer, Director of MIT Athletics and Head of the Department of Athletics, Physical Education and Recreation (DAPER), has been named Senior Associate Dean in the Division of Student Life, Larry G. Benedict, Dean for Student Life, announced recently. Royer, who has served in her current role since 2001, will assume her new post on February 1, 2007, following a six-month sabbatical leave beginning August 1, 2006. Royer’s transition follows a six-year stint as DAPER Department Head, where she was vitally involved in shaping policy and procedure for one of the largest athletic programs in the nation; featuring 41 intercollegiate varsity teams and 35 club sports programs. At the time of her appointment, Royer became the first woman to head an athletic department within the Ivy League-plus circle. (more)

Barry Steps Down as Coast Guard Baseball Coach
C.C. Grant Named Head Coach
Pete Barry, who has been the head baseball coach at the Coast Guard Academy for the past seven seasons, stepped down on Monday to concentrate on his duties as the head basketball coach. He will be succeeded by C.C. Grant, an assistant under Barry for the past seven seasons. (more)

NEWMAC Announces 2006 Women's Rowing Academic All-Conference Team (details)

NEWMAC Announces 2006 Women's Rowing All-Conference Team (details)

Bonnie May Named Assistant Athletic Director at Smith College
Northampton, MA: Bonnie May, volleyball and softball coach at Smith College, is leaving the coaching ranks at the end of her current softball season to assume the position of Assistant Athletic Director at the college. May has served as Smith’s volleyball coach since 1980 and softball coach since 1981. (more)

Kathy Mangano Wins 400th Softball Game
Springfield, MA: Springfield College Head Softball Coach Kathy Mangano notched victories number 399 and 400 in a doubleheader sweep of MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In the process, Kathy became just the 26th coach in Division III history (among coaches who have spent a minimum of 10 years in that division) to reach the magic 400 figure. (more)

Michael Callahan Named Head Baseball Coach at WPI
Worcester, MA - WPI Director of Physical Education, Recreation and Athletics, Dana L. Harmon, announced that Michael Callahan has been hired as Head Baseball Coach. Callahan had been serving as the interim head coach since taking over from Chris Robertson in February. (more)

NEWMAC Announces Basketball Academic All-Conference Teams (Women | Men)

NEWMAC Announces Swimming and Diving Academic All-Conference Team (Women | Men)

NEWMAC Announces Women's Basketball All-Conference Team (more)
Springfield College’s Courtney Parvin (Brackney, PA) and coach Naomi Graves took two of the prestigious NEWMAC awards voted upon by the conference women’s basketball coaches. Parvin, a senior forward, was voted the Player of the Year while Graves picked up Coach of the Year honors. Wheaton’s Krystin Hickey (Manchester, NH) was voted Rookie of the Year.

NEWMAC Announces Men's Basketball All-Conference Team (more)
MIT’s Mike D’Auria was named the NEWMAC Men’s Basketball Player of the Year. MIT made a clean sweep of the individual awards as Jimmy Bartolotta was selected the NEWMAC’s Rookie of the Year while Larry Anderson garnered the conference’s Coach of the Year honor.

NEWMAC Announces Swimming and Diving All-Conference Teams (Women's | Men's)
A pair of first-time honorees earned NEWMAC Men's and Women's Swimmer-of-the-Year accolades, including Wheaton College junior Barrett Roberts (Portland, ME) on the men's side and Babson College sophomore Meg Lynch (Holden, MA) for the women. Springfield College senior Mike Shaw (Westfield, MA) swept the NEWMAC Men's Diver-of-the-Year award all four seasons while Smith College sophomore Shanti Freitas (Evanston, IL) picked up NEWMAC Women's Diver-of-the-Year laurels for the first time.

United States Coast Guard Academy's John Westkott was voted NEWMAC Men's Coach of the Year in his seventh season, while Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) third-year coach Dawn Gerken was named women's coach of the year. Peter Avdoulos was tabbed men's diving coach of the year in his 21st campaign at Springfield and Smith's Kim Bierwert earned women's diving coach-of-the-year laurels in his 29th season with the Pioneers.

Springfield College's Derek Yvon Reaches 2,000 Points
Springfield College senior guard Derek Yvon (East Longmeadow, Mass.) reached the 2,000-point mark and later became the school's all-time leading scorer in the Pride's 83-67 win against Clark. Yvon, a graduate of Cathedral High School, needed 28 points to surpass former Pride standout Hassan Robinson (’95), and the senior guard did just that, netting a game-best 29 points as he now has accumulated 2,005 points to date in his illustrious career. >>FULL STORY