ECAC Transactions

September 27, 2010

Baseball assistants – St. Joseph’s (Maine) selected former high school coaches Jim Cronin and Greg Souza as assistant coaches … Peter Milani joined the Mercy staff as an assistant coach. Milani has previous coaching experience at the high school, collegiate and professional levels. 

September 28, 2010

No ECAC transactions to report.

September 29, 2010

SUNY Cortland field hockey coach Cynthia Wetmore earned her 200th career victory September 26 when the Red Dragons beat Springfield, 2-1. Her record with the Red Dragons is now 200-43 (.823). She is the second Cortland field hockey coach to reach the 200-win plateau – Pat Rudy was 217-67-13 over 15 seasons from 1981 to 1995.

Baseball assistants – Delaware appointed Mike Ranson as the program’s pitching coach. Ranson was a recruiting coordinator and worked with the junior varsity team at Limestone the past four seasons.

Men’s and women’s golf assistants – Tommy Ellison was selected as an assistant coach for the men’s golf program at his alma mater Delaware. Ellison was a golf-student athlete for the Blue Hens from 2005 to 2009.

Men’s and women’s lacrosse assistants – Delaware hired J.P. Brazel as assistant coach of the men’s lacrosse program. Brazel was previously an assistant coach with the men’s lacrosse team at Sacred Heart … Mat Faas joined the Delaware women’s lacrosse program as an assistant coach after serving as an assistant women’s lacrosse coach at Limestone.

Rowing assistants – Jinny Jang was hired as an assistant coach at Delaware. Jang was a rowing student-athlete at Northwestern and also served as an assistant coach at her alma mater from 2008 to 2009.

Softball assistants – Courtney Christie was named an assistant coach at Delaware. Christie was most recently a softball student-athlete at Iona under current Delaware head coach Jaime Wohlbach. Delaware also selected Michelle Hawkins as an assistant coach. Hawkins was previously an assistant coach at Penn State.

September 30, 2010

Women’s basketball assistants – Rensselaer hired Sara Parnell as an assistant coach. Parnell recently finished her career as a basketball student-athlete at Siena.

October 1, 2010

Assistant director of athletics – Alicia Greco was promoted to assistant director of athletics for operations at Delaware. She previously served as a graduate assistant in operations.

Marketing – Delaware named Liz Hays assistant athletics marketing director. Hays was the director of women’s basketball operations at the school the past two seasons. 

Information for submissions:

Send transactions – including hiring announcements, contract extensions, retirements, milestones and deaths – to awills@ecac.org.