Athletic Director

Chesapeake High School athletic director Chip Snyder, who was relieved of his duties pending a school board investigation regarding the Chesapeake wrestling team, has been reinstated to his position, Anne Arundel school officials said Friday. Snyder, who also teaches physical education at the school, was removed from the athletic director position while the school board investigated allegations that procedures weren't followed during a December wrestling trip to the Eastern Shore and that the breakdown in protocol could have diminished students' safety.

In light of Johns Hopkins president Ronald J. Daniels accepting the recommendation of a seven-member special committee to explore joining a conference, university athletic director Tom Calder and men's lacrosse coach Dave Pietramala participated in a conference call Friday afternoon. Here are a few highlighted quotes from the conference call. Athletic director Tom Calder on the timetable for researching potential conference: “There really isn't any timeline. We've got to put a lot of time into this and make sure that if we are going to go into a conference, we do all of our homework and that we do what's best not only for the athletes and the team but the university also.” Coach Dave Pietramala on the timetable: “From our perspective, this is an exciting opportunity and the decision to seek conference affiliation is a monumental decision, which means the next decision is as equally as big because you want to continue to move into a positive direction, and you want to find the right place.

Jim Horn, the athletic director at South Carroll High School, was to be honored April 27 by the Maryland State Athletic Directors Association as Athletic Director of the Year for District 1B. The association recognizes representatives from each of its 13 districts each year who have made a significant impact on the lives of students and used athletics to achieve progress in the social and cultural environment of the school and community.  ...

Jim Horn, the athletic director at South Carroll High School, was to be honored April 27 by the Maryland State Athletic Directors Association as Athletic Director of the Year for District 1B. The association recognizes representatives from each of its 13 districts each year who have made a significant impact on the lives of students and used athletics to achieve progress in the social and cultural environment of the school and community.  ...

Jeff Parsons has been named the next athletic director at Archbishop Spalding, the school announced Thursday in a news release. Parsons, currently the assistant athletic director, will replace the retiring Lee Dove on July 1. A 1995 Spalding graduate, Parsons has taught business education classes at the school for the last 10 years, was an assistant coach for the boys basketball team and co-chaired the Student Government Association (SGA)...

WANTED: Athletic director. Extensive sports background required. Must have strong personality, be able to handle CEO types. Apply to Personnel Office, State of Maryland.That's what we need in this state to clear up the sports picture -- an athletic director.Never have the waters been as muddied as they are now. We need somebody who can step in and take charge, someone smart enough and strong enough to handle governors, mayors and billionaires.Why? Because so many things are up in the air, pro football especially.

Chuck Struhar, who has taught English, coached numerous sports and run academic and athletic departments during his 16-year tenure at Glenelg High, has resigned as the school's athletic director.Struhar, who ran Glenelg's athletic department for four years, officially leaves the job Tuesday. He expressed mixed feelings about his decision."It's a job I really enjoy and a job I think I'm very good at," said Struhar, 44. "But I'm in a position now where I don't want to do the job anymore."He cited several reasons for resigning, beginning with time demands.

WESTMINSTER -- Westminster High's Jeff Oeming will step down from his position as the school's athletic director to further concentrate on his positions as head football coach and social studies teacher.Oeming, who could not be reached for comment, will step down as soon as a new AD is hired to replace him, said Sherri-Le W. Bream, the school's principal.Oeming replaced Jim Head as the school's athletic director in 1989 and will enter his fifth season this fall as the Owls' head football coach after coaching at North Carroll in 1986 and 1987.

On paper, NCAA Division III Villa Julie College new athletic director Brett Adams looks like any other AD.But Adams is not typical. It is believed that Adams, 28, is the youngest AD in Division III and perhaps in the National Collegiate Athletic Association.Adams, hired in late June from York College in Pennsylvania, was at a loss for words about his youth."In this position, I'm excited," said Adams, after one month on the job. "I don't know what else to say."NCAA officials said they do not keep any records on the ages of athletic directors.

During Kelly Coppedge's final conversation with her grandfather last Sunday, she says he was still thinking about Navy's football team. "He asked, 'When's Navy playing and who are they playing?" Kelly Coppedge recalled Thursday. J.O. "Bo" Coppedge, a former Navy football player and wrestler who ran Navy's athletic department from 1968 until his retirement in 1988, died Wednesday night - less than three days before the Midshipmen were scheduled to play Arizona State in the Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl in San Francisco.

My colleague in the mysterious East Gary Kirchherr writes of a "thread on Twitter by someone who insists on using the title 'athletics director,' because said position-holder is the director of athletics, not (necessarily) a guy who's athletic. " Mr. Kirchherr describes this as "idiotic pedantry. " I took a quick look at Google's Ngram viewer, which shows athletic director appearing substantially more frequently than athletics director . The former usage also appears to be the older.

As a graduate of Towson University, I have been ashamed of my alma mater just three times in the past 47 years. The first time was during the 10-month tenure of a previous president who squandered both funds and public trust by running up huge bills on his lavish home. The second was when Towson's Minnegan Stadium was renamed to "raise funds" in 2002, dishonoring my beloved coach and lowering my respect for the university. The third occurred on March 8, when Towson President Maravene Loeschke announced the school was cutting baseball and men's soccer from its athletic program ("Ire grows after Towson president cuts teams," March 24)

C.J. Keyser, a 6-foot-3 sophomore small forward who transferred from John Carroll to Patterson Mill last week, has not yet been ruled eligible to play basketball for the Huskies. Patterson Mill athletic director Jason Bellamy said there was no update on whether Keyser would be declared eligible for the upcoming Class 2A East region playoffs. The Huskies are set to travel to Edgewood in tonight's opening round and Bellamy said Keyser was not a member of the team.

Men's college lacrosse Smith, McRoy help Delaware win opener Senior attackman Eric Smith (Boys' Latin), junior midfielder Connor McRoy (Archbishop Spalding), senior midfielder Nick Diachenko and sophomore attackman Brian Kormondy scored two goals apiece as Delaware defeated High Point, 12-10, in the host Panthers' DivisionI debut. The game marked the official start of the Division I men's lacrosse season, which the Blue Hens have traditionally played in for the past decade.

An incident at St. Frances during Friday night's boys basketball game against Archbishop Spalding resulted in the game being suspended at halftime after the visiting Cavaliers alleged some electronic items were stolen from their locker room. “Two phones were missing and [Spalding coach] Derrick [Lewis] said his kids didn't want to play the second half,” St. Frances coach Nick Myles said on Saturday morning. St. Frances had a 17-15 lead going into halftime when the game was halted.

Vernon E. Seibert, a former athletic director and coach at Glenelg High School who had been an outstanding football player during the 1940s at College Park, died Saturday of cancer at Union Hospital in Elkton. The longtime Columbia resident was 88. "You could write a book about Vernon Seibert. What a character. The stories about him are legend," said Dennis P. Cole, who was head football coach at Glenelg in the 1980s and retired five years ago. "He was always held in high esteem but was not the kind of buddy-buddy type of football coach when it came to the kids," he said.

COLLEGE PARK -- The University of Maryland today named Debbie Yow as its new athletic director. Ms. Yow signed a five-year contract with the Terrapins with a base salary of $130,000 per year.Ms. Yow, who compiled an impressive record as a women's basketball coach early in her career, has been athletic director at Saint Louis University since 1990.A native of North Carolina, Ms. Yow, 42, was the first coach in NCAA history to lead previously unranked women's basketball teams at three different Division I schools to a Top 20 ranking.

During Kelly Coppedge's final conversation with her grandfather last Sunday, she says he was still thinking about Navy's football team. "He asked, 'When's Navy playing and who are they playing?" Kelly Coppedge recalled Thursday. J.O. "Bo" Coppedge, a former Navy football player and wrestler who ran Navy's athletic department from 1968 until his retirement in 1988, died Wednesday night - less than three days before the Midshipmen were scheduled to play Arizona State in the Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl in San Francisco.