New administrators and coaches join UDC
athletics staff
June 29, 2006
Washington, DC-- The University of the District of Columbia
has announced the addition of five new administrators and coaches
to the Athletics Department staff. Joining the staff as assistant
director of athletics/senior woman administrator and head women’s
volleyball coach is China Jude. Alyson Morin has been named
as executive assistant to the president for athletic compliance
is Alyson Morin.
Marc Harrison assumes the posts of compliance coordinator,
head men’s and women’s cross-country coach, and
head women’s indoor/outdoor track and field coach. Russie
B. Alexander has been named head men's and women's tennis coach
and Patrice Irby, a UDC alumna and former All-American, has
joined the staff as assistant coach for women’s indoor/outdoor
track and field.
"I'm happy to have people with such distinguished
backgrounds in athletics to join me in reinvigorating the
UDC Athletic program", said Dr. Harold M. Merritt, Director
of Intercollegiate Athletics.
The addition of women's indoor
and outdoor track and field teams will allow UDC to
increase it’s
sponsored sports from eight varsity programs to ten.
This will enable UDC to comply with the NCAA mandate requiring
Division II schools to have at least 10 varsity sports by the
2006-2007 season.
Jude comes to UDC from the University of West Florida where
she served as assistant women’s volleyball coach. During
her tenure, the UWF team compiled a 23-7 record and a 9th place
regional ranking, missing NCAA post season play by 1 placement
position. Prior to WFU, Jude served as the assistant athletics
director, senior woman administrator and head volleyball coach
at Coppin State University. She left Coppin as the director
of compliance.
Coach Jude has been actively involved in the communities in
which she lived, coaching club volleyball teams in three states
and winning several regional and divisional championships.
Her athletic background also includes having earned a silver
medal in the Maryland State Olympic Lifting Championships,
and having played with the Baltimore Burn Women’s Professional
Football Team.
She was an All-Southwestern Athletic Conference Player while
attending Alabama State University where she starred as an
outside hitter on the women’s volleyball team. She was
also a six-time All-Tournament Player and two-time team Best
Defensive and Most Valuable Player at Alabama State.
The Waukegan, Illinois native is a 1994 graduate of Alabama
State University with a bachelor’s degree in communications
media. She later earned a master’s degree in sports management
from the United States Sports Academy in 1996. She is currently
pursuing a doctorate in philosophy with an emphasis in business
administration at the Kennedy -Western University.
Morin has joined the staff as executive assistant to the athletics
director. She comes to the position from the Law Firm of Epstein,
Becker & Green, P.C., Washington, DC, where served as a
law clerk for Robert Clayton, Partner- Intercollegiate Compliance
Group. She has also served as a law clerk at the Small Business
Administration. Morin holds a jurist doctorate degree (2005)
and master of business administration degree (2005) from the
George Washington University. She also earned a bachelor’s
degree in psychology from Emory University (2001).
Harrison comes to UDC from Bowie State University where he
was track and field head coach. Coach Harrison built a powerful
track and field program at Bowie, having the most successful
program in the school’s history and three-times receiving
the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (CIAA) Coach
of the Year Award. He was the only track and field coach in
the BSU history to win the CIAA Women’s Track and Field
Championship.
Harrison has received other distinguished athletic awards
through the years, including being named 2006 Regional Coach
of the Year, 2004 CIAA Women’s Indoor Coach of the Year
and the 2005/2006 CIAA Women’s Outdoor Coach of the Year.
Also among his many achievements at Bowie is that he coached
16 students to CIAA Championships, 35 NCAA All-Americans and
placed 39 student-athletes on the Athletic Honor Roll.
While at Bowie, the Woodbury, New Jersey native also served
as assistant athletic director, director of compliance, professor
of freshman seminar, weight lifting and conditioning coach
and advisor to Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc. He was also one
of the founders of the Bulldog Varsity Christian Fellowship
and received multiple Community Service Awards from area Boys
and Girls Clubs.
Alexander comes to UDC from the Fairfax County Public School
System (VA) where he serves as a full-time physical education
teacher.
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