UNDER THE BANNER
What's Going On In and Around Black College Sports
TODD LANDS AT A&T: Winston-Salem State grad and current Atlantic Coast Conference Assistant
Commissioner, Delores "Dee"
Todd, was named last week as the new director of athletics
at North Carolina A&T. Todd, who was the first female to
serve as an assistant commissioner in the ACC when she was
appointed in 1988, will be A&T's first female director of athletics.
The 1972 WSSU grad brings over 30 years of experience to her
new post including stints as head women's track coach at
both Northwestern (1981-85) and Georgia Tech (1985-87),
and documented success in interscholastic and
intercollegiate athletics in planning, scheduling, training development,
Olympic sports programs and financial and human resource
management. She has been the ACC's assistant
commissioner/director of student-athletic welfare since 2000. "We are
very pleased that we were able to recruit Dee Todd for such
an important role at A&T," said A&T Chancellor,
Dr. James Renick at last Wednesday's press conference. "She
has excellent experience and the right motivation to manage
and lead our intercollegiate athletics program." "I am
extremely excited about the opportunity to take the athletics
department in the same direction as the university with its growth,"
Todd said. "I am looking forward to doing my best to
motivate, support and lead the department to victory on the
playing field, in academics and in life." Her ACC
responsibilities enabled Todd to supervise, direct and coordinate
officiating programs for baseball, as well as plan, organize and
direct men's and women's cross country, men's and women's
indoor track and field, men's and women's outdoor track and
field, women's basketball and baseball championship events.
She was the liaison between those sports committees and
coordinated special projects with institutional staff members.
She recently served on the NCAA
Championship/Competition Cabinet and Administration Subcommittees and chaired
the Certified Contests Subcommittee. Todd chaired the
USOC's Minorities in Sports Task Force and was co-founder
of Project GOLD. She is past president and former member
of the Board of Directors of the National Association of
College Women Athletic Administrators. She chaired the
subcommittee of the NCAA Division I Track and Field
Committee responsible for the complete coordination of the Division
I Outdoor Track Meet from 1995-99. In 1999, she served as
an assistant coach of World Track and Field Championships
in Seville, Spain. She also served as tournament manager
for NCAA East Regionals for Women in 1999. Todd joined
the Georgia Tech staff in 1985 after serving as head coach
for four years at Northwestern University, where she earned
the 1983 Cross Country Big Ten Coach of the Year
honors. While at Georgia Tech, Todd was a three-time Georgia
State Coach of the Year, winning the Georgia State
Intercollegiate Championships from 1985-87. Todd was named ACC
Coach of the Year for Women's Outdoor Track in 1987
after guiding the Lady Jackets to a fourth place finish in
the outdoor championships after the school's second year
of competition in that sport. A native of Camden, N.J.,
Todd was a successful high school coach in Illinois. She led
her outdoor track teams and cross country teams to 11
conference championships at Thornridge High in Dolton and
at Rich Central High in Olympia. She also spent one year
at Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School in Bethesda, Md.
Todd graduated with honors from Winston-Salem State
University in 1972 with a degree in health and physical education.
She received her masters in human relations and
psychotherapy from Governor's State University in 1981. In 2001, she
was inducted into the Central Intercollegiate Athletic
Association (CIAA) Hall of Fame and in Winston-Salem
State University's Hall of Fame in 2002.
O'NEAL FINISHES STRONG: A third round score of 76 caused former Jackson State golfer Tim O'Neal to fall back into a tie for 17th at the Nationwide Tour's Rex Hospital Open in Raleigh. O'Neal shot 70-69-76-67 to finish at 2-under, 282 and take home $6,090 for his week's work. The finish moved him into 27th on the Tour's money list with $36,625. Saturday's third round was washed out meaning the players played 36 holes on Sunday. O'Neal carded three bogeys and two double-bogeys en route to his 76 in Sunday's first 18 holes though he came back to tie for the lowest score (67) in the field in the final round.
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