| | UNDER THE BANNER What's Going On In and Around Black College Sports  SWAC CHOOSES VETERAN: The Southwestern Athletic Conference has named veteran sports information director Wallace Dooley, Jr. as its new assistant commissioner for media relations. Dooley replaces Lonza Hardy, Jr., who resigned from the position he had held since 1989 in March to become athletic director at Mississippi Valley State University. Dooley, a native of Nashville, Tennessee and graduate of Tennessee State University, brings over twenty-three years experience in the fields of collegiate sports information and athletic media relations to the SWAC office. He has most recently served as the sports information coordinator at Tennessee State University (Nashville, TN), while heading his own athletic media relations and event management company, CMC Enterprises. Dooley was Alabama A&M University's first full-time sports information director (1978) and was twice named the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association (CIAA) Sports Information Director of the Year (1987 and 1989), while working as the SID at Virginia State University and North Carolina Central University, respectively. Dooley also served as the public relations director of the then 14-member Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association (1990-1994). Among his various work experiences, Dooley has worked with the 1996 Atlanta Olympics as a Venue Press Chief (Media Transportation Mall), Major League Baseball (RBI World Series), the NCAA Division II Elite Eight Championship (statistical website), the Arena Football League (Nashville Kats) and the NFL (Tennessee Titans). Dooley is a member of the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) and a founding member of the Black College Sports Information Directors Association (BCSIDA). He has won numerous CoSIDA awards for conference publications.GOLD COAST CLASSIC SET: Delaware State University has announced that the Hornets' November 10, 2001 football contest against Norfolk State University will be played in San Diego, Ca., at Qualcomm Stadium, home of the National Football League's San Diego Chargers. The game, dubbed the Fifth Annual Gold Coast Classic, will kick off at 3:00 p.m., Pacific Time. The Gold Coast Classic, created by the San Diego African-American Sports Association in 1997, features top teams from Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). The Delaware State/Norfolk State contest was originally scheduled to be played at DSU's Alumni Stadium in Dover, DE. "The Gold Coast Classic is a major event in Southern California," DSU Director of Athletics, Dr. Hallie Gregory, said. "We believe the experience of playing in San Diego and participating in such an event would be great for our university and the football team." Delaware State is the fourth Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) school invited to compete in the game. Howard University and Morgan State University played in the first Gold Coast Classic in 1997, and Norfolk State returns to the game after competing against Texas Southern in the 2000 contest. Grambling State and Winston-Salem State played in the 1998 and '99 classics. Attendance for the Gold Coast Classic has ranged from 24,000 for the 1997 game to 29,000 for the first Grambling-Winston-Salem contest. The Norfolk State-Texas Southern contest attracted more than 26,000 fans last year. © 2001 Azeez Communications, Inc.
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