The summer has been typical in D2 as the dominating theme is schedule releases and coaching changes.

Early in June, Nyack College Director of Athletics Keith Davie announced the hiring of Head Men’s Basketball Coach and Assistant Athletic Director, Ted Quinn. Quinn goes to Nyack from Graceland University in Lamoni, Iowa where he was at the helm for the past three years. Prior to the role of Head Coach at Graceland, Quinn held the post of Assistant and Associate Head Coach from 2002-2005.

After a successful three-year stint at Anderson University, Jeff Dow has been named the head coach of the IUP women’s basketball program. Dow succeeds Cindy Martin, who left Indiana (PA) in April to become the head coach at Youngstown State. He inherits a program that returns all five starters from a team that set a school record with 27 victories, won its second consecutive Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference championship and hosted the NCAA Division II East Region tournament at Memorial Field House.

In mid June, University of New Haven alumnus Al Velicka was hired as the new head coach of the Charger men’s golf team. Velicka has a long history of amateur golf success as an individual. He was club champion at Crestbrook Park Golf Course in both 1975 and 1976, and was Watertown town champion at the same course in 1976 and ’78. In 1996 he earned the club championship at Waterbury Country Club, and in 1999 had the four-day low gross score to win the King’s Cup Championship at the Waikoloa Club in Hawaii.

Montana State-Billings Director of Athletics, Dr. Gary Gray, announced in late June that former University of Idaho head men’s basketball coach, George Pfeifer. Prior to Idaho, Pfeifer had a very successful tenure at Lewis-Clark State College where he was the head men’s coach from 1989-2005. During his time at LCSC, Pfeifer guided the Warriors to a 296-206 mark and six NAIA national tournaments (92, 95, 00, 02, 04, 05). Pfeifer comes to MSUB after three years at the University of Idaho where he served one year as assistant coach and two as head coach (12-48).

Tes Sobomehin has been appointed the new head coach of the Augusta State women’s basketball program. The former head coach of Kalamazoo College in Kalamazoo tutored five all-conference selections while her squad posted an average team GPA of 3.23 and had five players named to the Dean’s List. In addition to her coaching duties, she served as an instructor in sports psychology and physical education classes.