Inside Iowa State
August 11, 2000
Hieber named interim AD
Elaine Hieber, senior associate athletics director and senior women's administrator, will serve as interim director of athletics, effective Aug. 11.
Gene Smith, athletics director since 1993, will become athletics director at Arizona State University, Tempe.
Hieber became assistant director of athletics in 1979 and was promoted to associate athletics director in 1990.
Hieber chaired the NCAA Women's Basketball Rules Committee for six years, was a member of the NCAA Women's Basketball Committee for six years and served on the NCAA Basketball Marketing Committee. She has served on the executive board of the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics and was a member of the Governor's Council on Sport and Physical Fitness.
Pete Taylor, associate athletics director, was named interim senior associate athletics director. He also will serve as interim director of men's football and basketball operations. Taylor has been at Iowa State since 1990, serving the past five years as associate athletics director for external affairs.
The search for a permanent athletics director will begin this month. James Melsa, dean of the College of Engineering, will chair the search committee.
Members of the search committee include James Melsa,
dean of the Iowa State College of Engineering, who will chair
the committee. The committee members are Gina Curtis,
student-athlete in women's track; Jamie Beyer,
student-athlete in men's track; Bill Fennelly, women's
basketball coach; Laurie Gustafson, assistant athletic
director; Trip Hedrick, men's swimming coach; Julie
Manning, women's golf coach; Donald Reed,
assistant athletic director; Corley Brooke, professor
of human development and family studies and director of the
Center for Teaching Excellence; Tom Hill, vice
president for student affairs; Tahira Hira, associate
vice provost for extension; Richard Horton, professor
of computer engineering and ISU Athletic Council chair;
Lorraine Hoffman, professor of veterinary diagnostic
and production animal medicine; Barbara Licklider,
assistant professor of professional studies and Big 12
faculty representative; Tom Mitchell, ISU Foundation
president; Kathy Baker, civic athletics booster and
Johnston civic leader; Steve Bergstrom, president of
Dynegy, Houston, Texas; Kathryn Engel, athletics
booster and Ames civic leader; Jon Fleming, Ames
physician; Richard Jacobson, president of Jacobson
Warehouse Co.; Dan Rupprecht, owner of R & R
Realty of West Des Moines; and Gary Thompson,
president of Gary Thompson Oil in Ames.
The first committee meeting will be Monday, Aug. 28,
from 1 to 3 p.m. in 114 Marston Hall.
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