Friday,
September 1, 2006
JOHN REEVES NAMED COMMISSIONER OF LANDMARK
CONFERENCE
BETHLEHEM, PA --- College-athletics veteran John A. Reeves
has been appointed the first commissioner of the Landmark Conference,
a newly formed association of seven NCAA Division III institutions
in the mid-Atlantic region. Reeves will begin his service as commissioner
on September 1, 2006.
Reeves,
who spent the last 14 years of his 43-year career in college sports
as the director of physical education and intercollegiate athletics
at Columbia University, was called out of retirement by the Landmark
Conference. The conference’s members selected Reeves following
an intensive nationwide search for a leader with the experience
and enthusiasm necessary to shape the nascent conference and help
it attain its goal of integrating the educational and athletic experience.
“As we contemplated the beginning of this new exciting venture,
we were looking for a leader who could quickly move us forward based
on past experience and enthusiasm for a ‘best of class’
NCAA Division III athletic conference. There is no doubt we found
the perfect leader in John Reeves. We are delighted that John is
willing to take on the launch of our new conference,” said
Thomas R. Kepple Jr., president of Juniata College and the Landmark
Conference’s first chair.
As commissioner, Reeves will provide a critical link between the
presidents, academic leaders, athletic administrators, and coaches
of the Landmark Conference. He will oversee all of the conference’s
sports programs for men and women, including championships and special
events, and he will administer its program-development efforts and
day-to-day operational planning. Officiating, compliance, sports
information, and marketing will also fall under his purview. Reeves
will manage all fiscal operations of the Landmark Conference, including
its annual operating budget, and he will coordinate contacts with
prospective sponsors and affiliated organizations.
During his career, Reeves has served at a variety of educational
institutions as an educator, coach, and administrator. Prior to
his tenure at Columbia University, he served as professor of physical
education and director of physical education and athletics at the
State University of New York at Stony Brook, and as director of
sports and recreation at the University of Rochester. He has also
served as a professor of physical education, director of athletics,
and head soccer coach at Drew University, and he was an assistant
professor of physical education and head soccer coach at Bloomfield
College in New Jersey.
“Following a relatively short leave from intense involvement
in intercollegiate athletics, I am thrilled to return with the prospect
of indirectly, positively influencing the development of young people.
Especially attractive to me is the academic-athletic, educational
foundation upon which the Landmark Conference was conceived and
will flourish,” Reeves said.
The members of the Landmark Conference are the Catholic University
of Washington, D.C.; Drew University of Madison, N.J.; Goucher College
of Baltimore, Md.; Juniata College of Huntingdon, Pa.; Moravian
College of Bethlehem, Pa.; Susquehanna University of Selinsgrove,
Pa.; and the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy of King’s Point,
N.Y.
An eighth member institution will be announced at a later date.
Beginning in the fall of 2007, Landmark Conference members will
compete in baseball, basketball, cross-country, field hockey, indoor
and outdoor track and field, lacrosse, soccer, softball, swimming,
tennis, and volleyball.
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