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USA Field Hockey Appoints New Board of Directors

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Aug. 24,2005)– USA Field Hockey has appointed 11 new members to its Board of Directors.

The appointments come as a continuation of USA Field Hockey’s governance restructuring plan designed to help improve efficiency through a smaller, skills-based Board of Directors.

Appointed by the Association’s Nominating and Governance Committee and approved by the USA Field Hockey Executive Committee, the new board features Southern California controller Billie Ahluwalia (Irvine, Calif.), former umpiring chair and director of technical services Barbara Carriero (Wesport, Mass.), athletics and business consultant Merrily Dean Baker (Estero, Fla.), 1996 USA Olympic Team head coach Pam Hixon (Amherst, Mass.), advertising technology executive Christine Hunsicker (New York, N.Y.), civil engineer  James Johnson (Houston, Texas), Michigan State Univ. head coach Michelle Madison (East Lansing, Mich.), former USA men’s national team coach Lenny McCaigue (Brookline, N.H.), Octagon sports marketing account manager Christine Millbauer (Easton, Conn.), Penn State Univ. head coach Char Morett (State College, Pa.) and Boston attorney Daniel Shapiro (Dedham, Mass.).

“I am very pleased with the quality of the new members of the Board of Directors. The Nominating and Governance Committee clearly did an outstanding job in the search and selection process,” said USA Field Hockey President Sharon Taylor. “The new members represent a great balance to our Board with some members having previous association with USA Field Hockey and knowledge of our programs and others bringing a fresh perspective from other organizations and experiences.  I’m really looking forward to working with all of them.”

The new appointments will join Taylor, Executive Vice President Barbara Doran and Secretary/Treasurer Meri Dembrow on the 19-member USA Field Hockey Board of Directors. The current Board also includes Barbara Longstreth and athlete representatives Pat Cota, Andrew Duncan, Jill Reeve and Jason Wellings.

USA Field Hockey bylaws call for four of the new appointments to serve through 2006 with the remaining directors serving through 2008. Individuals may be reappointed to a second term.

In keeping with recommendations by the Nominating Committee, appointments to the board were made without title or rank restrictions. The new structure also calls for a reduction in the number of USA Field Hockey committees. The organization supported 21 committees in 2003.

The new board will meet for training Oct. 2-3 in Colorado Springs and will conduct its first meeting during the NCAA I Field Hockey Championship semifinals and final, Nov. 19-20 in Louisville, Ky.

As part of an ongoing process for securing qualified Board of Directors candidates, USA Field Hockey invites individuals interested in serving the organization to submit resumes for future consideration for the Board. Additional information is available on the USA Field Hockey website at www.usfieldhockey.com/usfha/board.

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