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The U.K.'s Rugby Football Union named BILL BEAUMONT Chair, replacing PAUL MURPHY, who had been in the role on an interim basis. Murphy will become RFU President (GUARDIAN, 7/8)….Florida Sports Foundation President & CEO LARRY PENDLETON is retiring after 21 years in the position. He will be succeeded by JOHN WEBB (Florida Sports Foundation)….UConn named Univ. at Buffalo Associate AD/Internal Operations DOUG GNODTKE Senior Associate AD/Internal Operations and CFO (UConn)….Gonzaga Univ. named Portland State Univ. Dir of Donor Relations & Special Events SCOTT BOYD Dir of Annual Giving (Gonzaga)….Longwood Univ. promoted JENNA PAGE to Assistant AD/Sports Medicine, ERIC STOLLER to Assistant AD/Marketing and SCOTT BACON to Assistant AD/Development (Longwood)….The Univ. of Sioux Falls named PAM GOHL Assistant AD/Compliance and Senior Woman Administrator. Gohl was previously Minnesota State Univ.-Mankato women’s basketball coach (Univ. of Sioux Falls).

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