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Executive Transactions

Iowa State announced that AD JAMIE POLLARD has agreed to a “five-year contract extension” that runs through ’19. Since he arrived at the school in ’05, nearly “$100 million has been invested in athletic facilities.” He also was “responsible for the hiring of football coach PAUL RHOADS and men’s basketball coach FRED HOIBERG.” Pollard’s previous contract, signed “May 7, 2007, paid him a base salary of $350,000, with annual raises included” (DES MOINES REGISTER, 8/23).

EXECS: Golfweek promoted Associate Publisher JEREME DAY to Publisher (Golfweek)....Drexel Univ. promoted SEAN JOYCE to Assistant AD/External Relations, MOLLY RALLO to Tickets & Marketing Dir, MIKE TUBEROSA to Associate AD/Communications, and MICHAEL WESTERFER to Assistant AD/Sports Medicine (Drexel)....Mississippi Valley State Univ. named Prairie View A&M Assistant VP/Athletic Compliance & Academic Advising ASHLEY ROBINSON AD (AP, 8/22)....Univ. of South Carolina-Beaufort named Belmont Abbey College AD QUIN MONAHAN to the same position (USCB)....Univ. of Hawaii-Hilo named PAM KNOX Assistant AD/Compliance & Senior Woman Administrator (Hawaii-Hilo).

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