Executive Transactions

MLS Chivas USA named DENNIS TE KLOESE Sporting President for both the club "and its Mexican cousin, Chivas de Guadalajara." By hiring Te Kloese to oversee soccer operations for both Chivas squads, Owner JORGE VERGARA is "taking another step toward consolidating the two teams, which he said would share one philosophy and one style of play" (L.A. TIMES, 12/25).

EXECS: Colgate Univ. named interim AD VICKY CHUN AD, effective Jan. 1. She becomes the "only female athletics director in the Patriot League" (Colgate)....Texas A&M Univ.-Kingsville promoted VP/Institutional Advancement SCOTT GINES to VP/Intercollegiate Athletics & Campus Recreation (Texas A&M-Kinsgville)....The Single-A Carolina League Myrtle Beach Pelicans named Palisades Baseball Exec VP ANDY MILOVICH VP & GM (Pelicans).

Do you have an executive announcement? If so, please send to editorial@sportsbusinessdaily.com.