BUIES CREEK, N.C. - Reflecting the current and future growth of the Campbell University Department of Athletics, five staff members have been assigned new titles. The changes, which were effective Jan. 1, 2007, come in the business, advancement and communication areas of the department.
Stan Cole (pictured left) has been named Associate Athletics Director for Media Services. Tony Delp has been named Associate Athletics Director for Advancement. Robert Harper has been named Assistant Athletics Director for Broadcasting. Randy Magill has been named Associate Athletics Director for Business. Adam Prendergast (pictured right) has been named Assistant Director for Media Services.
Under the guidance of Athletics Director Stan Williamson, Campbell University fields varsity teams in 20 sports on the NCAA Division I level - baseball, men's and women's basketball, men's and women's cross country, football (beginning in 2008), men's and women's golf, men's and women's soccer, softball, women's swimming, men's and women's tennis, men's and women's indoor and outdoor track and field, volleyball and wrestling.
The growth of the Athletics Department reflects that of the University, which enrolled a record 2,843 undergraduate students for the fall 2006 semester. In addition to the new athletics projects, Campbell is nearing completion of a new Pharmacy teaching facility.
The University has also been included on national lists of outstanding schools including "U.S. News & World Report's" America's best colleges and "Princeton Review's" Best Colleges in the Southeast.
Construction of the $30 million John W. Pope Jr. Convocation Center began in late 2006 and the facility, which will house the 3000-seat Gilbert Craig Gore Arena, is expected to open in the fall of 2008.
Campbell University announced the addition of football as a varsity sport beginning in 2008 last April. Dale Steele was hired last June as Campbell's football coach and the Division I-AA non-scholarship will play the first game in its new on-campus stadium on Aug. 30, 2008.
The five staff members who received new titles have combined for nearly 40 years of service to the University.
A member of the Campbell staff since June 1989, Cole is in his 18th year of structuring and implementing media and public relations services for each of Campbell's varsity programs. He oversees a full-time and student staff for the entire Media Services Department, which includes media relations, publications, broadcasting and internet services.
The 1987 Campbell graduate also assists in on-campus and local promotions for events, game management, and in the operation of general athletics administration. Cole is directly responsible for the daily publicity efforts of Campbell's men's soccer, men's basketball, and the men's and women's golf teams.
Now in his 16th year at the University, Delp oversees the development needs of the athletics department. Since arriving on campus in August 1991 as the Assistant A.D. for External Affairs, Delp has seen the Fighting Camel Club grow from fewer than 500 to more than 4,000 members.
Under Delp's guidance, athletics department revenues reached an all-time high of more than $6 million during the 2005-06 academic year. Among the projects he has successfully helped raising funding to construct is the $30 million John W. Pope Jr. Convocation Center, which will be the
largest square-footed on-campus facility ever. A 1984 graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Delp's efforts helped raise funding for the McLeod Athletics Training Facility, which opened in August 2004, plus facilities improvements for Campbell baseball, soccer, softball and tennis.
Harper is in his second year his second year as the "Voice of the Camels" after spending four years with Kindred Communications and International Sports Properties in Huntington, W.Va. A 2001 graduate of Marshall University, Harper has won more than 30 national, regional and state awards for broadcasting excellence.
Since joining the department in October 2005, the native of Hurricane, W.Va., has served as the primary radio play-by-play announcer for men's and women's basketball, baseball and softball games as well as the host of the weekly Campbell SportsTalk radio show on WCCE 90.1 FM in Buies Creek. In addition, Harper assists in the marketing and fund-raising efforts of the Athletics Department.
Magill joined the department in April 2005 as Assistant A.D. for Business. He oversees all business-related activities for the 20-sport Fighting Camel program. Under Magill's guidance, Campbell has begun an all-sports agreement with adidas to outfit each of its varsity teams.
Prior to joining the Campbell staff, he served as Commissioner of the NCAA Division III Great South Athletic Conference. A 1986 graduate of Ohio University, Magill also has experience as a collegiate Athletics Director at Wesleyan (Ga.) College, and as a head and assistant men's and women's basketball coach at Ohio (Chillicothe), North Dakota, and South Alabama. He has also worked two years as the Manager of Product Development for Atlantax Systems, Inc. (Atlanta, Ga.), where he was
responsible for determining enhancements to existing products, which included upgrades, new forms and software licensee requests.
A 2003 graduate of Auburn University, Prendergast is the primary media services contact for volleyball, women's basketball, softball and men's and women's track and field at Campbell. In addition to his daily sports responsibilities, he also handles the duties of maintaining the athletic department web site and as the editor of the basketball game program.
Prendergast joined the Fighting Camel staff in September 2005 after serving as sports information director at Spring Hill College in Mobile, Ala. He also spent a year with the media relations office at Samford University, in addition to working with the media relations office as an undergraduate at Auburn.