July 28, 2006

Contact: Brian McCann

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- With the start of fall preseason practice less than two weeks away, Cleveland State filled four positions in the athletic department on Friday (July 28). The announcement was made by CSU Director of Athletics Lee Reed.

Named to the athletic department staff are assistant athletic trainer Julie Brough, director of men's basketball operations Bill Buck, director of women's basketball operations Liberty Del Rosario and Becca Stone, who will serve as assistant women's soccer coach.

Brough joins the Vikings after spending the last three years as a graduate assistant athletic trainer at Alabama A&M University in Huntsville, Ala. She earned a bachelor's degree in exercise and sport science from the University of Wyoming in 2002 and is close to completing her master's degree coursework in computer science from Alabama A&M.

Brough will work with the Viking men's soccer and wrestling teams while also providing assistance organizing the athletic insurance program.

Buck, a native of Franklin, Pa. and 2004 graduate of Cleveland State with a degree in communications, returns to the Viking basketball program after serving as assistant men's basketball coach at Mount Union College last year. A student manager for the Vikings as an undergraduate from 2000-03, he also coached one season at Pfeiffer University in Misenheimer, N.C.

Del Rosario joins the women's basketball staff after serving as an assistant women's basketball coach the last four years at Notre Dame College. A two-year letterwinner in basketball at NDC, Del Rosario graduated in 2002 with a bachelor's degree in psychology and later earned a master's in education with a specialization in sports management from Cleveland State in 2005.

Del Rosario takes over a newly-created position that makes her responsible for coordinating all of the team's administrative duties including team travel, camps and community relations.

Stone, a four-time first team All-Southland Conference selection as a player at Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond, La., graduated in 2002 as the school's career leader in goals, assists and points. She was named SLU's Female Athlete of the Year as a senior after ranking 13th nationally in assists.

The former Becca Weingartner, she will be inducted in Southeastern Louisiana's Athletic Hall of Fame this fall.