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Harvard was only school not to make any coaching moves Although there is a lack of actual sporting contests, summer is always a busy time in intercollegiate athletics, as it is the season in which stagnating programs either die or are reborn through coaching changes. Here's how the Ivy League has changed entering the 1996-97 season: · Brown -- Only one major change has been made in Providence. Baseball coach Bill Almon left after a disappointing 12-24 campaign. He has been replaced by Mereck Drabinzki. Brown also upgraded the softball coaching position, making coach Deb Carreiro's position a full-time job, instead of the part-time status she previously had. · Columbia -- The Lions made a number of interesting changes during the off-season. The highest profile job to change hands was the women's basketball position. After five miserable seasons -- five league wins in as many years -- Kerry Phayre is out, replaced by Jay Butler. Other new coaches are Mike Zimmer as the women's crew coach, Carolyn Elwood heading the volleyball program and a still-to-be-named lightweight crew coach. Long the only Ivy League school not to field lacrosse teams, Columbia will start a women's team in 1997. It has hired Celine Cunningham as the inaugural head coach. According to the Columbia sports information department, the start of a women's program does not indicate any movement toward fielding a men's team. · Cornell -- The biggest news out of Ithaca in the off-season was the resignation of men's basketball coach Al Walker in late spring. New boss Scott Thompson, former head man at Rice and Wichita State, will try to improve upon Walker's three-year 12-30 Ivy League mark. The last laugh may be Walker's though, as he wound up basketball coach and athletic director at Chaminade, conveniently located on the big island of Hawaii. Other news includes the additions of women's tennis coach Katherine Barnard and Dan Roock, who will lead the heavyweight crew team, as well as splitting the swimming duties between two coaches. Joe Lucia had led both, but will now concentrate on the men's squad, while newly-hired coach Pam Armold works with the women. · Dartmouth -- The Big Green will have a pair of new coaches next season. After six seasons and two NCAA tourney appearances, women's soccer coach Steve Swanson abandoned his talented team to take the same position at Stanford. Neil Orr will assume the reins in an interim capacity. The women's swimming program will also be under new leadership. Betsy Mitchell resigned after six seasons at the helm to go to graduate school. Her successor is Joann Brislin, a long-time assistant at Washington. · Harvard -- Stability is king in Cambridge. All Crimson teams will be led by the same coaches. · Princeton -- Several nationally-known Tigers coaches will not be back next season. Chief among them, of course, is Pete Carril, who retired as men's basketball coach after 29 seasons. Carril will work in a yet-to-be-defined assistant coaching position with the NBA's Sacramento Kings. His replacement is long-time assistant Bill Carmody. Also going pro is men's soccer coach Bob Bradley. After 11 years with the Tigers, Bradley joined the staff of Major League Soccer's D.C. United, where he works under good friend and United States Olympic coach Bruce Arena. He will be followed at Princeton by his former player and assistant Jim Barlow. · Yale -- The Elis will have two new head coaches this season. The first is Brian Tompkins, the former head soccer coach at Midwest power Wisconsin-Milwaukee, who has accepted the top soccer post at Yale. The Englishman becomes only the seventh head coach in the last 70 years for the men's team. Steve Griggs, whose 18-year stint as head coach included three Ivy League titles, retired in February. The other newcomer in New Haven is softball coach Andy Van Etten. Actually he's not all that new as he spent three years as an assistant to departed Kathy Arendsen, now at Mississippi State, before taking over the team on an interim basis in January. Also, Carm Cozza, who is entering his 32nd year as coach of the Yale football team, announced this will be his final year. In his tenure, Cozza led the Elis to 10 Ivy League championships.

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