June 21, 2007

Cleveland, Ohio -- The members of the College Athletic Business Management Association (CABMA) have chosen Darin Spease, senior associate athletics director/business affairs at the University of North Carolina Charlotte, to serve as president for 2007-08.

Also elected to serve CABMA for the 2007-08 term were 1st Vice President Clayton Hamilton, business manager at the University of Colorado; 2nd Vice President/Treasurer Doug Beard, senior associate athletics director/administration at the University of Wisconsin; and 3rd Vice President/Secretary Jeanette Shoecraft, associate athletics director/chief financial officer at the University of Cincinnati.

About CABMA: CABMA is an organization devoted to the establishment, maintenance and implementation of the highest standards of integrity and efficiency in the scope, policies and procedures involved in the management and administration of business in the athletics departments and associations of colleges and universities. For more information about CABMA, please visit www.cabma.com. The Association is administered by NACDA, now in its 43rd year. NACDA is the professional and educational association for more than 6,500 college athletics administrators at more than 1,600 institutions throughout the United States, Canada and Mexico. More than 2,000 athletics administrators annually attend the NACDA Convention.

Additionally, NACDA administers 10 professional associations for the separate business units that report directly to the athletics director. NACDA also operates the Sports Academy Directors' Cup program, which honors the four all-sports champions in NCAA Divisions I, II and III; and the NAIA. The Association has an awards program that includes the James J. Corbett Memorial Award, the highest administrative award presented in intercollegiate athletics; the AstroTurf Athletics Director of the Year (ADOY) Award, honoring the top-29 athletics directors by division across the country; and the Coca-Cola Community All-American Awards, recognizing seven student-athletes by division for their community service efforts. NACDA also provides a daily web clip service, the NACDA Daily Review; and a bi-monthly magazine, Athletics Administration.

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