June 27, 2007

Cleveland, OH - The members of the National Association of Collegiate Marketing Administrators (NACMA) have chosen Mary Pink, assistant athletics director for marketing and promotions at Iowa State University, to serve as president for 2007-08.

Also elected to serve NACMA for the 2007-08 term were First Vice President Dennis Kalina, associate athletic director for development at Gonzaga University; 2nd Vice President Cliff Dochterman, associate athletics director at the University of California Riverside; and 3rd Vice President Brent Seebohm, Vice President / GM with HOST / University of Arizona.

New members to the Association's Board of Directors include James Companion, associate commissioner, Big South Conference; James DiLoreto, associate athletics director external operations, Boston College; Greg Herring, assistant athletics director for marketing, University of Southern Mississippi; David Lichtenstein, assistant director of athletics, Morehead State University; Carol Parrish, director of marketing, University of Washington; and Ann Brett Gillespie Strickland, assistant athletics director - corporate sponsorships, Western Carolina University.

NACMA also added a pair of advisors to the NACMA Board of Directors, Dianna P. Gray, professor and director, School of Sport & Exercise Science and director of the UNC Sport Marketing Research Institute at the University of Northern Colorado; and Dan Migala, president, The Migala Report and vice president of industry affairs, Sport Marketing Association.

About NACMA: NACMA is the first organization of its kind to provide educational and networking opportunities; enhancement of acceptable operating standards and ethics; and establishment of the overall prestige and understanding of the profession of athletics marketing administrators. For more information about NACMA, please visit www.nacma.com. NACMA is administered by NACDA. In its 43rd year, NACDA is the professional and educational association for more than 6,100 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.