March 27, 2007
IOWA CITY – UI Director of Athletics Gary Barta announced Tuesday the members of the committee that is assisting him in the process of selecting the next head men’s basketball coach at the University.
– Elizabeth Altmaier – Altmaier is the University of Iowa’s current faculty representative for intercollegiate athletics and professor in the Department of Psychological and Quantitative Foundations.
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“I am very excited about the passion and expertise each member of the search committee brings to the process. All care deeply about the University of Iowa and our intercollegiate athletics program. I am confident that each will provide me invaluable assistance as we move forward in the process of hiring the next leader of our men’s basketball program.”
UI Director of Athletics
Gary Barta |
– B.J. Armstrong – Armstrong is a 1989 graduate of the University of Iowa who was named all-Big Ten three times and all-American once during a brilliant four-year career (1986-89) as a member of the UI’s men’s basketball program. Armstrong played basketball professionally after graduation. He was the starting point guard on the 1993 Chicago Bulls team that won the NBA championship and was named to the NBA All-Star team in 1994.
– Charles Lynch – Lynch is the current president of the Presidential Committee on Athletics and a professor in the Department of Epidemiology.
– Fred Mims – Mims is an associate athletics director at the UI. He oversees the department’s academic student services and compliance areas and is the administrator responsible for the varsity sports of wrestling and baseball. A 1972 graduate of the UI, Mims was a two-time letterwinner in basketball (1971-72) and baseball (1971-72).
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“Last Friday I indicated that in short order the search process will enter the phase where confidentiality and due diligence takes priority over public comment, and that our friends, fans and the media would need to be patient. We are in that phase.”
UI Director of Athletics
Gary Barta |
– G. Joseph Reddington – Reddington is retired. He was chief executive officer of Signature Group and Breuner’s Home Furnishings of Sedona, Arizona. A 1963 graduate of the University of Iowa, Reddington was a three-time letterwinner (1961-63) in the sport of men’s basketball.
“I am very excited about the passion and expertise each member of the search committee brings to the process. All care deeply about the University of Iowa and our intercollegiate athletics program. I am confident that each will provide me invaluable assistance as we move forward in the process of hiring the next leader of our men’s basketball program,” said Barta.
Barta said each member of the committee “has already made significant contributions to the search,” a process that he said is fully engaged and active.
“Last Friday I indicated that in short order the search process will enter the phase where confidentiality and due diligence takes priority over public comment, and that our friends, fans and the media would need to be patient. We are in that phase,” said Barta.
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