Appointments

• Alfonso Scandrett Jr. is the new director of athletics at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania. He was the athletics director at Moorhead State University in Minnesota. He is a graduate of the University of Buffalo and holds a master’s degree in health education from Minnesota State University at Mankato and a Ph.D. from the University of Oregon in health sciences and epidemiology.

• Jimmy Arrington was named assistant vice chancellor for student affairs and enrollment services at Winston-Salem State University in North Carolina. He was the assistant vice president for enrollment management at Delaware State University. Arrington holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Tuskegee University.

• Darren Hamilton was named director of athletics at Eastern Washington University in Cheney, Washington. He was the athletic director at Chicago State University. He is the first African American to hold the position at EWU and only the second black athletic director in the Big Sky Conference.

Hamilton is a graduate of Pennsylvania State University where he played on the 1982 national championship football team. He went on to earn a master’s degree in exercise and sports science and a Ph.D. in black history and sociology of sport at Penn State.

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