Bill Manning has been appointed the head coach of men's freshman heavyweight crew, Dawn Straw has joined the women's soccer staff as an assistant coach, and the women's basketball program has added Stacey Connors as an assistant coach and Steve Borger as a volunteer assistant. Manning is a former coaching intern on the Crimson crew staff, and worked with the varsity heavyweights. A graduate of Holy Cross, Manning served as an assistant coach with the U.S. Junior National Team that won silver medals at the World Championships in 1997 in Austria and again in 1998 in Belgium. Manning was formerly a history teacher and crew coach at Buckingham, Brown, and Nichols and Assistant Director of Admissions and volunteer rowing coach at Holy Cross. The Plattsburgh, NY native also earned an Ed.M. in Administration, Planning, and Social Policy from Harvard in 1998.
Straw joins the women's soccer staff as an assistant coach.
The Bombers made three trips to the NCAA Tournament in her time at Ithaca. A cum laude graduate in Corporate Communications from Ithaca's Park School of Communications, Straw interned at the Women's Sports Foundation, and also worked as an executive assistant with the 1999 Women's World Cup Organizing Committee. Connors, who hails from Waltham, MA, is a 1998 graduate of Bentley College, where she was a four-year basketball letterwinner for the Falcons. Bentley made four trips to the NCAA Tournament in her tenure, including two trips to the Elite Eight and one trip to the Final Four. His Villa Walsh team was the 1996 Prep B State Champions, and his 1997 Mt. St. Dominic team was the Prep A State Finalist.