{"id":77,"date":"2008-04-23T09:14:18","date_gmt":"2008-04-23T16:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/?p=77"},"modified":"2013-07-31T11:32:18","modified_gmt":"2013-07-31T15:32:18","slug":"new-lineup-for-athletics-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/?p=77","title":{"rendered":"New lineup for athletics department"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The departure of  long-tenured Director of Athletics <strong>Kevin McHugh<\/strong> last spring brought about several changes in the athletics department. McHugh, who had been director of athletics at the College for 20 years, accepted a position last May as the athletics director and chair of the Department of Physical Education at Bates College in Lewiston, ME.<\/p>\n<div class=\"imageframe alignleft\" style=\"width:150px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment wp-att-80\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/lionsroarcastaldojad2.jpg\" alt=\"John Castaldo\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"imagecaption\">John Castaldo<br \/>\n\u00a9 Steve Smith<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>John Castaldo \u201982<\/strong> was selected to serve as interim director of athletics this academic year, while a national search for a full-time director is completed. \u201cAs an alumnus and highly respected coach and student-athlete mentor, John is familiar with our athletic department and its vital role within our community, \u201dsaid Vice President for Student Affairs <strong>James  Norfleet<\/strong>. \u201cHis experience and strong work ethic, along with his collaborative leadership style and impeccable integrity, make him an excellent choice for this position.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For the last 14 years, Castaldo was the head coach of TCNJ\u2019s men\u2019s basketball team. During that time, his teams compiled a record of 200-149 and made several appearances in the New Jersey Athletic Conference playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>Filling in for Castaldo  as the interim head coach of the men\u2019s basketball team this season will be <strong>Matt Hunter<\/strong>. Hunter has served as  a full-time assistant coach for the Lions the past two seasons.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the  reorganization in the athletics department, Head Wrestling Coach <strong>David Icenhower  Sr.<\/strong> assumed additional administrative responsibilities as interim senior associate athletic director. Icenhower will continue to serve as head wrestling coach during this time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/lionsroarcastaldojad2.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"John Castaldo\" width=\"75\" height=\"75\" class=\"attachment wp-att-80 alignleft\" \/> John Castaldo &#8217;82 was selected to serve as interim director of athletics this academic year, while a national search for a full-time director is completed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,16,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-autumn-2007","category-lions-roar","category-on-campus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/78"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}