2012-13 Media Guide - Missouri S&T Athletics

MISSOURI S&T ADMINISTRATIONMark Mullin, Director of AthleticsMark Mullin is in his 21st year as Missouri S&T’s director of athletics, where he oversees a programthat won four championships while it was affiliated with the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Associationand several in the Great Lakes Valley Conference, while having numerous student-athletes winacademic honors on both the conference and national levels.During the 2011-12 school year, S&T had a very successful showings on the athletic field in severalyears, winning two division titles in the GLVC as well as capturing a championship in swimming throughits affiliation. S&T had its volleyball team qualify for NCAA play after seeing three teams reach NCAAregional compeittion in the 2010-11 school year.Missouri S&T recorded its highest finish ever in the U.S. Sports Academy Director’s Cup standings in2007-08, a year in which S&T served as the host institution for the 2008 NCAA Division II Swimming &Diving Championships; the Miners finished as the national runner-up at that meet. During Mullin’s tenure,Missouri S&T has also served as the host for the NCAA South Central men’s basketball regional, MIAA men’s basketball finals in1996, 1999 MIAA cross country championships, 2008 GLVC cross country championships and 2010 and 2011 GLVC outdoor track &field championships.In addition to his duties as athletic director, Mullin served as swimming and diving coach for 12 years and led the Miners to a96-27 dual meet record and seven regional championships. His final team finished third at the 1998 NCAA Division II Championships,the highest finish ever for an S&T athletic team at the time at an NCAA championship event.Mullin has served two terms as the chair of the NCAA Division II men’s and women’s swimming and diving committee and isserving on the NCAA regional advisory committee in football for Super Region 3 this season. He completed a two-year term as thepresident of the MIAA after spending the two prior years as the conference’s vice president prior to S&T’s switch to the GLVC.Dr. Jeff Cawlfield, NCAA Faculty RepresentativeDr. Jeff Cawlfield, professor of geological engineering at Missouri S&T, is in his 10th year as the university’sfaculty representative to the NCAA. He took over the duties in January 2003 following the retirementof Dr. Jack Ridley, who had served in the role for the previous three years.After joining the S&T faculty in 1987, Cawlfield was named professor of geological engineering in1999 and became head of the geological engineering department the following year. He moved intothe role of associate dean in 2001. Cawlfield received an S&T Sustained Excellence in Teaching award in2003. Cawlfield received his bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from Washington State University in1981 and his master’s and doctorate degrees at the University of California-Berkeley.Cawlfield is also an Honorary Knight of St. Patrick, an honor he received in 2002 along with a groupthat included Dr. Manuel Pacheco prior to his retirement as president of the University of MissouriSystem. He was selected by Pacheco to attend the first UM Administrative Leadership DevelopmentProgram during the 2000-01 academic year.LADY MINER BASKETBALL7