Scott Edgar -- Head Men's Basketball Coach, Southeast Missouri State University Redhawks

(as of basketball season 2008-09) Scott Edgar was named head coach at SEMO on April 13, 2006. He had spent the previous season at the Univeristy of Tennessee, after three seasons as an assistant coach at UAB.
His reputation began as a standout athlete at the University of Pittsburgh-Johnstown. He played baseball and basketball while attending college and was one of the premier athletes during his time there. His play garnered him honors into the Penn Hills High School Athletic Hall of Fame.
After earning his Bachelor of Science degree in sociology from Pittsburgh-Johnstown in 1978, Edgar took his first coaching job at the New Mexico Military Institute as an assistant coach to his college coach, Dave Campbell.
After a three-year stint Edgar was introduced to the Division I level when he joined Nolan Richardson at the University of Tulsa from 1980 to 1985. During that five-year span, Edgar was an important piece of the puzzle which resulted in three NCAA tournament appearances and an NIT Championship.
Edgar then followed Richardson to the University of Arkansas in 1986. During his six seasons with the Razorbacks, Edgar was again an instrumental part of building a successful program and a consistent winner, including a 1990 appearance in the NCAA Final Four.
Edgar's first head coaching opportunity came following the 1991 season when he was named the head coach at Murray State University. During his tenure, Edgar led the Racers to the postseason in each of his four years, including two NCAA Tournaments and an NIT appearance. He compiled an overall win-loss record of 79-40.
The Penn Hills, Pa. native returned to his roots when he accepted the head coach position at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pa. The program had fallen on hard times; however, under Edgar's guidance, the Dukes returned to competitiveness in just three seasons.
From there, Edgar joined the staff of Conference USA member TCU where he was the head of basketball operations. He was with the Horned Frogs from 1999 to 2001.

Dick Ellis -- Assistant Men's Golf Coach, Rice University Owls

(as of golf season 2006-07) Dr. Dick Ellis is now in his second year as assistant golf coach after spending the past two seasons as the head coach for men's golf and the past nine years at Rice as special assistant to former athletic director Bobby May and former head football coach Ken Hatfield.
A 1968 Air Force Academy graduate, Ellis played golf as a cadet, lettered in football and track, and was selected to the intercollegiate All-American pistol team his senior year. He has an extensive coaching career in both golf and football.
After coaching college football for three years, he was head junior varsity and the varsity assistant golf coach at the Air Force Academy in 1973-76.
Ellis returned to football coaching in 1977 when he was selected as the head coach at the Air Force Academy Preparatory School. A year later, he joined Bill Parcells's Air Force staff. When Parcells left for the NFL, he became a member of Ken Hatfield's first Academy coaching staff. Later, he also worked five years under head coach Fisher DeBerry before moving into administration as the Academy's associate director of athletics.
Prior to his long tour of duty at the Academy, he served as a combat pilot in Vietnam. Ellis wore both Air Force pilot wings and Army Airborne parachute wings.
Col. Ellis retired from the Air Force after 21 years of service and rejoined Hatfield at the University of Arkansas in 1989 as the Razorbacks' recruiting coordinator and director of football operations. That year, the Hogs won the Southwest Conference championship with a 10-1 record. He then followed Hatfield to Clemson University where the Tigers won the Atlantic Coast Conference Championship in 1991.
With a chance to return to his native state of Texas, Ellis moved to Waco in 1992. He was Baylor University's deputy athletic director under Grant Teaff, who at the time was both head football coach and AD. A year later when Teaff retired, he was promoted to director of athletics. Following a change in Baylor presidents, Ellis left Waco and came to Rice in 1997.

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