Karyn Karlin -- Assistant Women's Basketball Coach, Liberty University

(as of basketball season 2002-03) Karyn was named assistant coach at Liberty in June of 2002. The native of Fruitland, N.M. started her basketball success when she help lead Kirkland Central High School to four-consecutive 3-A New Mexico state championships. In addition, she was named New Mexico's high school Player of the Year her final three seasons before graduating in 1996.
Karlin earned a Bachelor's of Science degree in Education from Arkansas in 2000. While with the Lady Razorbacks, Karlin was named Southeastern Conference Freshman of the Year during the 1996-97 season and was named to the all-conference squad in her sophomore ('97-'98) and junior ('98-'99) seasons for head coach Gary Blair.
During the 1997-98 campaign she help lead Arkansas to the Final Four as the ninth-seeded Lady Razorbacks came out of the West Region to become the highest seeded women's basketball team to qualify for the Final Four. The following season Karlin helped Arkansas to a postseason WNIT title.
After graduating from Arkansas, Karlin played in Europe in Noika, Finland and Calais, France from December 2000 to May 2001. In each of the last two autumns, she has participated with Athletes in Action. This past winter she played in the NWBL with the Birmingham Power and since then was apart of the WNBA's Miami Sols training camp.

Gene Keady -- Assistant Basketball Coach, Toronto Raptors

(as of basketball season 2005-6) Keady retired from Purdue after the 2004-05 season, but took a job as an assistant coach for the NBA's Toronto Raptors in December of 2005.
Keady's six national coach of the year awards came in 1984, 1988, 1994, 1995, 1996 and 2000. His most recent honors came in 2000 when he was selected national coach of the year by College Sports Magazine, Basketball Weekly, Chevrolet/CBS-TV Sports, Associated Press, United Press International and Sports Illustrated. He also received the Henry Iba Award (selected by the United States Basketball Writers Association).
Keady led Purdue to six Big Ten Championships (1984, 1987, 1988, 1994, 1995 and 1996) in 22 years, including three straight outright titles from 1994 to 1996. (Ohio State from 1960 to 1962 is the only other Big Ten school to accomplish that feat.)
Purdue has finished in the upper division of the Big Ten 17 times during Keady's tenure. The Boilermakers finished second in the league in 1983, 1990 and 1997.
He was named Big Ten Coach of the Year a record seven times (1984, 1988, 1990, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000), tying former Indiana coach Bob Knight for the most all-time selections. Keady is also the only coach to win the award three straight years.
Under Keady, Purdue has made 20 postseason tournament appearances in 22 years (16 times in the NCAA Tournament). During the Keady Era, Purdue has averaged 21.3 wins per season.
Keady came to Purdue after a two-year stint as head coach at Western Kentucky. He led the Hilltoppers to a 38-19 record from 1979-80. They were co-champions of the Ohio Valley Conference his second season and advanced to the NCAA Tournament. Prior to taking the reigns at Western Kentucky, Keady was an assistant coach at Arkansas from 1975 to 1978. He helped Eddie Sutton mold the Razorback program into one of the nation's best. In doing so, Keady earned his reputation as a tireless, persevereant recruiter by proving instrumental in Arkansas' recruiting its famous "Triplets" of Ron Brewer, Marvin Delph and Sidney Moncrief. Arkansas went 94-24 in Keady's four seasons as an assistant and finished third in the NCAA Tournament his final campaign. Before coming to Arkansas Keady was at Hutchinson (Kan.) Junior College, where he was named national junior college coach of the year three times. Keady began his coaching career at Beloit (Kan.) High School in 1959.

Billy Kinard -- Football

Was an assistant coach at Arkansas in 1970.
In 1970, Billy Kinard became the first Ole Miss alumnus to head up the football program. The Rebels went 16-9 under Kinard until he was replaced in 1973. The Rebels were 10-2 in 1971 under Kinard.
Assistant with the Cleveland Browns 1976-77.

Joe Kines -- Defensive Coordinator / Assistant Head Coach, Texas A&M University Aggies

(as of football season 2009) Joe Kines was named the Texas A&M assistant head coach and defensive coordinator on February 13, 2008. He announced his retirement on December 30, 2009.
Kines most recently served four years (2003-06) as the Alabama assistant head coach, defensive coordinator and linebackers coach. He was the Crimson Tide interim head coach from the end of the 2006 regular season through the Independence Bowl.
Kines' resume includes stops at Alabama, Florida State, Georgia, Arkansas, Florida, Clemson and Jacksonville State. He spent four years in the NFL working with the linebackers for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers from 1987-90.
During his time on the Alabama football coaching staff, Kines had to replace seven starters prior to the 2006 season and his unit responded as the third ranked pass defense in the SEC and fifth against the run. Opponents could not match Kines' adjustments as Bama foes managed only seven points per game in the second half.
Kines' 2005 unit was ranked in the top nine nationally in all five major statistical categories, one of only two defensive units to make such a claim. Alabama ranked first in scoring defense, second in total defense, fifth in pass defense and pass efficiency defense and ninth in rushing defense.
Kines was named one of six finalists for the 2005 Broyles Award, an honor for the nation's top assistant coach.
The 2004 defensive unit ranked first nationally in pass defense and was second in total defense. One of the Alabama defensive stars from 2002-05 was current Houston Texans' linebacker DeMeco Ryans, who recently started for the AFC in the Pro Bowl. Ryans was the 2005 SEC Defensive Player of the Year and was a first-team All-America selection.
Kines came to Alabama after working with Bobby Bowden as the Florida State linebackers coach from 2000 through 2002.
He served as the defensive coordinator at Georgia from 1995-98 and added the title of assistant head coach for the 1999 campaign.
Kines worked at the University of Arkansas from 1991 through the 1994 season. He was the defensive coordinator in 1991 and took over as the interim head coach one game into the 1992 season. He remained on the Hog staff in 1993 and 1993 as assistant head coach and defensive coordinator.
Kines served as the Crimson Tide defensive coordinator and inside linebackers coach in 1985 and 1986 for head coach Ray Perkins and followed Perkins to the NFL serving as linebackers coach for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers from 1987-90.
Kines served on the Florida coaching staff from 1979-84 serving as linebackers coach in 1979 and 1980 before being elevated to defensive coordinator from 1981 through 1984. He added the title of assistant head coach for the 1984 season.
He served as the linebackers coach at Clemson in 1977 and 1978.
Kines played collegiate football at Jacksonville State and he was a three-year letterman from 1963-65. After coaching on the high school level, he returned to his alma mater to complete work on a master's degree and serve as a graduate assistant in 1972-73. He earned the title of defensive coordinator and assistant head coach through the 1976 season.

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Bryan King -- Student Assistant - Baseball, University of Oklahoma Sooners

(as of baseball season 2002) Bryan King is entering his first season as an assistant coach for Oklahoma. A letter winner for Oklahoma in 2001, King was the team's starting left fielder last year before an injury ended his season. Prior to that, King was batting .333 with two home runs and 16 runs batted in.
King's junior season at the University of Arkansas was also stellar as he batted .274 with three round trippers and 23 runs batted in while making 41 starts.
Prior to Arkansas, King played at Connors (Okla.) State College where he earned all-region honors.
King is an honor student majoring in Sociology and also competed in Jayhawk League for the Liberal (Kan.) Beejays in the summer of 2000. The Beejays won the NBC World Series and he started and played in every game batting .333 in the wood bat league.

John Konstantinos -- Football / Athletic Director

(as of school year 2001-02) John Konstantinos was named Cleveland State's third Director of Athletics on July 1, 1990. In the ensuing decade, Konstantinos put the Vikings on a fast-forward track which propelled the department through the '90s and into the new millennium.
Under his direction, CSU athletics have enjoyed success both on and off the fields of play in the past 11 years. In addition, during his tenure, Cleveland State has hosted a pair of national championships -- the 1996 NCAA Division I Women?s Volleyball Championship and the 1998 NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships -- as well as the first and second rounds of the 2000 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament.
Prior to coming to the shores of Lake Erie, Konstantinos worked for 10 years as an Associate Director of Athletics at neighboring Kent State University. From 1985 until his appointment at CSU, he served as KSU's Associate Director of Athletic Development and Sports Services, earning a reputation as a highly successful fundraiser and resourceful administrator. In addition to directing the Kent athletic fundraising program, he was responsible for administering the programs for 15 men's and women's sports.
A native Ohioan, the 65-year-old Konstantinos attended Yorkville High School, where he played varsity football, basketball and baseball. He went on to Morris Harvey College in West Virginia where he played football for three years before completing his eligibility at Kent State as a senior.
A five-year professional football career with the Cleveland, later Canton, Bulldogs of the United Football League and Philadelphia of the Continental Football League followed. During that time, he also launched a football coaching career, first at the high school, then on the college level.
That career carried him through assistant coaching stints at Temple (1968-69), William & Mary (1969-72), North Carolina State (1972-74) and Arkansas (1978-80). In addition, he served three seasons (1975-77) as the head coach at Eastern Illinois University.
During his three-year stint at Arkansas, where he served under current South Carolina Head Coach Lou Holtz, Konstantinos had the opportunity to coach teams which ended their years in the Fiesta, Hall of Fame and Sugar Bowls.

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