ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Tuesday, July 2, 1996 TAG: 9607020055
SECTION: SPORTS PAGE: B-2 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: FROM STAFF REPORTS
Derek Carter and Derita Ratcliffe, who have worked together the past two years in the office of student life in the Virginia Tech athletic department, have been promoted to new positions on the Hokies' staff.
Dave Braine, Tech athletic director, announced Monday that Carter has assumed the position of assistant athletic director for compliance. He succeeds Steve Horton, who resigned recently.
Ratcliffe has been elevated to the position of director of student life, assuming Carter's role as office head.
Carter's primary function in his new job will be to ensure the Hokies' athletic department is in full compliance with the rules and regulations of the NCAA, Big East Football Conference and Atlantic 10 Conference. He also will have a number of other responsibilities as outlined by the athletic director.
In other sports in the region:
Chris Colston, editor of Virginia Tech's ``Hokie Huddler'' newspaper for 11 years, has resigned to take an editorial position with Baseball Weekly.
Colston took over Tech's in-house sports publication in 1985. Under his direction the paper doubled its circulation. This past year, the paper brought in record revenues.
Colston, who graduated from Tech in 1980, will continue to write a weekly column for the paper. Colston's successor has yet to be named.
Chip Sullivan, Hanging Rock's teaching professional, came up two shots short in his bid to qualify for next week's PGA Tour's Michelob Championship at Kingsmill Resort in Williamsburg.
Sullivan fired a 71 to finish in a six-way tie for third in the Middle Atlantic PGA's Michelob qualifier at Ford's Colony Country Club in Stafford. Michael Johnson of Fawn Lake Country Club and Steve Bosdosh of TPC at Avenel each shot 69 to earn the two available qualifying berths.
Sullivan won a seven-man playoff to earn first-alternate status for the state's only PGA Tour stop.
Virginia ranked eighth and Radford University was 10th among NCAA Division I institutions in graduation rates for athletes this past year, according to USA Today.
Among the 82 scholarship athletes who entered UVa in 1989, 74 graduated (90 percent). Radford graduated 34 of 38 (89 percent) for the 1989-95 time period.
The national average, according to the report, was 58 percent.
A 150-lap feature, including the open-wheel Modifieds of the Southern Modified Auto Racing Teams (SMART) tour, highlights Thursday's racing card at Callaway's Franklin County Speedway.
Frank Fleming, who won SMART's first show at FCS in April, tops the entry list along with points leader Gary Myers. Former FCS regular Jay Foley, who hails from nearby Stuart, also is entered. Foley won the first SMART tour race at FCS in October and was a serious contender in April before his car had drive-train problems.
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