SELINSGROVE, PA – Susquehanna University director of athletics Pam Samuelson has announced that Frank Marcinek and Steve Briggs have been given additional responsibilities as assistant directors of athletics while Liz Cranmer Briggs will serve as senior women’s administrator within the Department of Athletics, Recreation and Physical Education.

Marcinek, who will begin his 15th season as head men’s basketball coach this fall, and Briggs, who is in his 14th season as head football coach, will be involved in a number of administrative, development, compliance and game-day duties for Susquehanna’s 23-sport Division III athletics program.

Cranmer Briggs, who will begin her second season as head women’s basketball and women’s golf coach, will work to ensure that the interests of female student-athletes are fully represented in the decision-making process of the department.

“I am very excited about the opportunity to work with these outstanding individuals in continuing to move the Department of Athletics, Recreation, and Physical Education forward,” said Samuelson, who assumed duties as director of athletics this summer.

Marcinek, a 1981 graduate of Penn State University with a bachelor of science degree in physical education, has served as head men’s basketball coach since the start of the 1989-90 season and has compiled a record of 201-152 with the Crusaders, placing him in a tie with recently retired director of athletics Don Harnum as the winningest coach in program history.

In his first 14 seasons, Marcinek has led the Crusaders to nine conference playoff appearances and 11 winning records. He also guided Susquehanna to NCAA Division III tournaments in 1992 and 1994 and a Middle Atlantic Conference Northern Division playoff championship in 1992.

Last season, the Crusaders finished 18-8 and won the Commonwealth Conference regular-season championship for the second time during Marcinek’s tenure.

Marcinek also served five seasons as an assistant coach under Harnum from 1982-86 and again in 1988-89, and was an assistant for two seasons at Ithaca College (1986-88) while he earned his master of science degree in physical education. A native of Shamokin, he resides there with his wife, Cindy, and their two sons, Frank, Jr. and Scott.

Briggs, a 1984 graduate of Springfield College with a bachelor of science degree in health and fitness, became the 29th head football coach in Susquehanna history in 1990 after serving as an assistant coach in 1988 and 1989. He became the winningest coach in program history in 1996 and entered the 2002 season with an 84-48 record in 14 seasons at Susquehanna.

He has recorded just one losing season with the Crusaders and led the 1991 team to the NCAA Division III semifinals, while his 1998 and 1999 squads captured Commonwealth League titles.

A native of Lee, Massachusetts, Briggs earned his master of science degree in sports management from the University of Richmond in 1987, where he coached inside linebackers and tight ends for two seasons before moving to the Lehigh University defensive staff for the 1987 season. In 1984, Briggs served as a receivers coach at Bowdoin College

He resides in Selinsgrove with his wife, Christina. They have a son, Cory, and a daughter, Casey.

Cranmer Briggs, a 1991 graduate of Saint Anselm College with a bachelor of arts degree in history, took over as head women’s basketball coach during the summer of 2002 and led the Crusaders to a 13-10 record during her first season.

She also serves as the first head coach of Susquehanna’s women’s golf team, which began play during the spring of 2003.

A native of Astoria, New York, Cranmer Briggs scored 1,638 points at Division II Saint Anselm College from 1987-91 and was inducted into the Anselmian Athletic Club Hall of Fame in 1998.

After playing professionally for three years in Europe, Cranmer Briggs served as an assistant coach at American International from 1994-96 and at Harvard during 1996-97 before spending four seasons as an assistant at Bucknell from 1997-98 through 2000-01.

Cranmer Briggs earned a master of arts in international relations from Boston University in 1997. She resides outside Selinsgrove with her husband, Tim, the head baseball and assistant football coach at Susquehanna, and their son, Clay.