September 16, 1996

Release # S071 Contact: Adam Levin Sports Information Director Phone #: (207) 786-6411

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Bates Names Head Crew Coach And Four Assistant Coaches

LEWISTON, Maine -- Bates College has recently added five new coaches to its fall staff, including one head coach and four assistants.

Shaw Tilton takes over the position of head crew coach. He has previously coached rowing teams at MIT, Simmons College and Clark University. He also spent a year as sculling coach at the Florida Rowing Center in Wellington, Fla., and raced for two years with the Riverside Boat Club in Cambridge, Mass. A native of Mattapan, Mass., Tilton graduated from Clark University in 1991 and received his master's degree in teaching history education from Boston University in May. Crew is a club program at Bates.

Sean Galipeau, a 1996 Bates graduate, becomes an assistant cross country coach under head coach Al Fereshetian. As a co-captain and the number two runner on the team last year, Galipeau earned All-State honors and narrowly missed qualifying for the NCAA national championships. "Sean was the motivational and inpirational leader of the group last season. He will add a tremendous amount to our program. We are thrilled to have him staying on," Fereshetian said. Galipeau, a native of Warren, Maine, attended Camden-Rockport High School.

Bill Lacey has joined the Bates football staff as offensive line coach. A native of Stroudsburg, Pa., Lacey was the tight ends coach at Wagner College in Staten Island, N.Y., in 1995 and the offensive line coach at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pa., in 1994. A 1994 graduate of Villanova University, Lacey was a three- time All-Yankee Conference selection at offensive line, as well as an ECAC All-East selection in 1993.

Brian Young has been named assistant men's soccer coach. A native of Brunswick, Maine, Young is a 1995 graduate of the University of New Hampshire, where he led the Wildcats' soccer team to an NCAA tournament berth in 1994 and was twice named to the North Atlantic Conference All-Tournament team. For the past two seasons he has played for the Cape Cod Crusaders of the United System of Independent Soccer Leagues (USISL), a farm team for Major League Soccer's New England Revolution. In addition, Young has acted as director of operations and public relations for the Crusaders, as well as for the Worcester Wildfire, a Division III USISL club, and the Boston Renegades of the Women's USISL.

Greg Youngblood, a 1994 Bates graduate, joins the football program as wide receivers coach under head football coach Rick Pardy. A native of Albuquerque, N.M., Youngblood was a defensive back at Bates. His senior year, he won the Robert P. Schmidt Award for Courageous Behavior. Since 1994, he has worked at the Salisbury School in Salisbury, Conn., as a math teacher and assistant football, baseball and basketball coach.

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