FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Gary Holden, Sports Info. Director
(540) 365-4306
 
January 6, 2004
 
 
Kinder Accepts Post at Transylvania
Ferrum AD to Assume Same Role in Lexington
 
Ferrum, Va. – Dr. Ted Kinder, Ferrum College’s Director of Athletics for the past 10½ years, has announced his resignation in order to accept the same position at Transylvania University in Kentucky.
 
Transylvania University is a liberal arts college located in Lexington, Kentucky, with a coeducational enrollment of 1,100 students. The Pioneers compete within the Heartland Athletic Conference, an eight-team league consisting of outstanding independent academic institutions that also feature highly competitive athletics programs. Transylvania currently sponsors 16 intercollegiate athletic programs.
 
Kinder began his duties as Director of Athletics at Ferrum in the fall of 1993. While at Ferrum, he assisted in the development of the College’s Sports Hall of Fame, reorganized the Panther Club, created and maintained a formal sports banquet and awards program, developed an Athletics Department Policy Manual, and worked to improve athletic facilities. He also expanded Ferrum’s athletic program to include men’s and women’s cross country and women’s lacrosse.
 
Kinder led the Dixie Intercollegiate Athletic Conference in creating the league’s first-ever commissioner position. He also served on the committee that would eventually rename the league to the USA South Athletic Conference. Kinder served two year’s as Dixie Conference President.
 
Kinder spearheaded the drive to form the Atlantic Central Football Conference, a seven-member football-only league which began operations in 1999. At the time, Ferrum and the other six schools were football-independents, with the new league allowing for the recognition of student-athletes and the stabilization of schedules. Although Ferrum and three other schools departed from the ACFC when the Dixie began sponsoring football, the league is intact today with six competing schools. Kinder also wrote and proposed a conference sportsmanship statement, which was approved and adopted by the Dixie Conference in 2002.
 
Kinder assumed responsibility for the men's golf team during the 1999-2000 year, following the retirement of 30-plus-year Coach Ray Corron. He has served on the NCAA Division III Men’s Golf Committee the past four years and is currently that organization’s national chairman. Kinder is a member of the U.S. Golf Association and the Golf Coaches Association of America.
 
Dr. Dan Miller, Ferrum’s Vice President for Student Services, thanked Kinder for his tireless service over the past 10 years.
 
“We’re losing a strong student-athlete advocate in Ted Kinder”, said Miller. “His contributions to college athletics extend beyond the Ferrum campus with his involvement in the USA South Athletic Conference and NCAA.”
 
“We would like to wish Ted and his family well as he begins his new position at Transylvania and begins a new chapter in an already notable career in athletic administration.”
 
Kinder's previous collegiate coaching experience includes having spent six years as head baseball coach at Eastern Mennonite University. He also served two years as head women's basketball coach and two years as assistant men's basketball coach at EMU.
 
Kinder has a published chapter entitled “Construction of Athletic Facilities” in text Organizational Management Administration for Athletic Programs. He holds membership in the National Association of College Directors of Athletics, the American Alliance for Health Physical Education, Recreation and Dance, National Association of Division III Athletic Directors.
 
A native of Matewan, West Virginia, Kinder is a 1979 graduate of Armstrong Atlantic State University, where he received his bachelor’s degree. He went on to earn his master’s degree from Georgia Southern University in 1982 and his doctorate from Middle Tennessee State University in 1994.
 
Kinder and his wife Teresa currently reside in Rocky Mount with their son Thomas. He begins at Transylvania in February. An announcement will be made shortly regarding responsibilities for athletic administration at the College. For more information, please contact the Ferrum College sports information office at (540) 365-4306.
 
 
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