July 31, 2007 - courtesy of Blackburn College Sports Information
BLACKBURN NAMES KIRK CHANDLER AS DIRECTOR OF ATHLETICS

Blackburn College has announced the naming of Kirk Chandler to the position of Director of Athletics at the school.

In addition to his new position, Chandler will also remain as head men’s basketball coach at Blackburn.   He completed his first season at the helm of the Beavers in February.

As Director of Athletics, Chandler succeeds Curtis Campbell, who resigned after two years in the position to become Director of Athletics at Stillman College, an NCAA Division II program in Tuscaloosa, Ala.

Already a respected member of the campus community, Chandler came to Blackburn in June 2006 after spending twelve years as head men’s basketball coach at Averett University in Danville, Va., where he also served for five years as assistant athletic director as well as head coach of Averett’s nationally recognized golf team.

Prior to his time at Averett, Chandler served one-year stints as assistant men’s basketball coach at Barton College and St. Andrews Presbyterian College, both in North Carolina, and spent two years as an assistant men’s basketball coach at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro, an NCAA Division I program.

A 1981 graduate of Elon University in North Carolina with a B.S. in Physical Education, Chandler earned an M.S. in Health and Physical Education from North Carolina A& T in 1989.  He and his wife, Deborah, are the parents of two children, Grant, 16, and Carley, 11.

Founded in 1837, Blackburn College is a four-year, Presbyterian-related, co- educational liberal arts college located 40 miles south of Springfield, IL.  The College is one of six “work program colleges” in the nation where students are required to work in jobs instrumental to the College’s daily operations.  The work program receives widespread recognition in American higher education and helps to keep Blackburn’s tuition the lowest of all private colleges in Illinois and among the lowest in the United States.

For more information on Blackburn College, call 1-800-233-3550, fax (217) 854- 3713, email to admit@mail.blackburn.edu, or write: Blackburn College, Office of Admissions, 700 College Avenue, Carlinville, IL 62626.  For a look at the College and its athletic program, please check out our web site at http://www.blackburn.edu.