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Statesmen quarterback Scott Eyster will serve on Delta State University\u2019s athletic director search committee, President Dr. John M. Hilpert announced today. <\/P>
A four-year letterman with the DSU football program, Eyster paced the Statesmen to 12-3 mark on the season, finishing ranked No. 3 in the final<\/SPAN> American Football Coaches Association Top 25 Poll<\/SPAN>. Currently working on his master\u2019s degree in sports management, Eyster maintains a 3.5 GPA and is three-time All-Gulf South Conference academic honor roll selection. <\/SPAN><\/P> \u201cScott has had equal success on the field and in the classroom. He has first-hand knowledge of the operation of our athletic department and is an excellent addition to the search committee,\u201d Hilpert acknowledged. <\/SPAN><\/P> Dr. Rose Strahan, chair of the mathematics department at Delta State and NCAA faculty athletic representative for the university, will chair the committee. She will be joined by the following: <\/SPAN><\/P> \u00b7 <\/SPAN><\/SPAN>Georgene Clark – English Faculty (Faculty)<\/SPAN><\/P> \u00b7 <\/SPAN><\/SPAN>John Cox – Cox and Moore Law Firm (Alumni Association)<\/SPAN><\/P> \u00b7 <\/SPAN><\/SPAN>Scott Eyster \u2013 Delta State student-athlete<\/SPAN><\/P> \u00b7 <\/SPAN><\/SPAN>Gary Gainspoletti<\/SPAN> \u2013 Gainspoletti and Associates (Athletic Booster Club)<\/SPAN><\/P> \u00b7 <\/SPAN><\/SPAN>Mike Kinnison – Head Baseball Coach (Athletic Staff)<\/SPAN><\/P> \u00b7 <\/SPAN><\/SPAN>Wayne Lee \u2013 Health Physical Education & Recreation Faculty (Athletic Alumni)<\/SPAN><\/P> \u00b7 <\/SPAN><\/SPAN>Ned Mitchell – South Group\/Bolivar Insurance (Foundation)<\/SPAN><\/P> \u00b7 <\/SPAN><\/SPAN>Billy Moore – Dean of College of Business (Academic Administration)<\/SPAN><\/P> \u00b7 <\/SPAN><\/SPAN>Sandra Rushing – Head Women\u2019s Basketball Coach (Athletic Staff)<\/SPAN><\/P> \u00b7 <\/SPAN><\/SPAN>Greg Redlin – Vice President for Finance & Administration (Staffing – ex officio)<\/SPAN><\/P> \u00b7 <\/SPAN><\/SPAN>Judson Thigpen – Executive Director of the Cleveland-Bolivar County Chamber of Commerce (Community)<\/SPAN><\/P> \u00b7 <\/SPAN><\/SPAN>Sam Washington – Director of Purchasing (Athletic Committee) <\/SPAN><\/P> University officials project that an effective search may require three months or more, not unusual, for a nationwide search process. <\/SPAN><\/P> Further details regarding the search process will be released as they become available. <\/SPAN><\/P><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Scott Eyster Statesmen quarterback Scott Eyster will serve on Delta State University\u2019s athletic director search committee, President Dr. John M. Hilpert announced today. A four-year letterman with the DSU football…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4197,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-general"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40199,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions\/40199"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}