Administration: UCI’s Long to fill in

CRAWFORD HALL - Petrina Long, a UC Irvine senior associate athletic

director and the senior woman administrator at the school, was named

interim athletic director Monday by UCI Chancellor Ralph Cicerone.

Long will assume the duties of Dan Guerrero, who begins his tenure as

athletic director at UCLA July 1 after 9 1/2 years at UCI.

Long, at UCI since March 1993, will oversee the athletic department

until a new AD is found.

“The search has already attracted an outstanding pool of candidates,”

said Ronald Huff, dean of UCI’s School of Social Ecology, who will chair

an 11-member search committee that includes faculty, staff, students and

community leaders. “The search committee will assess all candidates and

make recommendations to the chancellor, who will select the next

director.”