The Oswego State athletics program will kick off the 2009-10 season with new head coaches and staff.

Adam Stockwell took the reins of the men’s basketball program in June, while Josh Patterson assumed interim head coaching duties for men’s tennis at the start of the academic year.

The duo joins Malcolm Huggins, who was named the assistant athletic director for marketing and game management, and Adele Burk, who became the sports information director in July.

Adam Stockwell steps into his first season as the head men's basketball coach at Oswego State after previously serving as the head coach at Clarkson University.

A native of Ellisburg, Stockwell guided the Golden Knights into postseason play from 2006 to 2009, including the program's first-ever NCAA Division III Championship appearance during the 2007-08 season after capturing the Liberty League tournament title.

That same season, he went on to garner conference Coach of the Year accolades. In 2006-07, Stockwell guided Clarkson to a 14-12 mark and an Eastern College Athletic Conference Upstate postseason tournament appearance.

This past season the Golden Knights finished with a 15-11 record and reached the Liberty League semifinals for the second straight season as the number four seed, losing to NCAA tournament "Sweet 16" participant St. Lawrence University.

Stockwell played collegiately at LeMoyne College in the 1990s, and he was inducted into the LeMoyne College Athletics Hall of Fame in 2007.

Patterson starts his first year as a collegiate tennis coach after spending last season as an assistant boys’ and girls’ tennis coach at Pulaski High School, where he helped lead the boys’ team to the 2009 Section 3 Class C title in just its fifth year of existence.  He played four years of college tennis at LeMoyne College before graduating with a bachelor’s degree in history.

Patterson graduated from Pulaski Senior High School in 2004, and participated in United States Tennis Association tournaments and leagues as the high school did not have a formal tennis program at the time.

Huggins steps in as assistant athletic director for marketing and game management, which is made possible through the NCAA Ethnic Minority and Women’s Internship Grant Program.  Huggins’ most recent position was as an athletic development and athletic compliance intern at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania.  During his time at Kutztown, he assumed a leadership role in the community engagement project, Paint the Town Gold, which earned the 2009 NCAA Division II Community Engagement Award of Excellence.

Huggins holds a bachelor’s degree in sports management and a master’s degree in management and leadership from East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania. He will handle the marketing needs for 24 varsity programs, assist with game management, and write select stories designed to celebrate the accomplishments of our student-athletes.

Adele Burk joins Oswego State as the sports information director after serving as the assistant sports information director the last two years at Gustavus Adolphus College as part of a six-year tenure.  Her responsibilities included maintaining statistics and handling media relations for 26 NCAA Division III teams, including the 2009 NCAA Division III second place men’s hockey team.

A native of Baudette, Minn., Burk is a 2009 graduate of Minnesota State University, Mankato, earning her master’s degree in sport management.  She also earned a bachelor’s degree in mathematics with secondary education licensure from Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minn., in 2004.

-- Adele Burk



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