UA forms search committee for athletics director

FAYETTEVILLE — A seven-member search committee has been appointed to help Arkansas find a new athletics director.

The search committee is comprised of Arkansas women's track & field coach Lance Harter; former Arkansas golfer and LPGA Tour member Stacy Lewis; former Arkansas quarterback Bill Montgomery; University of Arkansas professors Gerald Jordan and Peter Mackeith; booster Rick Massey; and Ben Hyneman, chairman of the UA Board of Trustees.

The committee was formed by UA Chancellor Joseph Steinmetz and Interim Athletics Director Julie Cromer Peoples.

“I sought to assemble a committee representative of the university, spanning past and present in our academics and athletics history, with…