June 16, 1998
VILLANOVA, Pa. - On Tuesday, June 16, Villanova University announced the
hiring of three new head coaches to their athletic program. Heather Hoehn will head up the Wildcat
volleyball program in 1998, while Allyson Gillespie will take over the reigns of the women's
water polo team. In its first club season in 1998, the Villanova Ice Hockey team will have a new head
coach in James Adair.
Hoehn, a 1994 graduate of Bucknell University, comes to Villanova
from the University of Minnesota Morris, where she coached the volleyball and softball teams
from 1996-97. In her two seasons coaching the volleyball program, Hoehn tallied a 30-31 record and
led the Cougars to a second place conference finish in 1997. For her success, she was named
the 1997 Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference Volleyball Coach-of-the-Year. Prior to her
term at Minnesota Morris, Hoehn was an assistant volleyball and softball coach at Muskingum College
in New Concord, Ohio., where she also served as Intramural Director.
Gillespie arrives on the Main Line from Bucknell University, where
she coached the women's water polo team in 1998. Before her stint at Bucknell, she was an
assistant swim coach and boys and girl's basketball coach in the Rochester, N.Y. school district. Gillespie
is a 1996 graduate of Bucknell, where she was a four-year member of the water polo team earning
All-East honors in 1996 and U.S. Water Polo Academic All-American accolades in 1995 and 1996.
While at Bucknell, she was also a four-year swim team student-athlete, and holds three Bison
school records. In 1996, Gillespie received the Patriot League Scholar Athlete-of-the-Year award.
Adair begins his first season as head coach of the Villanova ice
hockey club team in 1998. He currently works as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce District Representative
in New Jersey, covering the Salem and Gloucester counties. He also heads up Adair
International & Associates in Haddonfield, N.J., where he worked as a full-time independent advisor and
investor from 1996-98 and currently works as a part time advisor and investor for a number of
Canadian and American companies.
After a successful three-years in the Junior A (OHA) hockey league in
Hamilton, Ontario, Adair played for the Canadian National Team. In 1969, he signed a
three-year contract with the Boston Bruins where he played in their minor league system. In 1972-73,
Adair coached and played at his alma mater, Queens College where he received his bachelor's degree
in economics in 1974.
